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‘Iron Lady’ Ends 16-year Hunger Strike Over Military Law
A few drops of honey. That’s how Indian human rights activist Irom Sharmila on Tuesday ended her epic 16-year old hunger strike to protest alleged military abuses. Now she wants to build up the...
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Doctors At Mumbai’s Hospital Charged In Kidney Harvesting Racket
The chief executive, medical director and three other doctors at a prestigious Indian hospital have been charged with offences related to illegal organ transplants after a kidney trafficking racket...
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Indian Chef Wins Food Network Show
Aarthi Sampath, the Chef De Cuisine (head chef) of Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna’s Junoon Restaurant here, has won the American competition-based reality show “CHOPPED”. She was announced the...
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Priyanka Chopra To Be On Heidi Klum’s ‘Project Runway’
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra’s international portfolio seems to be turning stronger by the day. After TV show “Quantico” and Hollywood film “Baywatch”, she is set to be seen as a guest judge for...
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SRK detained at U.S. airport, Amjad Ali Khan doesn’t get U.K. visa
On a day Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained at a US airport, sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan expressed shock after a UK visa was denied to him. US diplomats quickly apologized after SRK...
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Ram recalls Indian roots after beating Sania-Bopanna
A first generation American of Indian origin, Rajeev Ram was a proud and satisfied man after beating India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna to enter the mixed doubles tennis final at the Rio Olympics...
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Barring Kashmir and Manipur, India celebrates Independence Day peacefully
India on Monday marked 70 years of its independence with peace and joy but the celebrations were marred by bombings in Manipur and a militant attack in Kashmir that killed a para-military officer. As...
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Stories Of 5 Epic Heroines Depicted Through Odissi
The Trinayan Odissi Dance Collective, a nonprofit that seeks to create evocative interpretations of Odissi dance, portrayed the stories of five iconic heroines from the Indian epics, Ramayana and...
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N.Y. Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Provide Support To ISIL
Emanuel L. Lutchman, a 26-year-old from Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Lutchman faces a statutory...
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Woodbridge Resident Viru Patel Appointed To Township Council
Virbhadra “Viru” Patel, a community leader from Woodbridge, New Jersey, was last week appointed to the township council after longtime member James Major, representing the 4th Ward resigned to take a...
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Huma Abedin’s overlapping jobs renew focus on Clinton conflicts
Huma Abedin stepped down from her post as deputy chief of staff at the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s ever-present personal assistant on June 3, 2012. Only she didn’t really leave. Instead, in...
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Freedom Struggle Continues For Dalits On 70th Independence Day
Throughout this week tens of thousands of Indian-Americans will gather in public squares and on street corners in cities, big or small across the United States, to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of...
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N.J. ISKCON Installs Deity Of Jagannath-Baladev-Subhadra
The Radha-Krishna Temple and Cultural Center of Plainfield, Central New Jersey, popularly known as the ISKCON temple, held its 3-day celebration of the installation of the deities of...
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Tension roils Queens immigrant community after killings
NEW YORK — The men who gathered on the steps of the small, brown-painted Al-Furqan Jame mosque Sunday had a message for the authorities. “We want justice,” Badrul Khan, the mosque’s founder, said as a...
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Modi lashes out at Pakistan, Pakistan hits back
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of “terrorism” in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in...
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India At 70: Tricolor Flutters Across The Tri-state Area
The Indian Tricolor that was proudly hoisted in front of the Indian Consulate in New York by Consul General Riva Ganguly Das on the morning of Aug. 15 celebrating the country’s 70th Independence Day,...
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Rahman At U.N. Blends Tradition, 21st Century Spectacle
Oscar winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman’s music of universal harmony blending traditions, time, faiths and languages soared on Monday through the General Assembly chamber, a venue known more for...
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‘Mohenjo Daro’ Tacky Sets, Not Enough Drama
Ashutosh Gowariker’s “Mohenjo Daro” is supposed to be a historical epic that recreates one of the oldest-known civilizations and one that can still give us important lessons on democracy, the...
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‘Rustom’ Stays True To Its Time
The story of K M Nanavati, a dashing naval officer who killed his wife’s lover in 1959 but was acquitted by a jury (he was later convicted by a higher court but pardoned by the government) is one of...
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Gaurav Gera Evicted From ‘Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa’
– MUMBAI Actor Gaurav Gera, who entered the reality TV dance show “Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa” season 9 as “Chutki” – a character from his popular gags “Chutki aur Shopkeepaa” – was the first contestant to be...
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