Some lawmakers in the United States are calling for tougher security measures in the wake of the deadly Boston bombings, despite a decade of multi-billion dollar security measures, put into place at the expense of civil liberties. However, even though Washingt...
Some lawmakers in the United States are calling for tougher security measures in the wake of the deadly Boston bombings, despite a decade of multi-billion dollar security measures, put into place at the expense of civil liberties. However, even though Washingt...
An influential British think tank believes the UK should send more troops to the authoritarian Arab states in the Persian Gulf region. This is at a time when the UK military is at its smallest in 200 years.
A blast was reported in a fertilizer factory in Texas last night. According to sources, close to 70 people have died, but officials have only confirmed two deaths. The injured have been rushed to the hospital. Many buildings around the factory also caught fire...
An explosion has been reported from a fertilizer plant in Texas, USA. This blast comes just two days after the terror attack at the Boston Marathon. The number of people injured has not been determined yet. The officials have refused to comment on the reason b...
A malicious mail sent to the US President and two other officials, two days after the Boston bombings, led to the arrest of a Mississippi man. The letter laced with poison has triggered fear among the US population, even as the authorities arrest the man, who ...
An explosion has been reported outside a fertilizer plant in Texas, which has injured over 100 people. The blast was so powerful that glasses of many neighbouring buildings broke. The area has been evacuated. The officials have termed the incident as an accide...
Wikileaks targets the Gandhi family once again. Just days after an expose on Rajiv Gandhi, Wikileaks claims that there was an American spy who was very close to Indira Gandhi during 1975 and 1977. According to the expose, the spy continued to provide informati...
CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan claims that CPIM is party that is highly united. He says that even the UDF, which attempts to tarnish the image of the party, has admitted that CPIM is a party that is united.
According to a new expose, Wikileaks claims that during the time of Emergency, there was an American spy who was very close to the Gandhi family and would inform the US of all the decisions that were taken by Indira Gandhi. Wikileaks also claims that US knew o...
According to Wikileaks, during the Emergency there was a very close source to Indira Gandhi, who doubled as a spy for the US government. If Wikileaks documents are to be believed, the US government were always aware of the decisions that were being taken by In...
North Korean military says that it has been officially authorised to counter what Pyongyang calls United States' aggression. North Korea maintains its stance, saying a war could break out any time.
North Korea takes a threatening stance and announces that it has put its rockets on standby to attack the United States' military bases in South Korea. Kim Jong Un-led government says it is in retaliation to the provocation by the US military's muclear-capable...
United States speaks up about the escalating tensions in the Korean peninsula, saying that America is only reacting to the provocation by North Korea. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asserts that the US is not doing anything provocative but it has to protect ...
Soldier Bradley Manning might be world's most renowned whistleblowers, but he is Enemy of the State to the US government. In an audio recording from his court martial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, Manning justifies his...
Tiger Woods has achieved his 75th PGA Tour Title, winning the Farmer's Insurance Open at Torry Pines in San Diego, California. Only sevens wins short of Sam Snead's record of 82 PGA Tour titles, the 37-year-old, currently ranked #2 in the world behind Rory McI...
25-year old Caleb Moore, a freestyle snowmobile rider, died after attempting a backflip at the 17th Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. He crashed headfirst into the snow, with his quarter-tonne snowmobile rolling over him. Although he was able to walk off with...
Smitha Rajan, an US-based dance instructor who has set her own dance school named 'Kalakshethra' in the States, and her team mesmerised audiences with a Mohniyattom dance performance featauring 'Ganapathi Sthuthi and 'Parvati Parinayam' at the Nishagandhi Fest...
Pop/rock star and the first 'American Idol' winner Kelly Clarkson was one of the artists who performed at US President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony in Washington. Clarkson sang the American patriotic song, 'My Country Tis Of Thee...'
Barack Obama begins his second term as the United States President at a public ceremony in Washington. Although he had already been sworn in to office on Sunday at White House, as dictated by the US constitution, this was a public swearing in, which was attend...
