India has asked UN members to drop the annual ritual of passing a resolution on Myanmar's human rights situation saying that the gesture would encourage the reforms underway there. ...
Expressing concern over Indian action against the Ford Foundation and Greenpeace India, the US is seeking a clarification from New Delhi for limiting "a necessary and critical debate within Indian society."...
Citing a shortage of physicians in the US, two lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan legislation to speed-up visa approval for Indian and Pakistani doctors slated to work at US hospitals....
Canada's Senate Speaker Pierre Claude Nolin died of cancer at the age of 64, said a Canada Senate spokeswoman on Friday. ...
The Ford Foundation, one of the most powerful international funding organisations, on Friday said it was yet to receive any information on the issue of the home ministry putting it on a watch list....
The seminar covered a variety of topics including local trends in drug use, especially heroin, the prevalence of drugs and cyber bullying in the local schools, and the many steps being taken by local law enforcement to combat these problems. In addition to current trends, panelists discussed the importance of sharing information, treatin...
The US Senate voted 56-43 on Thursday to confirm veteran federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch as attorney general, succeeding Eric Holder....
An Indian computer science PhD student from Hyderabad underwent brain surgery to find what she jokingly called her "evil twin sister who's been torturing me for the past 26 years" Doctors who performed brain surgery on Yamini Karanam, 26, in Los Angeles were shocked to find that instead of a tumour, she had an embryonic twin in her head, acc...
UN General Assembly President Sam Kahamba Kutesa says there is "greater appetite" among member nations for reforming the Security Council, a process in which India is heavily invested, and he expects a breakthrough in the decade-long stalemate by the end of the Assembly's current session....
Turmeric, the familiar yellow spice common in Indian cooking, may also help treat oral cancers caused by a virus, says a study co-authored by an Indian-origin researcher....
