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Two Indian-Americans Among Winners of Intel Science Competition
Three Indian-Americans are among second and third place winners at the recently concluded Intel Science Talent Search 2015, the oldest and most prestigious pre-college science and math competition run...
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India Making Efforts to Ensure U.S. Drops Charges Against Khobragade
India is taking all required efforts to ensure that the U.S. drops all charges against diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest in New York two years ago had led to a diplomatic standoff between the...
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Hillary’s Nemesis: Raj Shah Heads GOP’s Opposition Research
Thirty-one-year old Raj Shah took over as the Republican National Committee’s Research Director Feb. 23, the first Indian-American in the top job manning an army of dirt-diggers against Democrats, big...
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India seeks edge over China as Modi visits Sri Lanka
(Reuters) – When Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena received India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an ocean-front colonial building on Friday, the two looked out over a $1.4 billion Chinese...
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India, U.S. researchers clash over swine flu strain mutation
(Reuters) – India has disputed U.S. scientists’ findings that the deadly swine flu virus has acquired more virulent mutations in the South Asian country and rejected their concerns over how...
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Seinfeld’s India shows called off for want of parking space
(Reuters) – Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s debut in India this weekend has been cancelled after Mumbai city police expressed concern over inadequate parking space for people attending the two nearly...
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Comedius Interruptus: Seinfeld organizer cancels show
Jerry Seinfeld will not perform in Mumbai. The organizer behind the stand-up comedian and television sitcom star’s live shows in Mumbai, scheduled for March 14 and 15, cancelled the events after the...
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A member of the ground staff holds a wind protector pipe of the “Solar Impulse 2″, a solar powered plane, after it landed at the airport in Ahmedabad March 11.
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Maryland Delegate Kumar Barve to Run for United States Congress
Kumar P. Barve, a Democrat who represents Montgomery County in the Maryland House of Delegates, announced on Monday that he plans to run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat being vacated by...
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Navdeep Singh’s ‘NH10′ scares and entertains
Navdeep Singh’s “NH10” is a brutal, often uncomfortable film that makes no attempt to sugarcoat its reality, or to ease its audience into the narrative. As in his earlier film, “Manorama Six Feet...
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Pakistan successfully test-fires own drone aircraft to target militants
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s military test-fired a Pakistani-built unmanned aircraft armed with a laser-guided missile on Friday, an army statement said, giving it a new weapon to target Taliban and other...
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Liberating Spouses: New Immigration Rules Will Change Lives of H4 Visa Holders
“I feel like my brain is rusted all these years locked up in a golden cage,” says Pratheepa who was a physics teacher in India and has been waiting for 7 years to get her Employment Authorization...
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In show of solidarity, Modi visits war-hit Tamil region in Sri Lanka
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the former war zone of northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, in a show of solidarity with ethnic Tamils who suffered in a 26-year-old civil war. India has...
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Elderly nun raped in Indian convent school
(Reuters) – A nun in her seventies was raped in the early hours of Saturday when a group of about five intruders broke into a convent school in West Bengal, police said. The group vandalised the...
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Christians hold candles during a vigil to show solidarity with the nun who was raped during an armed assault on a convent school, in New Delhi March 16.
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Religious beliefs shape Modi’s political views, says new book
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s religious beliefs helped shape his political views and he has no desire to jettison Hindu nationalist ideology, says a new book and notes that Modi risks alienating a...
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Two Pakistani-Americans Plead Guilty to Terror Plot Targeting New York City
Two Pakistani-Americans living in Florida, pleaded guilty March 12 to terrorism violations and to assaulting two Deputy U.S. Marshals while in custody. Brothers Raees Alam Qazi, 22, and Shehryar Alam...
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Pakistan hangs 12 in largest execution since moratorium lifted
(Reuters) – Pakistan hanged 12 convicts on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, amid a growing uproar over plans to execute a man whose lawyers say was 14 when he was tortured into a confession of...
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Shantala Enthralls With Bhairava’s Rhythms of Creative Destruction
CHICAGO Shantala Shivalingappa gave the first performance of her Kuchipudi program “Akasha” (Space) here, in association with “Eye on India” at The Dance Theater of Columbia College March 5. She was...
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Tiny Himalayan kingdom Bhutan takes improbable step to World Cup
REUTERS – The Himalayan kingdom ranked rock bottom in world soccer spirited another improbable win on Tuesday as Bhutan reached the second round of World Cup qualifying. Lying 209th in FIFA’s...
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