Barack Obama begins his second term as the United States President at a public ceremony in Washington. Although he had already been sworn in to office on Sunday at White House, as dictated by the US constitution, this was a public swearing in and was attended ...
United States President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a number of proposals that could allow for sweeping new gun laws across the country. In an address delivered to an audience made up of the families of victims of last month’s mass shooting in Ne...
It is a decision that is the most eagerly awaited in the recent history of Andhra Pradesh. The Centre will make its stand clear on Telangana by the end of this month. It will decide if the State will be divided, with ramifications for the people, resources sha...
The Telugu Desam has committed a huge mistake by giving its assent in the letter to the Centre on the issue of Telangana, says party leader Tammineni Sitaram. Speaking in a emotionally strident voice, Sitaram says he will strive to see that Andhra Pradesh rema...
Certain political analysts believe that US President Barack Obama's nominations for the CIA and the Pentagon may serve as a counter-weight to each other. President Obama courted controversy by nominating former Senator Chuck Hagel as the Pentagon head and coun...
President Barack Obama has rounded out his National Security Team for approval by the Senate. He has nominated former Senator Chuck Hagel as the Pentagon head and counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to lead the CIA. Vietnam war veteran and former senator fr...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has now been accused of taking more than a billion dollars from the US to pursue its quest for power in the Middle East. A paper trail of under the table transactions has led a group of Egyptian lawyers to file charges against the go...
Already hard-pressed after fighting off a belligerent Taliban and a resurgent Al-Qaeda, the US military is now fighting a spate of suicides. Almost 500 American veterans killed themselves last year, dwarfing the number that die in action.
The peace plan proposed by Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad has been described as 'critical and detached from reality' in Washington and London. Syria's key opposition group, which enjoys the overwhelming support of Western States, has once again called for an...
The suicide rate in the US Army has rocketed and the soldiers are forced to hide reasons. More American soldiers committed suicide last year than those who were killed in service in Afghanistan. President Barrack Obama counsels the soldiers and appreciates the...
Egypt's Muslim brotherhood is accused of illegally accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from the US government before even coming to power. Reports claim that Egypt's Muslim brotherhood took $1.55 million in funding from the US government to secure Americ...
US President Obama has signed a law allowing the indefinite detention of US terror suspects without charge or trial. The National Defence Authorisation Act also delays the closure of the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison for another year. Some political anal...
A recently leaked FBI document shows that the Bureau knew of a plan to assassinate Occupy Wall Street leaders, but gave them no warning. Instead, the Bureau chose to keep spying on the movement, which has been branded as domestic terrorism.
President Barack Obama signed a last-minute deal that increases taxes on the wealthiest Americans. This move has reportedly prevented the country from falling over the fiscal cliff. The nation was on the brink of a financial nose-dive with billions of dollars ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has outlined a peace plan for Syria, calling for outside forces to stop funding 'terrorism' in the country. The peace plan proposed by Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad has been described as 'critical and detached from reality' ...
Top US arms makers are looking East in a bid to flood the volatile Asia-Pacific region with weapons. Forecasts predict a further increase in the flow of American war-tech to countries in the area, where several territorial issues recently reached boiling point...
Top US arms-makers are forecasting a significant rise in sales for the coming year after a pretty solid 2012. Washington has been shifting its eyes towards Asia, looking to arm its allies who are neighbouring North Korea and China. Some are viewing this as a p...
President Obama is to sign the law increasing taxes on wealthy Americans. The Bill was passed by the Congress after months of political bickering to avoid the fiscal cliff and the threat of a destructive recession. It was rushed through on Tuesday night before...
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has opined that Western states are losing control over the Syrian rebels and will not be prepared to intervene in the country's conflict. Lavrov also said that during private talks with Western officials, he got the impr...
It's been a heart-breaking day of farewells in Newtown, Connecticut, where all 20 children and 6 adults have been laid to rest following one of the worst mass shooting incidents in American history. The massacre reignited a massive debate on gun laws as critic...
