Usually this type of jolt isn't this powerful. Yesterday's magnitude-8.6 quake occurred along a strike-slip fault line similar to California's San Andreas Fault.
A US court is set to hear arguments in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case on May 1 even as India's Congress party opposed the entry of a default judgment against it for its alleged role in the riots.
Headed for New Delhi next week, new US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell has said realising the true potential of economic relationship between India and the US would be her top priority.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav seems to have highly impressed leaders of Corporate America who think he represents the young population of India who want change and progress.
Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day's date into a telephone-style keypad. That's the only way to stop the loud 'ding-ding,' of the world's most exasperating alarm clock.
The US has said that the Siachen issue is to be primarily resolved through dialogue between India and Pakistan, but Washington was willing to help the two neighbours it whatever way it could, State Department has said.
Describing Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's India visit as a trip "heavy on symbolism if not on substance", the US media today said his pilgrimage to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer sent a message against Islamist extremism.
More than three years ago, the CIA dispatched a stealth surveillance drone into the skies over Iran.
The Obama administration and its European allies plan to open new negotiations with Iran by demanding ultimate dismantling of a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain, said US and European diplomats.
In her recent autobiography, Nikki Haley talks of the racism she experienced on her way to the top job. Yashwant Raj reports.
President Barack Obama has told Iran the US will accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear programme if the Islamic state can prove it is not seeking atomic weapons, the Washington Post said.
A controversy-prone former mayor in America has landed himself in a soup again, this time for his remarks targeting "dirty" Asian businesses in his poor black-majority district, a racial slur that invited all-round criticism.
The Indian and US navies will conduct a joint training drill, “Exercise Malabar 2012”, from April 9-16 in the Bay of Bengal and west of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer caught in an undercover sting by US agents posing as Colombian guerrillas, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by a judge in New York, prompting charges of political bias from Russia.
The Obama administration has said it would ease some sanctions against Myanmar and soon nominate an ambassador to the country following landmark elections that saw opposition gains in parliament.