
One week after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide and states cannot ban such marriages, Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has finally fallen in line....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday greeted the government and people of the US on the eve of the country's 239th Independence Day....
"I understand the odds, particularly in today's political climate where fair debate is so often drowned out by huge sums of money," said the ex-lawmaker who, however, said he had decided to run to try and "unite" the country....
Supporters protested in Granbury city, capital of Hood county in the US state of Texas against county clerk Katie Lang's decision to not issue marriage licences to same-sex couples....

The Canadian food regulator on Friday announced that Nestle India's Maggi noodle products were safe for consumption. ...
Manorama S. Kotnis, a sister of the legendary medico and doyen of India-China friendship, late Dwarkanath S. Kotnis, has died in her Mumbai suburb home, a family friend said here on Friday. She was 94....
Reiterating that relations between India and Pakistan are important to it, the US has expressed the hope that New Delhi and Islamabad would work on issues between them and reduce tensions....

As part of the July 4th Salute to Great Immigrants who help make America strong, the Carnegie Corporation of New York will honor 38 immigrants including 4 Indian Americans....
In a letter sent to the Indian state of West Bengal yesterday, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to take immediate action to locate the whereabouts of an abducted 14 year-old Hindu girl, Tuktuki Mandal, and secure her safe return to her family....

Devyani Khobragade, the 1999-batch IFS officer whose arrest and handcuffing in New York in 2013 over alleged visa fraud led to souring in India-US ties, has been reinstated as director in the ministry of external affairs, a few months after she was stripped of her duties and placed on "compulsory wait"....