New Delhi: India is planning to seek technological cooperation of the US to check the flow of fake Indian currency notes the way Washington does to put a stop of circulation of counterfeit USD. Impressed by the American technology, which has a database of each counterfeit US dollar - photograph, from where it originated, its route of travel and people behind its circulation - India is all set to ask...
09:06 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Washington: New US battle guidelines partly designed to counter the military challenge from China are attracting strong criticism at home and abroad as unnecessarily provocative of one of America's strongest economic partners. The AirSea Battle fighting "concept" intends to maintain military dominance in strategically important areas as the US reconfigures its global outlook more towards Asia. It is being gradually disclosed by the Pentagon, which has viewed China's military build-up...
01:47 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Washington/New York: First-quarter growth for the US was revised down from an annualised rate of 2.2 per cent to 1.9 per cent on a day of gloomy data for the world's largest economy. The downward revision to gross domestic product came alongside a weak jobs report from ADP, the payrolls processing company, and a rise in new claims for unemployment insurance. Economists await two crucial reports on Friday " official...
01:23 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Washington: Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of faith. Developed with the Sikh American Legal Defence and Education Fund (SALDEF), the new police policy...
09:43 AM, May 17, 2012
Washington: After years of "evolving" on the issue, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters. "It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," Obama said in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts. Obama's...
06:01 AM, May 10, 2012
Washington: White House is priceless and, of course, not for sale. But, the mansion, which has housed US presidents and their families since 1800, could fetch up to $115 million in the open market, a realtor has claimed. "This would be an extreme luxury home. It would probably be $100 or $115 (million)," the 'New York Daily News' online quoted Jason Koitz, a strategist with The Koitz Group, as telling...
05:43 PM, May 06, 2012
Chen Guangcheng, who is in a hospital in Beijing, has said that he wants to leave China as he and his family no longer feel safe. ...
10:19 AM, May 04, 2012
Chantilly: Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The world's most travelled spaceship took off at daybreak from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet for the trip. Three hours later, the pair took a few spins around Washington at...
11:06 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The US on Tuesday informed the Indian Ministry of External Affairs that it had put in place a security protocol for visiting VIPs who were mistakenly detained at its airports. The move comes after India raised a huge furore over the detention of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan at a New York airport for over two hours last week. The US informed the MEA that a person mistakenly...
06:34 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New York: India has taken up with the US the issue of Shah Rukh Khan's detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident that "need not have happened". "We have taken it up with the State Department," Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao told reporters. Rao, who was in the city for a Columbia University conference on India, said the detention of the Indian...
12:37 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Washington DC: The Indian Embassy in the US was on Tuesday evacuated following a bomb threat. However, all the employees of the embassy were reported to be safe. The authorities conducted searches in the buildings of both the Indian embassy as well as the consulate in Mass Avenue, downtown Washington DC. Reacting to the incident, Indias Ambassador to US, Nirupama Rao, said that an anonymous called had claimed to have...
10:25 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Washington: A controversy-prone former mayor has landed himself in a soup again, this time for his remarks targeting "dirty" Asian shops in his poor black-majority district, a racial slur that invited all-round criticism. Washington DC Councilman Marion Barry, 76, who just after winning a primary on Tuesday declared that "we got to do something about these Asians" had to apologise quickly after his comments ignited anger. Addressing his victory rally...
10:06 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Mali: Soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. The whereabouts of the country's 63-year-old president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was just one month away from stepping down after a decade in office, could not be confirmed. The soldier heading the group of putschists said...
05:19 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Washington: An Afghan government delegation visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week to secure approval from five Taliban detainees who may soon be moved to Qatar, a sign that the Obama administration is inching closer to establishing peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan. The delegation, which visited the top-security detention centre in Cuba on Monday, included Ibrahim Spinzada, a senior foreign policy aide to Afghan President Hamid...
08:56 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are deeply at odds over how fast the clock is ticking toward possible military action against Iran's nuclear program, and their talks on Monday are unlikely to change that. Even though Obama has offered assurances of stiffened US resolve against Iran before the White House meeting, the two allies are still far apart on explicit nuclear "red lines" that Tehran...
12:24 PM, Mar 05, 2012
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