In the early 2000s, India's tigers were vanishing. Poaching for skins, bones, and traditional medicine had reduced a population of thousands to roughly 1,400 by 2006. The trajectory seemed terminal. Within a generation,...

India has committed to an ambitious, perhaps audacious target: 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030. As of 2024, India had deployed roughly 200 GW of installed renewable capacity. Achieving 500 GW by decade...

Kamala Harris served as Vice President of the United States. Vivek Ramaswamy ran a significant presidential campaign. Nikki Haley served as US Ambassador to the United Nations and ran for president. These aren't marginal...

In New Delhi, the response to Trump's return has been cautious optimism mixed with nervousness. India's relationship with the Biden administration was genuinely strong—deepening Quad ties, semiconductor partnerships, def...

When India plays Pakistan at cricket, roughly one billion people stop what they're doing. Television ratings spike. Productivity in offices and factories drops. Restaurants showing the match are packed. The event transce...

India's foreign policy has undergone quiet revolutions, but few are as significant—or as contested—as its transformation on Israel. A country that voted for Palestinian statehood in the UN, that maintained distance from...

Rajesh applied for a green card in 2008. He was 28, with a computer science degree and a job offer from a major tech company in San Jose. The process was supposed to take three to five years. By 2026, at 46, he's still w...

The H1B visa program, long a primary pathway for skilled Indian professionals to work in the United States, faces unprecedented pressure and restriction. Policy changes, labor union opposition, and increasingly nativist...

is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading. No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role...

A local priest who ate at the restaurant - in the south-eastern province of Anambra - was alarmed at the price of meals there, let alone where the meat came from,BBC Swahili reported. He was presented with a bill of 700...

Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-rang...

Inspired by the video done by a woman in NYC who walked the streets of New York to test the male outlook,Zvika Klein the Jew journalist from NRG tried a similar thing in Paris. He walked for straight ten hours,wearing Je...

NSA employees were spying on their significant others by using the NSA’s “eavesdropping programme” “Eavesdropping unit” of NSA has used the program to spy on their wives and husbands who have been living abroad. They cal...

One of the most famous restaurants of Chicago Charlie Trotters closed down last year because the Chef Charlie Trotter wanted to study law. Looks like there was a reason to study law. Two New Yorkers who are pressing char...

Gloria C. MacKenzie the 84-year-old woman has won the Powerball lottery jackpot of $ 590 million, largest in history. All her life she has lived with modest means and amenities in a tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, Florida...

To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because at the time of my writing most of the media sources are...

Father put the six-week old baby in the freezer to stop her from crying. Stupid or mentally unstable? Hard to say. The child may survive but has a broken hand, broken leg, head injury and blisters on the feet due to extr...

The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month. Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick says the body of 22-year-old Sunil Tr...

was reported by some as Boston bombing suspect number two on Thursday night. Tripathi is a 22-year-old Brown University student who went missing mysteriously on March 16. Tripathi, of Indian origin, was first suggested a...

The FBI yesterday arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly molesting a sleeping female passenger on an American Airlines flight en route from Miami to Regan National Airport in Virginia. Saurabh Agarwal was named today i...

In a desperate bid to save his life, convicted Ohio baby killer Steven Smith has asserted that he never meant to murder his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter – only to sexually assault her. The girl, Autumn Carter, of...

Samoa Air has become the first airline to start charging customers according to how much they weigh. The company, based in the Samoan capital Apia, is the first to bring in the controversial measure that means overweight...

A California preschool teacher is facing felony charges after she allegedly drugged toddlers with a sleep aid. KTVU reports 59-year-old Deborah Gratz was arrested on child endangerment charges after she was fired from he...

THE Duchess of Cambridge yesterday dropped a big hint that she is having a daughter. As a woman gave her a teddy bear, Kate, 31, said: “Thank you, I will take that for my d... for my baby.” After the slip on a visit to G...

Cops probing the case of a 16-year-old girl in Ulhasnagar, who claimed her parents forced her to have sex with a man to whom they owed Rs 50,000, booked her parents and the man for rape on Saturday. While the victim's fa...

A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff's deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home. Hood County sheriff's Lt. Kathy Jividen says the 48-year...

This week the scandal over horsemeat in hamburgers and lasagne has spread beyond Britain, revealing cracks in the Continent's food supply chain. Authorities are now trying to trace the meat's circuitous path across Europ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of skulls in Mexico that may have once belonged to human sacrifice victims. The skulls, which date between A.D. 600 and 850, may also shatter existing notions about the ancient cultu...

A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a deliberate economic choice — offering a perspective that cha...

