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Let me begin by admitting that I would not be writing about the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits today if I had not been shamed into doing so. I would have written about the flip-flop currently going on in the Congress over whether Rahul Gandhi should be declared their future prime minister...

Lured by U.S. citizenship for their children, thousands of Chinese women give birth annually in the States, supporting a thriving birth-tourism industry By Hannah BeechNov. 27, 2013 Jiang Wenjun was getting ready to go to America. His wife, due to give birth to their son any day, was already...

(CNN) -- This holiday season, an ad campaign is selling clothes and challenging bigotry in America. A poster of a turbaned and bearded man in Gap clothes with a woman hanging on his shoulder hit store windows and subway walls across the United States last month as part of Gap's "Make Love" ad...

CHENNAI/BANGALORE: Crossing a major milestone in the country's space history, Isro'sMars Orbiter Mission on Sunday ventured out ofEarth's sphere of influence for the first time in an attempt to reach the red planet's orbit. The critical manoeuvre to place the Mars orbiter spacecraft in the Mars...

Jian Feng sued his wife for giving birth to what he called an “incredibly ugly” girl. “I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues,” he told the Irish Times. “Our daughter was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me.”...

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists has decided not to accept the outcome of the Tuesday poll which has the party fairing miserably across the country as the counting is in progress. Party spokesperson Agni Sapkota said after an emergency meeting of party's senior leaders and central...

WASHINGTON: An Indian-American transplant surgeon has been presented with a prestigious immigrant award of the US government, in recognition of his outstanding achievements. Dr Rahul Jindal, currently a staff transplant surgeon at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre and professor...

CHENNAI: India has denied a visa to Callum Macrae, the director of a documentary that exposed war crimes in Sri Lanka. Macrae, whose team was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, made news again last Thursday when UK's Channel 4 telecast footage acquired from him showing LTTE TV...

(Photo by Lockheed Martin) November 01, 2013 Ever since Lockheed’s unsurpassed SR-71 Blackbird was retired from U.S. Air Force service almost two decades ago, the perennial question has been: Will it ever be succeeded by a new-generation, higher-speed aircraft and, if so, when? That is, until...

Signboards for businesses in Lajpat Nagar advertising in both Dari and English to appeal to the large population of Afghans in the neighborhood. NEW DELHI – Three years ago, the family of Rohullah Afzali, 23, a medical student at a university in Herat in western Afghanistan, noticed changes in...

Why is Pakistan's Geo TV being accused of being a traitor? Pakistan loves Geo TV. At least, that's what the ratings say. Together with parent company Jang, it's the country's biggest media group. But on social media, things look different. Since Monday, tens of thousands of Pakistanis have...

I ended up in India, oddly, because I could not get to Pakistan. I had lived half my life in Pakistan. Both of my parents are Pakistani, with family roots in and around the city of Lahore as far as either one could see. But I am a citizen of America. I was born in the United States and had spent...

In the past 1 1/2 years as a member I have seen trolling in different hue and color and was not bothered about those. But in the past 2 months I have seen an increase in racist posts and have reported them several times as well. I am seeing despicable posts like Stinky "..." filty "...."...

HONG KONG — The famine that gripped China from 1958 to 1962 is widely judged to be the deadliest in recorded history, killing 20 to 30 million people or more, and is one of the defining calamities of Mao Zedong’s rule. Ever since, the party has shrouded that disaster in censorship and...

WASHINGTON: India and the US on Sunday agreed to work together to target the financial network and fund raising activities of Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Haqqani network and individual terrorists associated with these organisations. The decision by...

(CNN) -- U.S. military forces were involved in two separate operations in Africa -- one of them targeting a member of the group Al-Shabaab, which was behind last month's Kenya mall attack, and the other going after an al Qaeda leader tied to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies. The...

CHITTOOR: Two suspected terrorists were taken into custody while two others escaped and a police inspector succumbed to stab wounds during a 12-hour joint operation by police teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the sleepy town of Puttur in Chittoor district on Saturday. The police teams...

As the world watches the Obama administration waffling and weaving—from my redline to our redline to erased redline, from an "unbelievably small" application of force to an unbelievably feckless policy—it is relevant to recall that there was a time when America had a strong, clear and consistent...

Riot For Votes: Did Azam Khan ask cops to go slow in Muzaffarnagar? Officers say, yes He is the Muslim face of Akhilesh's cabinet, the man who publicly castigated the government for failing to protect Muslims, even refusing to attend the SP's national executive in a huff. But now comes a...

(CNN) -- Could the U.S. Air Force's newest warplane be something the service didn't even ask for? That's the hope of a joint venture between Textron, the makers of Cessna airplanes and E-Z Go golf carts, and AirLand Enterprises, a small company formed by former defense and aerospace...