The 'spirit of Christmas' isn't just a good feeling. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry. Nearly 634,000 people in the United States went homeless last year. Shockingly, just a sliver of the money that America spends on tinsel, lights and other Christma...
The last victim of the Newtown mass shooting incident was laid to rest yesterday. It has been one week since 20 children and six staff members at a Connecticut primary school were killed in one of the worst mass shooting incidents in US history. The massacre r...
Britain's resurgence and the Europe's scepticism is now even getting the United States a bit worried. Washington is now anxious that it could lose its influential ally in the European Union and is even warning of consequences if the United Kingdom leaves the b...
The United States is allegedly hurtling towards a fiscal cliff which is likely to trigger widespread tax rises and government cuts on New Year's Day. To tackle the fast-approaching deadline, the Congress Members have surprisingly gone on holiday. Host of 'The ...
United States President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State. Experts believe that the Vietnam War veteran will be a much better choice than UN Ambassador Susan Rice for America's top diplomatic pos...
The lower House of Russian Parliament has passed a bill that bans the adoption of Russian children by Americans. The bill is part of a larger plan to prevent human rights violation by Russians abroad. Pavel Astakhov, Russian ombudsman for child rights, said th...
Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick talk to Abby Martin about their latest book 'The Untold History of the United States', which is also a 10-part documentary series. During the course of the interview, both Stone a...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has promised that the whistleblower website will reveal more than a million secret files over the next year. The information in the documents, according to Assange, will influence every single country in the world. Julian Assan...
There's been a mixed reaction over TIME magazine's decision to name Barack Obama as the 2012 'Person of the Year'. The US President, who is being conferred this honour for the second time in a row, gained the award for being the symbol and the architect of a n...
President of the United States, Barack Obama, has been voted Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' for the second time in a row. He has gained the award for being a symbol and the architect of a new America. The publication's enthusiasm for the President is, ho...
The United States is split over the potential ban on assault weapons. Many analysts doubt whether the new regulations will help. US Vice President Joe Biden is to oversee new policies aimed at tackling gun violence in the wake of the Newtown mass shooting. Pre...
US Vice President Joe Biden is to oversee new policies aimed at tackling gun violence in the wake of the Newtown mass shooting. President Barack Obama voiced his support for reinstating an assault weapons ban and a tightening of regulations. However, there are...
Russia's Duma, the Lower House of Parliament, has given its preliminary approval to a ban on Americans adopting Russian children. This was part of a draft law seen as a response to US President Barack Obama's 'Magnitsky Act', which requires the US administrati...
As the season of Christmas has arrived, Brazil has unveiled the world's largest floating Christmas tree. More than 2,500 dancing Santas welcomed the season of joy in the United States.
Palestine will bid for statehood at the UN. This will mean it is internationally recognised as a state. It can then approach the International Criminal Court and participate in the UN General Assembly. Policy analyst Shikha Dalmia says it will not help the pea...
Several human rights groups have condemned the drone warfare rulebook that is being produced by the Barack Obama administration. The 'drone manual' will outline policies to justify the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Drones have been used extensively by the c...
Pepe Escobar, the Asia Times Roving Correspondent believes that the Latino-factor played a major role in Obama's return to power. The states of California, Washington and Hawaii carry President Obama past Mitt Romney for the first time since the beginning of t...
President for the second-term, Barack Obama, vowed to move America 'forward' in a victory speech to cheering supporters in Chicago. Stating clearly that politics is more than just a contest of egos, Obama calls for Republicans, Democrats and everyone else to w...
America's incumbent President extends his lead after crossing the 274-mark, winning all the battleground states including Iowa, Florida and Pennsylvania. Trailing 124 to 169 to Republican challenger Mitt Romney at one point of time, President Barack wins 55 e...
President Obama's win is now official. The incumbent President has tweeted saying, 'Four more years. We're all in this together'. Trailing 124 to 169 to Republican challenger Mitt Romney at one point of time, President Barack Obama sailed past Romney with cruc...
