TRIPOLI (TIP): Close to 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said. Coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said 23 migrants were rescued from […]
DAMASCUS (TIP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his government handed over all its chemical weapons stockpiles in 2013 and could not have been behind last week’s suspected sarin attack. “There was no order to make […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan Army’s decision to execute alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav seems to have found little support globally. Not only has Amnesty International slammed the decision but also the civil rights groups within […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The bank account data of one crore Indians was up for sale. And it was dirt cheap at 10 or 20 paisa per individual, police investigations have revealed. Probing the case of […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s statement against Canadian defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan terming him a “Khalistani sympathiser” has triggered a diplomatic row with the Canadian high commission on April 13 terming […]
New Delhi/Islamabad (TIP): The Pakistan army brass decided after a discussion on April 13 that there would be no compromise on the issue of the death sentence+ awarded to retired Indian Navy commandant Kulbhushan Jadhav, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Income Tax department will investigate over 60,000 individuals under the second phase of the ‘Operation Clean Money’ which was launched on Friday with a view to detecting black money generation post […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid raging controversy over authenticity of electronic voting machines (EVMs), the Supreme Court on April 13 issued notices to the Centre and the Election Commission on petitions alleging that EVMs can be […]
KOLKATA (TIP): A defiant Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan on April 13 asked the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and six judges of the Supreme Court, who have issued a contempt notice to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Striking a note of caution against any blanket ban on medical tourism-related content available online, the Supreme Court on April 13 said people’s right to know, be informed and gain wisdom from […]
Supreet Kaur, a news anchor with Chattisgarh’s private IBC-24 channel was reading her morning bulletin on Saturday and was directed to break the news of a fatal accident in the Mahasamund district fifteen minutes after […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Indian American community and their friends from the mainstream came together to celebrate the 350th birth anniversary of the Tenth Master of the Sikhs, Shri Guru Gobind Singh. It was for the […]
Militant caves in Afghanistan targeted GBU-43 bomb used for the first time in combat WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in […]
In a speech to the Constituent Assembly in 1949, B.R. Ambedkar stressed on the need to have social democracy, and not only political democracy. He spoke of the need to shun the grammar of anarchy […]
Pakistan’s sudden announcement on Monday, April10, that former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav has been sentenced to death by a Field General Court Martial is a development fraught with danger. It could lead to a […]
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced 173 fellowships on Friday, April 7, to artists, writers, scholars and scientists, including three Indian Americans – Sandeep Mukherjee, Pramila Vasudevan and Shalini Shankar. Appointed on the basis […]
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. April 8, 2017: Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Pipe Band USA performed at the 2017 New York City Tartan Day Parade, featuring nearly 50 bagpipe groups from all across North America. The Indian […]
Two Rice University undergraduate students have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Rohan Palanki and Constantine Tzouanas were nominated by Rice and selected based on academic merit from a field of 1,286 […]
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