Q. In your time as the Consul General ofIndia in New York, what were the mostsignificant highs and lows that youexperienced? Well, New York is the center of theUniverse. Although I have served in manyother […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Foreign Secretary Mr. Ranjan Mathai completed a series of very useful and important interactions at the State Department, including a brief call upon the new U.S. Secretary of State,Mr. John Kerry here on […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): British PrimeMinister David Cameron visited the site ofa colonial-era massacre in India onFebruary 20, describing the episode as”deeply shameful” while stopping short of apublic apology.On the last leg of a three-day trip aimedat […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton has signed up for speaking circuit and will charge a whopping $200,000 per appearance, an amount more than her annual salaray as the US Secretary of State. The $200,000-per-speech fee will […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An India-born research scientist has driven the last forgotten nail in the coffin of slavery in the United States, a shameful casket that was thought to be long buried after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation […]
MULTAN (TIP): Pakistan police are investigating thecountry’s ambassador to the United States for allegedlycommitting blasphemy in a television show three yearsago, officers said Thursday. Sherry Rehman, an ally ofPresident Asif Ali Zardari, who has been […]
PM Cameron’s admission of colonialshame, while short of an apology orreparations to the heirs of thoseslaughtered, is welcome by all who insistthat history must be honest and not a tool ofadded insult to those who […]
Just as Herodotus is the father ofhistory, Thucydides is the father ofrealism. To understand thegeopolitical conflict zones of the 21stcentury, you must begin with the ancientGreeks. Among the many importantlessons Thucydides teaches in his Historyof […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama saidon Thursday that Americans needed more than just hisword to be assured he was not misusing his powers inwaging a secret drone war overseas.The president was asked about the debate […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Foreign Ministryspokesman called for calm andrestraint from all concerned partieson Thursday after the DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)vowed to conduct “a higher-levelnuclear test.””It is in the common interests of allparties concerned to […]
Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious […]
Nuclear’ Iran is getting to be a bigger botherfor the US and the rest of the world thanmany had assumed in the earlier stages. It isfallacious to argue that Tehran will become a stablepartner in […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): CongresswomanCarolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan andQueens) joined Congresswoman GraceMeng (D-Queens) and South Asiancommunity leaders led by Ranju Batra,President of the Association of Indians in America-NY to rally grass-roots supportto press the Citizens Stamp […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP):Nirupama Rao,Ambassador of India to theUnited States, inauguratedhere January 28 an ApparelTrade show organized bythe Apparel ExportPromotion Council of India(AEPC), in cooperationwith M/S Trade Good, atthe PENN Plaza Pavilion.Ambassador PrabhuDayal, Consul General […]
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama’s nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators’ questions will be […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-Americansmay have the distinction of being thehighest-per capita income group amongethnic communities but they lag far behindtheir European counterparts when it comesto owning a house in the US.According to the ‘HomeownershipAmong the Foreign-Born […]
WASHINGTON (TIP):Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) this week cosponsored a HouseResolution calling for the U.S.Postal Service to establish a postagestamp to commemorate Diwali, the”festival of lights” marking theHindu New Year. Diwali is observedby Hindus, Christians, Jains, […]
Toyota officially recaptured the title ofworld’s largest automaker Monday, January28 as its final 2012 sales total toppedGeneral Motors, which held the lead in 2011. NEW YORK (TIP): Earlier in January, General Motors(GM, Fortune 500) announced […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Even as HillaryClinton stepped down as Secretary ofState, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, aprotégé of Hillary Clinton, paid richtributes to her in a statement to TheIndian Panorama.Kirsten said, “Hillary Clinton has beena role model […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a first ofits kind expo in the US, aprestigious museum in Washingtonis organizing an exhibition toshowcase the history, culture andcontribution of Indian-Americanscommunity in the country.The exhibition, “BeyondBollywood: Indian Americans Shapethe Nation,” will […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): U.S.Congresswomen Carolyn Maloneyand Grace Meng will be joined byRanju Batra, President of theAssociation of Indians in America-NY February 2 at a press conferenceannouncing the introduction of aHouse Resolution calling for theissue […]
Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009, about 50% of the […]
When India gained freedom from the British on August 15, 1947 there was the need to regulate the meaning of freedom.Therefore, to have a set of rules and regulations that would guide the nation, the […]
President Obama has done well to speak out his mind on an important issue that has been hanging fire for many years now. It is giving status to more than 11 million undocumented immigrants. It […]
TOKYO (TIP): Hawkish Japanese premier Shinzo Abe held out an olive branch to China on Tuesday, sending a letter to Beijing’s leader-in-waiting to be hand delivered by a coalition ally. The move comes after months […]
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