An Indian American foundation, The Georgina Joshi Foundation Inc., has given a $1 million gift to Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for a state-of-the-art audio recording studio. The new facility, to be named the Georgina Joshi […]
A group of self-described militiamen continue to occupy a federal building in the remote high desert of the US state of Oregon in protest against a prison sentence for local ranchers accused of burning government […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Released this past fall on Universal Music Classics, American Pilgrimage, an album of Indian melody and jazz improvisation, has ascended to No. 8 on the Indian Jazz Charts on iTunes. The track ‘Kesariya’ has been featured on Spotify’s Jazz Playlist […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Soldiers and volunteers packed sand bags Wednesday in a frantic effort to stave off floodwaters in the US state of Missouri, where 13 people have been killed and several towns have been engulfed. […]
The head of Al-Qaeda’s South Asian wing is Sanaul Haq, a one-time resident of Sambhal, in Uttar Pradesh, over 150 km from the national capital, intelligence sources have confirmed to The Indian Express. Known to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): All cellphone coverage was blocked by the government for three hours one recent afternoon in the Pakistani capital, and it did not take people long to discover why: Maulana Abdul Aziz, the radical […]
In another hate crime, an armed robber shot a store clerk of Indian origin (sikh) in the face after accusing him of being an “ISIS terrorist.” Following the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, […]
LAHORE:With ties between extremists and Islamabad on the decline, militants are now faced with a more resolved and committed effort to eliminate them. The recent revelations that the San Bernardino shooters had extremist ties to Pakistan might appear […]
Universities across the United States are caught up in a wave of protests swirling around issues of race, identity and how institutions should respond to their history. It’s raised far-reaching questions about campus culture and […]
DALLAS , TX (TIP): For the past two weeks, people seeking safety in the US who ICE has kept detained for up to two years have refused meals as part of the #freedomgiving hunger strike […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Since last month, US warplanes have struck Islamic State’s oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates has cut the group’s black-market earnings from oil […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Minister of Defense of India Manohar Parrikar made an official visit to the United States at the invitation of US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter from December 7-10, 2015 that included visits to […]
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton took aim at fellow White House hopeful Donald Trump over his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, saying: “I no longer think he is funny.” Appearing on NBC’s “Late […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Farha Sayeed of Chicago has been bringing laurels through her love for an array of arts and crafts and her contributions to welfare of downtrodden, thereby emerging as a role model for women […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares has deployed medical teams to Tamil Nadu, where relentless flooding closed schools and a major airport in Chennai and claimed at least 269 lives. The first team, organized by the AmeriCares […]
WASHINGTON: Frank Islam, a prominent Indian American entrepreneur and philanthropist has been awarded the inaugural UP Ratna award for his achievements and outstanding contributions as a son of Uttar Pradesh. The award will be given by […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The world’s richest 10 percent of people are responsible for producing about half of all carbon emissions, and the average carbon footprint of the richest 1 percent is about 175 times that of […]
The recent attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO, that claimed three lives and wounded nine, highlights yet again the enormity of the gun violence problem in the US. Gun running, with the […]
HAVANA (TIP): Hundreds of furious Cubans chanting and brandishing air tickets have protested outside Ecuador’s embassy in Havana over new visa restrictions designed to stop Cuban migrants travelling through the region to the US. It […]
An Indian-American man on board the Qatar Airways flight to Washington via Doha was offloaded at the Benazir International Airport in Islamabad around 3 a.m. on Friday after he claimed that there was a bomb […]
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