The Americans have expended a lot of diplomatic energy to coax India into toeing their line but India has refused to buckle under pressure. As Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said, India has not taken anyone's side but its own side, points out Virendra Kapoor.
Monty Panesar feels England would be making a mistake if they don't play the experienced Moeen Ali alongside left-arm spinner Jack Leach in the first Test against India, beginning in Chennai on Friday.
Political analysts believe that an aggressive Harris, 55, will easily prevail over Pence, 61, during the only vice-presidential debate and help her running mate Joe Biden, 77, to widen his lead over Trump, 74.
"Well, he never used words like escape or shared with me such a plan like this. However, he did ask me twice if I have ever been to Cuba, he also told me that the next time we may meet in Cuba. He never explained the escape plan but I'm certain that Dominica is not his final destination but if you ask my opinion, I can be more and more certain that Cuba could have been his final destination," Barbara told ANI.
Pornography is destroying young women's confidence and creating a culture where women need to dress like adult stars to impress men, an Indian-origin researcher has claimed.
The maximum prison sentence he face is 45 years, but Martoma could be given a lesser prison time under federal sentencing guidelines.
The Houston-based Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry with over 55,000 employees, has agreed to pay the amount and furnish significant relief to settle a national origin and religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The 43-year-old mogul was walking into the Colosseum Hotel and Fitness Club in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam for his routine gym session during the early hours of Thursday morning when two white men and an unknown number of accomplices in two cars waylaid him and quickly drove away.
Most of those who tested positive either recently arrived from African countries or were in contact with such people.
Claiming to be saddled with faulty equipment from China, the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) on Monday called for a boycott of sports apparatus made in that country after the violent face-off in eastern Ladakh killed 20 Army personnel last week. The IWLF ordered four weightlifting sets, comprising barbells and weight plates, from Chinese company ZKC last year. The body said that the equipment turned out to be faulty and the weightlifters are no longer using them.
PM also invoked 'chai pe charcha', saying it was not just a slogan but a 'mark of deep respect for the dignity and integrity of honest labour'.
This documentation was then used to support applications to stay in the UK as highly skilled migrants.
Naipaul wrote more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction during his career with a sharp critique of established religion and politicians characterising much of his work.
The selection of a woman Senator with an Indian background as the Democratic party's vice-presidential nominee should normally be a matter of elation in India, especially for those who boast of their nationalistic credentials such as the BJP followers, notes Amulya Ganguli.
Canada's men's field hockey captain of Indian origin, Ken Pereira, has been named Team Canada Flag Bearer for the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
'Having dedicated my life towards improving breast healthcare in my motherland. I shall continue to work with rock-solid determination following this "chosen" path.'
The Interpol on Tuesday released images of two Iranian men who used stolen passports to board a Malaysia Airlines plane that remains traceless since Saturday after taking off with 239 passengers aboard from Kuala Lumpur.
Trump, 74, in his acceptance speech from the South Lawns of the White House amidst cheers from his supporters on Thursday night, said: "My fellow Americans, tonight, with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I proudly accept this nomination for President of the United States".
'I criticise the interference of the army in politics.' 'But the people know I am not anti-Pakistan.' 'Public support is my biggest strength.'
The Labour MP from Leicester since 1987, who is a married father of two, paid for men to visit him one evening last month at a flat he owns in London, the 'Sunday Mirror' claimed.
A former British child model is among two youths found guilty of murdering an Indian-origin doctor and taking away his money to pay for a prostitute, with both convicts facing life imprisonment.
In a fresh incident of violence against Asians in Australia, a Sri Lankan man and his Indian wife were attacked and racially abused by a group of drunken men at their Melbourne home.
It seems gentleness doesn't pay, for a new study has revealed that nice guys are paid less than their aggressive counterparts.
Sukhwinder Singh, 31, was attacked while pursuing two men who had robbed a 28-year-old woman near Barking station in east London; and when he caught up with the pair a fight broke out and he was knifed around 7 pm on last Friday
Balasubramanian, 50, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Cambridge University, has been recognised for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing, described as the most transformational advance in biology and medicine for decades.
A 14-year-old girl of Indian origin, who last week became the youngest person in South Africa to be convicted for murder, has been allowed by educational authorities to appear for her school examinations.
The race for the UN secretary-general for 2022-2027 is already over and another term for Antonio Guterres is a foregone conclusion, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
800 people of Indian origin gathered at the eighth annual picnic in a park in Iselin, New Jersey, on Sunday,organized by Indo-American Cultural Association.
India's focus on day eight will be centered around tennis mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna who are to take on the US pair of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram, on Saturday night, in the semi-finals at the Rio Olympics.
Prithpal Singh, who has been living in Vancouver in Canada for over three decades, is a worried man. The recent case of a racial attack by four men on a group of Indian-origin boys in Langley, on the outskirts of Vancouver, has shocked the sizeable population of Indians residing in the city. The attack in Canada has come in the wake of a spate of racial attacks, targeting Indian students, in Australia.
In an unprecedented assault on democracy in the US, thousands of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building here and clashed with police, resulting in four deaths and interrupting a constitutional process by Congress to affirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the election.
They are the third and fourth people to be charged with the murder of Nisha, 29, who was stabbed outside her home in Wembley last May
The US player of Indian origin will make his Australian Open main draw debut against Italy's Simone Bolelli.
Chiman Rai, 69, faces the death penalty for allegedly paying two men $10,000 to kill Sparkle Michelle Rai, an African American, in April 2000 after her marriage to his son Rajeev Rai alias Ricky, with whom she had a infant daughter. The 22-year-old was found strangled and stabbed more than a dozen times at the couple's apartment.
Once approved by Parliament, there will be a complete ban on commercial surrogacy, but altruistic surrogacy will be permitted for needy infertile couples under strict regulations.
Political analysts believe that an aggressive Harris, 55, who aspires to be the first woman vice-president in history, will easily prevail over Pence, 61, during the only vice-presidential debate and help Biden, 77, to widen his lead over Trump, 74.
'I would evaluate her on her past policies towards American Hindus and her future approach towards the community'
The suspects, aged 37 and 41, both from London, were being interviewed at separate police stations last night, seven months after the killing.
An Indian-origin British citizen, held in Zambia on suspicion of terrorism, has been arrested on his arrival in London.
