Racism has “swam” literally from Australia to United States of America. A young Sikh student working part-time as a pizza delivery boy has been reportedly physically assaulted a group of unscrupulous US citizens when he came to deliver a pizza to their house, the Skh Coalition, a community advocacy group said. The attackers neither paid [...]
Replying to a media question on India’s stand in the global war against Taliban, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor told the parliament that India needs to support the US military aggression in Afghanistan against the Talibanis and any other separatist group within the Afghan boundaries. Supporting the military offensive played by North [...]
Gunpowder in a passanger’s luggage accidentally exploded killing 20 people in the blast in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, 50 km from Lucknow, the state capital at around 5 p.m. “It was a private bus carrying over 50 passengers from Purwa to Mohrawan village when a piece of baggage, containing gun powder and kept on the [...]
[/caption] United States FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force today arrested David Coleman Headley, an American national at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Toying on Lashkar-e-Toiba’s schemes to bomb India and Denmark as part of its terrorist attacks, Headley was about to board a flight to Philadelphia from where he was supposed to meet the fugitive Ilyas [...]
Meera Shankar can finally take a deep breath. India has responded to the Indian Ambassador for US’s plea to set a probe on the practise of Indian government officials allegedly receiving bribes from US companies to secure contracts. Departments in fire are some of the most important and prestigious ones of the Indian government, that [...]
Sounding calm and composed, US-Indian Nobel Laureate, Venkatraman Ramakrishan told the media over the phone that he feels honoured after having received the world’s most prestigious award for his “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”, which is found in cells with nuclei and translates the DNA code into life. He shares this. Thanking his team that comprised of American Thomas A. Steitz and Israeli Ada E. Yonath, the other two having shared the $1.42-million award with him, however, Ramakrishan pleads that good work must be kept aloof from the shadows of commercial victory. “This is a typical mistake that the public or even the press make. None of you called me about my work even two days ago…right?” Ramakrishan told media from Cambridge, Britain. Perhaps there was a cynical tone underlying his addressal to the press where he admitted that the press seemed to be “hung up on Western awards like the Nobel”, and does not perhaps, appreciate good work before they have been idolised by such awards.
According to Robert Gibbs, White House Spokesperson, this meeting will trigger discussions on important issues such as global warming, nuclear programs and ohter such “global, regional, and bilateral issues of shared interest and common concern.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had hand-delivered the state-visit invitation from Obama during her July trip to India. Talks will [...]
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