BEIJING (TIP): While there is no official announcement, officials say Li has has expressed wish to make New Delhi first halt of his maiden foreign tour and it is expected to take place in May. […]
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and colleagues (L-R): Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz take calls during visit, Thursday, April 25th to Daily News/CUNY Citizenship […]
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall (C) joined, Sunday, April 21st elected officials and friends of late civic activist and parks advocate Pat Dolan to officially rename Willow Lake Trail as Pat Dolan Trail in memory […]
IT was the Baisakhi day, March 30,1699. A large gathering of peasants was waiting anxiously. A strange excitement permeated the air. Something was going to happen. Something that would have an everlasting impact on Indian […]
There are various legends associated with the colorful and vibrant festival of Baisakhi. A study of these interesting legends of Baisakhi reveal that the day of Baisakhi is significant not just for Sikhs but also […]
NEW DELH (TIP)I: A third flag meeting to resolve the stand-off created by the April 15th Chinese incursion in Ladakh may be held on Friday, according to sources in the security establishment. The third meeting […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): It has been tumultuous last few weeks in West Bengal. Streets of Kolkata, which only two years ago witnessed one of the longest victory marches, is now filled with protest and anger. […]
DHAKA (TIP): The search for survivors from Bangladesh‘s worst industrial accident stretched into a third day with the death toll rising to 273 after the collapse of a building housing factories that made lowcost garments […]
JALALABAD (TIP): Seven people were killed, dozens injured and many homes destroyed when a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. The quake, measured at a magnitude of 5.6 by the US Geological […]
RAWALPINDI (TIP): The sight of children, the disabled and disadvantaged begging at all hours of the day and night in Pakistan is a grim, constant reminder of the millions who live in abject poverty. Yet […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Thirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed on April 26 in a fire that ravaged a hospital in the Moscow region, suffocating the victims as they slept behind barred windows. The deadly blaze […]
BOSTON (TIP): The Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects used a remote-control device from a toy car to set off explosives and apparently learnt to build a bomb from an al-Qaida online magazine, a top American lawmaker […]
KHARTOUM, SUDAN (TIP): A special court in Sudan on Thursday jailed seven members of the powerful state security service for up to eight years over a coup attempt last year, the service said. Their conviction […]
DALLAS (TIP): President Barack Obama praised his predecessor at the dedication of his library for showing strength and resolve in the days after the September 11 attacks and said if Congress passes immigration reform “it […]
Abstract: A decade after the military intervention that dislodged the Taliban-Al Qaeda combine, peace and stability continues to elude Afghanistan. There is still no consensus in Western capitals on what constitutes the ‘end-state’ in Afghanistan. […]
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