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Gov. Haley’s India Visit Generates Several Business Contracts for South Carolina
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s November visit to India generated numerous business opportunities for her state, according to a top senior official in her administration. A second visit by a...
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Exciting Time in U.S.-India Relations: Ambassador Richard Verma
The new U.S. ambassador to India Richard Rahul Verma, arrived in New Delhi Dec. 2, a few weeks before President Obama arrives as chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations. Verma also arrives...
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Balaji Telefilms Forays into American TV Market
Balaji Telefilms, India’s leading television and film production company, has forayed into the American television market by inking a series production deals with Indus Media. The deal will see Balaji...
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Pakistani Officials Upset Over Country’s Portrayal in ‘Homeland’
Officials in Pakistan have taken offense over the country’s depiction in the latest season of “Homeland,” insisting the drama series shows it as a “grimy hellhole” where diplomats aide terrorists. The...
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Graduating Class of NYPD Speak 59 Foreign Languages
The New York Police Department’s new class of recruits who graduated Dec. 29 display the multicultural and multi-ethnic force that law enforcement is trying to achieve in an effort to represent the...
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The Legacy of a Leader – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
So his time finally came and MSD called it quits in his own characteristic style. No fanfare, no farewell test series, not even a farewell speech – one of the most inconspicuous exits as memory...
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Security tightened at Delhi airport after terror threat
Security was Sunday tightened at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here following an intelligence alert that terrorists may target Air India flights going to Afghanistan, officials said....
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Time for Indian bowlers to smell the coffee
“Zara ek line pakadke ball daal!” (bowl in just one line!) was what Mahendra Singh Dhoni screamed at speedster Umesh Yadav during the recently-concluded Boxing Day test at Melbourne. Dhoni, a 60-test...
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Photo of the Year: A Hindu devotee worships in the polluted waters of the river Yamuna during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in New Delhi, October 30, 2014.
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Brewery Apologizes for Using Gandhi’s Image on Beer Can
A Connecticut brewery has apologized for the name of its double India pale ale – Gandhi-Bot – but is maintaining that the drink is meant as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. The New England Brewing Co.,...
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Kashmir shelling, spat over Pakistan aid mar run-up to Kerry trip
Reports of a $500-million Washington aid package to Pakistan and a period of intense border shelling in Kashmir have overshadowed the run-up to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s expected visit to...
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Sunanda was poisoned, murder case filed, police say
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, found dead here nearly a year ago, was poisoned to death, Delhi Police said Tuesday, triggering demands for his resignation from the Lok Sabha....
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Columbia Professor Named Vice-chairman of Modi’s Policy Commission
– New DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Jan. 5 named right-leaning economist Arvind Panagariya to run his new Policy Commission, hammering a final nail into the coffin of socialist planning that...
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Sri Lanka monitor accuses ruling party of violating election rules
Supporters of Sri Lanka’s ruling party has repeatedly violated election laws in the run-up to Thursday’s presidential vote and has largely got away with it because police have turned a blind eye, a...
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The campaign to glorify Gandhi’s assassin
NEW DELHI — On Jan. 30, 1948, shots rang out in New Delhi that plunged the entire Indian subcontinent into silence. Mahatma Gandhi, architect of India’s freedom struggle and rigorous practitioner of...
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Chicago-based Musician Debuts in Bollywood with ‘Take It Easy’
Chicago-based musician Subhi Khanna Rangnekar has finally realized her life-long dream of composing music in Bollywood with her debut film “Take It Easy,” which released Jan. 2. Directed by Sunik Prem...
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Bollywood in 2015: Watch Out for Epic Costume Dramas
– MUMBAI From “Bajirao Mastani” to “Mohenjo Daro”– it looks like 2015 will be an epic year for Bollywood. Several filmmakers have lined up big budget spectacles that go back in time. Here’s looking at...
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‘PK’ Crosses Rs.300 Crore in India, Team Ecstatic
– MUMBAI Aamir Khan-starrer “PK,” which has kept the cash registers ringing at the Bollywood box office since the last three weeks has crossed the Rs.300 crore figure (over $47 million) in the...
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Indian soldiers take a break during their rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, January 6.
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Tharoor may be questioned in wife’s murder probe
Former minister and former United Nations diplomat Shashi Tharoor may be questioned by Delhi police after they opened a murder investigation against “unknown persons” following the death of his...
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