REDWOOD CITY, CA(TIP): Three members of an Indian American family were killed Dec. 14 when their stranded Lexus was struck from behind by another vehicle on a California freeway, authorities said. According to the Associated […]
The ancient game of Kabaddi is enshrined permanently in the mind of every son of the soil Punjabi. In olden times, it used to be played on the dusty grounds of village common land. There […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Ravi Shankar, popularly known as Pandit Ravi Shankar, the revered master of the sitar who introduced Indian music to much of the Western world, died Tuesday, December11 in San Diego. He was […]
Abizarre incident took place at an Elementary School in Middlesex County of New Jersey on Dec. 4, 2012. As part of 3RD Grade School work children were asked to draw a symbol of a holiday […]
American medicine has long had the reputation of being the most advanced in the world. But the US today faces a looming shortage of the versatile doctors who form the backbone of its health system […]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized the United States in an exclusive interview with NBC News on Thursday, December 4 blaming American and NATO forces for some of the growing insecurity in his country. “Part […]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Australia’s Defense Minister Stephen Smith, India’s National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai have all spoken of the “Indo-Pacific” – a region spanning the Indian […]
A little over three years ago I wrote in The Hindu that at a time when interest in India and India’s interest in the world are arguably at their highest, Indian scholarship on global issues […]
In the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Narasimha Rao government reworked India’s dysfunctional economic and foreign policies to improve India’s abysmal terms of trade with the rest of the world. The […]
One must congratulate the Government of India for taking the bold step of joining the 138 nations voting ‘Yes’ for the resolution to upgrade Palestine to a non-member observer state in the United Nations. What […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has refuted the Iranian claim that it has captured an American drone after it entered its airspace. “We have no evidence that the Iranian claims are true,” the White House […]
GUATEMALA CITY (TIP): Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee for illegally entering the country and said it would expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for questioning over his […]
Mohammed Jaffer NEW YORK (TIP): A New York man was charged with murder and denied bail on Wednesday, December 5 for pushing a subway rider onto the tracks ahead of an oncoming train in a […]
BARCELONA (TIP: Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time on Saturday over United States hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha. The Jamaican sprinter, who defended […]
DALLAS: MoneyGram (NYSE: MGI), a leading global money transfer company launched November 15 an integrated, multi-platform advertising and marketing campaign for the holiday season. MoneyGram’s “Bringing You Closer” campaign is designed to build consumer preference […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A full-time engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, November 14 in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The FBI said on Wednesday it had added to its list of most wanted terrorists the American “rapping jihadi,” an operative for Somalia’s al-Qaida linked Shebab insurgents who uses rap as a propaganda […]
The re-election of President Barack Obama is likely to be more promising and fruitful for the growing strategic partnership between India and the United States. During the second Obama administration, his India policies are expected […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned on November 9 as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital […]
On November 5, 2008, Barack Obama, an African-American, made history when he was elected the 44th president of the United States. The world’s oldest democracy had finally broken the race ceiling and a ‘man of […]
BANGALORE/MUMBAI (TIP): “I feel sorry for him” or “he has my sympathies” are not the phrases you would ordinarily associate with as flamboyant a person as Vijay Mallya. But, indeed, they cropped up often when […]
Mangalore (TIP): Manipal University has signed agreements with Shanghai’s Tongji and Tianjin universities for mutual, comprehensive partnerships. Quoting the Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University, K. Ramnarayan, a press release said here on Monday that the MoUs […]
NEW YORK (TIP): President Obama won a second term November 6 night and became the 14th US President to win a second term. He promised his thrilled supporters at the victory celebrations in Chicago that […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Krishna Pokhrel, LUTCF has been elected a member of the 2012 Chairman’s Council of New York Life Insurance Company today, says a Press Release issued by New York Life on October […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Inaugurating the 17th biennial convention of the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA), Consul General of India, Ms. Mukta Dutta Tomar, on Friday October 12, 2012 welcomed the delegates from all over […]
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