HUNGRY parents in North Korea have been caught eating their CHILDREN to avoid starvation, according to reports. One father is said to have been executed by firing squad for killing his two kids for food. And it has spark...

Cuba's Public Health Ministry on Tuesday acknowledged 51 new cases of cholera in the capital amid growing concerns about the illness' spread and disappointment in the diplomatic community over the government's lack of tr...

Austerity-struck Paris has been hit by a wave of street muggings and grave robberies with thieves prepared to exhume bodies to steal gold and jewellery. Last week, police in the French capital arrested three people as pa...

The Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, quoted an unnamed person close to the Mandela family as saying: "He has not been talking ... he is not looking good. It's clear that something is troubling him." Mr Mandela, t...

A nurse duped by a prank phone call at the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has died in a suspected suicide. Jacintha Saldanha, 46, who has worked at the hospital for four years, was found dead at an a...

Professor Steven Rawlings, an eminent astrophysicist, suffered a fatal heart attack after being pinned to the ground in self defence by his oldest friend and fellow Oxford academic Dr Devinderjit Sivia. The 50-year-old m...

After Savita Halappanavar's death, the brutal irony of 'pro-life' is exposed Anti-abortion groups' response to a young woman's tragic death in Ireland exposes their scant regard for women's lives Anti-abortion campaigner...

On October 14, 2012, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner stepped off a capsule suspended 128,100 feet — approximately 24 miles — above the New Mexico desert and fell toward Earth, breaking the speed of sound in freefall...

The Southern California man who wrote and produced the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" was ordered detained without bail by a federal judge for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Citing...

Former President Bill Clinton addressed the recent unrest in the Muslim world over a U.S.-made film insulting the prophet Muhammad, saying that while the underlying message is offensive, "you can't react every time you'r...

France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film th...

Taliban militants beheaded 17 people in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province after discovering them at a mixed-gender party where music was being played and people were dancing — a gathering that violated the Taliban'...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mitt Romney has the support of over 40 percent of America's youth vote, a troubling sign for President Obama who built his 2008 victory with the overwhe...

Understanding Interview of the Sikh temple shooter - a glimpse into the deranged mind The topic "Interview of the Sikh temple shooter - a glimpse into the deranged mind" addresses an important contemporary issue or exper...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The arrest of an Indian-origin student in the United Kingdom on charges of computer hacking was one of several cases in the early 2010s that illustrated both the growing sophistication of young hackers operating outside...

Nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester have been jailed. The men from Rochdale and Oldham, who exploited girls as young as 13 were given sentences ranging from four to 19 years. They were...

In a city where women's public presence had been systematically erased under Taliban rule and where the years since 2001 had brought uneven and fragile progress, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school in Kabul — and her stu...

A Washington Post investigation published in May 2012 described an incident from Mitt Romney's days at Cranbrook, the elite Michigan prep school he attended in the 1960s: Romney, then a senior, allegedly led a group of b...

When blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in April 2012 after escaping from house arrest, he created one of the most delicate diplomatic crises of Hillary Clinton's tenure a...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The Bin Laden family saga—as reconstructed through accounts of his wives, children, and the compound where he was killed in Abbottabad—offered a portrait of a wanted man living a more domestic and settled life than the i...

Trayvon Martin may have attacked a Neighborhood Watch captain before the man shot dead the unarmed teen in a gated community in Florida, an anonymous witness who spoke to police claimed yesterday. The witness, known only...

Reports and photographs documenting Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe — including images with an elephant, a crocodile, and other animals — generated a significa...

A would-be suicide bomber was arrested before he could carry out an attack targeting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a visit to Afghanistan, in an incident that underscored the persistent security challenges f...

A disturbing discovery in Hawaii — a child's severed fingers found in a residential trash receptacle — prompted an immediate investigation by local authorities and generated significant public concern and media attention...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The kingpins of the city's underworld have either fled, been killed in encounters or called it aday. But GenX is stepping out of their parents' feared shadows in search of a new identity in Mumbai as bankers, doctors, en...

On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise liner Thomson Spirit. It was the last day of a week-long Egyptian cruise and the ship was due...

A convicted child molester who is one of America's most wanted sex criminals has been secretly living in London. American Shawn Sullivan has been wanted in the U.S. since 1994 for allegedly molesting two 11-year-old girl...

Seven women were admitted to hospital burn units across Pakistan within a two-day period after separate acid attacks — a grim cluster of violence that human rights organizations said was consistent with patterns they had...

US falls to 5th in global competitiveness, survey shows The U.S. has tumbled further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, landing at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining publ...

