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Indian American ex-CIA officer faces extradition in rendition case
More than 13 years after an Egyptian cleric was kidnapped off the streets of Milan by CIA operatives, one former agency officer now living in Portugal faces extradition to Italy and the possibility of...
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Vehicles driving along a road are seen through heat haze in Chandigarh, India, April 20. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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U.S. Wants To Invest More In India: Nisha Biswal
Appreciating the Narendra Modi government’s initiatives to make India investor-friendly, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal on Tuesday said US...
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Today, Roles Not Restricted To Ethnicity: Freida Pinto
Gone are the days when actors from different nationalities were restricted to playing roles based on their ethnicity, feels US-based Indian actress Freida Pinto. She also says that nobody is tagged as...
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Women No Longer Playing Victim In Bollywood: Madhuri Dixit
Dancing diva and actress Madhuri Dixit, who was last seen in women-centric film “Gulaab Gang” which was inspired by women activists in Bundelkhand and talks about women’s empowerment, says women are...
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Minnesota Woman Files Suit Against Southern Indian Diocese In Sex Abuse Case
A Minnesota woman is seeking damages of more than $75,000 from an Indian diocese in Southern India for reassigning a priest who she had accused of molesting her as a young teenager. Megan Peterson...
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New Jersey Grandmother Murdered By Grandson, Officials Allege
Police in North Bergen, New Jersey found a 73-year old Indian-American grandmother dead of multiple stab wounds to her torso April 20 morning. She was murdered by her 26-year old grandson according to...
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Woman Engineer From India Killed In Texas Flash Flood
A 47-year-old Indian-American woman engineer from Houston, Texas, was among six people killed in a flash flood April 18 that submerged several major interstate highways and forced closure of schools....
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Judge Drops Charge Against 78-year-old In Son-in-law’s Killing
Why would a 78-year-old retired teacher from Tirupati, India, living with his daughter and her husband in Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, murder his 46-year-old son-in-law? The question evidently had...
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Texas University Student Killed In Road Accident
A Texas University student from Guntur, India, was killed April 17 after suffering serious injuries in a road accident April 9, according to newspaper reports. M. Jayabharath Kumar Reddy, 24, was...
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Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize For Serve2Unite, Harvard Pluralism Project
Two organizations, including Serve2Unite, created by Pardeep Kaleka whose father was killed along with five others at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 2012 in a hate crime massacre, were last...
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Parents Of Abducted Children Lobby Washington In Hopes Of Influencing India
ndian-American parents of abducted children joined by other South Asians, and parents from around the country, walked down Embassy Row in Washington, stopping before the Indian Embassy among others,...
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Hillary Clinton slams Trump for ‘mocking’ Indian accent
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign has slammed her Republican rival Donald Trump for mocking an Indian call centre worker during an election rally, the media reported on...
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Brown students protest kirtan singing by a white woman
Singing of kirtans at an Ivy League university has drawn protests from a multi-racial group of students there. Unlike in the protests against yoga, the demonstrators this time were not religious...
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‘Nil Battey Sannata’ will bring a smile
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s “Nil Battey Sannata” (a slang for incompetent) is a charming little film that shines a light on people we tend to overlook in movies and in our daily lives – domestic helps. They...
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‘Laal Rang’ relies on charms of its male leads
Syed Ahmad Afzal’s “Laal Rang” is supposed to be inspired by true incidents surrounding illegal blood trade in India. Randeep Hooda plays Shankar, a suave, smooth-talking gangster involved in the...
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Two Injured In Assault By Man Inside Jamaica Muslim Center
In a bizarre incident alleged by the community as a hate crime, a 26-year-old man, who was high on drugs, ran into the Jamaica Muslim Center April 19 and punched two people who had assembled at the...
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Illegals To Benefit From N.Y.C.’s New Healthcare Access Plan
Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito have announced expanded benefits for New York City’s more than 830,000 IDNYC cardholders through a new partnership with N.Y.C. Health plus Hospitals and the...
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JNU rusticates three students, Kanhaiya is fined
Two months after they were sent to jail on charges of sedition, the JNU on Monday fined student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and rusticated three students for taking part in an event to commemorate...
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I resent what Hindutva is doing to Hinduism: Nayantara Sahgal
Hindutva is a brand of fundamentalism and the Hindu right wing is distorting what Hinduism stands for, says renowned author Nayantara Sahgal who was among one of the first writers to return her...
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