She got the award for her active involvement in issues of national and global concern, especially education, health care and human rights.
'The West has always opposed a strong nationalist leader in India and Narendra Modi is no exception.' 'The West prefers weak leaders who are amenable to Western pressure and Mr Modi's independent stance is not to the liking of the West,' asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Although the credit for acquiring the technological skill must be given to India's outstanding nuclear scientists, the decision to go nuclear was a political one that entailed clarity of vision, courage and resolve, points out Rup Narayan Das.
The Iraqi Prime Minister shot back the following day essentially reminding Khalilzad who was in charge in Baghdad.
The Education Ministry has decided to reprint the textbook for class XI students next year, removing the anonymous poem titled 'The Leader'.
US President Barack Obama faces the same level of threat as that of his two predecessors, George W Bush and Bill Clinton, and not any higher, a senior Secret Service official has said.
The ISRO chairman said there was no proposal now to send any Indian astronaut to space through the US.
Bush, according to The New York Times, had signed a secret Presidential Order after the 9/11 attacks, authorising the National Security Agency to track international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people.\n
The 10 Downing Street memo now raises fresh doubts over US claims that previous attacks against Al-Jazeera staff were military errors.
The missile hit a plantation in Margaliot, a moshav (collective agricultural community), in the Galilee region in the north of Israel around 11 am on Monday, Zaki Heller, spokesperson for rescue services Magen David Adom (MDA), told PTI.
Burns, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who played a key role in clinching the deal, will address a talk on "India and Pakistan: On the Heels of President Bush's Visit" on Monday.
Although two First Ladies, Jacqueline Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have visited the country in 1962 and 1995, respectively, they came without their husbands.
The police have questioned multiple autorickshaw drivers, including the one who brought the suspect to the spot before the blast took place.
In a missive to Bush, USCIRF chair Felice D Gaer urged him to 'ask Prime Minister Singh to ensure the immediate security of Indian citizens -- security that is undermined by recurrent attacks on religious minorities and communities.'
The White House has said the Indo-US relationship has been exceedingly well in the last eight years of Bush regime and is expected to continue during the incoming Obama Administration.
President George W Bush on Saturday said US has no problem with India-Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline but with Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
US President George W Bush said during his first visit to Afghanistan Wednesday that he was confident Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be brought to justice.
White House said cartoon violence in Pakistan will not hamper Bush's visit.
The former deputy secretary of state said the US president should make it clear to his Pakistani counterpart that support to terrorism and incursions across LoC is 'absolutely unacceptable'.
The US military since 2004 has used this secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda. These were authorised by a classified order that Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the New York Times, quoting US officials, said
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.
Asserting that 'the mutual interests of India and the US are now coinciding more \nthan ever before,' the American official said, 'It is a new day in the relationship'
The existence of a secret pre-war CIA operation to debrief relatives of Iraqi scientists - and the agency's failure to give their statements to the president and other policymakers -- has been uncovered by the Senate Select Committee on intelligence.
In the final step to operationalise the India-United States nuclear agreement, American President George W Bush has sent the text of the landmark agreement to the US Congress for final approval.The move by the White House comes five days after the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group granted a waiver for India to carry out nuclear commerce.In a statement, the White House said it was transmitting the text of the agreement 'concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy'.
The world's most notorious pair of black leather shoes, that made history, has even generated 100 jobs in Turkey.
