April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON: Talk about the long arm of the law. In an unprecedented case, the US Justice Department has indicted a sitting Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh in a bribery and corruption case that took place in India, banking on the fact that US financial institutions were used in the transactions.
April 2, 2014
By Geeta Goindi
Washington, DC – Smithsonian Institution’s new exhibition, ‘Beyond Bollywood: Indian-Americans Shape the Nation’, is an emotional encounter for the Indian diaspora here, and a learning experience for everyone!
April 2, 2014
LONDON: India could soon help bring back an extinct lion species. DNA tests by an international team of scientists has confirmed the lions in India have close genetic links with the now extinct Barbary lions.
April 2, 2014
LONDON: Russia has all the forces it needs on the border to invade Ukraine within the next three to five days, Nato's top military commander has warned. The supreme allied commander in Europe and the US air force General Philip Breedlove described the situation at the border as "incredibly concerning".
April 1, 2014
LONDON: The biggest mass extinction in the history of the world which killed off more than 90 per cent of all living species happened because of an act of microbial sex that caused a suffocating release of methane and carbon dioxide, a study has found.
April 1, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Australia 158 for 3 (Finch 71, Warner 48) beat Bangladesh 153 for 5 (Shakib 66, Mushfiqur 47) by seven wickets
April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON: Public support for the Affordable Care Act narrowly notched a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, while criticism of Barack Obama's handling of the law's rollout - although still substantial - has eased from its peak last fall.
April 1, 2014
Perth (Australia) - Authorities were racing against the clock Tuesday to find the "black box" of missing Flight MH370 before its signal goes silent, as Malaysia admitted it got the last words from the cockpit of the doomed plane wrong.
April 1, 2014
An extraordinary story of the world's first cloned dinosaur has got a lot of traction on Twitter and inspired alarmist comparisons to Jurassic Park. It is also, not unexpectedly, a complete fake.
April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON: The nine-year US visa ban on Narendra Modi will automatically be lifted and he would enjoy diplomatic immunity if he becomes the prime minister, a Congressional report said on Monday.
A US congressional report says that visa ban on Narendra Modi will automatically be lifted if becomes the Prime Minister.
