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Sikh asylum-seekers protest in Florida jail, nine released
Nine out of the 22 Sikh asylum-seekers on a hunger strike in a Florida jail demanding to be released while their asylum cases are evaluated have been set free, media reported. The nine were released...
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Sartaj Aziz confirms he will attend NSA talks in India
Islamabad/New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Ending the suspense, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz confirmed on Thursday that he will visit India on August 23 for talks with his Indian...
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Bombay High Court scraps Maggi recall order, but demands tests
Packets of Nestle’s Maggi instant noodles are seen on display at a grocery store in Mumbai, June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/Files The Bombay High Court on Thursday ruled in favour of...
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Political blocking leaves Modi’s reform schedule in tatters
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar (C, in blue) along with lawmakers from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies, take part in what they say is a “Save Democracy” march outside...
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Facebook cancels Indian student’s internship
Facebook cancelled an Indian-origin student’s internship after he exposed a serious privacy flaw in the social media giant’s messenger service, a media report said. Aran Khanna’s application,...
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In their gloomy isolation after Memon hanging, Muslims turn to Owaisi
In the night of the tyrants, Who calls my name from afar? I must climb the scaffolding of the gallows to see beyond the prison parapets. Have they waylaid the caravan of the new dawn? “Majrooh...
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People-to-people Relations: A View From China
The most significant aspect of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China in May was the way he used culture as a diplomatic tool to boost relations with the host country. During his 3-day visit,...
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Vehicles are seen burning after blasts at Binhai new district in Tianjin municipality, China, August 13. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Democratic institutions under stress, parliament becoming arena of combat:...
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday warned that institutions of democracy were under stress and urged people and political parties to take correctives from within. In his address to the nation on the...
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‘Good over evil’ theme makes ‘Sholay’ resonate even today: Amitabh
It set a trend of ‘bromance’, redefined the quintessential villain and introduced some epic live action in Bollywood. Top that with iconic dialogues and a memorable cast. Forty years since it hit the...
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Vatsyayana a strong advocate of women’s sexual pleasure, says historian
Book: The Mare’s Trap: Nature and Culture in the Kamasutra; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Price: Rs.399; Pages: 182 ‘The Mare’s Trap: Nature and Culture in the Kamasutra’ might come as a shocker to the...
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No Surprise If ‘Phantom’ Gets Banned In Pakistan: Saif Ali Khan
– MUMBAI Actor-producer Saif Ali Khan on Tuesday said it won’t be surprising if his forthcoming film “Phantom”, which touches upon Mumbai’s 26/11 attacks, is banned in Pakistan. His comment comes in...
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Finding Beauty Amid Ugliness: Miss Teen USA Contestant
It was only when she turned 12, did she build up courage to tell her best friend about the domestic physical and mental abuse, eventually leading to a court case and then to foster care as recently as...
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Sundar Pichai : Silicon Valley’s ‘Chhupa Rustam’
Last week, when Google announced the name of Sundar Pichai as its CEO, the first Indian-American to head the world’s largest internet search engine company, which last week became a wholly-owned...
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Two Men Found Guilty Of Plotting Murder-For-Hire
In what reads like a movie script with a happy ending – two men, one of them in a love-triangle, hire a hit man who balks at the killing, turns them in to police, and no one dies. But investigators...
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How Indians Rallied Americans To Support Freedom Struggle
Professor Manan Desai of University of Michigan’s American Culture faculty in Asian/Pacific Islander American studies, specializes in research on how transnational exchanges between Indian and...
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India’s Independence And The American Connection
South Asians in the U.S. and American allies played an important role in India’s freedom movement. Perhaps best known is the Ghadar Party, an organization founded in 1913 to fight for India’s...
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His Friends At IIT Called Sundar A ‘Chhupa Rustam’
During his IIT Kharagpur days in the early 1990s, most of his friends used to call Sundar Pichai, a “Chhupa Rustam.” People, who went to IIT with him around the same time and live in the United States...
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Former ISI chief Hamid Gul passes away: Reports
Former chief of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) General (Retd) Hamid Gul died of a brain haemorrhage in Murree late Saturday, DawnNews reported. According to TV reports, the former ISI chief...
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Modi says pro-poor, quiet on big business in independence day address
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi, India, August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...
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