Ambiguous replies about his travels abroad aroused the suspicions of airport officials and led to the arrest of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, David Headley, charged with criminal conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attacks.
An interview with former US assistant secretary of commerce Raymond E Vickery speaks on his book The Eagle And The Elephant: Strategic Aspects Of Us-India Economic Engagement.
35 qualify for Scripps National Spelling Bee
Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, by flipping Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico from red states in the 2004 elections to blue in this year's contest, took a commanding lead in the 2008 US Presidential Election, causing CNN to project him the winner and the 44th President of the United States of America
Over half of the American Whites consider presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "risky" choice for the White House, whereas two-thirds believe McCain as a "safe" pick, a new survey has revealed.
'Youngsters, it's clear, are voting for Obama. Not only that, they canvass for him, add him to their Facebook and MySpace profiles, and talk about him over coffee and classwork. Should he win, he will be inexorably linked with my generation.'
Exit polls showed that whereas Obama came away with 91 per cent of the African-American vote, Clinton was at an extremely poor six per cent in that category. However, she walked away with nearly 60 per cent of the white vote with African-American Senator getting just 37 per cent.
Six Indian-American high school juniors and 19 others, all named 'Leaders of Tomorrow', will discuss ways to heal the ills faced by society at a meeting later this month on the Bentley College campus at Waltham, Massachusetts. The students are winners of the 2008 Tomorrow 25, an international leadership competition for high school juniors organised by Bentley College, in cooperation with Time magazine.
Cadet Lieutenant Rajiv S Srinivasan who is about to graduate from the West Point Military Academy speaks of his experiences.
Dr Joseph Chemplavil's novel weight-loss initiative inspired Dieting for Dollars, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television broadcast January 13. Dr Chemplavil, a cardiologist based in Hampton, West Virginia, says patients who join his program must sign a contract: "You lose one pound of your original weight and I give you a dollar. But if you gain a pound you have to give me a dollar." He calls it "reward and punishment at the same time."
Meet the Indian-American comics spreading that funny feeling. A series of portraits.
The untold story of how an epic loser engineered what may be the greatest brand makeover ever.
The 32-million-pound National Tennis Centre is aiming to provide everything necessary to aspiring world number ones on a single site.
Friends, neighbours and teachers remember Minal Panchal, who was killed in the V-Tech massacre.
Oscar nominations and the subsequent ad blitz in the media mean hotter box-office hits across North America, and in many other countries.
Authorities in the the US had banned the carrying of liquids on flights last week after 21 people were arrested in London for an alleged plot to blow up US-bound planes using explosives disguised as drinks.
Sudhakar V Shenoy, founder, chairman and CEO, Information Management Consultants, Inc, says 'if we do not pull up the next generation, we would have failed.'
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S P Jain Institute of Management & Research and Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA, invite applications for its 18-month, full-time Masters in Information Technology programme.
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