United Nations, Dec. 17 : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa remains a terror outfit in the eyes of the international community, notwithstanding its protestations of being a charity organization.

Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Rice said: "Pakistan is going to have to untangle the difficult circumstances the Jamaat offers -they are - because I understand there are so called charitable activities. But we learned - the United States learned the hard way - that sometimes these are too intertwined with organizations that have terrorists ties and have just been designated here."

Coimbatore, Dec 15 : Rice Intensification technology known as System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for having bigger yields with less seeds, water and fertilizers is gaining popularity in India.

Inaugurating a national symposium on "System of Rice Intensification in India - Policies, Institutions and Strategies for Scaling Up" at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, here recently, Norman Uphoff, a scientist from Cornell University of the United States, said that the SRI technology is being extended to several other crops besides rice in India.

Washington, Dec. 13 : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that her country does not believe that Pakistan and India will go to war in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, and is not fearful about that prospect should it take place.

Speaking in an interview with CNBC TV, Rice said Washington is playing its role in

easing tensions between the South Asian neighbours.

She said the US has asked Islamabad to "act forcefully in the dangerous situation."

New York, Dec. 12 : Hillary Rodham Clinton will earn 4,700 dollars less if confirmed as secretary of state than Condoleezza Rice, her predecessor, due to an obscure rule on compensation for public officials.

According to The Telegraph, the US Congress has lowered the salary for America''s most senior diplomatic post to keep Clinton''s nomination within the US Constitution.

Washington  - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered her condolences to the family of former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas, the longtime diplomat and admired statesman in Southeast Asia who died Thursday at the age of 76 in Singapore.

"On behalf of the United States, I extend my deepest condolences to the family of former foreign minister Ali Alatas and to the people of Indonesia," Rice said in a statement. "He was a respected statesman, who will be remembered for his efforts to ensure peace and security in Southeast Asia."

Washington, Dec. 11: Condoleezza Rice appears to be looking forward to her time after ending her tenure as US Secretary of State, saying that she will write books, and is all praise for her successor Hillary Clinton.

During the course of a half an hour interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Rice voiced high hopes for Barack Obama, and heaped praise on Hillary Clinton, with whom she dined privately earlier this week.