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Category: INDIAN NEWS

  • Shaban Bukhari to be anointed

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    Over 100 religious leaders from India and abroad will attend a ceremony at the Jama Masjid here when the son of Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari will be anointed the Naib Imam of the 17th century mosque. Ahmed Bukhari refused to comment on criticism against the event, telling that “he would respond to all the…

  • India wants to boost trade with EU

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      Indian Ambassador to the European Union (EU) and Belgium Manjeev Singh Puri has called for energising EU-India trade and economic relations. “Please energise your constituents across the European Union because India has opportunities. The government is interested very much. The entire business of ‘Make in India’ encompasses this entire thing of ease of doing…

  • Saarc summit to focus on peace & unity

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    By Anil Giri   The forthcoming 18th Saarc Summit to be held in Kathmandu will focus on installing durable peace and prosperity among the member states and will give utmost priority to regional unity, Nepal’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Mahendra Bahadur Pandey said. The theme of the summit is “deeper integration for peace and prosperity”, and…

  • Modi bet on diaspora for development

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      The Indian diaspora must be a part of the country’s development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said , a day after ending a visit to Myanmar, Australia and Fiji. “We want to create an environment where our diaspora also feel that they can contribute towards India’s development journey,” he said in a blog. “That is…

  • The unholy world of Rampal

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    Holy men do not need bullet-proof enclosures or SUVs. Nor do they need swimming pools for personal luxury or tonnes of rations that could sustain hundreds of people for months. Or gym equipment, flat-screen TVs, split air-conditioners, massage therapy beds and big personal lockers. But for controversial sect leader Rampal, these things and many more…

  • World looks at India with great respect: Modi

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      The world is looking at India with renewed respect and immense enthusiasm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said , a day after he ended a visit to Myanmar, Australia and Fiji. Writing in his blog, Modi also said that the G-20 nations had agreed to battle black money because it “has the potential to destabilize…

  • ‘Adopt healthier cooking practices’

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    The British Heart Foundation and Public Health England have teamed up to promote healthier cooking practices in Mandirs and Gurdwaras across England. The project aims to work with up to 60 Sikh and Hindu places of worship (PoW) to support them to reduce the amount of salt and saturated fat in meals prepared for their…

  • Busy schedule for Gadkari in London

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    Mr Nitin Gadkari, Indian Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, visits important spots in the UK to get a first-hand experience of modern travel and transport system. India is gearing up to embark on a major infra-structure development plan under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr Gadkari was accompanied by Mr…

  • Infosys to design course for Stanford

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    Global software major Infosys Ltd. is partnering with the US-based Stanford Graduate School of Business to develop a tailor-made course for grooming its next-generation executives in the global technology space. “Our senior executives will team up with Stanford B-school to design a customised strategic leadership development course for training our executives, clients and partners,” the…

  • More Indians now shop online

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     India will have 100 million online shoppers and the country’s e-tailing sector will become a $15 billion market by 2016, a study said . The annual online shopping growth report was compiled by Forrester Consulting and Google search trends. The number of online shoppers in India is projected to be 35 million in 2014 and…

  • Watford hosts Diwali Fest

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    Hundreds of people turned out for the Festival of Lights celebration and procession to mark Diwali. They followed a 2.5 metre illuminated structure of Lord Ganesha, tricycles decorated with illuminated peacocks and a traditional Dhol player . The procession went from The Parade to The Pond, which was decorated with illuminated floating lotuses, freestanding lanterns and…

  • Modi make shortlist for Time’s Person of the Year

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the list of 50 contenders for Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Time’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec 10. Modi, “once a controversial regional leader”, became India’s prime minister after leading his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a “landslide electoral victory on a platform of…

  • Haryana sect leader behind bars

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      Controversial sect leader Rampal was  put behind the bars after the Punjab and Haryana High Court cancelled the bail granted to him in a 2006 murder case. Rampal was taken from the Sector 6 General Hospital, where he was admitted early in the day, to the Sector 5 police station at Panchkula, adjoining Chandigarh.…

  • Spotlight on Modi’s sanitation drive at UN

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    By Arul Louis   Wednesday could well have been called “Swachh Vishwa Abhiyan Din.” It was observed at the UN and around the world as World Toilet Day, an observance to further sanitation where leaders spoke of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – Clean India Mission – campaign to provide toilets for all. “Modi…

  • Policeman behind Hyderabad shootout arrested

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      A constable who opened fire from a stolen AK-47 on a top executive of a pharma company here  has been arrested, police said. Obulesh, a constable of Armed Reserve (AR), was arrested by the police on the border between Kurnool and Anantapur districts Wednesday night from a Bangalore-bound bus. Three others were also arrested…

