Shimla | 10 days ago
Mukherjee to open Tagore's study centre at IIAS
Shimla, May 9 - President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate a study centre-cum-museum dedicated to the life and works of Rabindranath Tagore at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study - here, an official said Thursday, the poet's 152nd birth anniversary.The president would May 24 open the Tagore Centre for the Study of Culture and Civilisation, which will not only promote research on the works and p ... read more

Dharamsala | 1 month ago
US senators ask Kerry to make Tibet integral issue
Dharamsala, April 12 - Moved by the plight of the people of Tibet, 21 US senators have jointly asked Secretary of State John F. Kerry to make Tibet an integral issue when he visits China this week.The senators Thursday urged the resumption of dialogue between China and Tibetan representatives, saying: We view the Tibet problem as a resolvable issue. In a missive to Kerry, who is visiting China Apr ... read more

Dharamsala | 1 month ago
US senators ask Kerry to make Tibet integral issue
Dharamsala, April 12 - Moved by the plight of the people of Tibet, 21 US senators have jointly asked Secretary of State John F. Kerry to make Tibet an integral issue when he visits China this week.The senators Thursday urged the resumption of dialogue between China and Tibetan representatives, saying: We view the Tibet problem as a resolvable issue. In a missive to Kerry, who is visiting China Apr ... read more

Guwahati | 4 months ago
Noted Assamese engineer-literatteur dead
Guwahati, Jan 11 - Bhava Kanta Saikia, the first secretary of the Assam State Electricity Board - and a noted writer, passed away Thursday in the US, his family here said. He was 92.He is survived by his wife, a son and three daughters.Saikia had joined the public sector undertaking ASEB as its first secretary in 1958 and served the board for 23 years till his retirement in 1981.He had authored tw ... read more

Guwahati | 4 months ago
Noted Assamese engineer-literatteur dead
Guwahati, Jan 11 - Bhava Kanta Saikia, the first secretary of the Assam State Electricity Board - and a noted writer, passed away Thursday in the US, his family here said. He was 92.He is survived by his wife, a son and three daughters.Saikia had joined the public sector undertaking ASEB as its first secretary in 1958 and served the board for 23 years till his retirement in 1981.He had authored tw ... read more

Washington | 4 months ago
Obama picks up a fight over his national security team
Washington, Jan 8 - Assembling his second term national security team, US President Barack Obama courted controversy as he named former Republican senator Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon and his counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the CIA.My No.1 criteria in making these decisions was simple - who is going to do the best job in securing America, Obama said Monday nominating Hagel, seen ... read more

Washington | 4 months ago
US pro-gun group refuses support to new gun control law
Washington, Dec 24 - An official of the largest gun-rights organization in the US Sunday refused to support new gun-control legislation, but insisted on the group's push for putting armed guards in schools in response to the Dec 14 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.Wayne LaPierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, made his opinions known in an interview on ' ... read more

Washington | 5 months ago
Obama sets January deadline to address gun violence
Washington, Dec 20 - In the wake of the huge public outcry over the deadly Connecticut elementary school massacre, President Barack Obama has set a January deadline for proposals to deal with gun violence in the United States.Five days after last week's massacre that left 26, including 20 children, dead Obama Wednesday formed a new group led by Vice President Joe Biden charged with developing conc ... read more

Washington | 5 months ago
US gun lobby breaks silence over shootings
Washington, Dec 19 - Amid a public outcry over the massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, America's powerful gun lobby finally broke its silence with a promise to make meaningful contributions to prevent recurrence of such incidents.Five days after the deadly shootings in Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, last week the largest gun rights group in the US Tuesday announced ... read more

Bangalore | 5 months ago
Physicist questions physical reality of 'Dark Energy'
Bangalore, Dec 10 - A research paper by an Indian physicist has for the first time cast doubts on some of the fundamental hypotheses of the standard Big Bang model for the origin of the universe.Abhas Mitra is working in the Astrophysics Sciences Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - in Mumbai. His paper that raises several questions for mainstream cosmologists was published earlier this mon ... read more