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Scholarship To Be Named After EMT Who Died On Duty
Spotswood in New Jersey will set up a scholarship fund to honour the memory of an Indian-origin emergency medical technician, who died in the line of duty in July this year, a media report said. Hinal...
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Jersey City Woman In Indicted In Auto Insurance Scam
An Indian-American woman from Jersey City, New Jersey, was among six motorists who were indicted last week for allegedly filing crash claims against insurance policies they obtained after the...
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NYU Student Of Acting Crowned Miss India USA 2015
Proud parents Rupal and Karan Kohli looked on as their daughter Karina Kohli, 18, a student of acting at New York University, was crowned Miss India USA 2015, at the Dec. 6 pageant held at Royal...
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Huge audience for Indian classical music abroad: Anoushka Shankar
Internationally acclaimed sitarist Anoushka Shankar says Indian classical music has a strong following abroad, but it’s “such a shame” that the genre’s popularity hasn’t translated in the country of...
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Asian Indian Ministries Celebrate Christmas With Multilingual Carols
The Asian Indian Ministries organized a community Christmas celebration in Edison Dec. 12 attended, among others, by Dr. Sudhir Parikh, publisher of Desi Talk and Padma Shri award winner, who was also...
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India’s responsibility not limited to its boundaries: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India was in a “difficult neighbourhood”, but the country’s responsibility on the security scene was no longer limited to its borders and coastline. The...
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Muslim Store-owner Attacked In New York
Sarker Haque, a Muslim store-owner in New York, was allegedly assaulted Dec. 12 by a man who is believed to have screamed that he would “kill Muslims”, officials said Dec. 15. The suspect Piro...
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India launches six Singaporean satellites
India on Wednesday put into orbit in copy book style six Singaporean satellites that will hover about 550 km above the Earth for up to five years. It was the Indian space agency’s 50th launch from...
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A year on, Pakistan massacre survivors say waiting for aid, justice
Families of children killed or wounded in Pakistan’s worst militant attack accuse the local government of breaking its promises of medical treatment and justice, a year after Taliban gunmen massacred...
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A New York Judge Takes Oath On Koran Setting Off Controversy
A Muslim woman of African descent was sworn in as a judge in New York City. She took the oath on the Koran, a video of which was posted on Facebook, giving rise to some anti-Islamic comments. Carolyn...
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Pediatrician’s New Book On Bringing Up Children Has Lessons For Fathers
When it comes to being a father, it doesn’t matter if you are President Barack Obama, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, an army officer, or a techie. To your children, you are “just a father,” says...
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Chicago Teenager Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Against Sikh Cabby
Chicago Teenager Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Against Sikh Cabby By a Staff Writer A Chicago teenager pleaded guilty last week to one count of hate crime of beating a Sikh cab driver, Inderjit...
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President Obama Thanks Prime Minister Modi For Paris Deal
President Obama called Prime Minister Modi Dec. 16, to express his thanks for the success of the Paris Climate Change summit and the resulting deal. The White House released a readout of the phone...
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Google CEO touts India as key testing ground for new products
New Google (GOOGL.O) leader Sundar Pichai pledged on Wednesday to use India as a testing ground for its products as the U.S. tech giant targets hundreds of millions of consumers in the developing...
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Team led by Indian-American creates ‘supercondom’ to fight HIV
An Indian-origin professor has created a ‘supercondom’ that can help combat the deadly virus that cause AIDS and also enhance sexual pleasure. Made of an elastic polymer called hydrogel, the condom is...
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Pelosi Supports Krishnamoorthi For U.S. Congress From Illinois
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of U.S. Congress and and now Minority Leader in the House expressed strong support for Raja Krishnamoorthi, candidate in the Democratic primary for the 8th...
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Congress seeks to exploit Gandhis’ day in court
Opposition leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi will appear in court on Saturday to defend themselves against graft allegations in a case they hope to turn to their advantage by energising their party...
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From internet.org to drones, India enters new technology era
While “net neutrality” and its ensuing debate kept Indian policymakers and the social media busy for most part of the year, what took the country to the centre stage was a statement from social...
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Clash of egos? Bollywood biggies in year-end box office battle
Battle lines have been drawn at the box office this weekend, where two of the year’s biggest Bollywood releases will premiere in what industry watchers say is an avoidable clash which could end up...
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The mother of Uzair, an Army Public School victim, touches his picture in a gallery of the victims at a ceremony on the anniversary of the Taliban attack on the school in Peshawar, Pakistan December...
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