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Oak Brook Doctor Convicted In Kickback Scheme
A federal jury convicted an Indian-American doctor from Oak Brook, Illinois, March 4, for illegally receiving benefits in exchange for referring elderly patients to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s...
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‘Local Heroine’ Continues Bid For State Assembly Despite Odds
Declared a “Local Heroine’ by the Battery Park paper The Broadsheet, and named a “Rising Star” in New York by City & State news outlet, Jenifer Rajkumar, 33, a civil rights attorney, is continuing...
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Candidate For Pennsylvania State Assembly Plans Grassroots Campaign
A young Indian-American is running for Pennsylvania state Assembly from District 122, and as a son-of-the-soil born and raised in Carbon County, he hopes to build a grassroots campaign. Neil Makhija,...
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Deli Manager Suing NYPD For Wrongful Arrest Says It’s Not About Money
An Indian-American store manager from Flushing, New York, says he is proud of suing the New York City Police Department for wrongful arrest and that it is not about the money. Jayendra Baldevbhai, was...
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Cops Search For Clues For Missing Bangladeshi Nurse From Bronx
Police tore up cement at a Bronx house and searched with sniffer dogs March 6 to find clues about the mysterious disappearance of a Bangladeshi nurse. According to a Daily News report, police were...
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s festival on Delhi’s Yamuna floodplain riles greens,...
Environmentalists are aghast that a huge cultural festival is to be held on the floodplain of Delhi’s main river from Friday, warning that the event, and the 3.5 million visitors expected, will...
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Ahead of Modi visit, India, US focus on ‘concrete results
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, India and the US have agreed to work together to achieve concrete results in key areas including defence, trade and investment and civil nuclear energy....
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New Rule A Boon For Foreign Students In STEM Programs
Shruthi Aramandla, a 24-year-old New York University engineering student from India graduating in May, is very happy these days, not just because of her imminent graduation, but also because she may...
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Two Indians Among Winners Of NASA Space Suit Textile Challenge
Two people of Indian origin – Ahilan Anantha Krishnan from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Himel Barua, a student at the University of Akron along with his team mates – are among top three...
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Federal Judge Rules Favorably In Sikh Captain’s Case Against The Army
A federal district judge ruled last week that the Army cannot single out Simratpal Singh, a Sikh captain, for special testing to decide whether his hair, turban and beard interfere with the fit and...
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Maryland Sikhs And Muslims Back Donald Trump Despite Minority Bashing
Despite his anti-Muslim rhetoric widely condemned in the U.S., some Muslims and Sikhs in Maryland have joined the camp of Donald Trump claiming that the Republican presidential frontrunner is not...
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Berkeley Law dean Sujit Choudhry on ‘indefinite leave’ after sexual...
Officials at the University of California at Berkeley said Wednesday night the dean of their prestigious law school is taking an “indefinite leave of absence” from his position after he was sued for...
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New York Student In Line For $100,000 ‘Child Genius’ Prize
–WASHINGTON An Indian American boy, with his terrific memory skills and mathematical abilities, is all set to lock horns with two other finalists in the second season of Lifetime Television’s...
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Man Who Vandalizd Sikh Shrine Faces Hate Crime Charge
A man, who broke into the Sikh Temple of Spokane late on the night March 2 and vandalized the shrine, apparently under the mistaken notion that it was a mosque connected to ISIS has been arrested and...
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Sikh Students Talk About Bullying At Florida Conference
A 17-year-old Sikh high school senior gave an hour long presentation, highlighting the insidious bullying faced by Sikh children in schools across the United States during the four-day National...
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India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination
New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entrenched sexism and caste bias are...
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Mumbai Women Fighting For Right To Pee Want Men To Join Campaign
Activists and charities campaigning for better access to public toilets for women in Mumbai are asking men to join the movement, saying greater gender sensitivity can solve the problem faster. The...
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JNU revokes eight students’ suspension
The Jawaharlal Nehru University on Friday revoked suspension on eight ostudents after a high-level probe panel submitted to the vice chancellor its report on the February 9 incident wherein...
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India’s Holy Men Enter The World Of Big Business
For more than a decade, the orange-robed guru Baba Ramdev hosted a popular TV show, showing millions of Indians how to breathe correctly, eat herbs and knot themselves into impossible yoga postures....
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‘Spices of Liberty’: Desi IT Consultant’s Directorial Debut
Spices of Liberty’, a full-length feature film by Indian-American director Gowri Goli, is a love story of a young couple of Indian descent born in America and the challenges they face in their...
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