Indian-American Emily Shah crowned Miss New Jersey USA
WASHINGTON (TIP): 18-year-old Indian-American Emily Shah has won Miss New Jersey USA 2014 title, following in the footsteps of Nina…
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US Congress set to celebrate Diwali
WASHINGTON (TIP): Thanks to the initiative of bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian- Americans, US lawmakers are set to…
Read MoreThree Indian-Americans elected to US Institute of Medicine
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has…
Read MoreNRI couple arrested in Saudi Arabia on black magic charges
KENDRAPARA, ODISHA (TIP): An NRI couple has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges of practising black magic, official sources…
Read MoreSikh organization given 450k pounds to fund research
LONDON (TIP): A lottery fund in Britain has provided 450,000 pounds to a Sikh organization to fund research into regimental…
Read MoreUS Gujarati association’s extreasurer charged with theft
NEW YORK (TIP): A former treasurer of a Gujarati community non-profit association in the US has been charged with stealing…
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GERMANY SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR OVER CLAIM NSA BUGGED MERKEL’S PHONE
BERLIN (TIP): Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, has called the US ambassador to a personal meeting to discuss allegations that…
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Presidential polls in Maldives on October 19
MALE (TIP)s: The Maldives returns to the polls on October 19 for another attempt to choose a president after judges…
Read MoreContemplate over degrading environment issues of Kashmir too: Pakistan thinktanks
ATTARI (TIP): While candidly admitting that the media was more or less towing the line of security establishments and their…
Read More86 stranded tourists rescued near Mt Everest
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese rescuers have safely evacuated 86 tourists, including 13 foreigners, who were trapped in heavy snow at the…
Read MoreMusharraf denies any role in Lal Masjid operation
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan's former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has denied having ordered the Lal Masjid operation in 2007, even…
Read MoreSuicide bomber kills Pak minister, 7 others
PESHAWAR (TIP): A suicide bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people, including a provincial law minister, and…
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RAGING AUSTRALIAN WILDFIRES DESTROY HOMES, KILL 1
SYDNEY (TIP): Nearly 100 wildfires raged across Australia's most populous state on Friday, killing one person, destroying dozens of houses…
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Hillary Clinton gets a parking ticket from London traffic warden
LONDON (TIP): Hillary Clinton may be tipped as a future US president, but that did not impress a London traffic…
Read MoreBritain opens its nuclear industry to Chinese investors
BEIJING (TIP): Britain opened the door to Chinese investors taking majority stakes in future nuclear plants on Thursday as finance…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize
LONDON (TIP): Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to ever win a Man Booker prize. The 28-year-old New Zealander's…
Read MoreDisabled girl held captive in UK, raped for years in cellar
Apensioner who trafficked a 10-year-old deaf and mute girl into Britain, keeping her in his cellar to claim benefits, was…
Read MoreUN extends Nato force in Afghanistan for last time
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The UN security council voted unanimously on October 10 to extend the mandate of the Nato-led force…
Read MorePakistan rejects allegations about detention of Mullah Baradar
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Afghan Taliban on October 9 claimed their former deputy chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has not been…
Read MoreBangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 9
DHAKA (TIP): A fire on October 08, at a garment factory outside Bangladesh's capital has killed at least nine people,…
Read MoreNepalese election contestant dies days after attack
KATHMANDU (TIP): A Nepalese constituent assembly election contestant died on Thursday a week after he was shot at in southern…
Read MoreBangladesh war crimes tribunal gives life sentence to senior opposition member
DHAKA (TIP): A special Bangladesh tribunal has found a senior member of the opposition guilty of crimes against humanity stemming…
Read MoreMaldives: New presidential poll on Oct 19
MALE (TIP): The Maldives will hold a new presidential election on October 19, the election commission announced on October 09,…
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Snowden honored by U.S. whistleblowers in Moscow
MOSCOW (TIP): Edward Snowden who had not been in news for quite some time, burst back into the limelight Thursday,…
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Chinese mistresses bringing down officials by exposing them
BEIJING (TIP): A 26-year-old mistress has put up videos and photographs of her paramour, a senior Chinese official, now sacked…
Read MoreChemical weapons inspectors visit three sites in Syria
BEIRUT (TIP): International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, a spokesman said on…
Read MoreChina to train 250,000 journalists before they get work passes
BEIJING (TIP): About 250,000 Chinese journalists will be given on-the-job training under a specially designed program by the government's media…
Read MoreBritain, Iran in talks to reopen embassies
Britain has decided to revive the bridge of diplomacy with Iran. The foreign secretaries of Britain and Iran have reached…
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Suicide car bombing kills 15 people in Pakistan
PARACHINAR (TIP): A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the compound of a rival militant commander in…
Read MoreMentor of 9/11 kingpin joins president race in Afghanistan
KABUL (TIP): A former Islamist warlord who is said to be responsible for bringing al-Qaida to Afghanistan and who trained…
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