NEW DELHI (TIP): M Venkaiah Naidu was on Friday, August 11, sworn in as the 13th Vice President of India. President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath of office and secrecy at Rashtrapati Bhavan […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nuclear-armed North Korea mocked President Donald Trump as “bereft of reason” on Thursday, August 10, raising the stakes in their stand-off with an unusually detailed plan to send a salvo of missiles towards […]
KANSAS CITY (TIP): An Indian American pathologist in Kansas is facing a lawsuit by a Kansas-based woman who has alleged that she was wrongly diagnosed with having a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which resulted in unnecessary […]
NEWARK, NJ (TIP): An Indian American doctor has been arrested by police for allegedly groping a 16-year-old girl onboard a United Airlines New Jersey-bound flight. According to police, the minor girl was sitting next to […]
MANCHESTER, NH (TIP): Indian American entrepreneur Rohit Saksena, 42, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced August 8 to serve three years of probation and pay a $40,000 fine for filing false visa applications, Acting United […]
ORLANDO, FL (TIP): An Indian-American allegedly rammed his vehicle into a Disney World bus after jumping a red light in Florida, leaving five persons injured, media reports said on Monday, August 7. Ritesh Bhagani, 34, […]
HOUSTON (TIP): An e-commerce company and its top executive of Indian origin have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States. Zaappaaz […]
Lodged in 86 jails abroad, at least 50 are women NEW DELHI (TIP): As many as 7,620 Indian nationals are lodged in foreign jails, with the highest number in Saudi Arabia. Of them, at least […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian authorities on Wednesday took over a summer-house compound in Moscow leased by the US embassy, five days after the Kremlin ordered Washington to slash its diplomatic presence in Russia. In retaliation for new US sanctions, President Vladimir Putin has […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is taking an increasingly tough line on a border row with India amid a rising crescendo of nationalism in state media, and President Xi Jinping looks set for an awkward encounter with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a multilateral […]
ROME (TIP): Italy began a limited naval mission on August 2 to help Libya’s coastguard curb migrant flows, which have become a source of political friction before national elections expected early next year. An Italian patrol boat entered Libyan waters and […]
LONDON (TIP): The Indian government has submitted the requisite “opening note” and paperwork related to Vijay Mallya’s extradition case to the liquor baron’s legal team within the UK court deadline on August 4. Chief Magistrate Emma Louise Arbuthnot, presiding at Westminster Magistrates’ […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): Two soldiers including an Army Major were killed when terrorists opened fire on a search party of security forces this morning in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said. Another jawan was also injured in the gunfight. A search […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a sign of growing Japanese involvement in improving infrastructure in India, the two countries Thursday launched a cooperation forum for development of India’s north-east. The move is significant also because of India’s decision to ignore China’s OBOR initiative as the China Pakistan […]
PATNA (TIP): Bihar’s premier government hospital, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), kicked up a row by asking its new recruits to declare if they were “virgins” or married, but later replaced the word with “unmarried”. Amid […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ruling NDA candidate M Venkaiah Naidu is tipped to be India’s next vice president as members of Parliament gear up to cast their ballot on Saturday. The name of the next vice president will be […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court snubbed on Thursday an Enforcement Directorate (ED) prosecutor for asking Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah to chant ‘bharat mata ki jai’ to prove that he believes in the Indian Constitution. The remark came after a defence counsel […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan is constructing six dams on the Indus river in PoK with China’s assistance, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Government has […]
Touting his business-friendly policies, nationalist rhetoric, and an aspirational appeal that struck a chord with a young and increasingly restless India, Modi led his party to a historic electoral rout. WASHINGTON (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ushered in a golden age for […]
With 58 seats in the Rajya Sabha, one more than the Congress, the BJP is the largest party in the Upper House of Parliament though it still remained in minority NEW DELHI (TIP): Sampathiya Uikey, the new lawmaker […]
Sushma Swaraj said in the Rajya Sabha that ‘patience is key to resolving problems’ because of patience is lost, there can be provocation on the other side. NEW DELHI (TIP): War was not a solution and India would resolve the border standoff with […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Consulate General of India, Houston in association with the India Association of North Texas (IANT) would be organizing a one-day Consular camp on Saturday, 19 August at the India Association of North Texas, […]
With the school year right around the corner an Irving family doesn’t know which school their child will attend. IRVING, TX (TIP): When Iqbal Bhombal got the letter from Irving Independent School District in the […]
HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian-American business executive and founder of the JVB Preksha Meditation Centre, Houston, said: “We are two separate countries and have been celebrating our independence days separately Moreover, India and Pakistan are not […]
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