New York: A wintry storm dropped snow and rain on the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and knocking out power in a region where hundreds of thousands were still in the dark after Superstorm Sandy.
The nor’easter storm brought fresh misery to thousands in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut whose homes were destroyed [...]
New York: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met family members of victims of Oak Creek Gurdwara shooting and said India and the US stand united against those who perpetrate a culture of violence and hatred.
Krishna paid a visit to the Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee yesterday and met the family of priest Punjab Singh, who is [...]
New York: India and US hope to take forward their cooperation on Afghanistan following the first US-Afghanistan-India trilateral dialogue, officials said after “positive” talks between External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Meeting here Monday on the sidelines of the ongoing UN general assembly session, Krishna and Clinton “held a positive discussion [...]
New York: The United States has told India it was going to have a broader relook at its visa regime, but this will have to await the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
This was conveyed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toIndian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna when he raised the issue at [...]
New York: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper’s founding in 1851, died early Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.
On Saturday, President Obama praised Mr. Sulzberger as [...]
New York: UN chief Ban Ki-moon and international envoy Kofi Annan have expressed disappointment over the failure of the Security Council to adopt a resolution aimed at addressing the worsening crisis in Syria.
The 15-nation Council failed to adopt yesterday a draft resolution, which would have threatened President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime with sanctions, after permanent members [...]
New York: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers are taking aim at a gender-motivated-violence law that a New York City hotel maid is invoking in her lawsuit against him.
His lawyers filed court papers yesterday saying the law is “impermissibly vague.” They’re asking a judge to throw out that portion of the housekeeper’s lawsuit. The woman’s attorneys say they’re [...]
New York: The new Mrs Mark Zuckerberg might not have to worry much about money, but that doesn’t mean she is automatically a billionaire.
The timing of Mark Zuckerberg’s marriage to his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan, on Saturday, just a day after he took his company public, was certainly curious. Was he looking to clarify his [...]
New York: Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta was once on hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam’s “important people” list but excluded from a fantasy football celebration helicopter trip to Atlantic City with other corporate high-flyers.
On the second day of Gupta’s insider-trading trial in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, prosecutors tried to establish for the jury [...]
New York: The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.
The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of [...]
New York: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Iran not to block the Strait of Hormuz, saying it is important for international trade and commerce.
Ban, who spoke at his first press conference on Wednesday since he began his second five-year term on January 01, said: “This is a very important area for international trade [...]
New York: US talk show host Jay Leno has been sued by an Indian-American in California for his “racist” comments on the Golden Temple and ridiculing the entire Sikh community by portraying the holy shrine as a vacation home.
According to court papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Randeep Dhillon claims that Leno “hurt [...]
New York: New York’s mayor said Wednesday that New York police used “terrible judgement” in showing officers a film about Muslims that Islamic groups have said is inflammatory.
Michael Bloomberg said commanders have stopped showing the movie, “The Third Jihad,” which contends Muslims are bent on establishing an Islamic regime worldwide. The film, which was played [...]
New York: President Barack Obama stole the online show on Friday after singing a tune during a campaign fundraiser at New York City’s famed Apollo Theater.
After Rev Al Green warmed up the audience for Obama on Thursday night, the President surprised the audience — and his staff — by crooning the opening bars of Green’s [...]
New York: Countering allegations that he is “aloof”, US President Barack Obama counted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel among leaders with whom he has forged “friendships and bonds of trust”.
“I wasn’t in other administrations, so I didn’t see the interactions between US presidents and various world leaders.”
“But the friendships and the [...]