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Indian maid who lost arm as fled Saudi Arabia becomes face of human trafficking
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Kasthuri Munirathinam crawled out of the window of a second floor apartment in Riyadh, she was scared for her life. The 55-year-old Indian housemaid...
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Nadella, Indra Nooyi, Bhavesh Patel make it to highest-paid CEOs list
Indian origin Indra Nooyi, Bhavesh Patel and Satya Nadella made it to the list of 100 highest-paid CEOs in the world compiled by compensation information provider Equilar. LyondellBasell Industries...
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India rejects Apple’s plan to import used iPhones
India has rejected a plan by Apple Inc to import used iPhones, government officials said on Wednesday, a blow to the U.S. tech giant that has been seeking to revive waning sales of its flagship...
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A woman walks among debris after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe, Myanmar May 3. The post appeared first on News...
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More than 300 million Indians suffer from a crippling drought
SHIVOOR, India – In the blistering sun and swirling dust, farmer Dhananjay Hanumant Suryavanshi squats on his empty land and caresses the parched earth. “There is only one thought that runs over and...
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Pakistan girl, 16, “burnt alive” for helping couple to elope
Pakistani police on Thursday arrested 15 members of a tribal council accused of ordering the burning alive of a young girl for helping a couple to elope in a so-called “honour killing”, police said....
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Clinton Promises To Recruit More Asian Americans In Her Administration
It was a love-fest between the sitting president, a potential Democratic incoming president, and the Asian-American community at the star-studded Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional...
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Man, 63, Kills Wife In San Jose Suspecting Extramarital Affair
A 63-year-old man killed his wife he was married to “for decades” with a single gunshot in Linear Park, San Jose, April 30 on suspicion that his wife Sonia Nallan was having an extramarital affair....
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$1.2M Project For Better Education Of India’s Madrasa Graduates
With a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame has launched a three-year project to enrich scientific and theological...
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar claims he rejected a Nobel, and Malala did nothing to...
For many years, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of the world’s most prominent spiritual leaders and the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, went about his work without much controversy. He wrote a...
View ArticleNew York Man, Two Other Restaurant Owners Charged With Tax Fraud
Three men, one from New York, and two from Massachusetts, who operated two Boston-area fried chicken restaurants, were charged April 29, with conspiring to file false tax returns. Hazrat Khalid Khan,...
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Youth Volunteers From India Honored In Washington, D.C.
Two of India’s top youth volunteers of the year – Mahima Varma, 17, of Kolkata and Nikhiya Shamsher, 13, of Bangalore – were honored May 1 at a gala awards ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National...
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C. Raja Mohan Named Chicago Council’s First Marshall Bouton Asia Fellow
C. Raja Mohan, a highly regarded foreign policy strategist from India and founding director of Carnegie India, was last week named the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ inaugural Marshall M. Bouton...
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Sikh Art Exhibit To Spread Awareness About Identity In U.S.
Even 15 years after 9/11, Sikhs in the US feel they are more likely to face profiling, bigotry and backlash than the average American because of the two symbols of their distinct identity – beard and...
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New York City Launches Multilingual Campaign To Help Uninsured Immigrants
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, with the support of the New York State Health Foundation, launched a campaign May 5, to reach uninsured immigrant New Yorkers eligible...
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Sikh Arrested On Terrorist Suspicion During Bus Ride Seeks Justice
A few days after a Sikh political asylum-seeker from India was released by immigration authorities from a detention center in Phoenix, Arizona, Daljeet Singh, 30, felt somewhat relieved and boarded a...
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Indian Descent Stock Broker Charged In Alleged $131mn Stock Market Scam
A stock broker of Indian descent has been charged in an alleged $131 million stock manipulation scheme after investigations by a task force set up for President Barack Obama’s war on financial crimes,...
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Did U.S. Sabotage India-Pakistan Peace Deal?
Former Indian Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra has made the startling claim that India and Pakistan were on the verge of signing a peace treaty in July 1984, when some U.S. lawmakers convinced...
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Life Of A Mathematical Genius Is Snuffed Out Young
The life of the imagination is difficult to capture, let alone to contain, onscreen. For that reason, movies about such original thinkers as famous writers and artists – or, as in “The Man Who Knew...
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Amitabh, Kangana Win Top Honors At 63rd National Film Awards
The 63rd National Film Awards ceremony here on April 3 got a dash of glitz and glamour of Bollywood with Amitabh Bachchan and Kangana Ranaut getting Best Actor and Best Actress honors. President...
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