US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell speaks in the national capital and announces the possible win for the Democrats in the Senate, despite losing out to the Republicans in the House of Representatives. The President wins all 55 electoral seats in California, f...
With a media blitzkrieg over the US Presidential campaigns, the US Presidential debates, the US Presidential polls and now the counting, most of the real issues behind the elections have taken a back seat. Last month, a group of 30 American activists affiliate...
The states of Ohio and Iowa call for the President to catapult Barack Obama past the required 274-mark. Trailing 124 to 169 to Republican challenger Mitt Romney at one point of time, President Barack Obama sailed past Romney with crucial wins in California, Ha...
Tense moments in the US Presidential race, as the polls are unravelling a state at a time. The race began with Mitt Romney taking an early lead with Kentucky and Indiana among other states. However, President Obama won the Western frontier with California and ...
Incumbent president Barack Obama is just a few votes away from being re-elected. The latest polling numbers puts Obama more than 50 votes ahead of his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
President Obama is slowly but steadily fighting his way back into a winning position, narrowing the mighty lead taken by Mitt Romney earlier in the day. Obama has the edge in all they key states that have not yet been counted. Swing states like Pennsylvania, O...
In the latest reports, Governor Mitt Romney has won Utah and Montanam which puts Romney ahead at 163. However, President Obama is just close 1962. Exit polls suggest Obama has lead in Newhampshire and the industrial northeast. Which means that he will win the ...
The United Sates polls have begun closing, the results are coming in and the swing states still remain in the balance. Counting is now underway in America. The latest trends show Mitt Romney is leading, although only with a minor margin. Romney has taken an ea...
In the latest reports, governor Mitt Romney has won Utah and Montanam which puts Romney ahead at 163. However, president Obama is just close at 162. Exit polls suggest Obama has lead in New England and the industrial northeast. Which means that he will win the...
The states of California, Washington and Hawaii carry President Obama past Mitt Romney for the first time since the beginning of the counting process. Trailing 124 to 169 to Republican challenger Mitt Romney at one point of time, President Barack wins 55 elect...
Wisconsin has reportedly been called for President Obama. New Hampshire, another big state with a lot of electoral votes have also swung in favour of Barack Obama. More bad news for the Mitt Romney campaign, who thought they would win Pennsylvania, but the vot...
Incumbent president Barack Obama wins Wisconsin, bringing his electoral votes to 153 as against Mitt Romney's 154. Even as the president and Romney remain deadlocked in Florida, reports of absentee voting, long waits to cast vote as well as ballot tampering co...
Counting is underway in the US Presidential elections, and the race to the White House is set for a photo finish. The latest trends show Mitt Romney is leading, although only with a minor margin. Romney has taken an early lead in the electoral votes, with even...
The House of Representatives is likely to remain in the Republican hands, although the Presidential race is going in Obama's Democratic direction. The President is likely to win the state of Pennsylvania and could very soon obliterate the early lead taken by R...
Upendra Chivukula is a Telugu who is contesting as a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives. Upendra has been active in politics of the region, and is a respected politician in the New Jersey region.
Trends show Mitt Romney is expected to win South Carolina, but the swing state of Virginia is anybody's game. The Republican challenger has been ahead so far. Incumbent president Barack Obama has pulled up despite lagging behind initially.
The role of the media in America during the US Presidential elections faces flak for being biased, self-indulgent and subjective. The fact of the matter is that news was treated as a business and the election was treated as the superbowl of stories. The viewer...
It's voting night in the United States of America, and although it seems like the battle is pitched between the Democrat President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger Mitt Romney, there is more to the elections than meets the eye. Numerous independent c...
Last month, a group of 30 American activists affiliated with the anti-war group Code Pink, joined thousands of Pakistanis to protest against the use and expansion of drones of sovereign Pakistani soil. They completed a two-day, 230 mile peace march across the ...
