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Family’s Cruise Ends In Horror As Woman Disappears From Ship
A 32-year-old Indian-American woman from New York, who went on a cruise to the Bahamas along with her family, including her husband and daughter during the Labor Day weekend, disappeared from the ship...
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CRY Walk 2016 Across 15 U.S. Cities To Help Fulfill Children’s Dreams
Child Rights and You America Inc. a nonprofit working towards ensuring children’s basic rights to live, learn, grow and play will host the 13th CRY Walk for Child Rights across 16 cities in the United...
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Thousands Celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi In New York, New Jersey
In clear, rehearsed voices, over a dozen priests chanted Ganapathi mul mantra for a total of 100,000 times as the Hindu Temple Society of North America, in Flushing, Queens, ceremoniously observed the...
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N.J. City University Launches Patel Scholars Program
Thanks to the generosity of its alumnus Chirag Patel, the New Jersey City University launched a scholarship program, called The Patel Scholars Program, last week supporting MBA students from...
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Eye On India To Present Contemporary Arts In Chicagoland
The 6th Annual Eye on India Festival of contemporary and traditional Indian culture from across Chicago and around the world will begin Sept. 15 and continue till Oct. 2, featuring a range of art,...
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I Am An Innocent Yogini, Says Mamta Kulkarni Implicated In Drugs Case
Former Bollywood actress Mamta Kulkarni, an accused in a Rs 2,000 crore narcotics drugs case, on Friday denied all allegations against her, saying she was a “yogini” and “innocent”. “I am a yogini...
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Harimurthy To Represent India At Miss Universe Pageant
Roshmitha Harimurthy will be representing India at the Miss Universe pageant this year after she was crowned as Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2016. She was announced as the winner at a glitzy event which...
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British MP Keith Vaz’s wife says will forgive him for cheating
The wife of Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz has said she will forgive him for cheating on her with rent boys, and admitted the revelation that her husband of 23 years paid male prostitutes for sex...
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President Obama Nominates New York Prosecutor Diane Gujarati For Federal...
President Obama has nominated an Indian-American to serve on the U.S. District Court bench for the Eastern District of New York. Diane Gujarati, 47, of New York City, is among several Indian-Americans...
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Scientist, Inventor Ramesh Raskar Gets Prestigious MIT Prize
An Indian-American imaging scientist and inventor has been awarded the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize. Ramesh Raskar, founder of the Camera Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab, and associate...
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International probe “needed crucially” in Kashmir, says U.N. rights chief
As the Valley unrest neared 70 days, the UN Human Rights chief said that an international probe was “needed crucially” in Kashmir, even as India hit back saying the violence was “choreographed from...
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Bollywood should make more ‘socially conscious films’, says Om Puri
The Indian film industry needs to break out of its mould and produce more hard-hitting films that challenge its audience, veteran actor Om Puri said. Puri, who has acted in both Hollywood and...
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Former CEO Charged With $30 Million Fraud Investment Scheme
The former Indian-American CEO of Essex Holdings, Inc., based in southern Florida, was charged with two separate fraud schemes totaling more than $30 million. Navin Shankar Subramaniam Xavier, a/k/a...
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President Barack Obama meets with Speaker Paul Ryan (2nd-L), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (L), Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (R) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (C) at the Oval...
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A municipal worker sweeps around the charred remains of a lorry set ablaze during the violent protests after India’s Supreme Court ordered Karnataka state to release water from the Cauvery river to the...
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Man arrested for setting fire to mosque that Pulse nightclub shooter attended
A Florida man who investigators say made anti-Islamic postings on social media was arrested Wednesday for setting fire to the mosque where Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen had worshiped, police...
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President Obama To Honor Novelist Abraham Verghese With Humanities Medal
President Obama will recognize a leading Indian-American writer and physician with the National Humanities Medal Sept. 22. Abraham Verghese, 61, whose books based on experiences of real health crises...
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Georgia officials were set to approve a new mosque – until threats from an...
For decades, leaders in Newton County, Ga., have tried to make things easy for anyone who wanted to build a church, with zoning rules that have a “places of worship” exception to streamline the...
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Jenifer Rajkumar Loses Democratic Primary Race For Albany
Jenifer Rajkumar, candidate for the New York State Assembly, may have lost her race in the Democratic primaries Sept. 13, but not her passion for winning public office. In the race to fill the 65th...
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Three Young Professionals Score Congressional Fellowships
Three South Asian-Americans are among the five 2016-2017 fellows selected to serve in the U.S. Congress by the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. The APAIC Fellows began...
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