On her Bollywood debut, she played an overweight but educated woman who speaks up for her rights. In her second film, she plays a woman who stands up against open defecation. Actress Bhumi Pednekar said it’s a conscious decision […]
Clinton says What Happened is full of “moments from the campaign that I wish I could go back and do over,” like the time a 70-year-old man who’d bragged about sexually assaulting women insisted on shadowing her onstage despite the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Fanning the flames of GOP discord, President Donald Trump accused Republican congressional leaders Thursday of botching efforts to avoid an unprecedented default on the national debt. “Could have been so easynow a mess!” Trump tweeted. The president’s sharp words underscored […]
METUCHEN, NJ (TIP): In a nail biting and dramatic run up to the Finale of the MoneyGram Cricket Bee, Schaumburg’s Alpesh Gohil correctly answered “Michael Holding” in response to the question “who infamously kicked over […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP chief Amit Shah today appointed eight top-ranking ministers looking after more than 15 key departments in the Narendra Modi government as in charge of three states – Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka, due for elections this year and […]
Close to 30 people killed and many wounded as supporters of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh protest the verdict against the MSG. Nearly 30 people have been killed in India as violent protests erupted after a […]
New Delhi (TIP): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani took oath as Rajya Sabha MPs, in Delhi, on Friday. Chairman, M Venkaiah Naidu, administered the oath of secrecy to both the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Infrastructure development, measures to improve connectivity, earthquake reconstruction and a concerted effort to tackle the perennial problem of floods on both sides figured prominently during the comprehensive talks between India and Nepal here today. A range […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The CBI grilled Karti Chidambaram for about eight hours in connection with an alleged irregularity in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance given to a media group, INX Media, for receiving funds from Mauritius when his father P Chidambaram was the […]
Video clips of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s statements against PM Narendra Modi before the 2015 assembly elections and Modi’s DNA comment and other remarks against Kumar will be played at the rally. PATNA (TIP): RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s proposed ‘BJP Bhagao, Desh Bachao’ rally at […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court by a majority verdict Aug 22 (Tuesday) set aside the practice of divorce through triple talaq among Muslims, saying the practice was void, illegal and unconstitutional. The apex court held that the triple talaq was […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Sitting in Parappana Agrahara jail on Bengaluru’s outskirts, VK Sasikala has the mother of all battles on her hands: her party, on which she had had an unassailable sway for over three decades, is now intent […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Padma Viswanathan, the Indian American novelist and playwright from Arkansas is the recipient of the 2017 Porter Fund Literary Prize. She is an associate professor of fiction in the Program in Creative […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A federal appeals panel upheld on August 23 the insider trading conviction of Mathew Martoma, a former portfolio manager for Steven A. Cohen, rejecting his claims that there was inadequate evidence of […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): The American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey chapter (ACLU-NJ) announced that Indian American attorney Amol Sinha has been named as executive director. The Jersey City resident, who most recently led state advocacy […]
PHOENIX, AZ (TIP): Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, an Indian American emergency room physician and cancer research advocate, officially announced her candidacy for Arizona’s 8thCongressional District. Hiral has dedicated her life to serving her community and is […]
NEBRASKA (TIP): A breakthrough therapy has been developed by a team led by an American professor of Indian origin, Dr Pinaki Panigrahi, which can reduce the risk of Sepsis infection (a condition of bacterial infection […]
SAN PABLO (TIP): The City of San Pablo created history when it extended an official offer of employment to Indian American Police Captain Rathnesh (Ron) Raman, a 21-year veteran of the Pittsburg Police Department, as […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Los Angeles Times fired its Indian origin Editor-Publisher Davan Maharaj on August 21 as part of a massive personnel shakeup in the newspaper. Tronc, Inc., parent company of the fifth-largest newspaper in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Last week US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) hosted a business meeting at Center for Innovative Technology for visiting smart-city planners from India. The meeting was co-hosted by Smart City works, first of […]
Judicial wisdom, political mischief “It needs to be noted that the Supreme Court ruling is a very limited intervention in the Muslim “religion” — limited only to a very obnoxious practice; the practice was held […]
Donald Trump’s plan for Afghanistan is still too short on specifics U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to deepen the country’s military engagement in war-torn Afghanistan signals a significant shift in the position he has held […]
“Trump’s remarks on Pakistan and India are of obvious importance. A strong pillar of the new strategy, he declared, is to change the approach towards Pakistan. “We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe […]
“Revolting”, “cowardly”, and “barbaric” are some of the words leaders worldwide have used to describe the attack in Barcelona that killed 14 people. 100 were injured when a van plowed into pedestrians on Las Ramblas […]
Rivers are India’s Lifelines, We must protect rivers, lest we have deserts By Mabel Pais Water is one of the most fundamental requirements for life. Every year, on India’s Independence Day, resident Indians and the worldwide […]
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