The 'Grand Plan' of New York based Alphons, 30, Founder & Executive Director of ProjectArt, which provides free art classes at public libraries in all five boroughs of New York City, is to help troubled students in the metropolis. Alphons, son of former Indian bureaucrat K J Alphons, was a troubled student himself - he was once expelled...
Hillary Clinton would make "an excellent president", US President Brack Obama said a day before Clinton's much-touted launch of her run for the White House in 2016. ...
Actor Scott Eastwood says he refused to audition for erotic film “Fifty Shades of Grey" because he was asked to sign a deal before going for a test shoot. ...
Providing clues to understanding cosmological questions like how fast the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang, a team of astronomers, including an Indian American, has identified two distinct types of supernovaes. ...
US President Barack Obama told Cuban President Raul Castro, during their historic meeting at the 7th Summit of the Americas in Panama, that "it is time for us to try something new" with regard to Cuba because the previous US policy did not work....
US President Barack Obama said Saturday he has not yet decided on whether to remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List and that he has held "candid and fruitful conversation" with Cuban leader Raul Castro on the sidelines of a regional summit....
"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said this week during a forum on habitable places in space....
US and Cuban leaders held first face-to-face talks in decades on Saturday in Panama City, capital of Panama, amid detente between the two nations....
The program divided in four segments included dazzling performances of Bhangra and Gidha dances, delightful Punjabi songs, and melodious music, by local and guest artists from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. ...
Hundreds of academicians, business professionals, public officials and community leaders unanimously adopted a resolution to establish an ‘International Hindi Center’, as a vibrant hub of academic and cultural activities focused on promoting Hindi as a world language. ...
