New Delhi: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping shortly after his arrival in Fortaleza, Brazil, on the eve of the Sixth BRICS Summit.

New Delgi: The US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Burns delivered a letter from President Obama to Prime Minister.

Washington: The 'Bring Back Our Boys' online campaign on behalf of the teenagers who were kidnapped last Thursday night went viral almost immediately, attracting global interest and enlisting tens of thousands of people from all over the world in the fight to free the missing teens.

Washington: Secretary of State John Kerry’s 'no hurry' approach to United States-Iranian cooperation to combat advancing Islamic militants in Iraq is a 'sensible, diplomatic one' – and the wrong one, says a Baylor University expert on religious wars.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the telephone to Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of China this afternoon at the latter’s initiative.

New Delhi: India, under the provisions of the 'Unlawful Activities' (Prevention) Act, 1967, has proscribed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an 'Unlawful Association'.

Stony brook: There was a time when no one thought about light bulbs—one blew, you screwed another one in. Nowadays, it’s more complicated, as energy efficiency concerns have given rise to a slew of options, including incandescent, compact fluorescent lights, and light emitting diodes.

Papua: An earthquake of the magnitude of 7.5 on the richter scale has occurred at the latitude of 6.4 South and Longtitude of 154.7 east whose focal depth was at 33 KM.

Pisagua: A major earthquake of magnitude 8.0 struck off the coast of Chile sparking a tsunami warning for all of South and Central America's Pacific coast.

Deep space is something Nikodem Popławski spends a great deal of time thinking about. So he's not at all surprised that the film Gravity has broken box office records and won seven Oscars.