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Though India has pursued the case of Dawood Ibrahim with the US for a long time, the two countries signalled their intention to jointly go after the mob boss and his support network during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the US.  A joint statement issued after Modi’s meeting with US President Barack Obama [...]

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has reiterated that the United Kingdom wants deeper ties with India and claimed that the two democracies face many similar challenges while also making it aptly clear that his government will never interfere in the highly vexed Kashmir issue. The Conservative Party leader was on Tuesday quoted as saying [...]

MUMBAI: Accounting books are mostly anachronisms these days. Students still fill up those long columns, but few businessmen would bother now that computers and accounting software are so cheap. Yet every Diwali businessmen still flock to shops like the ones near the Mumbadevi temple in Mumbai to buy account books that they will fill up, [...]

Online retail giant Amazon found itself facing the wrath of devout Hindus here who objected to the Seattle-headquartered corporation’s sale of women’s leggings emblazoned with images of various Hindu deities, asserting that religious sentiments were hurt by these deities adorning parts of the body. Describing the item as “inappropriate,” Hindu cleric Rajan Zed of Nevada [...]

NEW DELHI: Stressing on the importance of enhancing internet connectivity in India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said, “Connectivity can’t be restricted to just the rich and powerful. Cost of internet access has to be made affordable.” According to Zuckerberg, Facebook is working extensively to enhance connectivity in rural India. “India is an amazing [...]

WASHINGTON: Impressed by the “energy and vigour” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the US despite being on fast, President Barack Obama has expressed his interest in yoga, officials have said. While the First Lady has been instrumental in introducing yoga inside the White House, Obama appeared to be very impressed [...]

Barbie takes a Kali avatar as Argentine artists Marianela Perelli and Pool Paolini, in an exhibition series called “Barbie – The Plastic Religion,” are featuring a Kali version of this popular doll range. In the exhibition in Buenos Aires, which is set to open on October 11, the artists will present various avatars of Barbie, [...]

How comical this scene is but its a reflection on how the Christian religious right-wing see Hinduism as full of demons where the victim needs to be freed, while the left wing see Hinduism as ‘Hindu nationalism’ Hindu far-right supremacy where the victim needs to be freed from proving left and right are two sides [...]

The claim made by a US company on the usefulness of  lotus  and cowhage (a herb) for treatment of obesity and hunger at the European Patent Office (EPO) has been foiled by India, largely because of submission of prior art evidence from ancient Hindu texts that refutes the claim of novelty. The US based company [...]

Amidst a heated debate in the House of Commons, Britain on Thursday said it agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement that any meaningful dialogue between India and Pakistan ‘necessarily requires an environment that is free from terrorism and violence’.   The three-hour debate in Westminster Hall on the ‘political and humanitarian situation in [...]