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BARNALA: Coinciding with the centenary of Ghadar Party, some American Punjabis are out to showcase the lives of Ghadarites, including legendary martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha, in a celluloid form. Ghadar Party was formed away from India in USA in 1913 with a motive to get India out of imperial forces’ clutches and many Ghadarites had [...]

WASHINGTON: French finance minister Christine Lagarde on Tuesday clinched the top job at the IMF, keeping the international lender in the hands of a European at a time of growing concern over a possible Greek debt default. Lagarde will become the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund when her five-year term as managing [...]

A US official reported that Osama bin laden is dead and the American president is likely to announce this in a short while in the white house.The US army believed to have Osamas dead body. Reports says that Osama bin laden had been killed one week ago by US millitary and CIA operation, The US [...]

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods landed in Britain with his US Ryder Cup team-mates this week without a WAG. Their wives and girlfriends accompanied America’s stars, led by captain Corey Pavin, when their plane landed in Cardiff. But Woods, 34, cut a lonely figure following his 65million pounds divorce from wife Elin [...]

Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the CIA’s drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies, which has launched nearly four times as many attacks in 2009 and 2010 as it did during the final year of the Bush administration, according to The Long War Journal. As [...]

London, Sept 28 (ANI): The Europe and United States Ryder Cup teams have been asked to cease all their tweeting activity till the tournament ends. According to the BBC, Europe””s captain Colin Montgomerie and US captain Corey Pavin has confirmed the decision, saying that tweeting could lead to serious “trouble”. “Tweeting and social network sites [...]

New York, Sep 28 (ANI): To starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan, the high level leadership of Taliban has reached out to senior Afghan Government officials, according to top US commander operating in Afghanistan. For months, efforts at reconciliation have been stalled at every level, and this [...]

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Reduced vegetable production in India is an outcome of decline in the pollinating insects and it may limit people”s access to nutritional diet, scientists have warned. Indian researchers said there was a “clear indication” that pollinator abundance was linked to productivity. They added that the loss of the natural service could [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): The United States has expressed it ‘disappointment’ at Israel’s decision of not to extend a ban on building West Bank settlements. According to the BBC, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was sent to the region in an attempt to salvage direct peace talks that were restarted earlier this month. The [...]

Beijing, Sept 27 (ANI): The move of US President Barack Obama and Southeast Asian leaders for a peaceful resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and America’s strong intentions to expand its influence in the region, is a challenge to the bilateral negotiation mechanisms in solving the territorial disputes, according to Chinese analysts. [...]

London, Sept.27 (ANI): Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie has stirred up a storm by claiming he would not select World No.1 Tiger Woods if he had the chance. The Sun quoted Monty, as saying: “Tiger hasn”t been himself on or off the course and it”s a matter of seeing what he does.” Asked who [...]

Washington, Sept.27 (ANI): Well-known author-cum-journalist Bob Woodward has revealed in his latest book “Obama’s Wars that President Barack Obama’s focus is turning increasingly to Pakistan, even as his administration”s military efforts continue to be directed at Afghanistan. Woodward told ABC News that Obama was told of deep problems in the US relationship with Pakistan in [...]

Washington, Sept.27 (ANI): US President Brack Obama grew so frustrated with his own administration”s deliberations over the war in Afghanistan that he wound up dictating a six-page, single-spaced “terms sheet” that sought to define the military mission and prevent his commanders from further escalating the war in that country. According to journalist Bob Woodward, whose [...]

Kabul, Sept 28 (ANI): US and Afghan troops have reportedly begun active combat operations last week to drive the Taliban out of their strongholds surrounding the city of Kandahar. Sixteen Americans have been killed so far, including two killed by a roadside bomb on Sunday. While defining the current phase for the first time, Brigadier [...]

London, Sep 27 (ANI): Aliens have been hovering over US and UK since 1948 and hitting weapons-a scene, which seems straight from a sci-fi movie is actually a reality, only if US airmen are to be believed. The researchers have claimed that since 1948, aliens have been hovering over UK and U.S. nuclear missile sites [...]

London, Sep 27 (ANI): Global actors” unions have advised their members to avoid taking roles in the new Hobbit movies amid a row over pay. Cate Blanchett, Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are among the stars who have been linked with the two big-budget ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequels. But seven unions in the [...]

Kabul, Sep 27(ANI): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has killed at least 34 insurgents on Pakistani soil after two separate operations from Afghanistan. According to The Daily Times, two Apache attack helicopters crossed the border on Friday after the insurgents attacked a remote Afghan security outpost in Khost province. At least 30 insurgents [...]

London, Sept 27 (ANI): David Beckham has been told to “drop his pants in court” by the hooker, who claimed she had a threesome with the footballer, to prove his innocence yesterday. Irma Nici insisted she knew intimate “distinguishing characteristics” which would support her story. Becks sources branded her a desperate, raving liar, and he [...]

Kolkata, Sep 27 (IANS) Recession may have ebbed, but artisans of the potters’ colony Kumartuli here say export orders for idols for next month’s Durga Puja festival have picked up only marginally compared to last year. ‘We in Kumartuli have received a slightly higher number of orders compared to last year,’ Babu Pal, who is [...]

Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) They’re mundane, yet daunting tasks: Tidying a messy room or assembling a bookshelf from a kit of parts. Fetching a hairbrush for someone who can’t do it herself. What if a robot could do it for you? Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena at the Cornell University in the US, [...]