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Diwali Fair in Princeton, N.J. Attracts Crowds, Elected Officials
An estimated 5,000 people attended the 3rd Grand Diwali Fair held Oct. 23, at the Westin Hotel in Princeton, N.J. and featured a variety of stalls, cultural programs, dances and singing to entertain...
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Modi sees election danger in India’s ‘Dalit Queen’
When Amit Shah, president of Narendra Modi’s ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: “What is behenji thinking?” By “behenji”, or...
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It’s Diwali and time for special beauty care
The festive season is here again! Soon it will be Diwali. Start taking care of the skin and hair a few weeks before. Night-time cleansing is an absolute must, especially for city dwellers. Chemical...
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Najeeb was naive, incapable of attacking anyone, says missing JNU student’s...
Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed was “very mild-mannered and was always studying”, says his roommate Mohd. Qasim, who denies writing a letter to the Warden asking that Najeeb be kept out of bounds of...
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Trump’s Daughter-in-Law Praises Indian Community At Hindu Temple
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, told a group of Indian-Americans she recognized their immigration concerns and lauded the community for its high...
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BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha Gets Out The Vote
As a Hindu organization with 95 mandirs across the United States, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha conducted a nationwide voter education and registration drive this year to coincide with the U.S....
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A girl, who according to local media was wounded in a shelling attack at the international border with Pakistan, is rushed to a government hospital in Ranbir Singh Pura area near Jammu, Oct. 25. The...
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A forest guard provides water to an injured Asiatic elephant, who according to forest officials fractured his front-right leg late August while being chased by villagers, as it lies in a field in...
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India detains Pakistani diplomat at Delhi Zoo for ‘spying’
Indian police temporarily detained a Pakistani diplomat working in New Delhi for allegedly running a spy racket that accessed sensitive information about Indian security operations along its border,...
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Dharun Ravi’s Plea Deal Ends Long Drawn Case
A plea deal worked out by an Indian-American youth who was convicted on charges of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy of his gay roommate, may finally bring to an end a case that hit headlines...
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Justice Department charges dozens in massive Indian call center scheme
The callers in India, claiming to be officials with the Internal Revenue Service or immigration services, would present those who answered the phone with an ultimatum. Pay us, or we’ll fine you,...
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Nation’s Biggest Pill Mill Doctor Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud
A physician of Indian origin, considered the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, pleaded guilty Oct. 27 in federal court to illegally prescribing...
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President’s Video Urges Voters To Support Raja Krishnamoorthi
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress from Illinois’ 8th District who is already a front runner in the race, got a massive boost from none other than “the most powerful man...
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Jury Convicts Queens Man of Transporting Aliens
A jury in New York has voted to convict an Indian-American man from for transporting aliens in the United States. Harpushpinder Singh, 46, of Queens, New York, was convicted Oct. 26, according to a...
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Bollywood hopes Diwali will light up box office
Bollywood is pinning its hopes on two of this year’s biggest films opening on Friday to rev up a lacklustre box office for the festive Diwali season. The Indian film industry, the world’s largest by...
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Clinton Advisor Calls For Racial Profiling In Campaign Strategy
Amid accusations that the Republican nominee for president Donald Trump keeps profiling minorities like Mexican and Muslims, there is now evidence that the Democrats also use this strategy during...
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Man Who Had A Stockpile Of Weapons And A ‘Hatred For Muslims’
A California man who threatened to kill all the members of a Los Angeles area mosque and had amassed rifles, shotguns, handguns, high-velocity magazines and “thousands of rounds of ammunition” has...
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Sikh Man’s Attacker Found Guilty Of Hate Crime
It was 7 a.m. the day after Christmas in 2015, and Amrik Singh Bal, a 68-year-old Sikh man, had just left his house in Fresno, Calif., to go to work. Like many Sikhs, Bal wore a full beard, dressed in...
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Ontario To Declare October As Hindu Heritage Month
A bill to proclaim October as Hindu Heritage Month annually in Canada’s Ontario province has been introduced in the provincial assembly here. Ontario is home to more than 700,000 Indo-Canadians....
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Nikki Haley Toes The Party Line And Sticks To Trump
Over the past several months and weeks a number of Republican leaders, elected officials and conservative political pundits have come out strongly against Donald Trump as the GOP presidential...
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