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New York, Sept 6 : Prestigious Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York (USA) will transform into a “peace lab” on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday falling on October 2 to commemorate International Day of Non-Violence.
According to RMA, a “peace lab” is a p
Read Full StoryAn armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead Wednesday afternoon, police said.
All three hostages are safe, J. Thomas Manger, police chief of Maryland’s Montgomery County, was quot
Read Full StoryIndia’s Pallava Bagla has won the American Geophysical Union (AGU) David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for his articles on the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers.
The Perlman Award of AGU, the largest organisation of earth a
Read Full StoryUS President Barack Obama declared the end of a wounding US combat mission in Iraq Tuesday, that resulted in 4,400 soldier deaths, while signalling escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan to defeat terrorists harboured in the region bordering Pakistan.
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Read Full StoryA senior United Nations official has expressed his shock over this evening’s killing of four Israelis in the West Bank, as long-awaited direct talks are set to begin later this week in Washington between Israelis and Palestinians.
According to media repor
Read Full StoryUS President Barack Obama says with the US economy growing, but not fast enough, he would “keep on pushing” to keep America’s fragile recovery from global downturn on track.
“The economy is still growing, but it’s not growing as fast as it needs to. I’ve go
Read Full StoryUS President Barack Obama says he’s not concerned about rumours about his birthplace or faith blaming an online campaign of misinformation by his conservative enemies for perpetuating the myth that he’s a Muslim.
There’s “a network of misinformation that in
Read Full StoryA gunfight broke out Saturday morning between militants and security forces near the US consulate in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, media reports said.
An office of the security forces was attacked, but the motive was not immediately clear, Dawn rep
Read Full StoryIndia’s Sania Mirza is just a match away from qualifying into the US Open tennis main draw.
Sania, ranked 160, beat Russian Elena Bovina 6-3, 6-3 in the third and final qualifying round here Thursday. The 23-year-old Indian now plays 31-year-old Colombian C
Read Full StoryAn infected flash drive put in a US military laptop in 2008 set off the most significant cyberattack ever against the military by a foreign spy agency, according to a top US defence official.
The previously classified incident, which took place in 2008 in t
Read Full StoryHollywood filmmaker Spike Lee has accused US President Barack Obama of an error of judgment for “trusting” bosses at oil giant BP to halt a potential environmental disaster after a rig off the south coast of the US ruptured in April.
Lee has slammed governm
Read Full StoryProtesters against the construction of an Islamic community centre and a mosque near ground zero faced off Sunday with protesters in favour of the facility in New York, a media report said.
With chants and banners, hundreds of critics and supporters of the
Read Full StoryJulian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has been charged with rape and molestation and authorities in Sweden have issued an arrest warrant in this regard.
The warrant was issued late Friday, said Karin Rosander, communications head at
Read Full StoryA day after controversial evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham said Barack Obama was born a Muslim because of his father’s religious beliefs, the White House again asserted that the president is a “committed Christian” and prays daily.
Graham, son of fam
Read Full StoryA day after a poll found that one in five Americans think US President Barack Obama is a Muslim, the White House has asserted he is a Christian, who prays every day.
“President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily
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President Barack Obama has asked Americans to produce more scientists and engineers and return to making things themselves lest nations like China and India outcompete them for the jobs of the future.
“We did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth b
Read Full StoryAmid reports that India may take it to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a new law to hike worker visa fees, the United States hopes it would not affect their long term economic partnership
“What I can say is that we understand the Government of In
Read Full StoryThe US Central Intelligence Agency has videotapes made at a secret prison in Morocco showing the interrogation of a conspirator in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, CNN reported Tuesday.
The tapes were reportedly found three years ago under a des
Read Full StoryThe US has said it would work closely with India in implementing a new law hiking work visa fees that would largely hit Indian firms.
“Well, yes, we are talking to Indian officials about the bill,” US State Department spokesman Phillip Crowley told reporter
Read Full StoryThe US will provide an additional $20 million in relief funding for the flooding in Pakistan that has killed more than 1,600 people in the last two weeks, a US official said Tuesday.
That amount brings the total US contribution to $55 million and will help
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