TORONTO (TIP): In what may bring cheer to thousands of Indians, especially from Punjab, looking for greener pastures abroad, the Canadian Government is set to open its “floodgates” for immigrants, allowing up to 3,10,000 newcomers […]
BEIJING (TIP): Despite his heavy criticism of China during last year’s campaign, the president toned down his rhetoric dramatically during a visit to Beijing, continuing a pattern of extreme shifts between insults and praise. Tone […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on November 12, will leave on a three-day visit to the Philippines where he will attend the Asean and East Asia Summits and hold a bilateral meeting with […]
Women and Minorities give Groundbreaking Wins I.S. Saluja NEW YORK (TIP): What accounts for the wave of Democratic successes in Tuesday’s elections? Health care was a key issue in Virginia, as well as in Maine, […]
Paying homage to the wild twist at the end of the movie ‘Se7en,’ Gwyneth Paltrow reprised her role from the 1995 thriller for Halloween. In the flick, the 45-year-old actress plays the wife of Brad Pitt’s detective character, who’s investigating […]
Italian-American actor Annabella Sciorra has claimed that disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein raped her in the 1990s, and sexually harassed her for years later. Repotedly, the actor, who featured in Miramax’s ‘The Night We Never Met,’ said she had […]
Model-actress Urvashi Rautela said her Twitter account was hacked and misused. “I love being so popular and a b***h,” read a post on Urvashi’s account on the micro-blogging site on Tuesday. Urvashi later clarified through a tweet that the post […]
Actress Deepika Padukone on Tuesday sought to brush away the matter of her remuneration for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’, which is reportedly more than co-stars Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor, saying she was “comfortable” with what she got. “Talking […]
NEW YORK/NEW DELHI (TIP): Five Indian women, including ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, have featured on the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women compiled by Forbes, which was topped by German Chancellor Angela […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Actor Kamal Haasan, who has been hinting at entering politics, has hit out at what he calls Hindu extremism, claiming that rightwing groups have taken to violence because their earlier “strategy” has stopped working. Haasan took no names in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has expressed “deep disappointment” at China’s decision to block consensus on the listing of Masood Azhar as an internationally designated terrorist under 1267 committee of the UN Security Council. Raveesh Kumar, MEA spokesperson, said: “We are deeply disappointed […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Gujarat Assembly election, scheduled for 9 and 14 December, is significant for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. While the former is eager to retain home turf, the latter is trying to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump nominated Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Fed Chair. Yellen’s term expires in February 2018. Trump made the announcement during a Thursday, November 2 afternoon ceremony in the Rose […]
Trump demands death penalty for the attacker Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET […]
By Mabel Pais “From the day you are brought in from the nursing home (hospital in India) where you are born, you really are inducted (into music) You don’t have a choice.” ~Ustad Zakir Hussain~ […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): House Republicans unveiled their long-awaited tax cut legislation on Thursday, November 2, after having delayed it by one day, kicking off a fight that many in the GOP believe they must win to […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Indian American financial executive Samip ‘Sam’ Joshi is among the six candidates running for the three, four-year terms available for the Edison Township Council in New Jersey in the upcoming election. Joshi, […]
National Model of Campus-Community Partnership STONEY BROOK, NJ (TIP): “We need more Centers like this to train the new generation of Indian American leaders to swell the “Samosa Caucus” in the Congress,” said Representative Raja […]
By Mabel Pais “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before,” Leonard Bernstein “The significance of this concert is that people of all religions […]
“Though Pakistan has not enunciated a formal nuclear doctrine, its then head of strategic planning division of its nuclear command authority, Lt-Gen Khalid Kidwai, had averred that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were “aimed solely at India”. […]
“The Congress’s de-option of Patel was an error, Hindutva’s co-option of Patel is an execration”, says the author. Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950), whose birth anniversary was observed on 31st October, is sorely missed. He has been, […]
Dear Sir, In reference the mischief-laden comment by the author Audrey Truschke, Beef Eating and Horse sacrifice in Vedas is a deliberate abuse of Vedic religion. The fact however, is the Vedic Yagnas were pure […]
The worst terrorist attack in New York after the 9/11 tragedy came on Tuesday. Eight persons were killed and 12 injured when a rented pickup truck ran them down in a bicycle lane, in Lower […]
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