The US said yesterday that it considered the new government in the Maldives as legitimate, calling for a peaceful settlement to the ongoing political unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation.
A former Indian-American student of a US university in New Jersey now faces more serious charges in a webcam spying case that resulted in the suicide of his roommate.
India's insistence on continuing to buy Iranian oil defying US sanctions, drawing common approach on China, Af-Pak situation and peace negotiations with Taliban dominated the talks of Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai who concluded his maiden bilateral visit to the US on thursday.
A Chinese-American woman, working as software engineer, has been found guilty by a US court of stealing trade secrets of Motorola.
A bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state won final legislative approval on Wednesday in a vote that moved the state one step closer to becoming the seventh to recognize same-sex nuptials.
The White House said on Tuesday that the US is not considering arming opposition groups in Syria, deflecting calls from some lawmakers to explore such a possibility as one way to quell the violence in Syria.
A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger insurgents in Sri Lanka.
US President Barack Obama has held a meeting of his national security team on the current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan along with the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago in May.
Former senator Rick Santorum pulled off a stunning hat-trick picking up all three states that voted or caucused Tuesday upending the Republican presidential race.
Ratcheting up the pressure on India to fall in line on Iran sanctions, US lawmakers on Tuesday told ambassador-designate Nancy Powell they expect her to press New Delhi harder. Powell, a career foreign service official who has done two tours of duty in India, was up on Capitol Hill for her confirmation.
The criminal trial of Rajat Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co., has been moved from April to May after his lawyer grumbled that prosecutors want to keep changing the charges.
The US today said the delivery of latest F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan this week reflects that it has maintained a strong military-to-military relationship with Islamabad, despite recent setbacks in their ties.
An under construction Gurdwara in the American State of Michigan has been vandalised and defaced with anti-Muslim graffiti, the police and community leaders have said.
Foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai on Wednesday met US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings at the state department and the White House on a range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
Noting that the ongoing assembly elections in India reflects its thriving democracy, US Ambassador-designate Nancy Powell has said that the country still has enormous societal inequalities based on historic caste systems of economic differences.