
“Dr. Vivek Murthy taking charge as the US Surgeon General cements the reputation physicians of Indian origin have across America,†said Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar, president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). “President Obama has made the right choice in naming a highly qua...

US experts had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a quake that may take thousands of lives, media reported. ...
Anandmurti Gurumaa at Auntuns, Hicksville, NY on Tuesday...
"One Tree Hill" actress Sophia Bush is left heartbroken after her former boyfriend Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive, was tragically killed in a Mount Everest avalanche caused by an earthquake in Nepal....
Hina Khwaja Bayat, considered one of the pillars of the Pakistani entertainment industry, feels there is a preconceived notion about her country worldwide, and hopes that India and Pakistan soon learn to live like "good neighbours"....
Google has apologised for an image of its android mascot urinating on an Apple logo that went viral on social media this week....

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. ...