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US lifts Myanmar trade sanctions
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama announced that US economic sanctions against Myanmar will be lifted, and trade preferences reinstated to provide duty-free treatment for goods from the Asian nation. The September 14 meeting in Washington […]
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Asia
US lifts Myanmar trade sanctions
President Barack Obama announced that US economic sanctions against Myanmar will be lifted, and trade preferences reinstated to provide duty-free treatment for goods from the Asian nation. Yesterday’s (09/14/2016) meeting in Washington was the first by Aung San […]
Indian Americans
Indians Across The World Mark Independence Day With Fervor
BEIJING/WASHINGTON: Soaked in patriotism, hundreds of Indians today proudly marked the country’s 70th Independence Day, as the national flag fluttered and the national anthem reverberated at Indian missions across the world. Indians in countries like […]
United States
US designates al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent as terror group
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US on Thursday designated al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the global terror network, as a “foreign terrorist organisation” and added its chief Asim Umar on the list […]
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Asia
Singapore PM defends government Internet blockage
SINGAPORE (TIP): SINGAPORE ‘s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has defended the country’s controversial decision to cut off civil servants’ work computers from the Internet, calling the move “absolutely necessary” to keep information systems secure. […]
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Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims still waiting for Democracy
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her “non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”. Back then, she was a campaigner for those things, spending a total of 15 […]
United States
Indian Spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Singh says at the UN: “Meditation is Medication for the Soul”
NEW YORK(TIP): Renowned spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, head of Science of Spirituality,is no stranger to the United Nations. He was a featured speaker at the Millennium World Summit in 2000, when he […]
India
India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls upon UNGA to toughen fight against drug-terror nexus
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): India has asked the global community to toughen its collective fight against the growing nexus of organized drug trafficking and terrorist networks by disrupting their financial flows, as these evils threaten peace, […]
Politics
Sanders tops Time’s poll of 100 most influential
NEW YORK (TIP): Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the world’s 100 most influential people, garnering more than three times as many votes as his rival Hillary Clinton. Prime […]
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The Obama Doctrine: Middle East out, Asia in
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference,” the 20th-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once famously wrote. Arguably, this very much […]
Europe
Narendra Modi, Priyanka Chopra, Sania Mirza are Contenders for TIME’s ‘Most Influential’
NEW YORK (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tennis star Sania Mirza and actor Priyanka Chopra are among the probable contenders for TIME magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world., says a […]
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INDIA IMPROVES ties with neighbors
Building upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s initiative of inviting all SAARC leaders to his swearing-in ceremony in May 2014, the neighbourhood continued to be the primary focus of India‘s foreign policy in 2015. While relations with […]
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