United States Congressman Joe Crowley, who is the co-chair of Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, has launched a major effort among lawmakers asking the department of justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track the hate crimes committed against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans.
Citing last year's Gurdwara shootout in Wisconsin, a group of 26 Senators from the Democratic party has asked the US Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller to start tracking hate crimes against Hindus and Sikhs, besides Arabs as soon as possible.
America's top commander in Afghanistan is being probed for his alleged "inappropriate communication" with a woman linked to former CIA director David Petraeus, who resigned abruptly last week over an extramarital affair.
Amritsar-born entrepreneur John Nath Kapoor was arrested by the FBI for bribing doctors to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients.
The Heat is a movie to watch out for, writes Paloma Sharma.
'India should be aware that China will take full advantage of US domestic turmoil and reduced international prestige,' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in bombings in New York and New Jersey, is now in custody after a shootout with police, CNN reported.
One indictment accuses Huawei of trying to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile, and of promising bonuses to employees who collected confidential information on competitors. A second indictment claims the company worked to skirt US sanctions on Iran.
The case brings out continuing deficiencies in the functioning of the counter-intelligence divisions of the CIA and the FBI, writes security expert B Raman
United States President Barack Obama described the Boston Marathon blasts as "an act of terror" and vowed to bring to justice all those who were responsible for the heinous and cowardly act.
An NIA official, who was part of the team that interrogated David Headley in FBI custody, tells Vicky Nanjappa that the Pakistani-American terrorist was beaming with pride each time they asked him about his association with the Lashkar and also his role in the 26/11 attacks.
A United States court on Wednesday rescheduled the sentencing of Pakistani American LeT terrorist David Headley, accused of involvement in 26/11 Mumbai attacks, from January 17 to January 24, while that of his accomplice Tahawwur Rana has been rescheduled for a second time to January 17.
"Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms," Trump said in his address to the joint session of US Congress.
In a grisly online plot, a New York police officer planned to torture and roast alive his fiancee with a butcher in India with whom he chatted on the internet, an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent has testified in a local court.
31-year-old Misty a Cook, waitress and nursing student with reported ties to white supremacist organisations, was arrested as part of a joint investigation between the FBI and South Milwaukee Police Department "on the crime of felon in possession of a firearm."
As expressions of support poured in from across the nation, with people holding peace rallies and candle light vigils in dozens of cities, Rao flew in from Washington to the tragedy struck city in Wisconsin.
United States President Barack Obama has reviewed the security situation with his top national security aides following the tragic shooting in a gurudwara in Wisconsin and also called on the gurudwara trustee to offer his condolences.
'Of all of the branches and networks of ISIS, ISIS-K is certainly one of those of most concern.'
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is in the midst of a major operation which is targeting hacking hubs across the country.
US federal prosecutors have released interrogation tapes of admitted Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, who helped plot the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, after a Chicago judge's order.
There has been an "enormous growth in the radical right" in the United States over the last three years, believes Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a much-respected non-profit civil rights organisation based in Montgomery, Alabama.
One in five hate crimes reported in the US in 2011 were due to religious bias, most of them stemming from anti-Jewish and anti-Islamic prejudice, while almost half of such crimes were racially-motivated, the FBI has said in its new data.
While private groups had been quietly monitoring the Wisconsin Gurdwara shooter and his racist leanings for years, Wade Michael Page was not on the radar of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner surrendered after being accused on corruption charges, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a spokeswoman for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
A 29-year-old Morrocan has pleaded guilty of plotting a suicide attack on the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC in February as part of what he believed to be a terrorist operation, the US Justice Department said.
Shares of IT companies were in focus with the Nifty IT and S&P BSE IT index gaining more than 2% in an otherwise lower market
Priyanka, who plays Alex Parrish on the show, also took to Twitter to share the news with fans. "So excited about the season 3 pick up for #Quantico congrats to everyone who made it happen! #AlexParrish will be back soon..."
- 'No independent governance committee, investigator or arbitration panel can change the culture of an organization' - 'FIFA's ethics committee was created to increase the transparency of the organisation, that's what we wanted, but in the end it has just caused more confusion for FIFA'
Praising the 'frank and business-like atmosphere' of the summit, the Russian leader said he considered the talks 'very successful and useful'.
A day after the tragic shooting incident at a gurudwara, a mosque in the United States was burned to the ground for the second time in little more than a month in a suspected arson attack.
Probe into the 26/11 case will be completed within four to six weeks by the National Investigation Agency and a charge-sheet will be filed after that, Home Secretary G K Pillai said on Thursday
Trump said Putin would have been happier if Clinton had won as this would have made America weak.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has ruled out the possibility of Haqqani network's presence in Pakistan. Malik, who held a meeting with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S Muller in Islamabad, however, said that if Pakistan receives credible information about the group's presence, the government would launch military action.
The Indian government has proposed a joint action with the United States to arrest the fugitive gangster and country's most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.
Before coming under the scanner of the investigative agencies, Pakistan's ISI had developed a closely-knit network of middlemen or straw donors through whom it illegally funnelled its propaganda money to Kashmiri separatist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai and his Kashmiri American Council.
He also called for tough and effective reforms so that when such mistakes happen, they are modest in size and the financial system can handle them well.
United States President Barack Obama's estimated assets for the last year are valued at $8 million (Rs 43.3 crore), his latest annual financial disclosure forms show and he has up to $1 million (Rs 5.4 crore) in the JP Morgan Chase, the bank which is under the Federal Bureau of Investigation scanner.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar on Thursday expressed surprise that senior journalists like Kuldeep Nayyar, Dileep Padgaonkar and former Chief Justice of Delhi high court Justice Rajinder Sachhar did not know the credentials of Kashmiri-American lobbyist Ghulam Nabi Fai.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made public the phone numbers and emails addresses of the alleged Inter-Services INtelligence handlers of Ghulam Nabi Fai arrested in Washington for collaborating with the Pakistani spy agency by funnelling money to influence United States policy on Kashmir.
