In a rare move, the US has slapped sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, holding them 'directly responsible' for Moscow's 'unprovoked and unlawful'......
The United States is not in a rush to recognize the new interim government in Afghanistan, the White House said on Wednesday, asserting that it is in talks with the Taliban to get American citizens......
The first drug to treat low sexual desire in premenopausal women, dubbed "female Viagra", has been approved in the United States, but with a warning about potentially dangerous side effects such as......
State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI bank head Chanda Kochhar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HT Media chair Shobhana Bhartia are among the world's 100 most powerful......
US President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Janet Yellen as head of the Federal Reserve Board, White House has said. If confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Ben Bernanke as Chair of the......
Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos announced on Monday that he has agreed to buy the newspapers owned by The Washington Post Co for $250 million. Here are some notable events in the history of the......
The good news for us is that India's economy - and sentiment about it - is much better than it was a year ago, says Jamal Mecklai. Towards the end of May, I had written an article ("Stay close to......
The rout hit all 10 major S&P sectors and pushed the Dow and S&P 500 below their 200-day moving averages Wall Street suffered its worst session in over a month on Thursday as lower commodity prices......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Nargis Fakhri/Instagram Nargis Fakhri's sister Aliya, 43, has been arrested in the US for 'deliberately setting a deadly fire' in a garage on November 2 and killing her......
Doris Roberts, who played the tart-tongued, endlessly meddling mother on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died, a family spokeswoman said. She was 90. Roberts died overnight in her sleep,......
This Khan superstar told Gulshan Grover, 'Go ahead, become a star in Hollywood.''I will always remain indebted to him,' says the Bad Man of Bollywood. IMAGE: Gulshan Grover with Aamir Khan and......
The 71st Emmy Awards have been announced, and there have been quite a few surprises and some expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: IMAGE: Cast and crew......
Global adulation continued to pour in for Sachin Tendulkar, as after being named Person of the Moment, Time magazine has now conferred the retiring batting legend the 'Person of the......