Giving a jolt to medical and biotechnology industries, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes. This judgment reverses three decades of...
As per senior Obama administration officials, including the Directors of the FBI and of national intelligence, members of Congress were well informed about the surveillance program that included...
As per reports in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, India is among the top 5 countries most extensively monitored by the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA), a US government agency tasked with foreign...
For the first time the U.S. has openly promised the Syrian rebels to supply weapons as it claims to have found evidence the Syrian regime using chemical weapons....
Social networking website Facebook opened its first data centre outside the United States, in Luleaa, a coastal Swedish town near the Arctic Circle. With this, Facebook joins Google and...
American author Lydia Davis has been announced the winner of Man Booker International Prize 2013. She was chosen winner out of ten shortlisted authors. About Man Booker International Prize 2013 The prize,...
Working in the direction of realizing the idea of tapping solar energy from space and beaming it to earth to meet the energy needs of the future and...
World no.1 American tennis player Serena Williams defeated her Russian opponent Maria Sharapova to clinch the French Open 2013 women’s title. This victory brought up her 16th grand slam...
President Barack Obama to appointment Ms Susan Rice as national security adviser for US Govt. Ms Susan Rice who currenttly US ambassador at the UN, will take over...
The United States has exempted India and eight other nations from sanctions for importing oil from Iran, keeping in view that these countries have considerably cut their dependence...