Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the feat of completing the longest space flight for a woman, received the Padma Bhushan -- India's second highest civilian award -- in Houston for her outstanding achievements. Indian Consul General S M Gavai presented her with the award at a function, which was attended by large number of Indian-Americans.
Floyd's death has triggered nationwide violent protests with a section of the protesters resorting to looting and rioting across the country, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
Colombia beat Peru 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Friday to progress to the semi-finals of the Copa America after the two sides played to a dull scoreless draw in New Jersey.
According to news article posted on the World Gold Council web site, gold nanoparticles ten thousand times smaller than a human hair could be used to break down chemicals in drinking water and reduce pollution. It said the particles, which mix gold and palladium, are the creation of engineer Michael Wong from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
In a perfect world, Raj Bhavsar should have won an Olympic medal for India.
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and his team may have found a way to attack the weakest link in HIV. According to a paper in the journal Autoimmune Reviews, the team has found an unchanging part of the virus that can be attacked using abzymes -- that is, antibodies that have enzymatic activity.
The Indian embassy in Washington is in the process of finalising a detailed report on the issue of over 100 Indian workers in a Mississippi shipyard, who revolted against their employer for their alleged "slave-like treatment" after being "tricked" into coming to the US.
For decades, high school students in America have been able to take classes in Latin, Spanish, French and even German. But given a shifting global order and an increasingly diverse domestic population, high schools are finding it necessary to offer more 'exotic' options.
Howard Dale Bellamy (24), who robbed and killed 28-year-old Akhil Chopra almost three years ago while he was meditating in a west Houston park is bound to spend the rest of his life in prison, a Harris County jury decided on Monday.
Though the question whether one can become addicted to technology is itself debatable, John O'Neill, director of addictions services for The Menninger Clinic in Houston, says he sees parallels with the overuse of technology to dependency on substances such as alcohol or drugs.
Thottam will leave New York next month and relocate to New Delhi. Thottam, who lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, was raised mostly in suburban Houston. She came to Time from On magazine/Time Digital, and before that was a newspaper reporter in Queens and in Jacksonville, Florida.
The bodies of the two Indian students of Louisiana State University, who were killed last week, are likely to be flown back to their native place in Hyderabad on Thursday, official sources said in Houston on Tuesday.
A four-agency task force probing the killing of two Indian doctoral students at a Louisiana State University apartment has intensified investigations, but has so far been unable to identify the motive behind the double homicide as two senior Indian officials reached the campus to take the stock of the situation.
The 15-minute conversation, which took place on Friday, was broadcast on National Aeronautics and Space Agency Television, following the conclusion of a station status media briefing from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Paul, director of the Chemical Immunology Research Center at the university, says HIV needs a complex solution because it mutates so fast. Which was why Paul and his team went about hunting for a part of the HIV that does not change. They found it and found a chemical that could destroy it.
Houston gymnast Raj Bhavsar on Tuesday was named in the US Gymnastics men's 2008 Olympic team after he was chosen to replace the injured Paul Hamm. All-around champion Hamm, winner of one of the most controversial golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics, withdrew from the Beijing Games due to injury.
The award is constituted in the memory of Prince Mahidol, the father of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
The Doha-based airline operates across 145 business and leisure destinations spanning over the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, North America and South America with a fleet of 139 aircraft.
'It is inevitable that people around the world -- including from America and China -- will have different viewpoints over different issues'
Xi's presence in Mahabalipuram is more of a political message by Modi to the world -- as well as to regional parties in South India that they should be beware of the BJP's rise, says R Rajagopalan.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The history of professional Indian nursing in America started with the major migration of nurses in the early 1970s and 1980s.
Preferring coffee over a good night's sleep for that daily jolt might land you in trouble, for a new study has found that having caffeine for boosting energy might mask serious sleep problems.
World number one Roger Federer recovered from a set down to beat unseeded German Denis Gremelmayr 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 on Saturday to reach his first final of the year at the Estoril Open. He will now face the number two seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, who beat France's Florent Serra 6-2, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
15-year-old American Ryan Harrison beat Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-3 at the US Men's Clay Court Championship.
Defensive errors were again a common occurrence in the Arsenal backline, but Fiorentina failed to take advantage.
Brij and Aasha Chhabra were found shot in the head in an alleged case of contract killing. The couple had accused long-time friend Narayan Thadani of siphoning off their money and transferring their assets to himself. Thadani and three others, including two men whom Thadani allegedly promised $100,000 to kill the Chhabras, have been arrested in the case.
The US authorities are checking people's social media accounts for their political views before allowing them into the country after the recent travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, a media report said.
"I think very soon. We are doing very well. (US Trade Representative) Robert Lighthizer who is right here negotiating with India... I think, very soon we will have a trade deal," Trump told reporters when asked if there is any trade deal is expected between India and the US.
Chidambaram said he was honoured that the two leaders visited him.
"Because Muslims are part and parcel of India, if members of the community today lag behind the rest of the people in India, then logically the country would lag behind, too."
Dubai-based carrier, Emirates is adding a host of in-flight services, like the facility of using mobile phones onboard, toys for children and nutritious meals for them to attract more passengers.
'There is indeed a link between BCG vaccination and resistance to COVID-19.'
It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961, when United States President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Here are some lesser-known facts about the historic first mission:
"Her son is not doing well," said her attorney Alinka Robinson, as a telephonic translator relayed the proceedings to Patel in her native tongue of Gujarati, the daily said in its report from Arizona.
The Trump administration terminated India's designation as a beneficiary developing nation under the Generalized System of Preferences in June.
Energy major Shell is in the process of setting up its first Asian Technology Centre at a 40-acre campus in Bangalore.
Transmeridian has been on the radar of ONGC Videsh Ltd (the overseas investment arm of ONGC) for sometime now.
The power drop led to a temporary loss of ISS communications and the shutdown of heating units, some science equipment and one of three operating US gyroscopes used for attitude control.
