Polar vortex eases grip on frozen US

The United States is warming up from the polar vortex. As it continued its northward retreat, the arctic blast still held sway over the upper Midwest, where it bore down with below-zero lows early......

Indian American students win research awards

Amrita Sehgal, 18, from Ohiois one of the two $50,000 first prize winners in the 2009 Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition for American high school students for her research on osteoporosis. The......

Dr Bose in Iraq

When the wounded come to the combat support hospital in Baghdad, Dr Sudip Bose and the staff of the emergency room wait for them.'The injured soldiers' doctor is 'thelanky 30-year-old son of Indian......

Obama vows to rescue US economy

US President-elect Barack Obama has said that his administration will act 'swiftly' to address the 'greatest economic challenge of our lifetime' that the country is facing. "We are facing the......

H-1B visas: US slams Indian IT firms

Two influential US Senators have renewed the campaign against the biggest users of H-1B visa workers in the US, including Indian heavyweightsInfosys, Wipro, Satyam and Tata Consultancy Services.......

'India as a brand only needs repositioning'

Jagdish Sheth's rsum runs into 35 pages! But when you've got over 200 published books and papers on marketing to your credit, have taught at Columbia and MIT, and are an American Psychological......