Moscow (TIP) : Russia has deployed its Bastion coastal missile defence system to a remote part of the Kuril island chain in the Pacific near Japan, the Ministry of Defence’s Zvezda TV channel said on December 2. Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from Japan. The dispute has prevented them signing a formal peace treaty. Reuters
India
India’s Jeweler to Hollywood stars accused of massive bank fraud
Nirav Modi accused of swindling $1.8 billion, was with Narendra Modi at Davos on Jan 13, 2018 NEW DELHI / MUMBAI (TIP): Nirav Modi, accused of pulling off possibly India’s biggest bank fraud, was posing […]
Indian Americans
Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal receives abusive hate messages
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has been receiving abusive and hate messages over phone. On Thursday, September 8, she posted a collection of five such audio messages. In all these, portions of […]
Indian Americans
Indian American Maryland University professor built ‘surveillance machine’ for Chinese big tech
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): An Indian American professor at University of Maryland (UMD) allegedly built a machine-learning software “useful for surveillance” as part of a six-figure research grant from Chinese tech giant Alibaba, according to a […]
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