Mohammad and a few of his cohorts are under closed door military proceedings at the Guantanamo Bay Naval station in which no access to the media has been permitted.
India is the world's leading offshore services location according to the Global Services Location Index, the latest annual survey by global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
They climbed from third to first place partly as a result of their 1-0 win over France in February and partly because older results have expired and are no longer used for the points evaluation.
Former Asian number one Jeev Milkha Singh, making an appearance at the EMAAR-MGF Indian Masters this week, says golf in India will continue to be the fastest growing sport with the inclusion of top class events in the country
Textile exports from India grew 17.9 per cent in the first two months of this fiscal to touch Rs 13,352 crore (Rs 133.52 billion), according to an official.
Ajai Shukla gives the inside story of the controversial AW-101 helicopter deal and finds that corruption is endemic to overseas defence deals in India
The American became only the third man to win both the 100 and 200 at a world championships.
A world record pole vault for Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva and an electrifying 800 meters run by 18-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo lit up the Bird's Nest Stadium on Monday evening.
Carl E Taylor, an internationally reputed healthcare expert born in Landour (now in Uttarakhand) and a lifelong lover of India, died in the United States last month of prostate cancer.
Plane crash in Venezuela kills all 160 on board
India, which is the world's largest user of anti-dumping measures, also tops the list of countries that have taken the maximum number of safeguard actions such as restricting imports of a product to protect the domestic industry.
Announcing the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decision, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said a Special Purpose Vehicle would be set up for the project.
Two greats of the game, George Headley and Alan Knott, were formally inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame during the second ODI between England and Australia at Lord's, London on Sunday
The 23-year-old Jamaican destroyed his rivals in Zurich to equal the record of 9.77 seconds he shares with American Justin Gatlin.
Spendy itineraries, from Antarctica to the Baltic.
Officials of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers in England want white coats and ties scrapped.
"Smiling tiger may look friendly but is very dangerous." That is how an US Senate Committee Chairman, Senator Fred Thompson said about China Resource Enterprise (CRE). In its investigation into China's attempts to influence the 1996 US presidential campaign, the Committee identified CRE as a conduit for "espionage - economic, political and military for China." Incidentally CRE is owned by the Chinese army, the PLA.
Stability is one of the major factors that explains why a number of countries have adopted the U.S. dollar as official currency.
ABC News reported Thursday that US agents had unearthed a drug ring that used babies to smuggle in cocaine and heroin.
Frustrated and disappointed. That's how Brett Lee felt having to watch Australia take the field at Gwalior while he was sitting at home.
Miss India Nikita Anand did not make it to the top ten.
The stars are with Barack Obama, says an Indian astrologer in the United States. "Whatever the polls may convey, the cosmic timetable and the karmic events all seem to point in favor of Barack Obama to occupy the Presidential seat in January 2009," Malini Parthasarathy, a former senior management specialist at the World Bank, and an astrologer, says.
American accounting and medical billing firms are the latest to join the outsourcing bandwagon, transferring hundreds of thousands of jobs to India to take advantage of the low pay scales and educated workforce in the country.
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