Director Aditya Vikram Sengupta's 'Labour of Love', has won three top awards - Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay - at the 15th edition of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF)....
Rohit Bhargava, an IIT-Delhi graduate and now with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed stainless staining that provides a new tool for clinicians and researchers for better diagnosis of cancer....

Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation....

The US Department of Justice appointed Saeed Mody of the Civil Rights Division as the trial attorney in the case against former Alabama police officer Eric Parker for using excessive force against Sureshbhai Patel....

Dr. Manoj Vora, who climbed Mount Everest in 2013 on his second attempt, has started a campaign to rebuild the village of Kurima, near Mt. Everest in Nepal, which was flattened in the devastating earthquake. “They helped me to reach the summit and it is my turn to help them. Only 32 families live there,†Dr. Vora, a physician at the L...
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is for the very first time scheduled to exhibit post-impressionist Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh's quartet of flower paintings - two of irises, and two of roses....
As violence continues in Baltimore in the US following the custodial death of a black man, India has pointed out areas of "concern" regarding the US' human rights record, including "deficiencies in law enforcement procedures and disproportionate use of force"....
The US has granted conditional approval to energy giant Shell to begin oil drilling in the Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska. ...
President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Saudi Arabia's King Salman, one day after Riyadh announced that the monarch will not attend a US summit of Persian Gulf leaders scheduled for later this week. ...
American politics can sometimes border on the bizarre. Conspiracy theorists would have one believe that Democratic President Barack Obama is hatching a secret plot to invade the Republican-ruled southern American state of Texas and impose martial law?...