United States News

Facebook sets IPO price at $38   Facebook Thursday set the price for its initial public offering (IPO) at $38 per share. The price came one day before Facebook begins to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange... More

Summon US envoy over ‘Kali-Ma’ beer, says BJP   New Delhi  : The issue of a beer named "Kali-Ma", after the Hindu goddess Kali, being sold by a company in the US was raised in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday with the Bharatiya J ... More

Demining: US official in Sri Lanka   A US official has ended a week-long visit during which he meet NGOs in Sri Lanka's north and discussed the progress in de-mining activities. Deputy Assistant ... More

Al Qaeda hid attack plan in porn movie   Washington : Over a hundred Al Qaeda documents embedded inside a pornographic movie have revealed plots of carrying out terror strikes in Europ ... More

Seven dead in New York accident   Washington : As many as seven people, including three children, were killed Sunday after a van in the New York city plunged off a highway into a zoo, police said. The out ... More

US helping India to establish community colleges   The United States is working with India to flesh out an initiative to set up hundreds of community colleges in India on the American pattern, according to state department spokesperson Victo ... More

US stocks end mixed amid strong earnings   New York : US stocks ended mixed Tuesday as investors weighed stronger-than-expected corporate earnings against lackluster economic data. The Dow Jones industrial average ... More

Wall Street fall on European concerns   New York : US stocks slipped Monday as investors were concerned about new developments in Europe's debt crisis and political turmoil. The Eu ... More

Naveen Patnaik shocked at Odisha student’s killing in US   Bhubaneswar : Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday expressed shock over the murder in the US of a 24-year-old student from Odisha. "I am d ... More

Mukherjee allays US fears, says India good for investment   Allaying a "misapprehension" about some retroactive changes in Indian tax laws, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured corporate America that India was a good investment destination w ... More

Shah Rukh Khan charms Yale crowd   New Haven (Connecticut)  :  Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan enthralled the students of Yale University as he came to the Ivy League institution as a Chubb Fellow, one of its ... More

Hillary Clinton wishes ‘Shubho Nobo Borsho’ to Bengalis   US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wished "Shubho Nobo Borsho!" to Bengali communities around the world on "Poila Boishakh", the Bengali New Year. "Am ... More