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Paes, Sania Enter US Open Finals, Bopanna Out
– NEW YORK Indian tennis aces Leander Paes and Sania Mirza lived up to their billing by entering the finals of their respective categories at the year’s last Major, the US Open, here. However, it was...
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‘Terrorist! . . . Go Back To Your Country,’ Attacker Yelled In Assault Of...
“Terrorist!” “Bin Laden!” “Go back to your country!” came the alleged shouts from the other car. Inderjit Singh Mukker, a father of two on his way to the grocery store in his Chicago suburb, pulled...
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Cyberbullying Expert Gets $188,776 Facebook Grant
– WASHINGTON Sameer Hinduja, a prominent Indian American and cyberbullying expert from Florida Atlantic University, has received a $188,776 grant from social networking site Facebook to study...
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First Woman of Indian Descent Made Postmaster in California
– NEW YORK An Indian American woman has become the first female to be appointed as the postmaster in Sacramento city in California in last 166 years, a media report said. Jagdeep Grewal will oversee...
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland and Sania Mirza of India with the US Open Trophy after beating Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the Women’s Doubles final on day...
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Police hunt for owner of explosives after blast kills 88 in Madhya Pradesh
The daughter of Shantilal Boghra, who died in a cooking gas cylinder blast in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, is consoled during the funeral of her father in Ahmedabad, September 13, 2015. REUTERS/Amit...
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11 Indians dead in Makkah mosque accident
Nine more Indian Haj pilgrims have died in the crane crash accident at the Grand Mosque in Makkah in Saudi Arabia, taking the toll to 11 so far, the external affairs ministry said on Sunday....
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Twin murders of rape victims spark calls for witness protection in India
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The murders of two alleged rape victims in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh over the weekend have sparked demands by women’s rights activists for the...
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World Bank ranks Gujarat as best Indian state for business
Gujarat, the state Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran for more than a decade, is India’s best place for conducting business, the World Bank said on Monday, in a report that ranks the country’s states in...
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Indian-American tech mogul’s hearing postponed amid scandal
A hearing for ad tech mogul Gurbaksh “G” Chahal on charges of domestic violence has been moved to November 13 amid reports that he paid a politician $1 million to make the charges “go away”. Chahal...
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Mina Malik Heads Largest Police Oversight Agency
At a time of rising antagonism between police and minorities around the country, a South Asian-American attorney who heads the largest police watchdog agency in the country, hopes to create the model...
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Fashionista Roopal Patel Appointed Director Of Saks Fifth Avenue
Roopal Patel, a fashion consultant specializing in luxury retail, fashion, beauty and lifestyle industries, was last week appointed Fashion Director of Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s...
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A.R. Rahman’s letter on blasphemy controversy
“This letter is for all those people, who have been aware of the recent events concerning me. I’m not a scholar of Islam. I follow the middle path and am part of traditionalist and part rationalist I...
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India’s quest for Security Council permanent seat progresses with UNGA decision
Boosting India’s efforts for a permanent Security Council seat, the UN General Assembly Monday endorsed a document that will be the basis for negotiations on reforming the Council and allowing the...
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In India, Netflix Is Ready For Its Close-up
Movie-crazy Indians see Bollywood hits any way they can: crowding around family TVs, piling into dusty village cinemas and swank New Delhi multiplexes, borrowing bootlegged versions friends stash in...
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Swamis, Scientists, And Celebrities Attend Dharma Conference
Mathematician and Field Medalist Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University says several inaccuracies in the history of science need to be corrected to recognize Hinduism’s contributions to civilization....
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Spirit of Vivekananda Invoked At Conference On Spirituality And Leadership
A three-day conference to bring spiritual traditions of the East and the West under one platform and to discuss the role of spirituality in global economic and sustainable development was held in...
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California Stock Broker Sentenced To 33 Months For $6 Million Ponzi Scheme
An Indian-American stock broker in California was sentenced in federal court Sept. 14, to 33 months in custody for stealing more than $6 million from investors he bamboozled into putting their money...
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Twitter Hashtag To Fight Racial Attacks In U.S.
– NEW YORK An Indian American woman has created #AfterSeptember11 on micro-blogging site Twitter to speak up against the racial attacks Indians have been facing in the US after the September 11 terror...
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On His North American Tour, Arijit Singh Rocks Trenton
Bollywood singer Arijit Singh made a stopover in Trenton, New Jersey, earlier this month as part of his North American musical tour. Singh, who would be holding concerts in Illinois, Texas and...
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