Observing that the proposed multi-billion dollar Indo-Iran gas pipeline via Pakistan is fraught with risks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said he did not know if any international consortium of bankers would underwrite the project.
Nearly half the funds earmarked for reconstruction were diverted towards fighting rebels and preparing for the Saddam Hussein trial.
Gertrude Weaver from Arkansas became next in line to officially earn the title of oldest person when 117-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan died on Wednesday
The statement is the first public one by a North Korean official since intelligence reports circulated about the possibility.
Foreign Airlines that fail to turn over the passenger list or check them against US watch lists might have to re-route flights, says The Washington Post.
'One of the key issues is how big a nuclear weapons programme India wants to have and how rigid the barrier will be between civil and military,' says Stephen Cohen.
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have discovered that Iran had produced and experimented with Polonium.
Quoting unnamed senior administration officials, CBS News and CNN said the new set of sanctions is likely to target the Russian intelligence agency and its official.
Out of the 74 new US diplomatic positions, China will get 15, followed by India with 12 new posts.
The spy service will be trained, financed and equipped largely by the Central Intelligence Agency with help from Jordan, US government officials told 'The Washington Post'.
The latest poll has shown that Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq has gone up 10 points from November to 46 per cent.
Given Indian corporates's high indebtedness, new credit will be used for servicing loans rather than building factories. This is setting us up for more companies on life support and more zombie banks, warns Rahul Jacob.
If the United States wants to stock its own industry with top-flight technologists, The Washington Post has advocated training young Americans rather than depending on foreign students to boost its economy.
The momentous occasion came when the House of Representatives passed the $1.5 trillion (Rs 96 lakh crore) tax reform bill for the second time by 224 to 201 votes to clear the technical snag in the passage of the bill, which was passed by the Senate and House earlier.
Joan Felt said her father suffered a stroke in 2001 and has undergone surgeries for heart problems and a broken hip but is still lucid.
Tests of security measures for the 2004 Games reveal deep deficiencies that have U.S. officials worried.
'With the Balakot strike, India has now established a precedent for response to any new terrorist attack engineered by Pakistan.' 'This will stay irrespective of who wins the coming elections,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ups his style ante for the Obama visit.
Wives of thousands of skilled professionals from India and other countries in the US on H-1B and other temporary work visas are increasingly frustrated because they were not allowed to work, a report said on Monday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said in an interview to the Washington Post that there was 'no contradiction' between encouraging Islamabad to advance towards democracy.
The US senator Edward M 'Ted' Kennedy was stopped and questioned along the East Coast five times in March.
If the analysis of the satellite imagery is accurate, North Korea may be taking a small but significant step toward the disarmament.
'Legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things," he added,' Bremer said.
The Washington Post quoting from the draft of the independent commission probing the attacks said the Al Qaeda leaders delayed the attacks after the lead hijacker was not ready.
The potential sale has been the subject of intense speculation in the publishing industry and in Hollywood since Felt's identity was revealed last month in an article in Vanity Fair magazine.
Turkish investigators have told local media and also to the US media that Khashoggi was brutally killed inside the consulate on October 2.
The telescope, when completed, said The Washington Post, will be so powerful that it will be able to look at more stars in a year or two than astronomers have been able to do in the past 45 years.
With her post-pregnancy comeback, the tennis champ is shattering stereotypes and inspiring women everywhere.
Two Indian-origin students have helped the United States win the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad after more than two decades.
An Indian American scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working on a project aimed at making hand-held computing "as easy as breathing."
Low-fat diets can help reduce the chances of recurrence of breast cancer in women. A new study also suggested that a lifestyle change can also fend off any type of tumour.
Floyd died in Minneapolis on Monday after a white police officer pinned him to the ground. Video footage showed the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck as he gasped for breath. His death has triggered nationwide protests.
Trump said he strongly condemn neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan members."
The most intense debate is centered around Colin Powell, secretary of state.
A son of immigrant parents from India, two-term Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal believes that immigrants in the United States should learn English and adopt American values.
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