About 110 detainees, largely from South Asia, at three immigration detention centres in Alabama and California are on hunger strike demanding an end to their indefinite confinement and improved conditions....
US stocks closed mixed in light volume in a shortened post-holiday session on Friday, as Wall Street eyed retailers' Black Friday sales results....
At least three people, including a police officer, were killed and 11 injured in a standoff with a gunman in the US state of Colorado, police said....
A team of scientists at Stanford University, that includes an Indian origin researcher, has discovered how to make the shiny upper metal contact 'invisible' to light, thereby funnelling light directly into the cell....
An Indian-American man travelling to Washington via Doha was offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Islamabad airport on Friday after he claimed there was a bomb on the aircraft, a media report said....
Adele has a plan to "crack a joke" when she meets Spears for the first meet, so that they are able to break the ice, reports femalefirst.co.uk....
The White House was placed on lockdown on Thursday after a person jumped the fence, CNN reported, adding that the jumper was immediately caught....
As smartphone screen sizes are becoming bigger and bigger, larger screens are not only enhancing users' experience but can also change customers' buying intentions, an Indian-origin researcher has found....
Legislators from the Canadian province of Alberta paid tributes to colleague Manmeet Bhullar, who was killed earlier this week in a road accident, a media report said....
Acclaimed American Indologist Wendy Doniger claims she was misquoted on her remarks about Mahatma Gandhi and the 1947 partition of India....
