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Arun Jaitley Sues Rival Arvind Kejriwal For Slander
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sued Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for 100 million rupees ($1.51 million) Dec. 21 for slander, escalating a battle between the ruling party and the opposition that...
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‘Bajirao Mastani’: Embellished History
Is embellishing historical events with a heightened sense of drama and cinematic liberty equivalent to mutilating it? Or is it ok when it’s meant for entertainment? If you watch Sanjay Leela...
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Radiologist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate
Dr. Amit Majmudar, a nuclear radiologist from Dublin, Ohio, was last week named Ohio’s first poet laureate, a year after legislation creating the position of the state’s official poet was passed. Gov....
View ArticleCompany To Pay $5 Million To Indian Workers To Settle EEOC Lawsuit
An Alabama-based ship-building and repair company was last week asked by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission to pay $5 million to476 guest workers from India to settle a national origin...
View ArticleOhio Cardiologist Gets 20 Years In Prison For Healthcare Fraud
A Westlake, Ohio, cardiologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part...
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Obama To Present National Medal Of Science To Harvard Professor
President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Science to Dr. , an Indian- American professor at Harvard Medical School and director of tumor biology laboratory at Massachusetts General...
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India-U.S. Relations: A Year Of ‘Modbama Bromance’
A “budding bromance” between India and the U.S. or “Modbama” as Foreign Policy called it, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, took their ties to a new high in the year gone...
View ArticlePadmasree Warrior Made CEO of NextEV U.S.
A Chinese electric car company NextEV has hired Cisco Systems Inc’s former tech head, Padmasree Warrior, as its chief development officer and the chief executive of its U.S. unit. Warrior, a tech...
View Article2015: Another Year Of Achievements
The year 2015 began on a high note and with all the superlatives that can be mustered to describe a visit by a U.S. President to India as President Barack Obama’s second visit to India –as chief guest...
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Silicon Valley & India 2015-2016: A Symbiotic Relationship
Venture capitalist Vinod Dham, the “Father of the Pentium chip,” says 2015 was a banner year for the technology relationship between Silicon Valley and India and it will only grow. At Intel, Dham...
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Disabled have divine ability, government scheme in Guinness records: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Dec. 27 that physically challenged people have a “divine ability” and urged people to change the way to address them. He also said the government’s “Direct Benefit...
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Vikram Yoga Founder Faces Legal Separation From Wife Of 31 Years
Los Angeles-based Bikram Choudhury, founder of Vikram yoga, was slapped with a lawsuit last week by his wife Rajashree Choudhury, seeking legal separation from her husband of 31 years. The report,...
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Is Ebola virus one-up against bats?
Ebola virus and bats have been waging a molecular battle for survival that may have started at least 25 million years ago, revealed a new study led by an Indian-origin scientist. The findings shed...
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Organizations Collaborate To Raise $45,000 For Chennai Flood Victims
For the first time ever, 20 organizations and community groups from across Chicagoland collaborated to hold the Chennai Flood Disaster relief fundraiser Dec. 20 at the Waterford banquet Hall in...
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Sadhana: End Of An Era Of Style, Versatility And Panache
Accredited as one of the most stylish actress of Bollywood in the late 1960s and 1970s, especially known for her “fringe hairstlye”, the reign of Sadhana Shivdesani, popularly known as Sadhana, will...
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‘Tamir Could Have Been My Son,’ Says Attorney For Family Of Cleveland Boy...
The Indian-American community must rally against police brutality as it is already suffering the consequences, says Subodh Chandra, lawyer for the family of 12-year old Tamir Rice who was shot dead...
View ArticleNew Yorker Accused Of Plotting New Year’s Eve Attack Supporting Islamic State
A 25-year-old Rochester, N.Y., man has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State in what authorities described as a plot to attack civilians on New...
View ArticleCalifornia Settles With Indian Company Over Alleged Piracy
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, who sued a company from India in 2013 for gaining “unfair competitive advantage” over America-based companies through alleged use of pirated software,...
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India, U.S. Moving Into 2016 With Ambitious Agenda: U.S. Envoy Verma
Describing 2015 as a transformative year in U.S.-India relations, U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma has said they are moving into 2016 with optimism and an ambitious agenda for the future. “While...
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Leading Hindi Film Distributor For Alleged...
Eros International Plc., a New Jersey-based Hindi film distribution company, has been slapped with a class action lawsuit for allegedly “defrauding investors” by overstating its performance and for...
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