The campaigning is done, the winners of the crucial public Presidential debates have been decided, ballots have been cast, and now America waits for the results of the 2012 Presidential elections. Will Republican challenger Mitt Romney pack his bags for 1600 P...
While the Presidential race gets the limelight tonight, there are other races around the world that are arguably just as important. No matter who wins tonight, both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will have to adjust their promises...
Republican challenger Mitt Romney is the first Mormon to run for the office of President. He is also the first venture capitalist and one of the richest men to run for with a major party ticket. He is also one of the few President's with millions of dollars al...
Political analysts take a step back in time and reflect on how President Barack Obama and Republic challenger Mitt Romney got where they are today. Take a look at what it takes to be a strong hopeful in the US Presidential elections. The campaigning is done, t...
This is the 57th time that the Americans have gone to the polls to elect a person as the President of the United States. This year the battle is close between incumbent President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and a lot of other third-party ca...
The financial costs of the US Presidential campaign are set to top two billion dollars. In this time of economic hardship, where millions of Americans are attempting to make ends meet, the massive electoral budgets seem completely unjustified. In a country tha...
Polling for the much-awaited US Presidential campaign has started. Incumbent President Barack Obama is receiving some last-minute momentum in this crucial election. Consolidated surveys indicate that President Obama is ahead of Republican candidate and Preside...
Russia's Foreign Minister has stated that international powers must put more pressure on the warring sides in Syria after the latest truce was wrecked. After meeting the international envoy to Syria in Moscow, Sergei Lavrov urged Western States and regional pl...
Speaking at a seminar organised by the Federation of Toddy Tappers at Ernaklulam, UDF Convenor PP Thanakachan says that the State Government of Kerala has no plans of banning toddy in the state, adding that it was never in the UDF manifesto. He finds it hard t...
Minister for Devaswoms VS Sivakumar maintains that the State Government is determined to go ahead with the Devaswom Ordinance, saying that it was introduced after a lot of careful discussion with the United Democratic Front. He also points out that women had b...
The International Cycling Union (UCI) strips Lance Armstrong of all the seven of his Tour de France titles. Banning the cyclist for life, UCI president Pat McQuaid says that Armstrong has no place in the world of cycling. The ban is based on the findings of Un...
The nominating process of US presidential elections consists of two major parts: a series of presidential primary elections and caucuses held in each state, and the presidential nominating conventions held by each political party. The primary elections are run...
The US police may soon use the same grand technology which the US Army uses to attack targets abroad. The Department of Homeland Security in the United States of America has tested the use of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for surveillance, as part of a public...
The United Arab Emirates has accused one of the world's foremost Islamist groups, The Muslim Brotherhood, of plotting to overthrow regional governments. The country has called on all the Arab states to unite to stop its rise in Egypt, where the group dominates...
Barack Obama's rival in the race to the White House, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East. This includes arming the Al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebels. Romney has stated that voting for him means voting...
The first Presidential debate saw a lackluster Obama, when Republican nominee Mitt Romney dominated him by challenging Obama's economic policies. He pointed out that the middle class people were suffering by paying huge amount of taxes because of the present e...
The Race for the White House heats up as the two Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney take on each other in their first debate at the University of Colorado. The President and the Republican challenger debate at length over taxes, deficits, med...
US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clash for the first time in an open forum at the US Presidential debate in Colorado. Obama and Romney debate about taxes levied on the American middle-class, how to lower the federal deficits, the...
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar raises the issue of Kashmir at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, a day after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari called Kashmir a failure of the United Nations. Robert Blake Jr., Asst Secy of State for ...
In this edition of Market Hour: CCEA clears bailout for ailing State Electricity Board and a look at what other measures will help the power sector in the long term; the United Spirits and Diageo deal might be sealed soon; Onmobile's HH Haight in an exclusive ...
George Cherian speaks to a panel of eminent bankers at the Banking Colloquium 2012, a vision sharing conference. The focus is on Indian Banks: Survival and Growth in Uncertain Times, which covers issues like asset quality and attracting the right talent.