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India Signs Agreement With Leading U.S. Museum
India’s Ministry of Culture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, signed a Memorandum of Agreement to continue the Indian Conservation Fellowship Program after a pilot project proved...
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Regional Show Is Bollywood’s New Promotional Hot Ticket
A garish, sometimes tacky but always boisterous Marathi show is Bollywood’s new hot ticket when it comes to promoting films, signalling an increased focus on regional markets. “Chala Hawa Yeu Dya”...
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Pakistan announces cancellation of Saarc Summit
Pakistan on Friday formally announced that the 19th Saarc Summit which was to be held in Islamabad in November this year has been cancelled. A statement form the Foreign Office said that “the spirit...
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Four South Asians Indicted In Multistate Fraud, Kickback Scheme
Four South Asians, including two physicians, were among 5 people who were indicted in a multistate kickback scheme under which they allegedly received $1.37 million in illegal transactions, falsified...
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Pakistan cinemas ban Indian films amid escalating Kashmir tension
Pakistani cinemas have stopped screening Indian films in “solidarity” with the country’s armed forces, after an escalation of violence in disputed Kashmir between the nuclear-armed neighbors, theater...
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Brain drain can be converted into brain gain: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the issue of “brain drain” can be converted into “brain gain” if the nation started looking at the 27-million-strong Indian diaspora spread across the world...
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Shocking that Western cinema doesn’t reflect diversity: Mira Nair
Mira Nair is shocked that the big screen in the West doesn’t reflect the diversity of the world and feels artistes of colour are “marginalised in the mainstream industry”. The acclaimed Indian...
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India ratifies the Paris climate deal — bringing it extremely close to taking...
The Paris climate agreement, the world’s strongest effort yet to try to curb the pace of climate change, sped even closer toward becoming active as India, the planet’s fourth-largest emitter of...
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India arrests six suspected of plotting Islamic State attacks
Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national...
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Pakistan ‘completely rejects’ Indian claim of cross-border strikes
Pakistan on Friday “completely rejected” India’s claim to have sent troops across its disputed border in Kashmir to kill suspected militants, as India evacuated villages near the frontier amid...
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Hope And Anxiety In Community As Akash Dalal Trial Begins In N.J.
Over two dozen members of the community sat at Bergen county courthouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, as the much-awaited trial of former Rutgers University student Akash Dalal, charged, among others,...
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Bihar Jharkhand Association Hosts Reception For Jharkhand Chief Minister
Visiting Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das made a high pitch for American investment in the state last week, calling especially upon NRIs from Jharkhand to be partners in the development of the...
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Nonprofit To Raise South Asians’ Involvement in N.J. Government, Politics
A New Jersey non-profit that launched a program this year to help increase South Asian participation in the state’s politics and government says that the youth from the community must the think beyond...
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Nonprofit Creates Awareness About Cancer Among South Asians
Victims and survivors of cancer were honored at the SKN Foundation’s annual gala, a sold-out event attended by more than 400 guests that took place at the Marigold in Somerset, New Jersey, Sept. 17....
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Navratri And Diwali Celebrations Begin In Tristate Area
It has been present for some time now – an inexplicable joy among people, an upbeat mood for no apparent reason, and of course silent sounds of drum beats and music ringing in the ears of the pious...
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International Day of Non-Violence Observed In New York
The 147th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi was observed in New York with floral tributes, singing of Gandhi’s favorite bhajans and garlanding of his statue in Union Square Park in Manhattan. The...
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Modi Inaugurates Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra For Diaspora
India’s inauguration of the first Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra Oct. 2, in New Delhi, for overseas Indians is being lauded by some non-resident Indians in the United States as a landmark step in India’s...
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‘Playing Dhoni Needs Understanding, Intelligence, Persistence’
Among the many biopics from Bollywood this year, the one on Mahendra Singh Dhoni is perhaps the most anticipated. Film-maker Neeraj Pandey’s three-hour film “M S Dhoni: The Untold Story” on the Indian...
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‘M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story’ Has Great Beginning But A Bad Finish
Neeraj Pandey’s “M S Dhoni: An Untold Story” opens with a story that has been told a thousand times. The Indian cricket captain walks out to bat in the final of the 2011 World Cup, bails his team out...
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Pakistan To Air Indian TV Content Based On Reciprocity
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday announced it will allow airing of Indian content in Pakistan based on reciprocity. The body unanimously decided that Pemra will...
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