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Obama names Indian-American judge in California
WASHIGNTON President Barack Obama has nominated yet another Indian American legal luminary, Vince Girdhari Chhabria, to a key judicial post in California. Girdhari Chhabria Nominated to be US District...
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Indian-American doctors launch heart-disease education networks
WASHINGTON With heart disease emerging as the number one killer among Indians, an ethnic doctors’ group has launched educational “Networks” to foster high quality medical education of Asian Indian...
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US for dialogue with India, China to revive world economy
NEW DELHI Almost a month after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited India, Vice President Joe Biden came to tend the relationship, which has flagged both politically and economically in recent...
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Kolkata slum boy announced Prince George’s birth
LONDON Badar Azim, a 25-year-old hospitality management graduate, born in a slum in then Calcutta and who later became a royal footman, played a part in the announcement of the birth of Prince George...
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Four Indian Americans win top science and maths awards
WASHINGTON Four Indian American professors are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have won 2013 Simons Investigators awards. Currently working...
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BJP launches overseas unit in Canada
TORONTO Overseas Friends of Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP) has launched a Canada unit with chapters in four major cities -Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa – to connect with the Indian diaspora....
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California gurdwara vandalised
WASHINGTON A Sikh gurdwara in Riverside, California has been vandalised in an apparent hate crime with the word ‘TERRIST!’ in capital letters spray painted around the complex, according to a community...
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Indian analyst charged with insider trading on Microsoft-Yahoo deal
NEW YORK An Indian Internet analyst charged with providing insider information about a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo to a prominent hedge fund is scheduled to appear before a New York court Friday....
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For NRIs, Jayalalithaa is the best PM contender
NEW DELHI Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa is the most qualified to become India’s next prime minister, followed closely by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a survey J Jayalalithaa...
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A $5mn boost for India studies in US
WASHINGTON A $5 million gift to the India studies centre at a New York University is set to make it one of the pre-eminent resource centres for the study of Indian culture and civilisation in the US....
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Sensitive to Sikh community concerns, says Italy
NEW DELHI Italy Thursday conveyed to India that it was sensitive to the concerns of the Sikh community in the wake of a controversy after a Sikh delegation was held up at Rome airport and members asked...
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Top Dawood aide Iqbal Mirchi dies in London
LONDON, England Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, died of a heart attack in London on Wednesday. Mirchi, 63, the right-hand man...
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An immigrant reflects on 25 years in the Big Apple
By Aleya Hussain Jung Memories, some sharp, some mildly amusing and others like a soothing balm, assaulted me, reminded me and humbled me when asked to write a guest column for this newspaper. I...
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Lindsay Lohan shops with drug bust rehabber Vikram Chatwal
NEW YORK Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was spotted hanging out with hotelier Vikram Chatwal in New York. The duo, who have known to be very close friends, were reportedly shopping together in the Big...
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South Asians outraged at Pentagon depiction of “Hema”
WASHINGTON, DC South Asians in America have reacted with a sense of outrage at a US Defence Department online security training test that profiles a fictional Indian-American woman as a potential...
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Chemical experts in Syria receive more manpower
Damascus, Oct 16 (IANS) The team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN have been reinforced with a second group of inspectors and more UN support staff, the...
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Rwanda slams Mo Ibrahim governance index
Kigali, Oct 16 (IANS) The Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) has challenged the Mo Ibrahim index of African Governance (IIAG) 2013 for releasing misleading data on Rwanda‘s security, participation and...
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Saudi Arabia slams Security Council, rejects its seat
Riyadh, Oct 18 (IANS) Saudi Arabia turned down its rotating seat in the United Nations Security Council Friday, out of its disapproval of the council’s role in addressing Middle Eeast issues, the Saudi...
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PM praises Russia for standing by India
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday praised Russia for assisting India in nuclear energy and said New Delhi wanted to scale up participation in Moscow’s oil and gas sector....
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Fear grips Jammu villages after night of Pakistan shelling
Jammu, Oct 19 (IANS) More than 40,000 people living in villages close to the International Border in the Jammu region are tense with fear after a night of shelling by Pakistan Rangers at 25 locations....
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