  • US lawmaker seeks faster visas for Indian doctors

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    By Arun Kumar    Ahead of President Barack Obama’s slated plans to take unilateral executive action to overhaul America’s “broken” immigration system, a Democratic lawmaker has introduced legislation to expedite visas for Indian and Pakistani physicians. The measure introduced Wednesday by Grace Meng, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would require Secretary of State…

  • HC cancels cult leader’s bail

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      The Punjab and Haryana High Court  cancelled the bail granted to controversial sect leader Rampal in a 2006 murder case. Taking up hearing of his bail case, a division bench of the high court cancelled the bail which was granted to the self-styled godman in April 2008. Amicus Curie Anupam Gupta, who has been…

  • Haryana Cult leader arrested

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      Haryana Police finally arrested elusive self-styled godman Rampal from his fortified Satlok Ashram near Barwala in Haryana. At least six people lost their lives in the stand-off as Rampal eluded the police, while many of his key aides and around 450 supporters were also arrested. Rampal was  whisked away in an ambulance by police.…

  • Modi cross 25 mn followers on Facebook

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      Prime Minister Narendra Modi has crossed 25 million followers on Facebook and continues to remain the second-most followed politician in the world after US President Barack Obama, the social networking website said. With over 25 million users who have ‘liked’ Modi’s official account, the Indian prime minister is slowly catching up with Obama, who…

  • Legendary NRI hotel doorman dies

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    Kottarapattu Chattu Kuttan, the legendary doorman at the Galle Face Hotel here, who served dignitaries like Lord Mountbatten, Princess Elizabeth, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Yuri Gagarin and Arthur C. Clarke, has passed away, media reported . Kuttan left his village in Kerala when he was 17 years old and reached Sri Lanka in 1938…

  • Finally Anushka spills the beans

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    The young Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma revealing her special relationship with cricketer Virat Kohli

  • Lanka releases Indian fishermen on death row

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      The Indian high commission here confirmed that five Indian fishermen, who were sentenced to death by a Sri Lankan court on charges of drug trafficking, were released from prison and will be sent back to India. “We are deeply grateful to (Sri Lankan President) Mahinda Rajapaksa for this humanitarian gesture, which will further strengthen…

  • India came close to framework agreement on Kashmir

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      India and Pakistan were very near to a framework agreement on the Kashmir issue through back-channel talks during the previous Congress-led regime and it can be put to use by the new regimes in the two countries, former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said . Interacting with a select group of media persons…

  • Rajinikanth, Amitabh and a slice of Gandhi

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    By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar   On Thursday, if you are in Goa, you may just be in chance to collect some stardust. The 45th edition of the IFFI, which gets underway Thursday, is all set to host a coming together of two celestial objects, Rajinikanth and Amitabh Bachchan, who have helped millions of Indian cinema lovers soar…

  • Six dead at cult ashram

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      Haryana Director General of Police S.N. Vashisht told media here that bodies of four women were handed over by Satlok Ashram authorities to police Wednesday while one woman and an 18-month-old child died in hospital. The DGP said that none of the victims bore any bodily injuries. He said that the exact cause of…

  • Kashmir’s solar potential

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    By K.S. Jayaraman   Which is a better place for locating a solar power plant? Hot and sunny Rajasthan or snow-clad Kashmir? If your answer is Rajasthan, you are wrong. A recent study by Indian researchers has identified the eastern parts of Jammu and Kashmir and the eastern part of Uttarakhand — in the chilly shadows…

  • Oman-India gas pipeline looks promising

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    By H.S. Ramakrishna  Natural gas, a very highly consumed commodity in India, is at present supplied from two sources: domestic production and imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). Energy demand and supply projections indicate that by 2021-22, due to rising demand, India will also need to start sourcing natural gas from cross-border pipelines to fill the…

  • A Billion stories to tell: Megan Mylan

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    By Natalia Ningthoujam    New York-based Oscar-winning director Megan Mylan has often taken inspiration from India for her documentaries like “Smile Pinki” and “After My Garden Grows”. But she is not tired of making films on the country as she believes there are numerous stories to present to the audience. The director of “Lost Boys of…

  • 300 million use internet in India

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    The number of internet users in India would reach 302 million by December 2014, registering a year-on-year growth of 32 percent over last year, a study said here . The report, ‘Internet in India 2014′, is jointly published by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International. The internet in India took…

