US Congress grills ex-IRS boss on scandal

WASHINGTON Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Services targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lois ...

Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in US taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates. Tim Cook testified at a hearing by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which ...

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is scheduled to hold its party congress on July 20, when it will elect its next chairman, the party said yesterday. The KMT will announce the election date on June 5 and those interested in joining the race can ...

We present verbatim the full speech given by Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the release of UPA II’s report card in New Delhi on Wednesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,UPA allies, colleagues and friends. My greetings to you all on the fourth anniversary of UPA-IIIt is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we have sought to do during these past few years. Our focus has never been in doubt and we have never deviated from our priorities: to strengthen our secular ethos, to address ...

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa paying floral tributes to the portrait of former PM Rajiv Gandhi in the city. She administered anti-terrorism pledge to ministers and officers to mark the day | P Jawahar/Express It was certainly a well-planned campaign.

"The International Hydropower Association (IHA) 2013 World Congress" opened here Wednesday, to explore ways in which hydropower will continue to make a significant contribution to the future by advancing sustainable hydropower. Richard Taylor, ...

The Congress-led UPA government completes nine years today but the chances of its return to power, with Lok Sabha elections less than a year away, are bleak, indicates a Headlines Today-CVoter opinion poll.The Congress is likely to lose a major ...

THE IMAGE strikes you, as racially diverse crowd-members stand shoulder to shoulder, holding the signs of a historic rally. The caption hits you, as the words ring out from above: conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men ...

In its final year, UPA seeks to secure lost ground by focusing on social