He was born in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, shifted to the US when he was just 15 and now lives in a 40,000-square-foot mansion that has a five-bedroom guest house and a backyard tea house along with reflecting pools on nine acres in Potomac, Maryland, a house that took six years to build. ...
As we came out of the Beijing airport terminal, I noisily inhaled the air, which invited the attention of others in the group. I told them, when they looked at me amusedly, that I was doing in style my first smelling of China. They laughed. I also told them that it was my way of proclaiming to the world that a drea...
The presence of Cuban President Raul Castro, who received an ovation before delivering an address that lasted slightly more than 40 minutes, and his meeting later with US President Barack Obama were undoubtedly the highlights of the summit which ended on Saturday....
The 'Grand Plan' of New York based Alphons, 30, Founder & Executive Director of ProjectArt, which provides free art classes at public libraries in all five boroughs of New York City, is to help troubled students in the metropolis. Alphons, son of former Indian bureaucrat K J Alphons, was a troubled student himself - he was once expelled...
Hillary Clinton would make "an excellent president", US President Brack Obama said a day before Clinton's much-touted launch of her run for the White House in 2016. ...
Actor Scott Eastwood says he refused to audition for erotic film “Fifty Shades of Grey" because he was asked to sign a deal before going for a test shoot. ...
Providing clues to understanding cosmological questions like how fast the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang, a team of astronomers, including an Indian American, has identified two distinct types of supernovaes. ...
US President Barack Obama told Cuban President Raul Castro, during their historic meeting at the 7th Summit of the Americas in Panama, that "it is time for us to try something new" with regard to Cuba because the previous US policy did not work....
US President Barack Obama said Saturday he has not yet decided on whether to remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List and that he has held "candid and fruitful conversation" with Cuban leader Raul Castro on the sidelines of a regional summit....
"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said this week during a forum on habitable places in space....