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Nassau County Celebrates Independence Day
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano, along with the county commission on human Rights, hosted a flag-hoisting ceremony at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on...
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Cultural Diversity On Display At India Day Parade In N.Y.C.
India’s cultural diversity was on display on Madison Avenue in Manhattan August 21 as thousands of men, women and children packed the barricaded sidewalks to watch the 36th India Day Parade, marking...
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Women attend a demonstration in Srinagar against the killing of English lecturer, Shabir Ahmad, whom they say was killed by members of the security forces following weeks of violence in Kashmir August...
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“UnIndian” is the quintessential film for Indian expats
Anupam Sharma’s “UnIndian” is the quintessential film for Indian expats – full of great locations, pretty houses and a thousand clichés about Indians and their ways. Set in Australia, but mostly among...
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Couple Admits To $4.3 Million Healthcare Fraud
An Indian-American couple from Rockaway, New Jersey, who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company admitted Aug. 17, to receiving more than $4.3 million from Medicare and private insurance companies...
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Rain Does Not Deter Independence Day Parade In Chicago
The Federation of Indian Associations that was established in 1980 hosted a parade, marking India’s 70th Independence Day, and a banquet Aug. 20-21 in Chicago, Ill. Despite rain, the annual parade...
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Zoroastrian Center Observes New Year Celebrations In Chicago
The Zoroastrian Association of Greater Chicago observed Gatha Days and Muktad Prayers and meals ceremonies and Zoroastrian New Year’s (Nowruz) celebrations at the ‘Darbe Mehr” or temple in Burr Ridge,...
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Naperville Student Bags $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship
Naperville college student Meena Jagadeesan, 18, has been awarded the prestigious Davidson Fellows Scholarship of $50,000 by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development for her research project,...
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India highest recipient of H-1B visas: U.S. official
Despite a hefty hike in fees of US H-1B and L-1 visas, there has been no drop in number of applications from India and the country continues to be the highest recipient of H-1B visas, the highest US...
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Parental child abduction: Indian case-load second largest in U.S.
The number of cases of inter-country parental child abduction related to Indians in the US is the second highest next only to Mexico, a senior US government official said here on Tuesday. “We are...
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Apple buys health startup founded by Indian-Americans
Taking its interest in the digital health sector to the next level, tech giant Apple has quietly acquired personal health data startup Gliimpse founded by two Indian-origin entrepreneurs. According to...
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Spread The Sense Of Brotherhood
On the Ground in India: Perspectives from American India Foundation’s Clinton Fellows The most profound piece of advice I was offered recently came from a 15 year old who was not too long ago rescued...
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We have Christmas, Hanukkah and Eid stamps. Now the U.S. gets its first Hindu...
It took petitions from everyone from schoolchildren to members of Congress, and 12 years of waiting. Soon, a long-hoped-for goal will be a stickum-backed reality of less than a square inch: a new...
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Students participate in celebrations ahead of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna in Mumbai. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Police detain women during a protest organized by the main opposition Congress party and people of India’s low-caste Dalit community against what they say are increasing atrocities against the Dalit...
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Despite sporting glory, Indian women struggle to rise
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa Karmarkar became...
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“A Flying Jatt” looks like a box-office winner
There are many limitations in Remo D’Souza’s repertoire as a director but in “A Flying Jatt”, he combines humour, a social message and out-of-this-world fight sequences to give us a film that looks...
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France, India play down security risk of leaked submarine data
France and India on Thursday played down the security risk posed by leaked data on French-designed submarines that a source told Reuters was probably stolen by a French former employee and that has...
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Couple Pleads Guilty to $20 Million Visa Fraud Involving Indian Workers
Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, a married couple from Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty Aug. 25, to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and visa fraud, among other charges....
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Edison Man Among 9 Charged With Storm Relief Fraud
Nine people were charged recently for allegedly filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to ‘Superstorm’ Sandy, among them an Indian-American from Edison, New Jersey....
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