Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will attend the 10th Annual Meeting of Women Speakers of Parliament and the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament to be held in New York from August 29 to September 2, an official said....
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A former deputy treasurer of Ohio has been extradited from Pakistan to the United States to serve a 15-year prison sentence for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office....
As the killing of two journalists on live TV brought the issue of gun violence in America back into sharp focus, the White House renewed a call for Congress to pass gun control laws....
Mulling a 2016 presidential bid, Vice President Joe Biden has said that he's not sure he has the "emotional fuel" for another political campaign, while Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton does not see him as much of a threat....
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has sought the public's help to find an Indo-Canadian woman who went missing from her home in Surrey, a media report said....
A 13-year-old Indian-American girl is all set to play in the 2015 US Open after getting a wild card for the tennis championship, said a media report....
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Technology giant Microsoft on Wednesday said that over 75 million devices were running the flagship operating system (OS) Windows 10 after a month of its release, that goes to show that the adoption rate of the OS is nearly 414 percent. ...
Marcy Borders, a 9/11 attack survivor known as the "dust lady" whose photograph became one of the enduring images of the terrorist attacks, has died aged 42 after suffering from stomach cancer, media reported on Wednesday....
