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Murder-Suicide Of Texas Couple Shows Wife Filed Twice For Divorce
An Indian-American couple in Southlake, Texas, was found dead in their home April 12, in what police describe as a murder-suicide. Local news reports said court records showed Neeta Kharabanda, 58 had...
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One Arrested In Rutgers Junior Shani Patel’s Killing
Two days after Shani Patel, a 21-year-old student of Rutgers-Newark, was killed April 10 in a suspected drug-related robbery attempt, a 25-year-old alleged assailant who entered Patel’s off-campus...
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Seattle Socialist Stumps For Bernie, ‘The Real Feminist In This Race’
Kshama Sawant, the only Socialist on the Seattle City Council, who hosted Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Seattle some months ago, traveled to New York to stump for him April 9....
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ISIS Targets Clinton Aide Among Others Worldwide
Several well-known moderate Muslims are identified as targets in a hit list put out April 13, by the leading terrorist organization ISIS, and includes among others, an Indian-American aide to...
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Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, pose as they sit in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, April 16. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Normalcy returns to Srinagar, but will lessons be learnt?
Traffic jams, children jostling to get into buses to reach schools, shops opening ahead of time, people in a hurry to go to work… Normalcy returned to Srinagar on Monday after five troubled days....
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Hillary, or Bernie: Animated Anticipation In The Community Ahead Of Primary
Inside a dimly-lit bar lounge in midtown Manhattan, a small bunch of men and women sat on barstools late in the afternoon last weekend, watching news on television while sipping beer and talking among...
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‘Fan’ Goes From The Sublime To The Ridiculous
The Indian movie fan is a strange species. He will stand outside his favorite actor’s house for hours just to catch a glimpse. Others may bathe a life-size statue in milk. And some passionate folks...
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Nicki Minaj Meets President Obama To Discuss Social Justice Issues
Indian-American rapper Nicki Minaj, along with several other artists, met President Obama the week of April 11, to discuss a White House initiative aimed at reducing systemic discrimination against...
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The World’s Most Bizarre YouTube Star Is From Pakistan
At a time when Pakistan finds itself in the news for grisly bombings and a soaring rate in executions, an unexpected angel has swooped in with a message of peace, love and harmony. Two years after...
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Turban Day Celebrated At Times Square
Times Square rocked to bhangra and dhol, colorful dancers in bright turbans, DJs turning discs and emceeing the “Turban Day-Vaisakhi” festival on a sunny April 16 afternoon. Thousands of New Yorkers...
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Annual India Fair Organized By Local Business Draws Large Crowds
Local businesses held their annual “India Fair” April 16-17, at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center in Edison, attracting large crowds both days to savor Indian food, crafts and culture, and...
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Columbia University Researcher Helps Create Flexible Camera
A team led by an Indian-origin professor at Columbia University has created a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more...
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India says it still wants back British queen’s crown jewel
India will make all possible efforts to get back the Koh-i-Noor Diamond from Britain despite comments by New Delhi’s solicitor general that the priceless jewel should stay with the former colonial...
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Senior U.S. lawmakers want Modi to address U.S. Congress
The leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on Tuesday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of Congress during a visit to Washington in...
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Sikh-American teenager forced to remove turban at US airport
A Sikh-American teenager who authored a book about bullying that the community faces in the US was forced to remove his turban at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, a media report...
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Indians, not Brits, are Shakespeare’s biggest fans, survey finds
A survey conducted by the British Council found a huge groundswell of international love for William Shakespeare — to the extent that the great Bard appears more popular overseas than in the land of...
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Priyanka Chopra in Time’s list of 100 Most Influential People
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has made India proud once again. Her name has been featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list alongside Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio,...
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‘Hindutva Carrying Forward British Colonial Project of Demonizing Mughals’
Mughal rulers patronized Sanskrit literature in their courts, especially between AD 1560 to 1660, and also took up Persian translations of epics like the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as ambitious...
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More than 100 feared dead in heat wave
More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday. Neighbouring...
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