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Indian man denies molestation charges in UAE
Dubai, June 23 (IANS) An Indian expatriate Monday denied charges that he had molested a woman on a Dubai Metro station escalator, a media report said. The Indian, identified only as J.K., 26, has been...
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British Indian girl’s death an ‘open conclusion’, says court
LONDON, England An inquest into the mysterious death of an eight-year-old British Indian girl has found it to be a case of “open conclusion”, a media report said Wednesday. Gurkiren Loyal, a resident...
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Stardust launches its new entity Stardust Acting Academy
MUMBAI What do actresses like Sonali Bendre, Divya Dutta and Tara Sharma have in common? They are all alumni of Stardust Academy, an initiative by Nari Hira of Stardust magazine fame. The Academy is a...
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Dubai: Living life larger but not necessarily better
By Sabrina Almeida From the Burj Khalifa to the Atlantis on the Palm Jumeira, the humongous malls and even the supermarkets Dubai dishes out more than the usual. If you have any preconceived notions of...
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Indian student in UAE readies for NASA launch of experiments
Dubai, June 21 (IANS) Prerana Pai earns top honor at Sheikh Hamdan Award for Distinguished Academic Excellence. in Sharjah in 2013. The experiments of an eleven-year-old Indian student in the UAE would...
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Punjab announces free calls for families stranded in Iraq
Chandigarh, June 21 (IANS) The Punjab government Saturday announced it will foot the bill of phone calls made by family members of Indian men from the state who are stranded in strife-torn Iraq. A...
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Four journalists get UAE’s Indian media award
Dubai, June 22 (IANS) Four UAE-based Indian journalists have been conferred with the annual Chiranthana Media Award 2013 for helping expatriates in distress through their work across media platforms, a...
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Efforts on for release of abducted Indians in Iraq
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) The Indian government is in touch with agencies and countries that can be of help in securing the release of Indians who were rounded up by suspected Sunni militants in Mosul...
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Indian missions in US scramble to clean up visa mess
Washington, June 22 (IANS) Indian missions in the US have turned to social media like Facebook and Twitter as they scrambled to clear up a visa mess in the wake of a change of contractors for...
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Should Canadian citizens be ‘celebrating’ India’s Independence Day?
By Pradip Rodrigues Following a column I wrote last year about how inappropriate it was for South Asians holding Canadian citizenship to be ‘celebrating’ India’s Independence Day in a passionate...
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Coffee Table book on PM Narendra Modi makes waves
NEW DELHI Millions of PM Narendra Modi acolytes may want to get their hands on the first coffee table book on the PM with over 170 odd photographs shot over a period of ten years by Dilip Thaker. The...
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Diversity in Boomtowns echoes
By Sandeep Agrawal A growing phenomenon across Canada is the development of boomtowns marked by sudden population and economic growth. Boomtowns tend to be resource- or industry-specific small towns in...
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Immigrants are changing the perception of Canadian politeness
By Pradip Rodrigues Canadians are guilty of being notoriously polite, it is a stereotype often used to describe us as a people. When traveling abroad people often identify our nationality by this...
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Why more NRI’s are looking to spend more time in India
By Pradip Rodrigues The rockstar reception and electrifying 70-minute speech delivered by Indian PM Narendra Modi at Madison Square Garden last week seems to have electrified the Indian diaspora...
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PM Stephen Harper’s visits Vishnu Mandir on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary
By Pradip Rodrigues RICHMOND HILL It was only fitting that Canadian PM Stephen Harper visited Vishnu Mandir on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2nd. It was a bright sunny...
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Canadians annoyed at being denied Visa on Arrival to India
TORONTO The Indian diaspora south of the border are thrilled with the new Tourist Visa on Arrival program. The US is on the list of 43 countries, Canada is not. Naturally then, Canadian passport...
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