HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong students plan to occupy roads surrounding the city’s British consulate in anger at a lack of support from London for their pro-democracy movement, as authorities ramp up pressure on protesters […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more US troops for Iraq, roughly doubling the number already there to advise and retrain Iraqi forces battling Islamic State militants, US […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama plans to nominate veteran New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to succeed Eric Holder as US attorney general, the White House said on November 7. If confirmed by the Senate, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leaving no one in doubt about his stout resolve to act on immigration, President Obama firmly rejected advice from top congressional Republicans on Friday, November 7 that he delay his promised executive action […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus ventured out of her home in Maine and took a bike ride on October 30 night, defying […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): When she was barely into her mid-20s and just couple years out of law school (NYU), Vanita Gupta represented 46 African- Americans who had been convicted by an all-white jury in Texas in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama authorized calling up military reservists for the US fight against Ebola in west Africa on October 16, as lawmakers criticized his administration’s efforts to contain the disease at home. Obama’s […]
he was considering appointing an Ebola “czar” to coordinate the fight against the virus in the United States, but he remained opposed to a ban on travel from West Africa. Obama’s administration is facing sharp […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Thomas Kailath, a Pune-educated Indian American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Science, announced by President Barack Obama Oct. 3. Kailath is also […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Yes, it is Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. All Indian Americans are familiar with that name, for good or for bad, mostly for good, though. Modi was in New York from […]
U.S. President Barack Obama and India‘s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office at the White House. The two leaders have pledged to work to forge stronger ties. WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s Prime Minister, after […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US military expects to increase the number of troops deployed to Liberia to fight the Ebola outbreak to nearly 4,000, up from a planned 3,000-strong force, the Pentagon said on October 3. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama strongly condemned on October 2 the killing of British citizen Alan Henning by Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria and said the United States would seek to […]
WASHINGTON: Impressed by the “energy and vigour” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the US despite being on fast, President Barack Obama has expressed his interest in yoga, officials have said. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In what appears to be history in the making, President Barack Obama on Thursday, September 18, nominated an Indian American to be the next US ambassador to India. When Richard (Rich) Rahul Verma […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Mission Creep, a term that has come to describe a gradual shift in objectives during the course of a military campaign, often resulting in unplanned long-term commitment, came into the American lexicon during […]
“Expectations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to the United States later this month need to be modulated with stiff doses of reality. Structural weakness in the United States means that it cannot offer much; […]
Ansun Sujoe from Fort Worth, Texas and Sriram Hathwar from Painted Post, New York WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama might be one of the world’s most powerful man but he is no spelling champion […]
AUSTIN, TX (TIP): Most of the abortion clinics in Texas could close by the weekend depending on what happens in a New Orleans courtroom Friday, September 12. The U.S. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
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