NEW YORK: The Times Square New Year’s Eve ball is celebrating its centennial by going green. The star of the world-famous holiday extravaganza was revamped this year with 9,576 energy-efficient bulbs that use about the same amount of electricity as 10 toasters.

WASHINGTON: President George W Bush, in his New Year's message to the United States and rest of the World, has vowed to keep up the pressure on terrorists and remain on the offensive against the enemies of freedom.

WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush has demanded that those who were behind the "cowardly" killing of former Pakistani Premier Benazir Bhutto must be brought to justice.

NEW YORK: Billions of dollars in American aid given to the Pervez Musharraf regime for anti-terrorism efforts have been wasted and much of it was diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India rather than fight al-Qaeda and Taliban, US officials have said.

NEW YORK: Ohio State Rep. Jay P. Goyal, (D-73, Mansfield) has announced he is running for re-election in the 73rd House District.

NEW YORK: Two years and almost six months since the US and India signed the civil nuclear cooperation deal, the two countries have reached nowhere close to seeing the deal being implemented.

NEW YORK: The case of the Sabhnanis who have been convicted on charges of human trafficking is a "wake up call" for the community-at-large opine Asian American advocacy groups.

NEW YORK: Indian-origin millionaire Long Island couple Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, accused of slave driving their maid servants, have been convicted by a jury in a Manhattan court last week. The Judge, however, did not set any date for sentencing.

NEW YORK: Just months after its historic grassroots "shuttle diplomacy" visit to India on behalf of the US-India Civilian Nuclear Agreement, the US-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) leads a delegation of prominent business leaders, entrepreneurs, political activists, and professionals from the Indian-American community to India for high-level business and political meetings