India and Japan Monday decided to step up military ties as they discussed issues of regional and global security during talks between Defence Minister A. K. Antony and his visiting Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera here, an official release said. “The two ministers extensively and frankly exchanged ideas regarding regional and global security challenges, as well […]
Pitching for support of overseas Indians, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said it would move the Election Commission in the next three days to allow eligible non-resident Indians (NRIs) to vote through postal ballots in the 2014 elections. A resolution was adopted at the “global meeting” organised by the Overseas Friends of Bharatiya Janata […]
US Senate Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the next head of the Federal Reserve, to replace the outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke whose term ends at the end of this month. The Senate voted 56 to 26 to approve the confirmation, Xinhua reported. Yellen, currently the Fed’s vice chair, would become the first woman to […]
Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania housewife who called herself “Jihad Jane” in online postings, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for participating in a failed Al Qaeda-linked plot to murder a Swedish artist who drew a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. LaRose, a 50-year-old convert to Islam, pled guilty to following the […]
Mediation talks aimed at ending the three-week old conflict in South Sudan are expected to focus on the cessation of hostilities and the status of the detainees Tuesday, said the East African bloc IGAD. The talks being held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa between representatives of South Sudan’s government and rebels have endorsed modalities […]
It is now possible to use gene therapy in the brain to not only treat binge drinking but other substance abuse, neurological diseases and mental illnesses. Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found a way to change alcohol drinking behaviour in rodents, using the emerging technique of optogenetics – using light to stimulate neurons. […]
The deputy mayor of a Bihar town was held with two call girls from a hotel room here, the police said Tuesday. Gaya Deputy Mayor Mohan Srivastava was arrested late Monday night from a posh hotel room here during a police raid. “Srivastava was caught along with two call girls in a hotel room,” a […]
The Aam Aadmi Party’s(AAP) promise to sweep away corruption from the Indian political system is a “difficult” goal to achieve, says a visiting American political scientist. Fighting corruption needs stronger legislative tools, and just by forming a government AAP is not likely to reduce corruption, said he. John Echeverri-Gent, associate professor at University of Virginia, […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh, party spokesman Sanjay Singh said. Sanjay Singh, a close associate of AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, said the party was pushing for clean and honest politics and hoped that issues like casteism and communalism will be […]
More than 1,800 flights were cancelled Monday as frigid weather caused a number of problems at both Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport, including the freezing of equipment used to fuel the planes. Southwest Airlines suspended operations at Midway until later Monday afternoon because of the refueling problems, but other major airlines including […]