25 floats, dozens of marching bands and dancing groups; thousands cheering with tricolor in hands NEW YORK (TIP): Thousands of people from the Indian diaspora converged in the heart of New York, on August 20, […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday announced that an inquiry commission headed by a retired High Court judge would be constituted to probe the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in December last year. A decision on […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): A first-of-its-kind ‘Partition Museum’ bringing alive memories of the Independence era in the form of photos, artefacts and documents was today inaugurated in the historic city of Amritsar – the transit point of the massive migration on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The country’s defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday gave the green light to a proposal to buy six Apache AH64E attack helicopters for the army from the United States. The Boeing-manufactured helicopters and associated equipment cleared by the council are expected to cost around […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Infosys Ltd, in a surprise announcement, said Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO citing a stream of distractions and disruptions in recent months, pushing down shares of the second-largest Indian IT services firm almost 8 per cent on Friday. UB […]
EDISON (TIP): Victory 2017, the coordinated campaign between Murphy for Governor and the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, announced the hiring of two veteran state political operatives including Indian American Amit Jani, who will undertake […]
FREMONT (TIP): An Indian American Mahendra Prasad, 55, of Fremont, was sentenced Aug 14 by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $328,000 in restitution for his […]
MIAMI (TIP): A Miami resident of Indian origin was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Aug 15, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in defrauding victims in an […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): An Indian American executive Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy, who worked as a vice president and risk management specialist for a Manhattan-based investment bank pled guilty Aug 10 to a criminal Information charging […]
STANFORD (TIP): Stanford electrical engineering Professor emeritus Thomas Kailath will be given the Marconi Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many transformative contributions to information and system science, as well as his sustained […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty unfurled the National Flag at the Consulate premises in the morning of 15 August. The unfurling of the flag was followed by the playing of the national […]
By Prof. Indrajit S Saluja Dr. V.K. Raju, MD, FRCS, FACS, the Founder and Medical Director of the Eye Foundation of American is on a crusade to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world. Eye Foundation […]
“The belittling of Pandit Nehru is odd, because the standing of the current Prime Minister is not validated by writing out a previous Prime Minister from the annals of history. The future will judge both […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In the aftermath of the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally and the domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal – joined by 31 members of Congress – introduced […]
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