The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits tumbled to a 15-year low last week and consumer spending rose in March, signs the economy was regaining momentum after stumbling badly in the first […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian Americans from across the country are mobilizing support for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Nepal, with a large number of organizations raising funds for the people of the quake-ravaged country. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The median income of Indian-Americans, which is the richest ethnic community in the US, in the year 2013 was $100,547 (about Rs. 60 lakhs), Census Bureau said in its latest report. In its latest report, the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has dismissed as conspiracy theory claims made by a new book that cash donations from India swayed her stance as a senator on the landmark India-US nuclear deal. “Clinton […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): This year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is being awarded to two scientists who have worked for conservation on the land and in the ocean. Madhav Gadgil of India and Jane Lubchenco […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Barack Obama inherited two ugly, intractable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he became president and set to work to end them. But a third, more covert war he made his own, escalating […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Tom Emmer (R-MN), members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have introduced legislation that would direct the State Department to speed-up the visa approval process for international […]
OCOTLAN, MEXICO (TIP): The town still bears the scars from the unprecedented offensive launched by a powerful Mexican drug cartel against government forces: bullet-pocked buildings and blood stains on the street. The March 19 ambush […]
OnApril 12, Hillary Clinton moved one step closer to becoming the first-ever woman President of the United States. The 2016 election will be her second presidential run. To succeed this time she will have to eschew the theme of“inevitability” […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website to seven years in prison, her lawyer said on Friday, a ruling that reflects […]
Washington: In her second bid to break the glass ceiling and return to the White House, the former first lady chose a low key video message on social media to announce her run before heading to […]
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has named Indian-American Maya Harris to head a team of senior policy advisers to put together her presidential campaign’s agenda. Harris, 46, has a background in human rights, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The answer to the ”Run, Hillary, Run” exhortation from the Clintonistas will be available this weekend. To no one’s great surprise, Hillary Clinton is expected to formally announce that she will run for […]
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Afghanistan) (TIP): At least 10 people died today when Taliban insurgents wearing military uniforms mounted a six-hour gun and grenade siege on a court complex in northern Afghanistan, in an assault highlighting the country’s […]
The civil war in Yemen, exacerbated by the intervention of outside powers, is poised at a delicate stage which could impinge on the larger picture of the Middle East’s future trajectory. The truth is that the poorest […]
Max Schrems, the Austrian law graduate spearheading a class action lawsuit against Facebook for alleged privacy breaches, said ahead oft he preliminary hearing in Vienna on Thursday said he hoped to send a message to […]
ANAND: The family of a 39-year-old man from Anand district in Gujarat, who was shot dead in the USA in an attack, sought the Indian government’s help on Tuesday to get his body back. “We request […]
WASHINGTON — In a stairway just off the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Ami Bera walks past a portrait nearly every day of the late Rep. Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat from […]
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers have lauded Indian-origin American physicians for their role in passage of a bill by the Congress that reformulates the way physicians are reimbursed for a government health insurance for seniors. Several US lawmakers […]
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (TIP): April 2, 2015 becomes historic as Iran Nuclear deal framework is announced. It is a significant step towards a landmark deal aimed at keeping Iran’s nuclear program peaceful. Iran would reduce its stockpile of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on April 1 launched the first-ever sanctions program to financially punish individuals and groups outside the United States that are engaged in malicious cyber attacks. US President Barack, in an […]
EL PASO, TEXAS (TIP): On April 6 the border security subcommittee of the Senate’s Veteran Affairs and Military Installations Committee is scheduled to hear Senate Bill 1819, a piece of legislation that would repeal a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A US panel tasked with reviewing the FBI has said that one of the main lessons learnt from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case was that “relevant intelligence may fall by the […]
KABUL, Afghanistan: Hundreds marched on Monday in the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman beaten to death last week by a Kabul mob over false allegations she had burned a Quran — a vicious […]
SANAA (TIP): The Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces launched a fresh air strike against military targets in Yemen’s capital Sanaa and the southern province of Taiz on March 26 night, sources told Xinhua. The airstrike in […]
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