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Castro Diaz-Balart had been working as a scientific counsellor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death. (Photo: AFP)

Fidel Castro's eldest son Fidelito commits suicide after battling...

Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as 'Fidelito' was hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment as an...

2 Feb 2018 10:32 AM IST

The Pentagon has said that New Delhi has offered the United States with aviation maintenance and developmental aid. (Photo:AP)

India key player in US's South Asia Strategy: Pentagon

'Our relationship with India is multifaceted. India is helping with respect to South Asian Strategy,' Pentagon's Chief...

2 Feb 2018 7:59 AM IST

Battaglia had been divorced from his wife, Mary Jean Pearl, for about a year when he fatally shot their two daughters, Mary Faith, then 9 years old, and Liberty, 6, prosecutors said. (Photo: File/Representational)

Texas man gets death penalty for killing 2 daughters, making wife hear...

He was arrested shortly afterward at a tattoo parlor where he was getting rose tattoos to remember his dead daughters.

1 Feb 2018 7:23 PM IST

Trump in his first State of the Union address Wednesday pushed for an immigration policy that attracts the best and the brightest to the US. (Photo: AP)

Merit-based immigration necessary, can benefit Indians: WH

The flood of low-skilled immigrants into the US has suppressed wages, harmed American workers and strained federal...

1 Feb 2018 5:52 PM IST

Trumps address blended self-congratulation and calls for optimism amid a growing economy with ominous warnings about deadly gangs, the scourge of violent immigrants living in the United States illegally. (Photo: AP)

FBI, White House in loggerheads over secret Russia case memo

This president wants everything out so the American people can make up their own minds.'

1 Feb 2018 3:10 PM IST

Trump laid out a four-pillar immigration plan, one of the major debates that loomed over his first year in office, and sought the backing of the Congress for a merit-based immigration system. (Photo: AP)

Trump's State of The Union address insufficient: Indian-American...

Trump warned that rivals' like China and Russia were challenging America's interests, economy and values.

1 Feb 2018 1:02 PM IST

US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting in New York. (Photo: AFP)

UN list of firms linked to Israeli settlements 'waste of time': Nikki...

'The US will continue to aggressively push back against anti-Israel bias, and advance badly needed reforms of the...

1 Feb 2018 11:18 AM IST

US President-elect Donald Trump and Indian-American Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina. (Photo: AP)

Sky is limit for India-US relationship, says Nikki Haley

Haley said PM Modi was aggressively pursuing reforms and changes in India.

1 Feb 2018 10:56 AM IST

Trump delivered his primetime address in the hallowed House of Representatives chamber, where immigrants from Chile, Guatemala, Mexico and South Korea joined US lawmakers. (Photo: AFP)

Trump's state of the union speech: Dreamer' immigrants get front-row...

Several Dreamers wore yellow butterfly stickers, a nod to the insect's cross-border migratory patterns.

31 Jan 2018 3:30 PM IST

Trump has exchanged insults and threats with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and officials say he and his advisers have discussed a preventative strike against North Korea. (Photo: AP)

In his State of Union speech Trump calls N Korea's leadership...

Trump offered no new prescription or specifics on how he intended to rein in North Korea.

31 Jan 2018 2:19 PM IST

Daniels who has rediscovered fame with sold out shows at strip clubs and multiple appearances on Television shows and awards, including Jimmy Kimmel Live! denied the affair amid reports of first lady Melania Trump being upset about the news. (Photo: Facebook/ @stormydanielshd)

Before Trump's State speech, Pornstar Daniels denies affair with Prez

The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017 and now...

31 Jan 2018 1:12 PM IST

Sunaynas husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead while his colleague, also an Indian, sustained bullet injuries after an American navy veteran opened fire in a crowded suburban bar in Olathe city in February 2017. (Photo: Facebook/Sunayana Dumala)

State of the Union: Hate crime victim Indian techie's widow attends...

A strong message about the unstinted support from the elected representatives and administration towards the Indian...

31 Jan 2018 12:38 PM IST