Obama invites suspended Muslim teen to the White House
September 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama on Wednesday extended a White House invitation to the Muslim ninth-grader who was suspended earlier this week for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas school.
Muslim 9th grader suspended for bringing homemade clock to school
Uncle Sam’s promise to millennials: Pay $600K, get $2M in retirement
September 16, 2015
WASHIGTON, DC: There’s been lots of public hand-wringing about how the nation will pay for the Social Security and Medicare promises it has made to the Baby Boomers.
But new calculations from Urban Institute senior fellow C. Eugene Steuerle highlight an even bigger, if more distant problem: what the current law promises Millennials.
Interim stay on cancellation of Greenpeace’s registration
September 16, 2015
Greenpeace activists coming down in ropes from their office building in Bengaluru to unfurl banners related to the account freezing by the Union government.
Air India: Airline grounds 125 staff deemed too fat to fly
September 16, 2015
In what could be a weighty problem for Air India, the carrier is planning to ground 125 cabin crew for being overweight, according to reports.
Jindal: Trump ‘a madman who must be stopped’
September 16, 2015
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said on Tuesday that conservatives could only win in 2016 by abandoning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Sane conservatives need to stop enabling him,” Jindal wrote in an op-ed published by CNN.
“They need to stop praising him, stop being afraid of him and stop treating him rationally,” he said.
President Obama Awards National Humanities Medal to Author Jhumpa Lahiri
September 15, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
President Obama awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal to celebrated Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri (top left). First Lady Michelle Obama and some 200 guests attended the ceremony in the ornate East Room of the White House
India, Pakistan among major illicit drug producing nations: Obama
September 15, 2015
Washington: US President Barack Obama has determined India and its three neighbors, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, among a list of 22 nations that are major illicit drug producing or transit countries.
As hospitals refuse to admit dengue patients, death toll in Delhi...
September 15, 2015
NEW DELHI – Amid reports of more hospitals denying admission to dengue patients coming in, the death toll due to the disease in the national capital has gone up to 11 on Tuesday.
In the latest incident, a 29-year-old woman succumbed to the disease shortly after getting admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in Delhi.
Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne’s T20 series given go ahead by ICC:...
September 15, 2015
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given a go-ahead for the three-match Twenty20 series promoted by legendary duo of Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne in the United States of America.
Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne having a chat – Getty Images
Nawaz Sharif opens Pakistan-China Friendship tunnels
September 15, 2015
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday inaugurated five 'Pakistan-China Friendship Tunnels' built at the cost of about USD 275 million to restore a strategic road link to China via Gilgit-Baltistan.
The tunnels are part of a 24 kilometre realignment project which has been completed in collaboration with China in over three years.
