8 Indian-Americans get medal for community service
New York, (IANS) Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this year’s Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100 immigrants for their community service. The eight, Peter Bheddah, Ravishankar Bhooplapur, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, Dr. Leena N. Doshi, Dr. Surendra V. Jain, Hasu P. Shah, Rajendra Singh and Dr. John P. Thomas were [...]
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is expected to skip the upcoming BJP National Executive meet in Mumbai, with an aide saying it will be his personal decision. Although no one in the Bharatiya Janata Party is ready to confirm mounting speculation about Modi’s reported move, party sources in Gujarat are more forthcoming. “I [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed its joint registrar to take police assistance, if needed, to bring veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari to court premises for collecting his blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit. The suit was filed by Rohit Shekhar, 32, claiming to be the biological son [...]
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Washington, (IANS) Citing the example of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, a top US military commander has warned of the dangers posed by “democratisation” of technology in future warfare. “Now, in many ways, technology has been democratised,” Marine Corps Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn said at the sixth annual 2012 Joint Warfighting Conference at Virginia [...]
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Washington/New Delhi, (IANS) The US has slapped sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim Tiger Memon, two top aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings that left over 250 dead, in a move “to target the nexus of crime and terrorism in South Asia”. The US move was Wednesday [...]
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By V. Jagannathan Chennai, (IANS) A year after she stormed to power in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa still enjoys wide support in the state. But the number of critics is rising too. Reactions on one year of AIADMK rule varied as Jayalalithaa began her second year in office Wednesday, It was on this [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) India is creating a “coherent and comprehensive” security policy to deal with the “anarchic new world” of cyber threats, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon said here Wednesday. “(The) government is in the process of putting in place the capabilities and the systems in India that will enable us deal with this anarchic [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Former telecommunications minister A. Raja attended parliament Wednesday, a day after he was released from Tihar Jail after getting bail in the 2G spectrum case. The DMK MP reached the Lok Sabha post noon after question hour was over. As cameras clicked away, Raja, who walked out of prison Tuesday evening after [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said his government was committed to ensuring foolproof security of nuclear power plants but it would be harmful for the country to pass an ordinance against nuclear power. “We must put everything to ensure foolproof safety of the nuclear plants and we will not compromise on it. [...]
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New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Somali pirates currently holding over 60 Indian sailors as hostage, the African country’s Puntland state backs military operations to rescue them and to fight piracy, even as its President Abdirahman Mohammed Mohamud Farole is in India to work out a naval capacity building agreement. “I always support the military [...]
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By Arun Kumar Washington: The United States has slapped sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim Tiger Memon, two top aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings that left over 250 dead, in a move “to target the nexus of crime and terrorism in South Asia”. The treasury department [...]
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Gurgaon, (IANS) Suraj Sehrawat, 21, the accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which two people, including a pregnant woman, were killed here, was Tuesday granted bail by a district court on submitting a bond of Rs.50,000. Sehrawat surrendered in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Jasbir Singh Tuesday morning. His lawyer was also [...]
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Hyderabad, (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday arrested industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad in the case relating to alleged illegal assets of YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. The arrest was made Monday night after the CBI officials questioned him throughout the day. The CBI sources said he would be brought before a magistrate [...]
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By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad: “Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?” This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even [...]
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