WASHINGTON: Iran has stopped a controversial practice that could allow it to enrich uranium faster, the United States said on Monday, ceasing an activity one expert saw as violating an interim nuclear deal. The development was disclosed as Tehran and Washington hold talks on an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program and dispel concerns, that Iran denies, that it is trying to build a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy […]

Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir’s remarks about Benazir Bhutto, Robin Raphel and the Taliban, published in the Indian Express newspaper some weeks ago, Kolkata’s The Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday, provoked the investigation of the controversial American diplomat whose home and office were searched by the FBI last week.  Twelve years ago, in a column published on Rediff.com, Hamid Mir, who escaped an assassination attempt in Pakistan in April, made stunning […]

NEW YORK: Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center is again opening for business, marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the United States as a whole. Publishing giant Conde Nast will start moving on Monday into One World Trade Center, a 104-story, $3.9 billion skyscraper that dominates the Manhattan skyline. It is America’s tallest building. It’s the centerpiece of the 16-acre site […]

WASHINGTON: In the decades after World War II, the CIA. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J Edgar Hoover at the […]

Tokyo:  Japan said on Tuesday it would hold a bilateral military exercise with the United States in November to ensure smooth joint operations between the two countries’ militaries and bolster island defence capabilities. The field drill, called “Keen Sword”, is held every two years. It comes as Japan is engaged in a bitter island row with China, which is rapidly ramping up military spending, and amid concern over North Korea’s […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a saffron jacket, got a full-house reception on Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a venue that rock stars dream of packing with a sell-out audience. He thanked the crowd of about 18,000 Indian Americans who constantly chanted his name, for the rousing welcome. Here are the highlights of his speech: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Madison Square Garden Kavita Krishnamurthy sings the […]

Washington: In light of US President Barack Obama’s pledge to ‘destroy’ Sunni extremist group, ISIS, the terror group on Tuesday released a Hollywood-styled trailer which appears to warn of attacks against American force. The 52-second video – another addition in the growing list propaganda videos – features slow-motion effects showing exploding tanks and attacks previously carried out by the militant group on American forces including a wounded serviceman being carried by American soldiers. In […]

The Indian economy could lose $30 billion annually with the IT industry being the hardest hit if the Immigration Bill under consideration in the US Congress becomes a law, Indian American Advisory Council of House Republican Conference of US Parliament has said. The IAAC, which advises US House of Representatives on India related issues, stated the ‘US Immigration Bill S744’ calls for significantly cutting down on outsourcing of work for […]

  Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his “dying a lonely death”. “If you want Warren Weinstein to be released, do whatever you can to pressurize your government,” it said in a statement posted this week on Islamist websites. Weinstein, a development expert who had lived in Lahore since […]

New Delhi: Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the US by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018, Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India said here Tuesday. “Even at the current growth rate, we will have 500 million Indians on the Internet by 2018. By the end of this year, India will become larger than the US in terms of […]