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Volume 10 Issue 30 | New York | Aug 05
Print Edition Reimagined for the Web Volume 10 Issue 30 ~ NY ~ Aug 05
Month: August 2016
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The Eye Foundation of America Founder Dr. V K Raju and Dr. Ahmad Kheirkhah invited to deliver lectures at University of Baroda
NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. VK Raju and Dr. Ahmad Kheirkhahvisited the University of Baroda by invitation. On Sunday, 31st July and 1st of August,2016 they gave lectureson five subjects which included Artificial Cornea; Pandemic of […]
Politics
Dems Apply More Pressure on GOP ‘Cowards’ Endorsing Trump
WASHINGTON (TIP): Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada called Republicans supporting presidential nominee Donald Trump “cowards” and called for Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to withdraw his endorsement, in a statement Thursday, August 4. The […]
United States
Other News
CHECKERS RESTAURANT OPENS IN JAMAICA
JAMAICA, NEW YORK – Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Jamaica) joined partners Bhupider Singh and Manjit Singh of Flushing, as well as General Manager Monica Singh for a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the […]
Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Nokia to cut deeper as merger spills red ink
HELSINKI (TIP): Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia said Thursday it aims to accelerate savings after costs of absorbing former French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent pushed it into a second-quarter loss. The net loss of 665 million euros […]
Business & Economics
Ford recalls 830,000 vehicles to fix faulty door latches
WASHINGTON (TIP): Ford Motor Company on August 4 announced the recall of 830,000 cars and vans in the United States and Mexico for the replacement of faulty side-door latches. While drivers may have difficulty in […]
Business & Economics
Middle East
John Kerry to visit Turkey on August 21
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that US State Secretary John Kerry intends to visit this month, in what would be the first trip by a top Western dignitary since a failed putsch. […]
Middle East
India
India
India
India
DALIT MAN DIES IN CUSTODY IN KANPUR, ENTIRE POLICE POST SUSPENDED
KANPUR (TIP): All 14 policemen at a police post in Kanpur were suspended and a murder case was filed against one of them, after a young Dalit man was found dead in custody. Kamal Valmiki, […]
India
India
PANEL SAYS ROHITH VEMULA WAS DALIT, FAMILY TO GET STATE BENEFITS
HYDERABAD (TIP): The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has officially ruled that Rohith Vemula, the research scholar of the University of Hyderabad whose suicide on January 17 this year created a nationwide uproar, was […]
India
Modi to connect with citizens via 1st townhall meet on Aug 6
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reach out to citizens through his first-ever ‘townhall’ style event on August 6. A new PMO app to enable mobile users to connect with […]
India
India
Sonia Gandhi recovering after shoulder operation
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress president Sonia Gandhi underwent surgery on her dislocated left shoulder on August 4. She had collapsed during a rally in Varanasi on Wednesday .Such was the impact of her fall that […]
Featured
The Russian Angle in US Elections – What we know so far…
The intrusion into the Democratic National Committee’s computers, allegedly by Russian hackers, has put a renewed spotlight on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has slammed […]
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Who will win and why?
Right now (July), polls suggest that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, but I think Donald Trump actually has a much better chance of winning than most people seem to think. Donald Trump would […]
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Another SAARC farce: Much ado about nothing in Islamabad
Another ministerial meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has come and gone, this time in Islamabad, with people of its eight-member nations none the wiser about the purpose of the get-together. The […]
Indian Americans