ISLAMABAD (TIP): More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported on October 12. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more […]
BUENOS AIRES (TIP): Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes in Argentina’s central Cordoba province on October 11 as wildfires grew amid an intense heat wave. Images and video from the area showed massive […]
LONDON (TIP): A fire burning in a London airport’s parking structure early October 11 caused a partial collapse, and five people have been hospitalised for smoke inhalation. All flights at Luton Airport were suspended until […]
BEIJING (TIP): China will hold the third edition of the Belt and Road Forum here from October 17 to 18 and President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony, it was announced on October 11. […]
GAZA CITY (TIP): The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed October 12 as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of […]
Gaza (TIP): The number of displaced people in Gaza has shot up from 3,000 before the recent violence to nearly 350,000 within less than a week. There were around 3,000 displaced people in Gaza before […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Israel’s military directed the evacuation on October 13 of all of the hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The order comes after Hamas […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Lord Raj Loomba CBE ( Commander of the Order of British Empire) & Lady Veena Loomba visited Goutami Eye Institute Rajahmundry, a premier eye institute run by the Eye Foundation of America. […]
‘A mature constitutional democracy ought not to prosecute speech, which by itself has no direct causal connection to violence or disorder,’ says PUCL statement “A reminder of the broader threats to free speech and dissent […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Representative Steve Scalise, the Louisiana Republican who Republicans nominated to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives, dropped out of the race on Thursday, October 12, as the party failed […]
NEW DELHI/NEW YORK (TIP): India has rejected the 2023 Global Hunger Index in which the country ranked 111th, calling it a flawed measure of “hunger” that does not reflect the country’s true position. The Women […]
India’s “longstanding and consistent” policy on Palestinian state remains unchanged, says MEA spokesperson NEW DELHI (TIP): India reiterated its call for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state on Thursday, October 12, with the Ministry […]
Those who had written Indian hockey off a couple of years ago are now forced to eat their words. India is back and back with a vengeance. In the past one year, Indian men have […]
October 16 On this day, the universe will reveal some of its deepest, most profound mysteries to you. You’ll notice that as the day progresses, you’re more drawn to periods of self-reflection than usual. This […]
Aries Ganesha says, this week, you’ll be able to dismiss items in your life that aren’t crucial. Creating goals will help you break up challenging circumstances into smaller segments. You’ll have crystal-clear communication skills. Using […]
By Mabel Pais The World Music Institute, as part of its Collaboration Series, presents ‘Singing Together,’ a qawwali and gospel music collaboration between Texas-based Riyaaz Qawwali and The Harlem Gospel Travelers from New York City. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): An Indian-origin scientist at NASA is helming a mission that aims to launch three rockets during the 2023 annular eclipse on October 14. The mission, known as Atmospheric Perturbations around the Eclipse […]
BOSTON (TIP): Indian American abortion rights activist Sapna Khatri has been named to lead Massachusetts’ Reproductive Justice Unit, a new unit established under state Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell. The Unit will focus on ensuring […]
LONDON (TIP): A British Sikh crossbow-armed intruder who pleaded guilty to committing treason after telling royal guards at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Aparna Chennapragada, a former Indian American Google and Robinhood executive, has joined Microsoft as the corporate vice president where she will be working on generative media artificial intelligence products and technology. “With […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Teenage Indian American inventor Gitanjali Rao was honored by US First Lady Jill Biden, along with 14 other young women leaders, for leading a change and shaping a brighter future in their […]
The reopening of a case against Arundhati Roy is a stark reminder of the broader threats to free speech and dissent in India The decision of government of India to reopen a criminal case against […]
At my age 93+ I keep thinking and dreaming about India and the Indian Americans. Though born in India and lived there only 24 years I love India and the Indian Americans. I am getting […]
Regular caste-based census data can help track the progress of different caste groups over time, helping better evaluation of policies for social justice “A caste-based census would provide accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution […]
Parliament has committed an egregious folly in fusing women’s reservation with delimitation “A census to understand the population of women for the purpose of reservation is also unwarranted. The criteria, process and purpose of the […]
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