India’s maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan, found first evidence of water on the lunar surface before it terminated. A joint Indo-US study
published in the prestigious American journal Science has revealed this startling finding.
For long scientists have believed the moon is essentially a dry, parched pockmarked landscape. But the new studies based on the images [...]

India’s Foreign Minister is all set to impress upon US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when he meets her on September 25 that Washington must closely monitor the aid being given to Pakistan.
Speaking exclusively to NDTV, SM Krishna said there’s enough evidence to show that US aid to Pakistan is being used against India.
Meanwhile, New [...]

Seeking resumption of the composite dialogue process with India, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said such a move is in the best interest of the region.
Zardari, who arrived in New York on Sunday for the annual UN General Assembly session, made the remarks during a meeting with former US President Bill Clinton on Monday [...]

Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met with her US counterpart William Burns and discussed a wide range of bilateral issues, including counter-terrorism and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s proposed visit to America in November.
Rao, who arrived in Washington from New York late on Sunday, had detailed discussion with Burns, the US Under Secretary of State for [...]

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of Sanofi-Aventis Group on Monday said it has received order from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to supply antigen for 27.3 million doses of Influenza A HINI 2009 monovalent vaccine for swine flu.
“The new order is for the production of bulk antigen equivalent to 27.3 million [...]

US President Barack Obama poked fun at claims that racism was behind fierce opposition to his ambitious political agenda, joking that “I was actually black before the election.”
It was the latest attempt by Obama to tone down the debate, after former US President Jimmy Carter commented that much of the conservative fury directed at Obama’s [...]

Despite his popularity abroad, when it comes to climate change, US President Obama is in a corner. The international community wants the United States to cut its carbon emissions by 25 to 40 per cent over the next 10 years.
“As I recall it was senior President Bush who went to Rio and said that the [...]

Thirteen-year-old Indian girl Yugratna Srivastava has been invited by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to address the UN summit on climate change.
She’s only 13, but she has a message for the US President Barack Obama, China’s President Hu Jintao and India’s Foreign Minister S M Krishna.
“Politicians, please listen to our [...]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and two suspected fellow plotters refused to attend a Guantanamo military court hearing.
Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, all suspected orchestrators of the attacks eight years ago that killed nearly 3,000 people, had been due in court on Monday after filing a [...]

In what may not go down well with Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama didn’t favour the current Secretary of State as husband Barack Obama’s vice-presidential nominee in the race to the White House, a new book has claimed.
According to the book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage, Michelle instead favoured Joe Biden, the president’s [...]

China has banned foreign tourists from traveling to Tibet ahead of a parade in the capital to mark 60 years of Communist rule, an official said on Tuesday, amid stepped-up security across the country to ensure nothing mars the celebrations.
Tan Lin, an official with the business administration office at the Tourism Bureau of Tibet, said [...]

Dozens of fighter jets, helicopters and other warplanes flew over the Chinese capital on Monday, as China stepped up preparations for it’s National Day, on October 1.
The government plans to tighten security around the city with restrictions on knife sales and plans to ground flights that day.
The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, is expected to make [...]

Pakistan has drawn up a list of 83 high-profile terrorists wanted for various crimes, ranging from an attack on former President Pervez Musharraf to fanning the separatist movement in Balochistan, with Baloch leader Bhramdagh Bugi topping the list.
The list, prepared by the interior ministry, includes 41 terrorists from Punjab province, 21 from Sindh, 13 from [...]

US President Barack Obama has rejected a request by several former heads of the country’s intelligence community to end investigations into the alleged torture of terror suspects post 9/11. Obama’s polite reply – “The law is the law.”
The US president is defending Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to launch an investigation into CIA torture practices [...]

Pakistan has placed banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed under house arrest. The move comes just 48 hours before the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are to scheduled meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
According to the Pakistan media, a police party has been deputed outside Saeed’s residence, restricting his movement.
At about one [...]

Pakistani authorities have placed Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, under house arrest. According to the Pakistan media, a police party has been deputed outside Saeed’s residence, restricting his movement.
* On September 10, Home Minister P Chidambaram meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington DC.
* A week later [...]

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday denied the West’s charge that Tehran aims to develop nuclear weapons under a covert programme, insisting the Islamic republic bans such activity.
“They falsely accuse the Islamic republic of producing nuclear weapons. We fundamentally reject nuclear weapons and prohibit the production and the use of nuclear weapons,” Khamenei [...]

He is America’s first African-American President but in his first few months at the White House, race and race relations have often taken the centrestage.
Now for the first time since former US president Jimmy Carter opened up a pandora’s box by declaring that racism was a major factor behind the hostility towards Obama. The President [...]