In what may be seen as worst fears of National Security Advisor M K Narayanan coming true, a US report on terrorism has said pro-Pakistan Jaish-e-Mohammed was investing in commodity market and real estate to raise funds for its terrorist activities.
The Bush administration has expressed hope that the US Congress will pass a legislation on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in a manner that would not make radical changes in the historic agreement so that they could "faithfully" implement it.
Private carrier Jet Airways has obtained security clearance from American authorities to fly to the United States.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the Islamist group were wounded yesterday in the coalition bombing raid.
Nehru rejected a British-US proposal which said 'neither India nor Pakistan can entirely give up its claim to the Kashmir Valley,' and thus 'each must have a substantial position in the Valley'.
The training was in technical and practical aspects of dealing with cyber crime and cyber terrorism in the programme.\n
The report will address what 'we think the overall impact was and who caused it, and who did it', Trump said.
"After one year of unsuccessful authoritarian rule, this is the best way to address the Maoist insurgency and to build a brighter future of Nepal's people," the statement said.
Anita Datar is the sole US citizen to have been killed in the attack.
A US State Department report on human trafficking has placed India on a Tier 2 'watch-list' because of what it said were existing bonded labour practices and the lack of adequate action to effectively end this.
43.2 million people follow the Indian premier on the social media platform.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sees America as the world's main enemy.
Aimed at providing better access to travel information, the US State Department has made its business visa centre services available on the Internet.\n
On a different note the State Department Spokesman congratulated India and Pakistan on their respective Independence Days.
'I suspect that in the future you will find American presidents visiting India regularly because it is good politics to do so.'
'We appreciate their efforts to address what is a serious concern, which is proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,' White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said.
The US said it has provided $ 841 million for tsunami relief and reconstruction, and the American people have contributed more than $ 1.8 billion in private funds.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said China opposes US efforts to use human rights as an excuse to "interfere with other countries' internal affairs."
Newsweek magazine on Sunday apologised for and on Tuesday withdrew the report, which claimed that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay detention centre abused the holy book, saying it might have erred in reporting the incident.
Infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir significantly declined in 2004 due to the fence put up by India along the Line of Control and an effective security mechanism, the US State Department has said.
Even as efforts are underway for resolution of the row involving Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, her father on Tuesday led a protest march outside the American consulate in Mumbai, terming the United States administration's action against her as "illegal".
Dismissing apprehensions that the Indo-US strategic relationship may harm the interests of India's neighbours, the United States has said contrary to this, the tie-up will be beneficial to the whole region.\n
According to a US State Department factsheet, 'Washington has no specific plans to develop low yield nuclear weapons but the Nuclear Posture Review highlighted the importance of being able to respond to changes in the security environment'.
The United States has sought to insulate its request to the Congress for a cut in economic and security aid to Pakistan from its relationship with the country, asserting that it has no intention to lower ties with Islamabad.
Dr Kalidas Shetty from the University of Massachusetts is among US State Department's first five Jefferson Science Fellows.
US envoy Joseph Di Trani and the Department's Korean Affairs office head James Foster met with North Korean officials in New York last Friday, but with no apparent outcome.
The stagnation in US-Russia relations does not augur well for New Delhi's strategic interests, says Harsh V Pant and Raj Kumar Sharma.
Highly-placed government sources in Moscow said that the deal involved 60 tonnes of nuclear fuel for Tarapur reactor.
The office on the seventh floor of a building in Columbia Plaza was sealed after the white powder fell from between the \n\npages of the passport when an envelope containing it was opened Thursday morning.
The United States has said Pakistan's first cruise missile test was conducted in a way that was not 'provocative', although Islamabad did not give advance information about it to New Delhi.\n\n
Quoting government figures, the state department said terrorist activity increased notably during 2002 in J&K.
The US has identified at least some of the individuals responsible for Khashoggi's death.
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