A lot of Indians running Gurudwaras/temples/mosques or being in detention centers, either owing to deportation or based on criminal convictions, are not aware of a big federal relief provided to them. And that is Religious Land Use […]
Sep 30, 2015 (TIP): Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today commissioned the guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi in Mumbai. The INS Kochi is packed with weapons and sensors as well as advanced stealth features, it is the largest-ever warship […]
Kartik Chandran, an IIT Roorkee graduate, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow for his work in “transforming wastewater from a pollutant requiring disposal to a resource for […]
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday, Sep 28, declassified cabinet papers on great freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and allied issues from 1938 to 1947. “Those papers may have been confidential in pre-independent India but today there […]
Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra produced some excellent shooting to clinch the gold while London Games bronze medalist Gagan Narang failed to finish on the podium. Bindra shot 208.8 points to clinch the gold medal […]
India’s most successful cueist Pankaj Advani on Sunday, Sep 27, won the IBSF World Billiards Championship after outplaying his opponent in the final to take his world title count to 14 in Adelaide, Australia. Advani, 30, […]
Two Indian American teens Sonali Ranaweera, 14, of California, and Deepika Kurup, 17, of New Hampshire were among the awardees for the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes – 2015. The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes announced its […]
Logistics data start-up company LogiNext has got support from mobile commerce platform Paytm, which will invest $10 million in the first round of institutional funding for the firm. The move is in line with Paytm’s […]
Nine Indian-origin Canadians, including several Metro Vancouver men, are wanted for drug smuggling in India in a high-profile case linked to a former Punjabi cop and wrestling champion. Interpol has issued a red corner notice […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Indian diaspora in the US has launched “Mission 2022” in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industries to make US-India partnership a defining partnership of the 21st century. “We have set a goal […]
Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) in Los Angeles is part of the effort of the Indian government to increase its engagement with the large Indian-American community, which numbers more than three million. A joint statement issued after […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Industrialist Mukesh Ambani has retained the tag as India’s richest for the ninth year in a row with a net worth of$18.9 billion even as declining macroeconomic barometers flattened the fortunes of the […]
Ms Arunima Sinha of Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) is the first Female Amputee of the world to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first Indian Amputee to climb Mount Everest. She reached the summit of Mount […]
MUMBAI: Despite the two-wheeler industry de-growing from many months in a row, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India has set new record by selling over 1 million of its flagship scooter Activa during the first five […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Introducing the revamped version of its hatchback, Ford India launched the Ford Figo hatchback at a starting price of Rs 4.29 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). While the petrol version prices go up to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.(TIP): The U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) Board of Directors announced that Mr. John T. Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, has been elected as the Council’s next Chairman. The formal announcement of the appointment was […]
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee named former India skipper Sourav Ganguly as the new chief of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) as the successor to Jagmohan Dalmiya, who passed away on September 20th. Ganguly, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Officials accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi have ruled out the possibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif though both leaders are staying in the same hotel […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson & Editorial Director of Hindustan Times Group said that India matters a lot to the US now and media played a vital ‘constructive’ role for that as it […]
Contrary to what media reports in United States; Indian information technology companies invested more than $2 billion, paid $22.5 billion in taxes between 2011 and 2013, and supports 411,000 direct and indirect jobs in the […]
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bharatia have been presented with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council, for their commitment to driving a more […]
Mumbai: Swiss banking group Julius Baer has finally set up shop in India, almost three years after acquiring DSP Merrill Lynch’s domestic wealth management business. The launch was deferred on account of a delay in approvals […]
By declaring a ceasefire with effect from 3.30 a.m. on 23 September 1965, did India miss an opportunity to attain decisive victory over Pakistan? Yes, according to the existing narrative, which attributes the ceasefire decision […]
The 36th annual convention of the Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG) at the Downtown Marriott in Philadelphia, September 5-7, was attended by hundreds of doctors and their family from the US, Canada, England and India. […]
Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp has hitched itself on to the Make in India bandwagon. The company is getting back to manufacturing in India, after nearly a decade with plans firmed up for two models […]
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