Titanic’s Cameron at earth’s deepest spot
Titanic director James Cameron has safely returned to the ocean surface after a solo submarine dive to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, expedition organisers said Monday.
US nominee for World Bank presidency to travel to India
In an effort to solicit global support for his bid for the World Bank presidency, US President Barack Obama's nominee Jim Young Kim is undertaking a two-week 'listening' tour of India, China and five
Govt report: DC nuke blast wouldn't destroy city
Hollywood has destroyed Washington - or New York or Los Angeles - lots of times with nuclear bombs detonated by terrorists. It turns out to be harder in real life.
Thinking about the unthinkable, a U
Santorum wins Louisiana to slow down Romney
Former senator Rick Santorum easily won the Republican presidential primary in Indian American governor Bobby Jindal's home state of Louisiana, somewhat slowing down frontrunner Mitt Romney's apparent
Coldest, deepest Antarctic water 'mysteriously shrinking'
The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been strangely disappearing at a high rate for the past few decades, a new study has revealed.
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US says soldier split killing spree
U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill a
World Bank’s $500m for education
The World Bank has offered $500 million interest-free credit to India for improving the standards of secondary education, an official statement said Friday. The World Bank on Thur-sday approved the credit that will help the Indian government’s effo-rts to make good quality education “available, accessible and affordable to all young persons at the secondary level (grades 9 and 10).”
Indian, US companies seek Obama's intervention on visa delays
Top Indian and American IT companies has sought the intervention of US President Barack Obama on 'unprecedented delays and uncertainty' around L1 work visas, which they argued is badly effecting their
2.4 lakh illegal Indian immigrants living in US: Report
An estimated 240,000 Indian immigrants are among 11.5 million foreigners living illegally in the United States without proper immigration documents, according to latest official figures.
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Profiles of candidates for World Bank president
The World Bank announced here on Friday that Jim Yong Kim from the US, Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Colombia's Jose Antonio Ocampo are the three candidates for the bank presidency.
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