The Russian head of world chess says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told him in a telephone call that he was in Tripoli and did not intend to leave the country despite an onslaught by rebels. "I am alive and healthy, I am...

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011 — a bombing in Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya — left behind a 1,500-pag...

Ten days before he was assassinated in January, my father, Salman Taseer, sent out a tweet about an Indian rocket that had come down over the Bay of Bengal: "Why does India make fools of themselves messing in space techn...

The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication tha...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The United Arab Emirates has begun issuing "stapled visas" to Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) residents, including its "Prime Minister" Sardar Attique Ahmed, a media report said on Thursday. The practice of issuing "...

The killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad — a city known as a haven for retired Pakistani military officers and home to the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy — has placed Pakistan's government and in...

The compound is a few hundred metres from the the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which is Pakistan's equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst, according to the BBC's M Ilyas Khan who visited the a...

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Benghazi fell to Libyan rebel forces in late February 2011 in one of the most dramatic reversals of the Arab Spring — the second-largest city in the country, long a seat of opposition to Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rul...

Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The Tunisian revolution — the first of what would come to be called the Arab Spring — had a proximate cause that became one of the defining images of 2011: a twenty-six-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, unab...

Good folks at Linkedin did some analysis and have given us a list of words to avoid. Interestingly the Indian habit of calling people Dynamic has crossed over to internet as well. Americans on the other hand have the emp...

The question of how Bradley Manning — a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst with documented psychological problems and a history of concerning behavior observed by supervisors — was able to download hundreds of thousan...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Minoru Yanagida said the only two phrases he had to remember in parliament were: "I won't comment on individual cases," and "I'm acting in accordance with the law and the evidence." Opposition conservatives said he deser...

Asia Bibi, a Christian farm laborer from a village in Punjab, Pakistan, was sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law in November 2010 following a dispute with Muslim coworkers about a shared water container. Acc...

The Reverend Cedric Miller of Neptune, New Jersey, made a series of headlines in 2010 when he announced from the pulpit that married members of his congregation should delete their Facebook accounts, or risk temptation t...

The Western debate about the hijab has been conducted almost entirely on the assumption that the question is about tradition versus modernity, religion versus secularism, constraint versus freedom. Young Muslim women who...

The list of Indian American executives at the top of the Fortune 500 compensation tables has grown long enough that it no longer carries the element of surprise that it once did. Sundar Pichai at Alphabet, Satya Nadella...

The gender gap in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — has been studied so extensively that the volume of research now exceeds the clarity of its conclusions. What the evidence does establish...

Hollywood star Pamela Anderson, who will enter a TV reality show this week, today shot a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging to reject all leather products. Pamela in a letter to Singh said, "I am calling on...

The stereotype of the lonely, spoiled only child has been so thoroughly embedded in popular culture that contradicting it requires a certain willingness to be contrarian. The research, accumulated across decades of study...

When the Chinese conglomerate made its offer for the mid-sized British engineering firm, the British employees gathered in the canteen to hear a reassuring presentation from the new owners' representatives and came away...

The sovereign debt crisis that rolled through the eurozone between 2010 and 2012 followed a pattern that economists found easier to identify in retrospect than to arrest in real time. Each country's crisis was presented...

The Chinese internet gave the world's retailers a gift when it collectively decided that November 11 — 11/11, four singles — was the appropriate day for single people to celebrate their status with aggressive self-giftin...

In the tea shops and the shikaras on Dal Lake, in the conversations that visitors to Kashmir have been having with local residents for decades, a recurring theme emerges: the sense among many Kashmiris that their relatio...

Prime Minister David Cameron leads the U.K.'s largest-ever business delegation to China on Monday, hoping to cash in on what has become a steady relationship between the two countries in recent years. Mr. Cameron, wh...

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived Saturday in this teeming business capital for the first leg of an Asian trip touted as a chance to enhance U.S. relations on the continent. But he made clear that one domestic goal was...

Nikki Haley became the first Indian American governor in United States history on the night of November 2, 2010, when she won the South Carolina gubernatorial election by a margin that surprised even her most confident s...

Italian scientists celebrated the completion of a remarkable experiment in July 2010 when two specially equipped electric vans arrived in Shanghai after driving more than 13,000 kilometers from Parma, crossing twelve cou...

When Sania Mirza walked down the aisle with Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik in April 2010, the marriage was immediately claimed by nationalists on both sides of the border as a symbol of everything wrong with cros...

Barack Obama stood in the East Room of the White House on a Tuesday afternoon and made a promise that felt different from the others. "I am not somebody who is satisfied when we have high unemployment," he told the assem...