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At dinner with Obama, Modi warns about state actors abetting terrorists
Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned global leaders from over 50 nations gathered here to discuss nuclear terrorism that state actors working with nuclear traffickers and terrorists present the...
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TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee commits suicide
TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee, known for her role of adult Anandi in the popular serial “Balika Vadhu”, allegedly committed suicide here on Friday, police said. The news has left the industry shocked....
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Judge Allows Case Against ‘Sheriff Of Wall Street’ To Go Forward
A federal court judge in New York allowed a case against U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to go to the discovery stage and denied the “Sheriff “of Wall Street’s motion to dismiss the civil rights claims...
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Protest In California Over Replacing ‘India With South Asia’ In Textbooks
The California Department of Education’s Instructional Quality Commission late last month rejected suggestions of some experts for replacing ‘ancient India’ with ‘South Asia’ in school textbooks...
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New York Indian Consulate To Streamline Passport Services
A New York Consul General Riva Ganguly Das, in her first interaction with the media, opened the floor for reporters, asking them for suggestions as to what the consulate could do better for the...
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Justice Department Takes Up Case Of Severed Cow Head Found In Hindu Sanctuary
The U.S. Justice Department is getting involved in the case of the severed cow’s head recently dumped at a cow sanctuary run by a Hindu devotee in Pennsylvania recently. The Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary...
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Lawmakers Told About Disastrous Impact Of Budget Cuts On Immigrants
A group of bi-partisan Illinois State Legislators and executive directors of various Asian American community and social service organizations participated in a meeting between the Illinois...
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Suvrath Mahadevan: NASA’s Planet Hunter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected an Indian-American to lead its team that will build a new, cutting-edge instrument that will detect planets outside the solar system....
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Barve Calls Out Opponent On Ads Saying He Is The Only Progressive In The Race
Maryland Del. Kumar P. Barve says he understands that state Sen. Jamie B. Raskin, like all candidates, is eager to put his record in the most favorable light for voters. But television ads that...
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India sets up multi-agency probe team on ‘Panama Papers’ expose
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ordered a multi-agency probe team on the global expose by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), dubbed the “Panama Papers”, which found...
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I’d like to make a movie in fascinating India: Morgan Freeman
He has twice played god on screen, and now he’s taking the small screen route to explore ‘the story of god’ in a documentary series for which he paid a maiden visit to India last year. One of American...
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Mehbooba Mufti becomes first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday took oath as Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister heading a 22-member coalition ministry with the BJP — and in no time attended office. Mehbooba Mufti,...
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BJP in tight fight in Assam as voting begins
The Bharatiya Janata Party will fall short of a majority in Assam after a tense anti-immigrant campaign, an opinion poll showed as voters on Monday trickled into polling booths in the first phase of a...
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‘Ki and Ka’: More stereotypes than you can count
In the early exchanges between the main leads of R. Balki’s “Ki and Ka”, Kabir (Arjun Kapoor) tells Kia (Kareena Kapoor) that she is a robot who has no feelings or emotions. She in turn accuses him of...
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Saudi King Salman (R) meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 3. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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West Indies players celebrate with the trophy after winning the final of the World Twenty20 cricket tournament final in Kolkata, India, March 4. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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CFO Pleads Guilty to $18 Million Accounting Fraud
An Indian-American former Chief Financial Officer of a furniture company in New Jersey, pleaded guilty to defrauding banks in New York and Indiana of millions of dollars. Norman D’Souza, 50, of...
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Neel Upadhye’s debut film is about universal challenges of being in love
Michael is Jewish and Daisy is a Protestant. Their love story is captured by Indian-American writer and director Neel Upadhye in “Dating Daisy,” a film about the honest and crazy truth about dating in...
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More names, underworld shadow in ‘Panama Papers’ Part II
A now-deceased underworld don, a politician, industrialists and an ex-cricketer are among those with alleged off-shore links, even as the agency that helped them set up the entities stonewalled New...
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American Idol Contestant Sonika Vaid Returns Home
Hundreds of fans from Indian and American communities gathered at the American legion in Newton Massachusetts March 26 to welcome back Sonika Vaid, a top five American Idol contestant. Her...
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