New Delhi/Washington, Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama. Kailath is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s high civilian awards and is a memberRead More

  Kuala Lumpur, Police are investigating reports lodged by members of Malaysia’s Sikh community against a Facebook user for posting an offensive comment against the founder of the faith, Guru Nanak, a media report said Saturday. Lawyer Gurmukh Singh, who lodged the report in Dang Wangi area, said the comment was written in badRead More

Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s embattled leader refused demands by pro-democracy protesters to resign Thursday, and instead offered talks to defuse a week of massive demonstrations that have grown into the biggest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. The Hong Kong Federation of Students said in a statement earlyRead More

Sydney, As Australia returned to fight in Iraq for the third time in 23 years, The Weekend Australian has been told some special forces specialists are already in Baghdad planning the 600-strong contingent’s role. Announcing that RAAF combat operations and the commandos’ training mission would begin within days, Tony Abbott warned that the ADFRead More

Stockholm, Sweden’s new center-left government will recognize the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said Friday. The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012, but the European Union and mostRead More

  Cairo -: The Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group on Friday claimed responsibility of beheading British aid worker Alan Henning in an online video. In the one-minute video clip titled “Another Message to America and its Allies”, roughly the same as those released after three previous murders, a masked IS militantRead More

Incheon: A spirited Indian men’s hockey team defeated arch-rivals and defending champions Pakistan 4-2 in a nerve-wracking shoot-out to end its 16-year gold medal draught in the Asian Games and earn a direct berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics, here on Thursday. It turned out to be a humdinger ofRead More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined millions of schoolchildren, officials and ordinary people who picked up brooms and dustpans Thursday in a countrywide campaign to clean parks, public buildings and streets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the road in a poor neighborhood in New Delhi while launching the CleanRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today felicitated the Indian Hockey team for bringing golden glory to the country by bagging the Gold Medal in the Asian Games. In a congratulatory message to the winning Indian squad, the Chief Minister said that the Hockey team has made everyRead More

Chandigarh,  Surjit Sports Association (Regd), Batala has demanded from the state government that the players from the state who have won gold medals in the ongoing Asian Games at Incheon (South Korea) should be rewarded with respectable cash awards and class I government jobs. The Association members said that ifRead More