June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gutted a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 to end a century of attempts by former slaveholding states to block blacks from voting.
June 25, 2013
Washington: In a milestone in the educational partnership between India and the United States, the Department of State is pleased to announce the eight institutional partnership projects below for the first Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative awards.
June 25, 2013
MOSCOW: Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon and was due to depart for Havana the following day, but did not use the ticket, a Moscow airport source said on Tuesday.
June 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: India will not get fresh access to Mumbai terror attack mastermind David Headley, who is currently in American jail, for questioning, the US indicated on Monday.
June 24, 2013
JOHANNESBURG: South Africans adopted a mood of sombre resignation on Monday to the inevitability of saying goodbye to former president Nelson Mandela after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader's condition in hospital deteriorated to critical.
June 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Terming the proposed new UK visa rules as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate", industry body CII today said these would lead to negative impact on business and tourism inflow from India to that country.
June 24, 2013
PATNA: In a veiled threat to BJP leaders on the offensive against him after JD(U) parted ways with the NDA partner, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that if he opened his mouth many of them would be in trouble.
Nitish Kumar has warned BJP leaders that many of them would land in trouble if he opened his mouth.
June 24, 2013
Scientists have pieced together the first-ever global topographic map of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, using radar observations from veteran NASA spacecraft.
June 23, 2013
BEIJING: Edward Snowden, a former private contractor with the CIA who leaked the controversial US secret surveillance programme, today made fresh claims about America's cyber espionage against China, including intensive hacking attacks on a top university here.
June 23, 2013
PATNA: Trashing JD(U)'s allegations that Narendra Modi was an "autocratic" and "divisive" leader, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked what "sin had he committed that provoked" the erstwhile ally to walk away after remaining together for 17 long years.
