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Can malaria be effectively used to combat terrorism? Strange as that might sound, that is exactly what is under experimentation by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

After ceasing to be premier, Blair, who was always interested in bringing people of different religions together, set up the TonyBlairFaithFoundation which has a project underway in Asian and African countries which hopes to achieve just that.

White House officials are retooling the administration’s communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries, a more disciplined focus on President Barack Obama’s call for “change” in Washington and an increasingly selective use of the president’s time.

The messaging adjustments are the result of an end-of-the-year analysis in which White House advisers said the president’s communications team had not taken the initiative often enough and had allowed drawn-out debates in Congress, and relentless criticism by Republicans, to drown out his message.

Silver also moved in the positive zone as lifted by concerns over the outlook for the currency ma

Earning $761,000 on Sunday, the highest one-day earning ever for any Hindi movie in North America, Karan Johar's "My Name Is Khan" is on a record-hitting spree at 'BO'.

In the starting, SRK-starrer was likely to go down by 7% over Saturday to $682,000. However, it did well on Sunday making $761,000 for a 4% surge.

Students fought pitched battles with security personnel on the Osmania University campus for the second consecutive day on Monday while some Congress legislators from Telangana disrupted Governor E. S. L. Narasimhan’s address to the joint session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Council.

The legislators were protesting against the terms of reference of Justice Srikrishna panel, set up by the Centre to examine the issue of statehood.

Soon, nursery and formal schools in Delhi may no longer share a common campus. The minimum age for enrollment in Class I will also be raised from five to six years.

These were among the proposals agreed upon at a meeting between Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal and principals of a large number of Delhi schools, along with Central Board for Secondary Education chairman Vineet Joshi.

Sibal promised to take up the suggestions with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and ensure the required changes in the Delhi Education Act.