Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapaksa on Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly that Colombo is concerned over the growing trend of international interference in the internal affairs of developing countries in the guise of concern for security and human rights.
Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani Tuesday talked about the greater need for South-South cooperation, an issue closer to India's heart and expected to be addressed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly this Saturday.
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The minister, who is in New York to attend high-level meetings of the UNGA, assured INOC that while he was aware of some of the concerns of the non-resident Indians, he did not know the extent of the problems and that the government will address the issues as soon as possible.
Amid widespread debate about a possible military strike by the United States against Syria, a new poll by CNN/ORC revealed Monday that an overwhelming majority of Americans does not want their country to get involved in yet another war.
In a case of mistaken identity, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Colorado, US was shot and killed allegedly by a close family friend.
The defendants charged with paying the bribes and kickbacks are Sarvesh Dharayan, Sanjay Gupta, Venkata Atluri, Rangarajan Kumar, Vadan Kumar Kopalle and Daren Siriani.
In its complaint filed in 2011, the SEC alleged that Gupta disclosed confidential information about Berkshire Hathaway Inc's $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs
The MoU was signed by New York Consul Geneal Dnyaneshwar Mulay on behalf of the ICCR and Richard L Edwards, executive vice president for Academic Affairs and interim Chancellor, Rutgers University to initiate this academic partnership.
The upcoming general elections in India, the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan after the United States' military withdrawal in 2014 and the US culture of innovation and entrepreneurship dominated the 7th India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme late last month.
In 2013-2014, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said growth would be between 6.1% and 6.7%. In 2014-2015, India, he said, wants growth to be above 7%.
Despite fierce criticism by Narendra Modi's supporters that the Wharton Business School has violated the Gujarat chief minister's freedom of speech by cancelling his keynote speech at this month's Wharton India Economic Forum, a professor from the University of Pennsylvania argues that the decision has nothing to do with curtailment of free speech.
Subra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation, a $7-billion independent government science agency charged with advancing all fields of fundamental science, engineering research and education, was on Tuesday named the new president of Carnegie Mellon University.
The brutal gang rape and death of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi, which had sparked outrage across India, figured prominently during discussions at the United Nations on Wednesday, with the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Executive Board calling on governments to commit themselves to end violence against women and girls everywhere.
India on Tuesday contributed one million dollars to the core voluntary budget of the United Nations Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) for the financial year 2012- 2013.
For its own health, America needs to address the shortage of doctors, reports Suman Guha Mozumder
The astronaut, who will take over as the commander of the International Space Station, says she is not nervous but 'psyched'. Suman Guha Mozumder reports
Dr S Rajan, India's candidate to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, was re-elected on Wednesday to the Commission for a five-year term from 2012-17 in a meeting of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In the first round, Rajan obtained 112 of the 161 valid votes cast. The election was keenly contested in the Asia-Pacific group with eight candidates in the fray for five seats.
The outreach initiative has been launched in the wake of a directive from the Indian government asking consulates to have regular interaction with Indian nationals to understand their problems and come up with solutions.
After more than two decades, an Indian, Justice Dalveer Bhandari, senior judge in the Supreme Court of India, was elected with overwhelming majority to the International Court of Justice in New York last week.
The United States Defence Department announced Tuesday that the military commission has charged Majid Shoukat Khan, a Pakistani national, for joining hands with the Al Qaeda 'to commit murder and attempted murder' and providing material support for terrorism, and spying.
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