Pandey is a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer of 1984 batch.
Under mounting pressure from sponsors and Native American rights groups, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder said on Friday he would consider changing the name of the National Football League team whose roots date back to the 1930s. Snyder, who has previously stated he would not change the name, softened his stance a day after FedEx Corp, which owns the naming rights to the team's Landover, Maryland, stadium, called for the NFL club to be rebranded.
His reputation might be in tatters after revelations of extra-marital affairs but America still loves ace golfer Tiger Woods, who jointly topped a sports popularity chart.
Titled The Blue Notebook, it is the story of a child prostitute named Batuk, from Mumbai, who records the miseries of her life in a little blue notebook
Disgraced former American Olympian Marion Jones made her professional basketball debut for the Tulsa Shock on Saturday.
Roman Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, facing charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, was on Tuesday asked by the Archbishop of Madras to return to the United States for further investigations.
Mauni Baba, who had close proximity with veteran political leaders and celebrities and was considered to be the fourth link in the Shirdi Saibaba lineage, passed away due to cardiac arrest at Minnesota University hospital in United States, Baba's ashram sources said on Monday. He was 80.
Prince Harry plays competitive polo and showed on Saturday he could also throw a useful baseball pitch.
When Vadodara businessman P Radhakrishnan was told he could not get his bag back when he was offloaded from a flight in the US, he asked the ticketing agent a question. The next thing he knew, he was under arrest, accused of 'terrorising.'
The actor and his wife took to social media to pay tribute to the legendary musician.
The new-look, $10 million Minneapolis Hindu Temple is a labour of love and faith, discovers Arthur J Pais
Akshar Rambachan, who recently graduated from Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota, won two national oratorical honors in as many months this year.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed as "premature" the plea challenging a trial court order recommending extradition to the USA of Indian Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in that country during his stay in 2004.
However, Obama fell behind in the number of delegates who would support his candidature in the Republican National Convention. In all, he has 653 delegates as compared to 668 with Hillary.
Republican Party stalwart Narender Reddy, from Georgia, has been elected as alternate-delegate-at-large to the GOP National Convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, which will be held from September 1 to September 4. The mother-daughter team of Mona Merchant, 61, and Monisha Merchant, 31, of Lakewood, Colorado, have been elected as Hillary Clinton's delegates to the Democratic National Convention, between August 25 and 29 in Denver, Colorado.
Meet Edythe Kirchmaier, Facebook's oldest registered user. The US resident turned 107 on Tuesday.
Researchers have discovered that the human nervous system has its 'unit burst generator' to control rhythmic movements such as walking, a breakthrough which they claim could soon lead to treatments for spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. The researchers targeted the segmented leech for their study as they have fewer and larger neurons, making them easier to analyse.
Shruti and young Indians talk about the new temple in Minnesota, US
The mispronunciation outraged a large number of Harris' supporters and her spokesperson Sabrina Singh said, "I'll keep it simple: If you can pronounce 'former' Senator David Perdue, you can pronounce 'future' Vice President Kamala Harris."
US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain's speech delivered at the Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday at 10 pm was preceded by a video displaying footage of him being shot down in Vietnam and his survival and torture in what was called the 'Hanoi Hilton' and his refusal to get out early even though he was offered such a release.
Research has revealed that a pig's insulin-producing cells may help cure diabetes in humans.
'We can't rule out the fact that the virus might have changed in such a way that it's actually causing more harm to young people.'
Rihanna, who has frequently spoken out on issues such as LGBTQIA+ rights and racism, is the fourth most followed person, with 101.3 million followers, on Twitter after former US president Barack Obama and singers Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. Her tweet on India's farmers received hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes.
The research has found that daily breakfast eaters consumed a healthier diet and were more physically active as compared to the breakfast skippers during adolescence, and that a daily healthy breakfast may avoid overeating later in the day.
Eating healthy breakfast daily may help adolescents avoid overeating later in the day and might help disrupt unhealthy eating patterns.
The Nobel Prize committee has given up trying to reach musician Bob Dylan, days after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An Indian Centre will be established at the prestigious University of Minnesota, even though the proposal for it had met some initial problems.
Republicans convened their national convention in St Paul, Minnesota on a subdued note focussing much of their attention on how best they could rally forces to the beleaguered folks of Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricane Gustav.
The three attorneys who chose to step down were John Marti, first assistant US attorney, Erika Mozangue, who heads attorney's office's civil division, and James Lackner, chief of the office's criminal division.
'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.'
Despite accounting for the largest number of fatalities, the death rate, however, in the US is much lower than other countries.
In his first tweet after election results started coming in US President Trump claimed success. "Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!".
University of Minnesota researchers found taking the drug increases the average duration of sex from less than a minute to three minutes 19 seconds.
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat will open the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season at home against the Chicago Bulls, the NBA announced on Tuesday.
After each massacre, survivors and witnesses have echoed the words "no more" - yet mass shootings have continued to plague the United States. In fact, shootings only have continued to increase over the past few years. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is the 18th attack in a school in 2018 alone. Below are some of the worst US school shootings in the last 20 years.
Her motto: Why blend when you were made to stand out!
Chikungunya-infected travelers have also been diagnosed in Belgium, French Guyana, Hong Kong, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Martinique, Norway, Switzerland and Sri Lanka.
School teachers and friends of Mainak Sarkar, the Indian-American gunman, who shot dead his wife and his former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles before turning the gun on himself, described him as a reserved but friendly person.
