A gunman was on the loose on Thursday at Virginia Tech after he shot a police officer and possibly a second person, said the university, scene of a 2007 massacre in which 32 people died.

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The number of people filing initial applications for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week to 381,000, the US Labour Department said on Thursday.

The rolling four-week average of new claims,

The United States has said foreign direct investment in retail trade would be beneficial to both India and the US but it would wait for the debate over it to play out in a democracy like India.

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"Ask Osama bin Laden," said an otherwise calm US President Barack Obama in an icy riposte to fierce criticism from several Republican White House hopefuls alleging that he was following a policy of ap

The US has discounted rumours of a 'silent coup' against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after reports that he had gone to Dubai following a heart attack.

Harvard University has cancelled Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy's summer courses over his controversial article in a Mumbai newspaper advocating destruction of hundreds of Indian mosques and di

President Barack Obama has named yet another Indian-American, Preeta D. Bansal, as a member of an independent agency promoting improvements in the efficiency, adequacy, and fairness of government proc

ISI's Security Directorate was referred to as the 'library in Islamabad' while the phrase 'half a dozen Brylcreem' denoted a sum of USD 60,000 in a series of coded messages used by Kashmiri separatist

India has emerged as the third largest purchaser of US arms with contracts worth $4.5 billion last year alone as US weapons sales rose to $34.8 billion in fiscal 2011, according to a Pentagon report.

India remains alert to the growing military might of China, even as New Delhi has sought to strengthen its bilateral dialogue with Beijing over the last two decades, a top Indian diplomat based here has said.