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Four Indian-Americans charged with H-1B visa fraud
Four Indian-Americans have been indicted for hatching a plot to commit H-1B visa fraud, use of false documents and mail fraud among other offences, the US federal prosecutors said in an official...
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Florida stock broker charged in alleged $131 million 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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Right-wing Hindu group in India prays for Trump to win
Donald Trump may have made fun of India’s call center workers and accused the country of stealing U.S. jobs but he still has fans in India. About a dozen members of a right-wing Hindu group gathered...
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A priest applies a “tika” on the portrait of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during a special prayer organized by Hindu Sena, a Hindu right-wing group, to ensure his victory in the...
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Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war
Bangladesh hanged an Islamist party leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, drawing an angry reaction and...
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The new 140-character war on India’s caste system
NEW DELHI – When a bridge collapsed in the city of Kolkata, killing dozens two months ago, the usual outrage followed about shoddy construction companies and substandard material. But a wealthy...
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2 years Of Modi Government: Pluses, Minuses
The Narendra Modi government has been in office for almost two years. There have been some strong areas of performance and other areas where the government has not had stellar performance and much...
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After nearly five decades of marriage, a woman in India finally gave birth
The couple from Amritsar, India, had been married without children for nearly five decades. Those long years were enough, Daljinder Kaur told her husband Mohinder Singh Gill. She was having a baby...
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In The Name Of The Father: Congressman Bera’s Woe
“I have indeed done the crime.” Those were the words of 83-year old Babulal Bera, leaning on his cane, responding through an interpreter, to the judge’s question on whether he had broken the law. He...
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Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa On Jazz Greats And Blending South Asian...
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s latest album is Bird Calls. The alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, born to immigrant parents from India and raised in Colorado, has built an enthusiastic following in the jazz...
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Bangalore Students Shine In Formula SAE Hybrid Car Design Contest
A group of undergraduate engineering students from Bangalore won second place in design and project management categories at the prestigious International Formula SAE hybrid car design competitions...
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Sudarsan Raghavan Wins Osborn Elliott Prize For Journalism
Sudarsan Raghavan, Cairo bureau chief of Washington Post, has been named the winner of the 2016 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, for a landmark, year-long series of articles...
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MIT Organizes Classical Indian Dance And Music Concert
MIT Heritage Arts of South Asia organized a Carnatic Vocal and Bharatnatyam by T.M. Krishna and Priyadarsini Govind respectively, May 7 at MIT’s Big Kresge Auditorium that was attended by hundreds of...
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Obama Appoints Manjit Singh To President’s Advisory Council On Faith Issues
President Obama announced the appointment of an Indian-American to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships May 12. Manjit Singh, president of Agilious, a software technology...
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India’s Air Pollution Kills Half A Million People Every Year
A new paper has added to the growing body of research indicating that India’s air pollution has become a matter of life and death. The study, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research...
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Apple’s Cook will visit India this week, to meet Modi
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will visit India this week and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the second leg of his Asian tour, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks...
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As millions vote, polling ends in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
Millions voted on Monday in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, bringing down the curtains on staggered five-state elections — the biggest popularity test since the Lok Sabha battle. Some 40 million...
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Exit polls give Bengal to Mamata, Assam to BJP, Kerala to Left, TN to DMK
Exit polls at the end of five-state elections on Monday evening predicted a Trinamool sweep in West Bengal, a BJP win in Assam, a Left victory in Kerala but the verdict was split over Tamil Nadu, with...
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Malika Sherawat poses on red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the film “The BFG” (Le Bon Gros Geant) out of competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 14. The post...
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Relentless idolization of a flawed man
Mohammad Azharuddin, the cricketer on whose life Tony D’Souza’s “Azhar” is based, struck a hundred in his first three test matches. It was a glorious start to a fairly successful career – until his...
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