Europe
India, UK working on latest jet engine
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and the UK are jointly making one of the most powerful engines for fighter jets of the future and the first such engine will be unveiled within a year. The gas […]
Americas
Capt says many Sikh Canadian ministers, MPs Khalistani sympathisers; Canada terms it disappointing, inaccurate
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s statement against Canadian defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan terming him a “Khalistani sympathiser” has triggered a diplomatic row with the Canadian high commission on April 13 terming […]
India
Pak army brass discusses Kulbhushan Jadhav case, rules out compromise
New Delhi/Islamabad (TIP): The Pakistan army brass decided after a discussion on April 13 that there would be no compromise on the issue of the death sentence+ awarded to retired Indian Navy commandant Kulbhushan Jadhav, […]
India
INCOME TAX DEPT LAUNCHES ‘OP CLEAN MONEY’-II; TO PROBE 60,000 PEOPLE
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Income Tax department will investigate over 60,000 individuals under the second phase of the ‘Operation Clean Money’ which was launched on Friday with a view to detecting black money generation post […]
India
SUPREME COURT NOTICE TO CENTRE, EC ON EVM ROW
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid raging controversy over authenticity of electronic voting machines (EVMs), the Supreme Court on April 13 issued notices to the Centre and the Election Commission on petitions alleging that EVMs can be […]
India
DEFIANT JUSTICE KARNAN ‘SUMMONS’ CJI, 6 JUDGES
KOLKATA (TIP): A defiant Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan on April 13 asked the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and six judges of the Supreme Court, who have issued a contempt notice to […]
India
CAN’T CURTAIL MEDICAL TOURISM CONTENT: SC
NEW DELHI (TIP): Striking a note of caution against any blanket ban on medical tourism-related content available online, the Supreme Court on April 13 said people’s right to know, be informed and gain wisdom from […]
India
TV News anchor reads news of her husband’s fatal accident on live TV
Supreet Kaur, a news anchor with Chattisgarh’s private IBC-24 channel was reading her morning bulletin on Saturday and was directed to break the news of a fatal accident in the Mahasamund district fifteen minutes after […]
Featured
350th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Gobind Singh celebrated at the Indian Consulate
NEW YORK (TIP): The Indian American community and their friends from the mainstream came together to celebrate the 350th birth anniversary of the Tenth Master of the Sikhs, Shri Guru Gobind Singh. It was for the […]
India
INOC, USA slams Tarun Vijay for his racist remarks against blacks and South Indians
NEW YORK (TIP): “It is shocking to hear another racist thought and political bigotry emanating from a member of BJP and a former Rajya Sabha MP who may have inadvertently revealed his true colors in […]
Asia
U.S. Drops ‘Mother of all Bombs’ on ISIS Target in Afghanistan
Militant caves in Afghanistan targeted GBU-43 bomb used for the first time in combat WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in […]
Asia
At the crossroads — US, China, Pakistan — India has its hands full
“Jingoism may work for domestic electoral cycles, but can be dangerous internationally. Confronting the Sino-Pak combine, assuming Trump as a credible pro-India counterweight, is risky at best. Pliny the Elder’s advice to avoid ‘brutum fulmen’ […]
Featured
Ambedkar’s last words of wisdom
In a speech to the Constituent Assembly in 1949, B.R. Ambedkar stressed on the need to have social democracy, and not only political democracy. He spoke of the need to shun the grammar of anarchy […]
Featured
Kulbushan Jadhav death sentence: Risky, ill-considered
Pakistan’s sudden announcement on Monday, April10, that former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav has been sentenced to death by a Field General Court Martial is a development fraught with danger. It could lead to a […]
E-Edition
Education
Three Indian Americans among others awarded 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced 173 fellowships on Friday, April 7, to artists, writers, scholars and scientists, including three Indian Americans – Sandeep Mukherjee, Pramila Vasudevan and Shalini Shankar. Appointed on the basis […]
Education
Troy University’s Indian American Professor Dr. Priya Menon receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study Emigration
TROY – Dr. Priya Menon, associate professor of English at Troy University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to India from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship […]
Indian Americans
North America’s First Indian-American Scottish Bagpipe Band Performs at the 19th Annual NYC Tartan Day Parade
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. April 8, 2017: Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Pipe Band USA performed at the 2017 New York City Tartan Day Parade, featuring nearly 50 bagpipe groups from all across North America. The Indian […]
Education
2 Rice students, including an Indian American, named Goldwater Scholars
Two Rice University undergraduate students have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Rohan Palanki and Constantine Tzouanas were nominated by Rice and selected based on academic merit from a field of 1,286 […]
Education
Indian-American Student at Rice University awarded Watson Fellowship
An Indian American student is among among the 40 students, chosen from 149 finalists nominated by private liberal arts colleges and universities across the United Sates, who were named a 2017 Thomas J. Watson Fellow […]
Other News
Raja Krishnamoorthi calls for decisive steps to end bigotry, hate crimes
Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has asked the US administration to take “decisive steps” to end bigotry and hate crimes towards Indian-Americans and other religious minorities in the country. “There are various reasons (for increase in […]
Indian Americans
African-American attacks Nepali-Indian establishment pretending to be white supremacist
New York, April 11: A Bhutanese businessman is the victim of a false flag assault in Charlotte by an African-American man who made the attack on the man’s store appear to be the work of […]
Indian Americans
Preet Bharara On Why He Was Fired: ‘Beats The Hell Out Of Me.’
New York: In his first public appearance since being fired last month, former U.S. attorney of Manhattan Preet Bharara on Thursday, April 7, offered a brutal and sometimes humorous critique of President Donald Trump’s administration, […]
Americas
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau To Visit India Soon
New Delhi: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to visit India either late this year or early next year, the country’s High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel said on Friday. “The India-Canada relationship is […]
Indian Americans
Indian Shot Dead In Washington, Probe Underway, Tweets Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi/Washington: India is coordinating with investigating agencies in the US and a probe is underway after a 26-year-old Indian man was shot dead in Washington on Thursday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this […]