AMHERST, MA (TIP): Prashant Shenoy, professor of computer science and associate dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst, has been named a 2017-18 Fulbright Specialist Scholar. He will travel to […]
MINNEAPOLIS (TIP): A late report from Minneapolis says students, faculty and staff are grieving the death of St. Thomas junior Ria Patel, who died in a car accident early the morning of Sept. 17. She […]
The Justice Department said Baljinder Singh of Carteret did not disclose a previous deportation order on his naturalization application. NEW YORK (TIP): The United States on Sept 19 filed civil denaturalization complaints in federal court […]
GARLAND, ARKANSAS (TIP): A former store manager of Indian origin staying in Arkansas under a program that shields young, undocumented immigrants from deportation has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges stemming from […]
QUEENS, NY (TIP): A landlord died in a fire that erupted in the basement of his three-story Queens home early Sunday, Sept 24. The blaze broke out at a home on 97th Ave. near 107th […]
It is really unsettling that turbaned Sikhs are subject to racial profiling, hate crimes and hate graffiti in some countries as they are messed up with another religio-ethnic group. It is more disquieting that even […]
TAMPA, FL (TIP): Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Florida announced the largest philanthropic gift in its history from Tampa-area cardiologist Dr. Kiran C. Patel and his wife, pediatrician Dr. Pallavi Patel. The commitment will significantly […]
HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian American couple donated USD 250,000 to Houston Mayor’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund at a private event on Sept 24. Houston Indian American Amit Bhandari and his wife Arpita Brahmbhatt Bhandari contributed […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and possible connections to the Trump campaign is zeroing in on the spread of fake information on Facebook and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): According to media reports, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner, has been registered to vote as a woman for eight years. Voter information records held by New York show that […]
BALI (TIP): More than 130,000 people have fled the region around the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, fearing it will soon erupt, according to an Associated Press report. . The […]
Proposes to reduce seven tax brackets to just three, double standard deductions Republicans welcome; Democrats oppose WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Donald Trump has unveiled sweeping tax reforms which if passed by the Congress would bring […]
CAST: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Elton John, Channing Tatum DIRECTION: Matthew Vaughn GENRE: Action DURATION: 2 hours 21 minutes STORY When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held […]
Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone, who will be seen playing Billie Jean King in upcoming ‘Battle of the Sexes’ movie, feels that it was challenging to play former world number one tennis player. While talking at the Red Carpet of the movie, […]
Warner Bros and MGM have released the first official poster for the upcoming ‘Tomb Raider’ reboot, starring Alicia Vikander as the globetrotting archaeologist Lara Croft. The reboot comes more than 15 years after Angelina Jolie first brought the video game adventurer […]
CAST: Kangana Ranaut, Sohum Shah DIRECTION: Hansal Mehta GENRE: Comedy DURATION: 2 hours 4 minutes STORY Praful Patel (Kangana) is a 30-year-old divorcee living in Georgia with her middle-class parents. A housekeeper by profession, she gets drawn […]
Shraddha Kapoor, who is currently on an all-time career high, believes her journey from Haseena Parkar to Aapa was literally a switch. Describing further her journey, the ‘Baaghi’ actress in an exclusive chat with ANI said, “When she […]
Actress Rakhi Sawant says she will expose Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a biopic in which she will star as the disgraced Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief’s adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan, who is believed to be now hiding in Nepal. […]
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (TIP): The government is ready to talk to all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir without preconditions, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, who arrived in Srinagar on September( 21 Thursday), said. “We have said from the beginning and we have maintained that our doors are open […]
THANE (TIP): Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told the interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau and the Thane police’s crime branch, said officials. Thane police arrested Kaskar two days ago in […]
‘Illegal immigrants, not refugees’ “The Rohingya are not refugees… No Rohingya has got asylum in India, nor has anyone applied for it. They are illegal immigrants.” — Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister NHRC: taken up on humanitarian […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Modi government may introduce in Parliament the Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve one third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies for women. A senior BJP leader said top […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Bharatiya Janta Party on Sept 21 (Thursday) announced Swaran Singh Salaria as its candidate from the Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency, which fell vacant after the demise of actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in April this year. The BJP central […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sept 21 met veteran actor Kamal Haasan and hailed him for coming out against communalism and corruption amid mounting speculation that the latter would take a political plunge. Kejriwal also said that the […]
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