December 14, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama won the support of an estimated 2.3 million of Asian American voters to Republican challenger Mitt Romney's estimated 900,000 votes, or 71 percent to 28 percent, according to a new poll.
December 14, 2012
The director and screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty, an upcoming film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, have denied that their movie condones torture. An interrogation scene is shown where an individual is waterboarded.
December 13, 2012
Brief Scorecard: England 199 for 5 (Pietersen 73, Prior 34*, Root 31*) v India
Kevin Pietersen was a model of decorum on a slow wicket
December 13, 2012
Washington — How to encourage civic engagement between India and the US and other issues affecting Indian-Americans were highlighted at a briefing on the state of US-India relations for senior Congressional staff on Capitol Hill.
December 13, 2012
Millions head out to vote on Thursday in India's Gujarat state where hawkish Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is seeking a large win for a third term as chief minister to spur his ambitions to become a future national leader.
December 13, 2012
Hackers may stage a massive fraud attack on 30 U.S. national, investment and regional banks early next year, according to a new cyber security report.
A report from McAfee Labs says hackers could create fake bank transactions, or skim a portion of high-dollar bank transfers.
December 13, 2012
Pressure and incentives are not convincing Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan and return home. Ore than 5 million Afghans fled their land in the 1980s.
Two Afghan refugee girls sit by the door way of a home, in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
December 13, 2012
By Geeta Goindi
WASHINGTON – Making a strong pitch for peace and non-violence, the eldest son of the 1960s civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., told an interfaith conference that permanent peace can only be achieved by a commitment to active non-violence.
December 12, 2012
Wives of Bollywood actors were once expected to stay loyal, discreet and out of sight. Today they forge influential careers as businesswomen, designers and producers, and appear on magazine covers, present television shows, advertise everything from soap to sofas.
December 12, 2012
New Delhi — Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar Wednesday said it was 'incredibly courageous' of his contemporary Mohinder Amarnath to take on the Indian cricket board by revealing that the board chief overruled the national selectors when they wanted to remove Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the team's skipper.
