President Barack Obama has said there was "no excuse for criminal acts" at Ferguson, where two policemen were wounded in a shooting Wednesday night....

Dr. Jacob C Ninan, 75, of Saginaw, Michigan passed on March 3 in India. The body was later brought to Saginaw. Dr. Ninan was an oncologist in the Saginaw area for 38 years. He leaves behind his wife of 44 years, Mrs. Molly J Ninan; his two children: daughter, Dr Anita Ninan Bagga (husband Mr Bob Bagga); son, Dr Jacob A Ninan and his wife Dr Glynis Lough...

As he explores a 2016 presidential bid, Louisiana's Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal is wooing his Republican Party's right wing by working hard to prove himself to be what he calls a "full-spectrum conservative"....
Television advertisements for e-cigarettes may be enticing current and even former tobacco smokers to reach for another cigarette, new research reveals. ...

Welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Colombo, a leading Tamil group in Canada - home to the largest Tamil diaspora outside Sri Lanka - has urged him to put pressure on new President Maithiripala Sirisena to resolve the dragging ethnic issue....
Approximately 200 protesters gathered near the Ferguson police department in the US state of Missouri singing songs such as "love" or chanting slogans including "Stop racism", after the shooting of two police officers....
Final polls released on Friday -- only four days before parliamentary elections -- show incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party trailing four seats behind its main rival Isaac Herzog's centre-left Zionist Union....
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said the US government will pay a heavy price for classifying Venezuela as a threat, Spanish news agency Efe reported....
US Attorney General Eric Holder has termed the attack on two police officers in the city of Ferguson as "inexcusable" and "cowardly" and warned that it would endanger reforms in policing....
On April 1, 2015, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2016 cap. U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in occupations that require highly specialized knowledge in fields such as science, engineering and computer programming....