The head of a top Indian-American advocacy group on Wednesday condemned Ann Coulter’s comments that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley doesn’t understand America because she’s “an immigrant” with roots in India. “It’s a demographic death […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s series defeat to lowly-ranked Bangladesh has allegedly brought to the fore the sense of insecurity and disquiet some team members have been experiencing, Sources say the team is not at its […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian hoopster Satnam Singh Bhamara, on Friday, became the first player from the country to be drafted in NBA. Satnam, a versatile center player, was selected by Dallas Mavericks with the 52nd […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): An influential group of business leaders have urged the G20 to improve the global trade system for the emerging digital economy as well as focus on reforms to ensure strong and sustainable growth. […]
NEW DELHI : Saudi Arabia lost its spot last month as (TIP)India’s top oil supplier to Nigeria for the first time in at least four years, according to ship tracking data compiled by Reuters, as […]
NEW DELHI/PANAJI (TIP): Congress on June 25 accused defence minister Manohar Parrikar of concealing an FIR in his election nomination papers, urging the central election commission to initiate action against him. An FIR was filed […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on June 25 raised with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi China’s blocking of India’s move in the UN for action against Pakistan over 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): On the 40th anniversary of the Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi June 25 said a vibrant liberal democracy is the key to progress and that everything should be done to strengthen democratic […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre is planning a mega event to lay claim to the legacy of another Congress icon, Lal Bahadur Shastri. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of the 1965 India-Pakistan war that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Heads have rolled in Greenpeace India with its two top officials resigning from their positions following improper handling of two sexual harassment cases. Executive Director Samit Aich and Programme Director Divya Raghunandan […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): They could soon be calling him Boo-Boo Jindal. First, there was that creepy video of an ostensibly private – and orchestrated – family conversation about his Presidential run that was made public. Then […]
NEW YORK (TIP): On April 25, 2015 when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Himalayan range nation of Nepal, it took one of the worst catastrophic tolls in human history in terms of lives destroyed, lives […]
KENNER, LOUISIANA (TIP): Louisiana ‘American’ Governor Bobby Jindal became the 13th Republican to announce that he is running for president in 2016. Jindal, 44, an Indian-American (who hates to be called an Indian American and prefers to […]
Economics is a seriously inexact science. Economic phenomena are hard to predict, and harder still to govern. The instruments of economic policy are not unlike allopathic medication, in that they can have side-effects, some of […]
New York (TIP):The Asia Foundation and the Lotus Circle, a community of individuals, foundations and corporations working together to advance the rights and opportunities of women in Asia, honored Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author Sheryl WuDunn as well as […]
The Hong Kong government has reportedly dropped plans to scrap visa-free entry for Indians after representations from Indian officials and businessmen said such a move could seriously jeopardise businesses and tourism. Recent media reports quoting […]
India-born Steve Rai has been appointed the new deputy chief constable of Canada’s Vancouver Police Department. Vancouver Police chief Adam Palmer announced yesterday that Mr Rai has joined the department’s executive team as the new […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As if the pain of Lalitgate involving Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje Scindia was not enough , Advani chose to inject a little more of it with his emergency remarks. Already in […]
Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): American lawmakers cutting across party lines passed legislation on June 15 aimed in part at strengthening intelligence and security ties between India, Israel, and the US, ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme court on June 19 granted bail to jailed Sahara group chief Subrata Roy but said he would be released from Tihar Jail only after the group paid up Rs 10,000 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Non-governmental organisations will soon have to start furnishing details of foreign funds received and utilised by them for ‘civil rights advocacy’, a new category created by the home ministry to ascertain whether […]
Sixty years ago this month, an affair between the great Italian film director, Roberto Rossellini, then married to Ingrid Bergman, and a young Bengali woman, Sonali Dasgupta, wife of the filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, made headlines in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): It’s official now. The government is reaching for the Sun by raising the target for adding solar power capacity five times to 100,000 mw by 2022. The Cabinet’s panel on economic affairs […]
VADODARA (TIP): Australian firms will invest US $100 million in Vadodara region between Surat and Ahmedabad. This investment will generate close to 10,000 jobs. This was claimed by New South Wales (NSW) Labour Party secretary […]
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