Washington: To make America more attractive to highly-skilled foreign students and workers, the United States has announced a series of reforms, including changes in the F-1 and H-1B visa rules, that may benefit professionals from India.
The interim measures are aimed at improving the competitiveness of US companies in the world market and stimulating US job [...]
Bollywood’s dusky beauty Bipasha Basu has always been held high in regards to fashion and style. And now that the world is raving about her sexy look in her song ‘Bipasha’ from her forthcoming film ‘Jodi Breakers’, the lady too can’t stop complementing her own style. Bipasha is super confident of her chic fashion and [...]
New York: Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company’s public stock offering later this year.
Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, one of the world’s youngest billionaires, plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead [...]
Las Vegas: A Las Vegas couple who married in 1933 recently celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary with an unexpected present. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter says Wilbur and Theresa Faiss have been married longer than any other couple in the world.
Theresa was not well enough to talk, but Wilbur was full of advice. He says marriage [...]
San Juan: A Pentagon legal official refused on Friday to extend an important deadline for defence lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the September 11 attack, a decision that means their highly anticipated arraignment may now occur within months.
Bruce MacDonald, the Pentagon official who oversees the war crimes trials at the US [...]
New Delhi: Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country. Here are the Top Five facts you should know on Google’s move:
What is it? Google has announced it [...]
In a surprise development, the Indian cricket team’s long-time sponsor Sahara India on Friday ended financial ties with the BCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors’ ownership just hours before the players’ auction.
Sahara, which has been the team sponsor for 11 years, signed a renewed agreement with the BCCI [...]
The infinite value that even a millisecond carries could not be manifested in a better fashion.
Competing with the precision of a stopwatch and typing the entire English alphabet in less that three-and-a-half seconds, a city-based student, Mohammed Khursheed Hussain, attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records, here on Thursday.
Keying in the alphabet, along [...]
“As a developing country in the frontlines of climate vulnerability, India has a vital stake in the evolution of a successful, rule-based, equitable and multilateral response to climate change,” said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012 organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) here [...]
Bollywood’s light eyed beauty apart from her successful track record as an actress has always been in news for her love relationship with her beau Saif Ali Khan. The two are slated to get hitched this very year but till date have remained tight lipped over their marital plans. Though the couple had once confessed [...]
The nomination deadline for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize closed today amid renewed criticism that the award committee has drifted away from the selection criteria established by prize founder Alfred Nobel.
Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Cuban rights activists Oswaldo Paya and Yoani Sanchez are among the [...]
United Nations: Vowing to avoid “another Libya,” the U.S. and its allies challenged Russia on Tuesday to overcome its opposition to a U.N. draft resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad yield power and end the violence that has killed thousands.
“It is time for the international community to put aside our own differences and [...]
Washington: Visiting Union Minister for Labor and Employment Mallikarjun Kharge has been presented with ‘Pride of India’ award by the Indian-American community here for his over four decades of public service.
The award was presented jointly by the Indian American Friendship Council (IAFC) and India Association of North Texas (IANT) at a reception hosted in honour [...]
Padma Shri Dr.Brahmanandam who has been spreading smiles since 20 years on-screen is celebrating his 55th birthday today. The Star comedian seems to be getting better and better with the age. It’s not a surprise that no big budget tollywood movie is without this comedian Brahmanandam. He has been ruling the tollywood from two decades.
From [...]
New Delhi: The Dassault Rafale fighter jet, manufactured by French Dassault Aviation, has won India’s mammoth contract worth $10.4 billion, say sources. The Indian Air Force plans to buy 126 aircraft over the next ten years.
The process to determine the L1 (lowest bidder) has been completed, and sources indicate that the final contract is [...]
Not only are Baltic or Greek wedding traditions peculiar, some of our very own rituals surrounding the wedding can be as off-the-wall. True, a wedding brings happy tidings to the family, but it is after all the eclectic rituals associated with it that make for real memories.
The most common perception of a Hindu wedding is [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan PM Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said the option of an early general election “is open” but political elements wanting polls ahead of schedule would have to take up the issue with him after the budget session of parliament in May.
Gilani made the remarks during a meeting with Muhammad Asim Nazir, a parliamentarian [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has dismissed reports that he was considering a proposal to grant another extension to ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and said a decision on this issue would be made at the “appropriate time”.
Mr Gilani rubbished reports in a section of the media about his government giving [...]
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