Terming as a "serious blunder" the frisking of former president A P J Abdul Kalam at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, India on Thursday said it would not accept any violation of rules that permit exception for certain dignitaries of the country.
The national poll by Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics said 32 per cent of 18-29 year-old Americans approve of Trump's job performance overall.
The rocket is the first step in Musk's ambitious dream to send humans to Mars and establish a colony on the planet.
Interestingly, in his entire remarks, Modi never once mentioned regional security, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar points out.
A flight from New York to Phoenix was diverted to Missouri on Wednesday after three passengers on board behaved in a "suspicious" manner.
"It's working out very nicely. You see it in the airports, you see it all over. It's working out very nicely," Trump said.
A United States federal jury has convicted an Imam of conspiring to carry out terror attacks at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport by exploding fuel tanks and fuel pipeline located under the airport. Kareem Ibrahim, 65, was convicted in New York after a four-week jury trial on charges of conspiracy to attack a public transportation system, attack aircraft and aircraft materials and conspiracy to destroy international airport facilities.
Erin Green, former head of immigration, Infosys says says only the loss of a big client could push Infosys to correct its internal corporate culture.
About 500,000 people are expected to gather along the Brevard County coast to watch what would be the penultimate launch in the space shuttle's 30-year, 134-mission history.
With Pakistan moving towards tactical nuclear weapons, there is an increasingly higher risk of nuclear theft, a US think-tank report has warned ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington later this month.
A 65-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring in a 9/11-like terror plot to blow up the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York by exploding fuel tanks and pipelines.
US space shuttle Discovery lifted off for its final flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to deliver a new module and critical supplies to the International Space Station, late Thursday night.
Economics may be shifting power from the West to the East but the US would remain on top.
Space shuttle Atlantis touched down safely in its final landing at the Kennedy Space Centre in Houston on Thursday, bringing the curtain down on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's 30-year space shuttle programme considered one of the most eventful eras in the US history of manned spaceflight.
On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United States Air Force colonel.
Deora said he "regrets the insinuations" made after the Twitter exchange with Modi.
'He can at least invite them for tea in small groups once a month on Sundays.' 'If nothing else, he will have the pleasure of ruining their weekend,' suggests T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, allegedly forced the maid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan to perform oral sex.
Endeavour and its crew safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after 16 days, successfully completing its last mission and the penultimate flight in NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle programme.
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, widely expected to run for the French Presidency next year, has been arrested in New York over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid. Strauss-Kahn, 62, managing director of the Washington-based IMF since 2007, was taken off an Air France plane's first-class cabin at the John F Kennedy International Airport and apprehended by detectives. "He is being arrested for a criminal sex act, attempted rape," they said.
Sri Lankan navy on Saturday handed over 94 Tamil Nadu fishermen taken into custody by them to the Indian Coast Guard at the International Maritime Boundary Line, police said.
The Mughal Garden will be in full bloom with over 10,000 Tulip bulbs, 138 types of roses and 70 different kinds of about 5,000 seasonal flowers.
One sign of this is the loss of dollar's status as a safe haven currency.
After a 13-day long successful mission that enabled it to deliver the final US components of the International Space Station, the space shuttle Discovery was due to touch down at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida for the final time on Wednesday.
Satya Nadella was drenched with a bucket of ice water on his head as part of a challenge he took to raise awareness about a neurodegenerative disease and in turn challenged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Google co-founder Larry Page to do the same.
The largest-ever study on caste-based discrimination and segregation against Dalits has found that untouchability is still practiced widely across Gujarat, despite the practice being abolished by the Constitution, according to the Robert K Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights based in Washington, DC.The report said it addressed almost all known untouchability practices, including the segregation of housing, drinking-water wells, places of religious worship.
Gorsuch, 49, took the Constitutional Oath in a private ceremony, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Supreme Court's Justice's Conference Room. He was accompanied by his wife Louise, who held the Bible, and his two daughters.
All that India must aim for is to match China's military prowess adjusted to equal Beijing's India-specific military capability, argues Vivek Gumaste.
'The capability of the Indian State to implement programmes and policies is weak -- and in many domains it is obviously not improving. In police, tax collection, education, health, power, water supply -- in nearly every routine service -- there is rampant absenteeism, indifference, incompetence, and corruption,' says Professor Lant Pritchett.
As India celebrated its success in testing an unmanned space crew module on Thursday, over 1.7 lakh Indians had another reason to be happy as a similar National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft carrying a microchip containing their names was brought back safely to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, on the same day after a space odyssey.
Obama has appointed eminent Indian American attorney, Amy K Singh, as President's Advisory Committee on the Arts for the prestigious John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the White House has said.
Soulmate from Meghalaya is belting out 12 bars across the globe. Sumit Bhattacharya listens in.
Mr Obama's wish list for India will not be as daunting as the one he has for China.
Veteran diplomat and author Phillips Talbot, a Padma Shri recipient who experienced first-hand the power of Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent movement and was one of the few Americans present during India's partition, has died in New York at the age of 95.Talbot's death on October 1 was announced by the Asia Society, where he served as the president between 1970 and 1981.He was United State's assistant secretary of state for near eastern and south Asian affairs.
The powerful role of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence in Afghan insurgency is 'as clear as the sun in the sky', says a latest study.
Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy on Monday denied that he had withdrawn his concerns about governance lapses at the firm, saying the board has to address these "properly" and "full transparency should be displayed and people responsible for it should become accountable".
Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square car bomb suspect, will be charged with an act of terrorism, US Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday, adding he is cooperating with investigators and providing useful details.
National Aeronautics and Space Administrations's space shuttle Discovery, with its seven-member crew, launched successfully from the space agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.
Dr Rajiv Shah, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to head the US Agency for International Development -- the country's top non-military foreign assistance programme -- has told US lawmakers that "the mission of USAID is my passion," and that "it is with enthusiasm and humility" that he seeks confirmation to lead the agency first established by President John F Kennedy in 1961
US First Lady Michelle Obama wore a creation by designer Prabal Gurung, an alumni of Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology, while donating her much talked about inaugural gown to the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
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