November 10, 2012
Hawaii's Tulsi Gabbard, daughter of a Catholic father and a Hindu mother, became the first Hindu-American to become a member of the US House of Representatives. Five Indian-Americans lost their bid to enter the US Congress.
November 10, 2012
Washington — Peter Salovey, provost and chief academic officer of Yale University, who has played a key role in building the Ivy League institution's linkages to India, will become the university's next president in June 2013.
November 9, 2012
The British alcohol manufacturing company Diageo will buy a 27.4-percent stake in India United Spirits Limited (USL), which will eventually climb to 53.4 percent. USL's Vijay Mallya will continue in his current role as chairman of both USL and UBHL.
November 9, 2012
Trade minister Anand Sharma announced India will push ahead with controversial economic reforms at the World Economic Forum on India Thursday. Only 9 of India’s 29 states have agreed to implement the measures.
November 9, 2012
Arvind Kejriwal is out with his latest revelation. This time it is not directly targeted at any politician. Rather his targets are the country's best-known businessmen and the Black money stashed in their Swiss accounts. According to Kejriwal, HSBC's Geneva branch has 700 accounts of Indian nationals.
November 9, 2012
The morning after he won re-election, an emotional President Barack Obama credited his youthful staff of several hundred with running a campaign that will "go on in the annals of history."
Barack Obama in tears after re-election
November 9, 2012
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia has compared chief minister Narendra Modi to a monkey, prompting the ruling BJP to file a complaint against him with the Election Commission.
November 8, 2012
Hyderabad: Twelve years after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) imposed a ban for life-time on former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin, the Andhra Pradesh High Court Thursday struck it down as "illegal".
November 8, 2012
Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi wants to shoot his film on Prophet Mohammad in Rajasthan, but will the government clear it, given the sensitivity of the subject?
Iranian Filmmaker: Majid Majidi
November 8, 2012
The family of planets circling a relatively close dwarf star has grown to six, including a potential rocky world at least seven times more massive than Earth that is properly located for liquid water to exist on its surface, a condition believed to be necessary for life.
'Super-Earth' Alien Planet May Be Habitable for Life
