Washington, Nov. 6 -- Democrat Ranjeev Puri has been elected as the Speaker of the Michigan House, the first Indian-American to hold the coveted post. "Today, I'm humbled to be elected by my colleagu... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- The National Stock Exchange (NSE), in association with integrated gold platform Augmont, on Friday started live trading in electronic gold receipts, recording transactions worth o... Read More
New York, Nov. 6 -- Indian-born democratic socialist Nithya Raman has been elected Mayor of Los Angeles, scripting history as she becomes the first South Asian mayor of the nation's second-largest cit... Read More
Kathmandu, Nov. 6 -- A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck Humla district in Nepal on Friday morning, according to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre. The earthquake struck Humla distr... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- In Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell says: "No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable th... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Arunachal Pradesh and its historic border town and district of Tawang are happening places. The sheer scale of connectivity and linkages laid out in the last decade has brought th... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Midterm elections are often read as a verdict on the sitting president, but the historical record suggests something more fundamental. Studying midterms from 1902 to 1986, politic... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Weather, an innocuous atmospheric condition, is no longer a topic of small talk at social gatherings. Now, we don't plan for rain by cautiously carrying an umbrella; we plan for u... Read More
Kolkata, Nov. 6 -- An age-old donors' quota system for undergraduate medical admissions in West Bengal's government medical colleges has come under scrutiny, with allegations that seats originally int... Read More
Kolkata, Nov. 6 -- The West Bengal Human Rights Commission on Friday reportedly expressed strong displeasure over the investigation into the alleged attack on Beleghata MLA Kunal Ghosh, questioning th... Read More