6 killed after pedestrian bridge collapses in Miami

A newly installed pedestrian bridge over a major road in Miami collapsed on Thursday, killing six people and trapping several cars underneath. The footbridge, which connected Florida International......

The writing is on the wall for Obama and Democrats

Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore assesses the mood of the voters ahead of the US mid-term elections on November 2United States President Barack Obama and his Democrat folk are all set for a......

The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Rahul Gandhi's expectations from wife: 'A loving person who is intelligent'

Viewed as India's most eligible bachelor by some, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says he'll get married when the right girl comes along and part of the problem is that his parents' ”really......

Florida-based IMG sets foot in Andhra

Sports infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh would get a major boost with the state government signing a memorandum on Saturday with Florida-based International Management Group to build infrastructure......

Doctor with an eye for style

He has received numerous awards, including, the "international gold medal" for advances in Lasik eye surgery. Last year, he was listed in Forbes magazine by Goldline Research among the top ten eye......

Indian American named head of Rutgers B-school

Jaishankar Ganesh, 45, a noted business education innovator and scholar in internationalmarketing, has been named as the dean of the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, becoming the first......

Why you can't fool this computer

Florida Atlantic University engineers in Boca Raton are working on a superior new face recognition technique that can see through disguises. Lin Huang, from the university's department of......

The BEST FOREIGN Films of 2017

Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year. There was a lot of love in different shades in the films of 2017 that I liked -- from a mute woman falling in love with an alien, to a......

Why Aasif Mandvi learnt to 'patank'

'We would always come back from auditions and ask one other... did they ask you to patank?' says Indian-American actor Aasif Mandvi at the launch of his memoir, No Land's Man. 'My father moved......

David Beckham back in Miami eyeing a Major League Soccer team

Retired English soccer star David Beckham toured potential stadium sites in Miami on Wednesday, signalling he is forging ahead with his interest in owning a new Major League franchise in the United......

Beckham picks Miami for new Major League Soccer team?

Retired England soccer star David Beckham has chosen Miami for a new U.S. Major League Soccer expansion team, a source familiar with the negotiations said on Tuesday. The former England captain who......

Farah misses Olympic 10,000m qualification time

IMAGE: Great Britain's Mohamed Farah competes in the Men's International Race A during the Muller British Athletics 10,000m Championships & European Athletics 10,000m Cup 2021 at University of......

Cricket On the Rise in US of A

'We are recreating the biggest sports rivalry in the world, which is Indians versus Pakistanis right here in the United States.'Prakash Bhandari reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy American Premier......

Abebe Bikila: Emperor of the Marathon

Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times. IMAGE: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, running barefoot, draws away from Abdesselem Rhadi of......