In a crowded penthouse suite at Toronto's Cosmopolitan Hotel, all eyes are on India Hicks - model, designer, author, mom - as she gracefully pulls out the contents of a shopping bag brimming with recently purchased goodies. Despite Hicks's aristocratic background - in addition to being the daughter of design royalty, she is also the granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (India's last viceroy) and a goddaughter of the Prince of Wales

The Bush administration plans to shift nearly $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counterterrorism programs to upgrading that country’s aging F-16 attack planes, which Pakistan prizes more for their contribution to its military rivalry with India than for fighting insurgents along its Afghan border.

Kissing Indian women goodbye is out for young British businessmen and professionals flying out to India to explore new job opportunities. And visitors should be mindful of something that every Indian knows - their hosts are terrible at timekeeping. These pointers to how to go about your business in India are part of etiquette classes being offered by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) - the British government's lead organisation supporting the promotion of bilateral trade, business and investment.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he will not run for vice president on the Republican ticket, adding himself to a growing number of those pulling themselves out of the race. Jindal said that he’d be “surprised” if the McCain campaign came down with a decision this week. And he threw water on the buzz about his own chances.

Bloomberg joins forced with Bill Gates to reduce smoking-related deaths in India, Bangladesh, Russia, China, and Indonesia.

Forgive me, I haven't confirmed whether the perpetrator is in fact Indian, however his last name set off a bell.

Extraordinary Political Icon,Late Prime Minister ‘Indira Gandhi’s Life Story In Television

A macaca car was spotted in Virginia and reported on Wonkette :-)

Thanks to Dr. Singh’s lack of familiarity with the written script, he fumbled as he read along. But the combative message escaped no one. The couplet, as translated by Punjab regiment historian Col. Anil Shorey, reads: “Grant me, my Lord, the boon that I may not falter in doing good, nor do I have fear in my heart when I fight in the battlefield. May I always have pure thoughts in my mind and never be tempted by greed; and when my end shall come, may I die fighting in the battle.”

Every day that I have been Prime Minister of India I have tried to remember that the first 10 years of my life were spent in a village with no drinking water supply, no electricity, no hospital, no roads and nothing that we today associate with modern living. I had to walk miles to school, I had to study in the dim light of a kerosene oil lamp. This nation gave me the opportunity to ensure that such would not be the life of our children in the foreseeable future.