First-time claims for unemployment benefits rose by 5,000 last week to 417,000, the US Labour Department said Thursday.

The rolling four-week average of initial jobless claims, which is seen as a mor

A top Obama Administration official on Thursday praised Tata Steel as a shining example of foreign direct investment in the United States that has created jobs in the economy.

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It has long been believed that Mars’ surface is too oxidised for life to survive. But a new study has now claimed that the soil on the red planet may be less inhospitable than previously thought.

Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and Indra Nooyi, Indian-American CEO of PepsiCo, figure among the top ten in the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women headed by German Chancellor Angela Me

Two Indians and two persons of Indian origin figure among Top 35 Innovators under 35 in the latest list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Technology Review, the world's oldest Technolog

China has deployed more advanced and survivable solid-fuel nuclear capable CSS-5 MRBM missiles against India as a 'deterrent posture', Pentagon has said warning that a high degree of mistrust continue

Although it’s a constant and sometimes rapid process, evolutionary changes takes one million years, say scientists.

The first ancestor of modern humans to have mastered the art of cooking was likely homo erectus, which evolved around 1.9 million years ago, according to a US study published on Monday.

As rebel forces reportedly took control of most parts of the Libyan capital Tripoli and Muammar Gaddafi vowed martyrdom or victory, the US today asked him to relinquish power immediately.

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Warning that the case charging ISI and its chief with being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks could have 'disastrous consequences' for US-Pak ties, an American attorney representing them in a New Yo