Now, Obama emerges as ‘The Joker’

US President Barack Obama and actor Heath Ledger as 'The Joker' from 'The Dark Knight'

A slew of posters has been spotted throughout Los Angeles portraying Obama as ‘The Joker’ from the movie ‘The Dark Knight’, with the word…

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Pictures: Embedded with US army in Afghanistan

The tattoo of a US Marine is seen through a hole in his shirt, as he stands guard at a compound in Afghanistan July 8

How do US soldiers overcome difficult Afghani terrain to fight the Taliban? Get into their shoes. Spot some Talibanis.

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Look who’s filling up India’s BPO sector?

Hewlett-Packard employees work at the company's Business Process Outsourcing centre in Bangalore

Economic meltdown and the US financial crisis have triggered a new trend: while many Western firms are selling off back office operations in India, a clutch of others are…     read more…

India to US: Tell Pakistan to act against terror before talks

US Under Secretary of State William Burns shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New Delhi Wednesday

Amid a US push for the resumption of talks with Pakistan, India Wednesday made it clear that although it was keen to normalise strained sub-continental relations, talks can resume only after Islamabad takes concrete action against the 26/11 perpetrators and dismantles the terrorist infrastructure on its soil.

In the first contact between the Obama administration and the Manmohan Singh government since it returned to power last month, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns Wednesday described India as…            read more…

Pictures: Homes of US presidents

Barack Obama's Chicago home

Far away from the austerity of the White House, all US presidents have led very homely lives in their original lovenests.

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