The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of civil society groups, has won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced here on Friday....
Israeli Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon has described President Pranab Mukherjee's upcoming visit to Jerusalem, the first by an Indian head of state or government, as a "landmark" one and said it showed that both countries were "coming out of the closet"....
A convenience store owned by an Indian-origin woman was robbed by three armed men in the US town of Madison Heights in Virginia, a media report said on Friday....
Indian-American Bhagwati Agrawal is listed among CNN's Top 10 Heroes of 2015, for bringing safe drinking water to more than 10,000 drought-stricken people in his native Rajasthan....
The police in East Hartford town, of Connecticut state, suspect a person of Indian-origin to be behind a variation of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scam, a media report said....
Indian-American groups have called for a campaign on immigration issues affecting the Indian diaspora including use of H-1B visa by technology companies from India and growing backlog of family visas....
An Indian-Canadian Sikh candidate, who was to fight parliament elections on October 19 and who claimed that homosexuality was unnatural and gays can be cured into straight people, has been dumped by his party for his views....
US President Barack Obama has called Doctors Without Borders to apologize to it for the US mistaken bombing of the organisation-run hospital in Afghanistan, White House said on Wednesday....
An Indian-Canadian Sikh candidate, who was to fight parliament elections on October 19 and who claimed that homosexuality was unnatural and gays can be cured into straight people, has been dumped by his party for his views....

When Narendra Modi was campaigning, voters were led to believe that he would fight against corruption and promote a developmental agenda, if he were to be given a chance to govern. While only 31% of the voters heeded his call, it was sufficient to capture an absolute majority of the Lok Sabha seats for BJP and ca...