June 27, 2013
NEW YORK: An American man has been sentenced to nine and half years in jail for stabbing a Bangladeshi taxi driver in 2010 here after asking whether he was Muslim.
Michael Enright pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime and assault in the first degree as a hate crime, the New York Supreme Court clerk's office said.
June 27, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama met a group of top business executives, including two Indian- Americans, to discuss the landmark comprehensive immigration reform bill that aims to provide citizenship to some 11 million illegal immigrants, including over 240,000 Indians.
US President Barack Obama
June 26, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a central portion of a federal law that restricted the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples in a major victory for the gay rights movement.
June 26, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee on Wednesday tanked by a massive 106 paise to close at all-time low of 60.72 against dollar on heavy capital outflows and month-end dollar demand from importers, even as RBI intervened to stem the currency slide.
June 26, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete on Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
June 26, 2013
NEW YORK: US stocks rose by the most in nearly two weeks on Tuesday after data showed business investment and the housing recovery continued apace, reassuring investors worried about the Federal Reserve's plans to reduce its massive monetary stimulus.
June 25, 2013
An Indian journalist is defending his decision to report on massive flooding atop of a frail survivor’s shoulders, claiming the man hoisted him up as a sign of respect. The journalist says his cameraman sabotaged him by posting the video of his full body when the footage was supposed to be from the chest up.
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.
