Washington, July 30: Noting that 12 percent of India's over 1.2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, the US has asked donors to make targeted investments in India's water and sanit

Washington, July 24: Battling the worst recession in decades, the US government expects unemployment to stay at or above 9 percent until 2012 even as the economy grows by at least 4 percent in 2011 an

Washington, July 24: US President Barack Obama Saturday praised a Wall Street reform law enacted this week and rejected a Republican plan to jump-start the economy, saying it will take the country bac

Washington, July 22: US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke said Wednesday that the country's economy was continuing to expand moderately, thanks to stimulative monetary and fiscal policies, but j

Washington, July 22: US President Barack Obama has signed into law the most sweeping financial industry reform legislation since the Great Depression, terming it insurance against the kind of meltdown