A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Thirteen months ago, Comaneci was the first person Halep hugged when she clambered up into the stands on Court Philippe Chatrier after she won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.
Leaders from South Asian and Arab American communities and from religious groups met recently with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss joint efforts against domestic extremists. They also brought up concerns over discrimination and racial and religious profiling in the wake of rules imposed after the Christmas Day terrorism attempt by Nigerian suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab.
Sunday's attack on tourists in Delhi just days ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi has put a question mark on the security preparedness of the city.
Before migrating into the theatre command concept, it would be worthwhile to study the shortfalls experienced by the Tri Services Command in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and make good the deficiencies, suggests Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
By naming the 55-year-old lawyer and politician from California as his running mate, Biden made history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party's presidential ticket. If elected she would be the first ever women to be the vice president of the US and the first ever Indian-American and African vice president of the country.
The 22-year-old from Odisha has long lived with the condition which naturally produces high testosterone levels and for a year saw her unable to run in International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) competition.
In 2009, Al Qaeda's core in Pakistan remained the most formidable terrorist organisation targeting the US homeland and it has proven to be an adaptable and resilient terrorist group, the annual Country Reports on Terrorism released by the US Department of State of Thursday has said.
Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu's Indian Wells triumph was not shown on television in her home country but that did not dampen the excitement across a nation where the future of women's tennis is suddenly looking as bright as ever.
Biden is best qualified to address the root cause of the polarisation in American politics before it turns into terminal malignancy, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The US believes Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation, responsible for the horrific Mumbai terror attacks on 26/11 and several other terrorist acts in India, could soon replace Al Qaeda as the number one worldwide terrorist threat or at the very least compete with Osama bin Laden's global Terror Inc.
The latest terrorist plot unearthed in the United States would have no impact on American President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to India and other Asian nations, the White House said on Saturday. "Whenever the President travels, we take a very careful look at what the threat environment might be and look at what the terrorist environment is. So we are taking this into account, but at this point there is no effect," said John Brennan, assistant to the president.
World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on Wednesday less than a month after his 60th birthday, was worshipped like a god for his genius with the ball, but his demons almost destroyed him.
A Congressional committee has moved ahead with the process to issue subpoenas for Tareq and Michele Salahi, after the Virginia refused to turn up for testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Thursday's Lok Sabha elections will be a landmark for Tibetan youth as they finally get the right to vote in their adopted homeland, reports Anshul Gupta.
MoUs range across pharma, telecom, IT and homeland security.
A British court was told that homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and carries death penalty, which could well be applied if the 34-year-old Prince's family decide that he has brought shame on them, The Sun reported.
A criminal investigation is going on into the gate crashing incident by a Virginia couple at the White House in November last year, when United States President Barack Obama hosted a state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the US Secret Service told lawmakers recently. "This continues to be under criminal investigation," Mark Sullivan, director of the US Secret Service said in reply to a question from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
Learning lessons from the Mumbai terror strikes, the Obama administration has taken several steps in intelligence gathering and security infrastructure to thwart any similar attack on a major US city, according to a top official.
Pakistan's top leadershipon Friday, asked the US to help prevent infiltration of militants and drug trafficking from Afghanistan and to boost the civilian security apparatus so that it could effectively combat militancy.
Eight Nobel peace prize winners, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, on Tuesday asked China to end its 'repressive' policies in Tibet and expressed their support to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's efforts to achieve autonomy for his homeland. The support by Nobel laureates -- Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Desmond Tutu, Rogoberta Menchu Tum, Adolfo Perez Equivel, Betty Williams and Wangari Maatai -- was contained in a signed letter
India and Israel have vowed to enhance cooperation in combating the menace of terror, with Tel Aviv terming 'New Delhi's security as important to it as its own.'
US President Barack Obama would hold his sixth Situation Room meeting with his national security team on Monday to discuss his administrations strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the backdrop of the latest unrest in Kashmir, separatist leader Sajjad Lone said the demand for independence for the region could be the reference point for starting a dialogue with the union government.
Speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room, the US president also announced he would visit Vegas on Wednesday to meet the victims and the families.
The Salahi couple, Tareq and Michaele, infuriated United States lawmakers as they refused to answer any of their questions and invoked their right to remain silent in their forced appearance before a Congressional committee. The celebrity-hounding couple from Virginia was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday and was questioned on the circumstances of their attending the White House State Dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on November 24.
Andrea Pirlo says he has no hard feelings towards Italy coach Antonio Conte after the veteran playmaker was overlooked for next month's European Championship in France.
In a letter to US Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, IATA's director general Giovanni Bisignani said 'the air transport system cannot support 100 per cent pat-down searches over the long term' even though short-term temporary and extra-ordinary security measures were needed until the immediate threat had abated.
It might be a "frustration" for India to restrict itself from any military action against nuclear power Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks, but taking such a calculated response was "overwhelming", feels former US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
An Iranian nuclear scientist who had sought refuge in the Pakistani embassy compound in Washington after an apparent defection gone wrong is on his way home and has threatened to reveal full details of his 'abduction' by the Central Intelligence Agency."My abduction is a detailed story and I will reveal the details once I am back in my beloved homeland," Shahram Amiri, 35, was quoted as saying.
People from India account for the maximum number of the resident non-immigrant population in the United States, latest governmental figures have revealed. Of the total number of 1.83 million resident non-immigrants in the US in the year 2008, as many as 400,000 were from India, followed by 150,000 from Canada and 140,000 from South Korea, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
'My aim has always been to foster communal peace and harmony'
Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, said on Twitter that the threats appear in an essay carried by the Islamic State's Al Hayat media centre that declares terrorists "have come to slaughter you and smash your ballot boxes."
The Air India directive to its passenger said 'carriage of any powder or powder-like substance in hand or carry-on baggage which is 350 ml or larger is prohibited'.
'As for tricky relations with China, India needs less of summitry type event management and more anticipatory analysis and management of events,' says Ambassador Jaimini Bhagwati.
Mahinda Rajapaksa's re-election as Sri Lankan president has come as a disappointment for the Tamil diaspora, which is still reeling from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels' defeat in the country's civil war last year. The influential community of Tamils living overseas now doesn't know about what role it should play in their homeland, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Kohei Uchimura's bid to become the first gymnast in more than 40-years to win back-to-back Olympic all-around gymnastics golds began with a costly error as his as addiction to Pokemon Go landed him with a near $5,000 phone bill.
United States' Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair has -- in a candid assessment -- revealed what went wrong before and after the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight. He said that he had wrongly caved to external "pressure" to trim the no-fly list and even admitted the intelligence community would probably drop the ball in the future.
Tuesday's talks between Modi and Trump are likely to send across a clear message of growing congruence of interests between India and the US on major geopolitical developments in the region and beyond, particularly when China has been expanding its military and economic clout.
The US president suggested that the "dirty" eatery "badly needs a paint job" and must focus more on cleaning its "filthy canopies, doors and windows".
