Transport Ministry has set an ambitious target of building 35,000 km of highways network by March 2014 that translates into 20 km a day.
'I don't think we can force the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to live together if they don't want to live together peacefully,' says US Congressman Bobby Jindal.
In the event of Indo-Pak nuclear war, India will emerge as the ultimate winner after wiping off Pakistan, but lose up to 500 million of its own people, a book on former United States President Bill Clinton's presidential years has claimed.
Pulitzer-prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stores, Unaccustomed Earth, has gone to number 1 in The New York Times bestseller list less than two weeks after its publication on April 1. She is the only Indian novelist after Salman Rushdie to achieve the feat.
'Image-conscious India surely will have an eye on him, the highest-ranking political figure of Indian heritage in America. And that could be an advantage for Louisiana,' The Times-Picayune reported.
There's much to discuss after watching this slow-moving and yet taut, intelligent and immensely moving film.
Asha Damle's Marathi translation of American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's ground-breaking novel, Beloved.
Popular film critic Roger Ebert has given a four out of four rating to Vanaja.
Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing.
Director Mira Nair talks about The Namesake and her next, really big film.
'No two countries that are part of a global supply chain will fight ever a war against each other as long as they \n\nare each part of the supply chain.'
'India is developing call centres and Saudi Arabia is developing madrassas. One is calling the world, in a perfect accent, the other is calling God, in only one language.'
Subhash Ghai on the highs and lows of his career.
Did Jeff Bezos decide against endorsing Harris because it would hurt his business interests? Only God and Bezos know, and neither of them are talking, notes Prem Panicker.
The Indian-American author serves as one of the jury members this year.
If the war in the Israel-Gaza region escalates into a larger West Asian conflict, it could pose problems.
Siddiqui's body was taken to the graveyard where it was buried around 10.15 pm. There was a sea of mourners at the burial site to pay their respects.
"It is a bumper harvest this year," Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy Roy told Rediff.com while describing the spectacular line-up of authors at the grand carnival this year.
The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
With the growing talent pool, professionals must keep pushing their limits to stay relevant.
The narrative is faithful to the source, American Prometheus, but what makes it absolutely spell-binding is Christopher Nolan's technique, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Deepika Padukone recently inaugurated a lecture series to promote mental health awareness in India.
The embassy cited the rescue of the engineers in fresh security advisory while calling upon all Indians in Afghanistan to strictly adhere to the measures advised by it in view of a spike in violence in that country.
Trump paid an effective tax rate of 24 per cent and saved millions of dollars in additional taxes by claiming the losses, according to the document, the first two pages of which were obtained by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston and first shared on "The Rachel Maddow Show.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra did remarkable and energetic campaigning for the party, and "from my point of view, I don't think that the Congress per se can be faulted because on the grounds of one person's campaigning", Tharoor said.
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
Remember the heartbreaking image of the dead 3-year-old boy washed up on a beach?
All the action from the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.
New York City's newly inaugurated Second Avenue subway line features museum quality mosaic art, including portraits of Sikh-American designer Waris Ahluwalia and an Indian woman in a sari. Inside the stations that were a century in the making.
Two Americans are among the five people from the United States who have been selected for India's prestigious Padma awards this year for their contributions in different fields.
Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri believes that American literature is massively overrated and that current reading habits are transformed by the mainstream.
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri has made it to this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist for her new book The Lowland, an intimate portrayal of two brothers set in Kolkata of the 1960s.
Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.
A string of film celebrities like Waheeda Rahman, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad among others set to explore the intertwining of cinema with literature at the fest.
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