April 15, 2013
Washington — With an estimated 11.5 million foreigners, including some 260,000 Indians, living in the country illegally, everyone is agreed that the US immigration system is broken and everyone has their own fix.
A so-called Gang of Eight Senators - four Democrats and four Republicans - is said to have worked out a deal offering undocumented workers a path to citizenship in 13 years. Another bipartisan Gang of Eight in the House is also working out its own separate scheme.
April 15, 2013
A dead falcon fitted with a small camera found near the border with Pakistan has India's security forces on alert. Officials in the Indian state of Punjab state said the bird had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink.
April 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao has sought a generous American visa policy for high-skilled workers from India saying it would help both countries to come out winners.
April 15, 2013
AUGUSTA: Adam Scott sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole on Sunday to beat Angel Cabrera and win the 77th Masters, becoming the first Australian golfer to capture the green jacket.
April 15, 2013
As Chidambaram kicks off a week-long North America trip, his officials are working on a series of steps to attract at least $20 billion in new investment to fund the deficit without depleting India's $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves
April 14, 2013
Steve Waugh believes Sachin is not playing upto his standards, yet the decision should be solely his
April 14, 2013
New Delhi/Berlin — Saudi Arabia's new labour policy will affect only illegal immigrants and not genuine workers employed in the Kingdom, India's External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said.
"Genuine workers don't need to worry. It will impact only those who don't have proper work permit," Khurshid told IANS in the course of a brief chat in Berlin where this correspondent who had travelled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week.
April 14, 2013
JD(U) leader Devesh Chandra Thakur says Advani will definitely be more acceptable to most of the factions of NDA.
New Delhi: As it virtually shut the door on Narendra Modi, JD(U) on Sunday indicated it would prefer BJP veteran L K Advani as NDA's prime ministerial candidate over the Gujarat chief minister.
April 14, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Kolkata Knight Riders 180 for 4 (Gambhir 53, Morgan 47, Kallis 41) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 132 for 7 (Kallis 3-13) by 48 runs
Gautam Gambhir led from the front
April 14, 2013
THRISSUR: A Sanskrit grammar written by German born grammarian, lexicographer and philologist Jesuit missionary Fr Johann Ernst Hanxleden, popularly known as Arnos Padre, was released in Belgium.
The over 300-year-old work, considered one of the earliest missionary grammars in Sanskrit, was released on April 10, Fr Roy Thottathil SJ, Director of Arnos Padre Academy here, said.
