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Political war of words erupts over Memon’s execution
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) A political war of words erupted on Thursday over the execution of 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon and the issue of terrorism, with a section of opposition leaders...
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Public Outrage Over Son Charged With Killing Father
A few neighbors’ sympathy with a 19-year-old Pakistani arrested last month for killing his abusive father in Brooklyn, apparently on the spur of the moment, has snowballed into a mass petition signed...
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Huma Abedin accused of receiving overpayments at State Department
State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and...
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Indo-Canadian singer leads topless protest in Canada
An Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian jazz singer, Alysha Brilla, led hundreds of topless women in a rally organised in Ontario to advocate women’s right to be topless in Canada, a media report said. Alysha...
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2012 Wisconsin gurdwara shooting commemorated Across America
A US-based Sikh organisation observed an annual day of seva (service) across 18 cities to commemorate the 2012 Wisconsin gurdwara shooting. Six people were shot dead at the Oak Creek city gurdwara in...
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Bera introduces House resolution on India’s Independence Day
Ami Bera, Co-chair of Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, has introduced a resolution to recognize India’s Independence Day and the significance of the US-India partnership. The...
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Porn websites not difficult to access, despite ban: Experts
With the central government banning some of the pornographic websites, experts believe that accessing the blocked stuff on the Internet, is not difficult as many free proxy and virtual private network...
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Pam Kwatra Named To N.Y.C. Mayor’s Economic Development Board
An Indian-American woman entrepreneur and community activist in the Tri-state area was named member of the City’s Economic Development Corporation’s board of directors by New York City Mayor Bill de...
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Blending Spectacle and Message, Mani Ratnam Captivates Fans
New York, August 2nd, 2015 – Screening of Dil Se (1998) followed by a discussion with director Mani Ratnam and Richard Peña and a reception sponsored by Brick Lane Curry House....
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India signs peace accord with militant Naga separatists
India signed a peace agreement on Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in the country’s northeast that had waged guerrilla war for six decades against central rule from New Delhi. Officials...
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Mullah Omar’s family does not endorse new Taliban leader
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Taliban militants’ new leader, is seen in this undated handout photograph by the Taliban. At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named...
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Indian rapper goes viral with toxic waste gibes at Unilever
An Indian rapper has gone viral with a music video calling on consumer products giant Unilever to clean up alleged toxic waste from a forested southern hill station. Sofia Ashraf’s video, posted...
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Kumar Nambiar: Pitcher In The Rye
When he was 10, Kumar Nambiar of Mamaroneck, N.Y., used to come home from school dejected at times, not about his studies, but about why he couldn’t make that perfect pitch in his school baseball...
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All Roads Lead To World Gujarati Conference In Edison
All roads led to Edison last weekend as thousands of Guajaratis from all over the United States, and also some from outside the U.S., travelled to the New Jersey township to take a dip into Gujarati...
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In Death As In Life Former President Kalam Unites Indian-Americans
When he came to New York in 2007 as many as 34 Indian-American organizations from the Tri-state area burying their differences joined hands to welcome former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. In death as...
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New Taliban leader facing tension as top official quits
Supporters of the religious party Jamiat Nazariyati pray for the late Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in Quetta, Pakistan, August 2, 2015. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed A top Taliban official announced...
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Villagers capture Pakistani terrorist after ambush on BSF
Jammu: The alleged militant who was involved in an ambush on a BSF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway after being captured; in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Aug 5, 2015. (Photo: IANS)...
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Flood-affected people wade through the flood waters at Howrah district in West Bengal, August 5. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Tirupati temple laddu in its 300th year
Laddu prasadam for Vaikunta Ekadashi 2015, Enarada.com Hyderabad, Aug 5 (IANS) The Tirupati laddu, given away as ‘prasad’ at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirupati, has entered its 300th...
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Indo-Canadian comedienne nominated for US award
Ottawa, Aug 5 (IANS) Indian-Canadian comedienne Lilly Singh has earned a nomination in the “2015 Teen Choice Awards” to be held in Los Angeles on August 16, a media report said. Lilly Singh, 26,...
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