Johannesburg (TIP): FW de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on November 11. It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa’s Parliament on February 2, 1990 announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years. The announcement electrifying a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid. —AP
United States
NSF Director Panchanathan, several other Indian-Americans elected to National Academy of Engineering
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and several other eminent Indian-American scientists have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, according to an official release. They include Ravi Prasher from […]
Health
Here’s why you should add amba haldi to your diet
Ambahaldi (Curcuma Amada) is also known as raw turmeric, mango ginger, and white turmeric.The root of the Curcuma zedoaria plant, often known as white turmeric or Zedoaria, is what produces the spice. The root of […]
India
President Kovind defends Demonetization, Rafale deal
Addressing House, heaps praise on govt on triple talaq, surgical strikes NEW DELHI(TIP): Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, President Ram Nath Kovind, on January 31, defended the BJP government’s controversial decisions, from Rafale jet […]
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