UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Every year, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25), we are reminded how every day, women and girls experience violence in their lives. Women are beaten […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): “The Security Council is, undoubtedly, one of the most important institutions of global governance,” Sumitra Mahajan, speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, stated. “If its legitimacy is in […]
Actor calls on men and boys to join the UN Women’s HeForShe initiative, and mobilize for gender equality NEW YORK (TIP): UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, announced, […]
Actress Angelina Jolie says her humanitarian works has furthered her interest in politics. The Oscar-winning actress talked about her interest in politics in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “When you work as […]
NEW YORK (TIP):With the worst levels of displacement since the Second World War, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka , October 28, at the UN Security Council called upon UN Member States to address […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): India has voted against the provisions of draft resolutions that would have required it to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying there is “no question” of it joining the treaty […]
It can be considered the biggest strategic failure of Indian diplomacy that even after more than six decades, India has not found a way to neutralize the malevolence of a neighbor one-eighth its size”, says […]
As Indian-Americans and friends of India and Indians, Ravi & Ranju Batra welcome India’s PM Modi to New York and UN on 9/27/14, after he had visited the 9/11 Memorial and just walked off the […]
In the cleanliness drive Gandhi’s real message of communal harmony was missing “That communal harmony was his (Gandhi’s) foremost concern was emphasized again in 1921 and repeated on March 24, 1947, at a prayer meeting […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Shinzo Abe on October 12 became the first Japanese prime minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, on the second leg of a South Asian tour that sought to assert Tokyo’s interest […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Secretary general Ban Kimoon said that a trust fund he launched to provide fast and flexible funding for the fight against Ebola has only $100,000 in the bank. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela won coveted seats at the UN security council on October 16, but Turkey suffered a humbling defeat in its bid to join the world’s “top […]
LONDON (TIP): History was made on October 10 when an Indian and a Pakistani jointly shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize […]
KABUL (TIP): Five Afghan men were hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women despite the United Nations and human rights groups criticising the trial and calling for new president Ashraf Ghani to […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The UN management chief says member states owe the world body about USD 3.5 billion for its regular operating budget and far-flung peacekeeping operations. Yukio Takasu told reporters after briefing the General […]
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Clashes in Central African Republic’s capital have resulted in ”many casualties,” the International Committee for the Red Cross said Thursday, marking the most significant violence in the city since a United […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Yes, it is Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. All Indian Americans are familiar with that name, for good or for bad, mostly for good, though. Modi was in New York from […]
Malini Shah is a community leader who is currently President of her diamonds company, Difference Inc. She is also the Founder of Nritya Kala Kendra which was founded in 1992. It is an organization that […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The United States is open to a new UN resolution on Gaza but only if it contributes to sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, the US envoy to the United Nations said. Ambassador Samantha […]
WASHINGTON/CONAKRY (TIP): The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea […]
Onam is celebrated in the beginning of the month of Chingam, the first month of Malayalam Calendar (Kollavarsham). There are actually four days of Onam. The most important day of Onam (known as Thiru Onam) […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The UN security council met on August 29 in an emergency session on the growing crisis in Ukraine with some members expressing outrage. UN undersecretary-general of Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman told council […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Citizen Forum, New York branch was launched here on August 23. Addressing prominent members of the Indian-American community and representatives of some American think-tanks at the launch, at the UN […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The UN warned on Monday that restrictions on flights to and from Ebola-hit West African countries could hamper the international community’s ability to fight and reverse the current outbreak of the deadly […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has begun to mobilize a broad coalition of allies behind potential American military action in Syria and is moving toward expanded airstrikes in northern Iraq, administration officials said on August […]
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