This action would affect approximately 3,500 employees over the indefinite period at US Steel's Keewatin, Detroit and St Louis plants, the company said. According to the company, due to continuous business review, analysis of market conditions and their impact on customers' orders, it had to take further steps to consolidate operations.
The prospects of early return of the bodies of the two Andhra Pradesh students murdered in the US have brightened as the family of one of the victims Tummala Vikram Reddy has deposited an amount of Rs 3.23 lakh with the Regional Passport office in Hyderabad towards the cost of airlifting of the body.
Coinciding with the visit of Defence Minister A K Antony to the US, the Pentagon has announced the sale of Harpoon missiles to India along with associated equipment and services for a total value of about USD 170 million.
The fate of 237 candidates, including two ministers and a former CM, will be decided in this final phase.
Anjum Mukadam, an astronomer of Indian origin, will be awarded the Robert J Trumpler Award for for designing and building Argos, a fast, CCD-based, time-series photometer to probe stars, including white dwarfs. Her work doubled the number of known pulsating white dwarfs, produced more than a dozen scientific papers, and created in Argos an instrument that is also useful for the detection of extrasolar planets as they transit their parent star.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 to win the Major League Baseball championship in their second four-game sweep of the Fall Classic in four years.
The dollar moved higher, while prices for US government debt fell, as traders ramped up bets the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in March
Economists warn of the impact that a Fed rate rise could have on emerging economies.
Warsi, a professor of South Asian Languages and Linguistics in Washington University in St Louis, said there was a clear-cut change in the atmosphere and that the sense of insecurity no longer existed among Muslim in America.
Pete Sampras made his World Team Tennis (WTT) debut on Monday but denied he was going to come back on the tour
Nigeria's dreaded Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for three deadly attacks on churches, that led to reprisal killings, leaving at least 75 people dead and 120 others wounded.
A new research in the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, shows that continuous drinking for as little as eight weeks can impair learning and memory.
Roger Federer won five consecutive US Open titles from 2004-2008 but has not enjoyed much success here recently.
Arsene Wenger is one of the world's greatest managers and his future at Arsenal is assured for as long as he wants to stay, the club's owner Stan Kroenke said in a rare interview on Friday.
Kensington Palace published three pictures taken recently by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.
Leonardo Mayer beat Joao Souza in a Davis Cup singles match that lasted a record six hours and 42 minutes.
Mike Tyson is preparing for a possible fight with Ireland's Kevin McBride on July 31, according to a report on Fightnews.com.
Shubhankar got the real taste of Northern Ireland's wet and windy weather as he went out to practice on Wednesday.
From the Syrian civil war to the Ukrainian crisis to the terror unleashed by the dreaded Islamic State, there was no lack of news in 2014. In this five-part series, rediff.com presents a selection of the year's most enduring moments year from around the world.
MPs will first attend a 'Farm Progress Show' in Iowa, then visit the Monsanto headquarters in St Louis, Missouri.
India should be satisfied with the outcome of the recently concluded G20 summit in Toronto since its argument against a quick withdrawal of stimulus measures by developed nations had, to an extent, been accepted, according to US economic experts.
Irish amateur Paul Dunne is in contention to become the first amateur to win the British Open for 85 years after a sensational third-round display sent him rocketing into a tie for the lead on Sunday.
McIlroy was tipped as one of the favourites for the first Open in Northern Ireland since 1951 but now faces a battle to get back amongst the leaders.
The Blu-Ray addition of the 1996 movie starring Billy Bob Thorton features plenty of engaging material.
Monaco's late Ligue 1 title challenge stalled on Friday when the principality side were held to a 1-1 home draw by St Etienne.
A new research has found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during the week.
'It's only been two and a half days, three days, but we're just so thrilled to have our own little bundle of joy'
World record holder Haile Gebrselassie will aim for an Olympic marathon title at the 2012 London Games after deciding the pollution in Beijing this year represents an unacceptable health threat. The twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion, who will be 39 in 2012, suffers from exercise-induced asthma and will not compete in Beijing unless he qualifies for the Ethiopian 10,000 team.
Calcium from diet is generally better absorbed, as compared to calcium supplements.
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