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“I Want To Be A Storyteller,” Freida Says At Meeting With First Lady
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a roundtable discussion with Freida Pinto and students, in support of the Let Girls Learn initiative, at R.S. Caulfield Senior High School in Unification Town,...
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Justice Department Will “Vigorously Prosecute” Hate Crime Targeting Muslims,...
The Justice Department would strenuously pursue hate crimes and prosecute them, a top official promised at a community event in Washington, D.C. Vanita Gupta, chief of the Civil Rights Division...
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South Asians Unhappy With Court’s Decision On Immigration Reform
A number of community organizations have reacted sharply to the U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlocked decision on comprehensive immigration reform, describing the split judgment as disappointing that would...
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Modesto, California, Now Has First Sikh Police Officer
In a first-of-its-kind appointment, the Modesto Police Department, Calif., swore in its first Sikh American officer on June 14, allowing him to wear his turban and have beard on work despite a...
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Adnan Syed Granted New Trial In ‘Serial’ Case As His Sentence Is Vacated
Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction became the subject of the popular long-form podcast “Serial,” has been granted a new trial. On Thursday, Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch vacated Syed’s murder...
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Tejas, India’s indigenous stealth fighter, inducted after 33-year delay
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday inducted indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas that boosts its weakening operational capability, 33 years after the project to develop the...
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Melodrama and cliches rule ‘Shorgul’
Director duo P Singh and Jitendra Tiwari’s “Shorgul” (cacophony) is a supposed exploration of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and the reasons behind it. It would be too much to expect a nuanced, honest...
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Potency of the plot lost in ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’
In Anurag Kashyap’s “Raman Raghav 2.0”, a serial killer bludgeons three people to death. In the next scene, he saunters out with a smirk on his face and walks with an unmistakable swagger. The scene...
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Gunmen attack restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter
Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and the U.S. State department said there was a hostage situation. Three policemen...
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Indian doctors in U.S. hold conclave on challenges to profession
Indian doctors in the US began their annual conclave here Thursday looking at the challenges to their profession in a health care system in the throes of change. The top Indian American medical...
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Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh, India voices concern
A Hindu priest was hacked to death in Bangladesh on Friday, in a chilling similarity to the murder of another priest from the religious minority in the southwestern district of Jhenaidah last month....
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India’s Ambassador Inaugurates Physicians’ Conclave In N.Y.
India’s rapidly growing pharmaceutical market is expected to grow to $55 billion by 2020 and emerge as the sixth largest globally by size, said Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Arun Singh. Formally...
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New Jersey High School Team Wins RoboCup 2016 World Championship
A high school team made up of Indian-American students from New Jersey, along with two other teams, won first place in a tough category at the RoboCup 2016 World Championship held in Leipzig, Germany...
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Baldev Duggal: The Man Who Got The Big Picture
Baldev Duggal, one of the earliest Indian-American immigrants to the United States whose love for the lens went far beyond just creating photographs, encompassing a burning desire to empower the...
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In major reshuffle, Modi replaces Irani with Javadekar, gives Prasad law
In a major ministerial shake up two years since he took over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inducted 19 new faces, elevated Minister of State Prakash Javadekar to cabinet rank and sent him...
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Outrage Over School Principal Depicting Herself As A Hindu Goddess In Mural
A Queens high school principal sparked outrage and controversy last week with a bizarre painting at the school that shows her as a Hindu goddess. In the hanging artwork above the rear exercise lot of...
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3 Students At U.S. Universities Among Those Killed In Bangladesh Attack
One was about to enter business school. Another brought an international outlook to the halls of Berkeley. And the last, while being a U.S. citizen, claimed Dhaka as home. All three died in Dhaka...
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India’s Highest-profile Cabinet Minister – And Its Most Trolled
When a television journalist asked Smriti Irani what qualities Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw in her to give her the education portfolio, she chose not to answer. Instead, she turned to the studio...
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Priyanka Chopra Mum On Kalpana Chawla Film
Actress Priyanka Chopra says she can’t take up shooting of another Hindi film till the shoot of the second season of “Quantico” gets over in March 2017. She also kept the suspense alive on whether she...
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Was Born To Do ‘Akira,’ Says Sonakshi Sinha
Actress Sonakshi Sinha says that it felt amazing to carry a film on her shoulders in “Akira”, a film she feels she was born to do. At its trailer launch, Sonakshi, asked about the feeling of carrying...
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