Kashmir
AmeriCares Responding to India Floods
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares is deploying medical teams to Assam and Bihar, where relentless flooding has killed more than 90 people and forced nearly 1 million into relief camps. The first teams, organized by the […]
LECTURER DIES IN ARMY CUSTODY IN J&K
SRINAGAR (TIP): The army ordered a probe on Thursday, Aug 18, into the death of a 30-year-old college lecturer who was allegedly beaten to death in its custody after being picked up from his home […]
Indian Defense Minister Compares Pakistan to Hell
Amid escalating tension between New Delhi and Islamabad over the ongoing violence in the Kashmir Valley, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said Aug. 16 here that going to Pakistan was the same as going to hell. […]
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 […]
Kashmir Turmoil: Demystifying a few Myths
“”With the death toll rising daily in the Valley, it is no time to get involved in blame game. Deaths both of civilians and Security Forces (SF) personnel need condemnation by one and all. It […]
AMID INDIA-PAK TENSION, RAJNATH SINGH TO VISIT ISLAMABAD NEXT WEEK
NEW DELHI (TIP): Home minister Rajnath Singh will visit Islamabad on August 3 and 4 to attend the meeting of home ministers and interior ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc)?nations. This will […]
The Cynical Assumptions of Delhi – AS I SEE IT
A 21-year-old Kashmiri militant commander, Burhan Wani, was killed by security forces on Friday, July 8. The immediate reaction to Burhan’s killing was an immense outpouring of grief, which then morphed into protests. These protests generated a […]
PM Modi Reviews Kashmir Situation, Appeals for Peace
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, July 12, held a high-level meeting over the violence in Jammu and Kashmir, which has claimed 33 lives, and appealed for calm even as curfew continued for the fourth consecutive day […]
New York based Michelin-star chef Hemant Mathur turns a restaurant baron
With six restaurants in his pocket the Michelin Star chef is now certainly a restaurant baron. When this man landed in New York 22 years ago with his Indian culinary expertise, he had a tough […]
Youth slaps, abuses Kanhaiya on JNU campus
NEW DELHI (TIP): JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was slapped and abused by a youth on the university campus on March 10 evening. The attacker who identified himself as Vikas Chaudhaury slapped Kanhaiya thrice […]