April, 2012
Special By Geeta Goindi
WASHINGTON, April 10 – The new US Ambassador to India Nancy J. Powell has made it clear that India-US economic and commercial ties will head her agenda as she actively promotes Indian investment in the US.
April, 2012
Interpreting Indian culture to an American audience is a challenge, but Shah Rukh Khan is so important to global art and social activism, I will attempt to do just that. The largest Bollywood actor and producer, he is a major, global entertainment figure who cares deeply about creativity and humanity.
April 16, 2012
In the wake of Sunday's terror attack in Afghanistan, India said it was in constant touch with its embassy in Kabul and its citizens living in that country were safe. He also said that all Indians have been put on high alert. Although, no information of any harm to Indians have been reported so far.
April 16, 2012
India has taken up with the US the issue of Shahrukh Khan`s detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident that "need not have happened". "We have taken it up with the State Department," Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao told reporters here.
April 15, 2012
CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA: A prostitution scandal involving US security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America.
April 15, 2012
MULTAN: President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said the Prime Minister's son was being wrongfully implicated in narcotics case.
April 15, 2012
Delhi Daredevils star batsman Kevin Pietersen thinks jealousy could be the reason for the negative publicity and the lack of interest towards the Indian Premier League (IPL) in England.
April 15, 2012
Reacting to the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor in Kolkata for posting a cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the Internet, former railways minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday said cartoons are integral to democracy.
April 14, 2012
A reporter's job figures among the ten worst professions, alongside the likes of butchers, waiters and dishwashers, as per a new study by the US-based consultancy CareerCast, which has named a software engineer's occupation as the best for the year 2012.
April 14, 2012
About 70,000 newborns in Nigeria are HIV positive, a top government official of the West African nation has revealed.
Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) John Idoko disclosed this in Nigeria`s southwestern state of Ogun Thursday.
