Death toll nears 100 in Israel's Gaza offensive

Israel bombarded as many as 80 locations in the narrow Gaza enclave, flattening Gaza's police headquarters and taking the Palestinian death toll to nearly 100 in six days of onslaught. As civilian......

NRI prof nominated to US humanities body

United States President George W Bush has nominated Mumbai-born Jamsheed K Choksy, a professor at Indiana University, to be a member of the prestigious National Council on the Humanities for a......

Just why did Cheney meet Musharraf?

Is United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice no longer in the loop on Washington's Pakistan policy? At any rate, she was unaware of the 'leak' to The New York Times that American......

Why Uzbekistan matters to India

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's forthcoming visit to Uzbekistan on April 25 takes place against the backdrop of a complicated regional setting. Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov recently drew......