  • Sect leader Rampal still evades arrest

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      Controversial sect leader Rampal continued to evade arrest even as hundreds of his followers left his ashram here in Haryana . Fearing stricter police action Wednesday after Tuesday’s violent clashes between Rampal’s supporters and security forces which left nearly 250 people, including 110 policemen, injured, the followers stranded inside the Satlok Ashram decided to…

  • Modi in Fiji announce cooperation in space

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi  proposed that Fiji could become the hub for India’s regional cooperation in space as he announced visa on arrival for Fijians and two Lines of Credit totaling $75 million. In an address to the Fiji parliament, Modi, the first Indian prime minister to visit the Pacific island nation in 33…

  • PROMO: Yamaleela 2 to hit theatres on Nov 28

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    Yamaleela 2 is an upcoming 2014 Telugu fantasy drama film directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy. The film stars Dr. K.V. Satish, Diah Nicholas, Mohan Babu and Brahmanandam in the lead roles. The film is going to be released in over 500 screens on 28 th November 2014

  • Indian hockey coach Walsh’s ends contract

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    Indian hockey chief coach Terry Walsh, who was in talks with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) to get a new improved contract, said that the meeting between him and the nodal agency did not yield the desired results, thereby ending his tenure with the national team. Tuesday marked the last day of Walsh’s tenure…

  • INTERVIEW: Harsh Mayar

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    By Jatindra Dash   National award-winning ‘I am Kalam’ child actor Harsh Mayar says he wants to perform the role of an abnormal boy to prove his acting prowess in the film industry. “I am in search of a role…something different which people have not seen earlier…the role should be challenging…may be something like a child…

  • 36 million trapped in slavery

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      India has nearly 14.3 million people, including children, “trapped” in modern-day slavery, ranking fifth in a list of countries brought out by the Global Slavery Index 2014, followed by Pakistan and with Mauritania topping the list. According to the survey by anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free, 1.1409 percent of the people in India are…

  • Police clash at sect compound in Haryana

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    Several people were injured as followers of controversial sect leader Rampal clashed with the police outside his Satlok Ashram in Haryana’s Hisar district. The sect followers allegedly fired at the security forces and even lobbed petrol bombs, police sources said. They also attacked the security forces with stones and bricks. Smoke could be seen coming…

  • Modi meets top Australian CEO’s

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      Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi  met industry leaders in Melbourne, including the managing directors of some of Australia’s biggest companies, including Anthony Joseph Pratt, chairman and CEO of Pratt Industries. At the CEOs Roundtable, Modi and the industry leaders discussed education, services, energy, banking and IT. Among the other industry leaders attending the roundtable…

  • BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for Vengsarkar

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      Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar will receive the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) statement said . He will be handed a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs.25 lakh at the eighth annual BCCI Awards Ceremony to be held here Friday to recognise and…

  • Nehru’s legacy should be preserved: Rahul

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     Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said efforts were on to erase Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy from the country and there was a need to thwart such attempts urgently. Speaking at an international conference here to mark the 125th birth anniversary of India’s first prime minister, Gandhi said: “Nehru is an ancient idea but he is also…

  • Maritime security a priority: Modi

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    In a historic speech in the Australian parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  termed Australia a major partner of India in “every area of our national priority” and called for closer economic and security cooperation between the two, including in maintaining maritime security. Modi, the first Indian prime minister to address the Australian parliament, said both…

  • Peach King of California honoured

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      Didar Bains, a farmer known as the “Peach King of California”, was honoured by California Governor Jerry Brown for his service to society, media reported. Brown praised Bains and thousands of other immigrants from India who he said have enriched the US with their culture and work ethic, The Sacramento Bee reported. “It’s an…

  • Modi backs coal and other renewables

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invite Australia to play a key role in fulfilling India’s immense appetite for energy as its economy rapidly develops, using a landmark speech to parliament Tuesday to express support for coal and natural gas, as also renewable energy, says a media report. In an article titled ‘Modi to back coal,…

  • Modi among ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and five other Indians figure among Foreign Policy magazine’s sixth annual list of “100 Leading Global Thinkers”. Also among the honorees divided into 10 categories in the issue “recognising a year of tumult, protest, inspiration, and new beginnings” released Monday are three Indian Americans. “Each year, our…

  • Adani group gets Australian mining contract

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      Adani Mining, the Australian subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, and the State Bank of India (SBI)  signed an MoU for a $1 billion credit line for a coal mine project in Queensland. The company not only got the necessary approvals for its $7 billion coal mine project from Queensland state but also secured a commitment…

  • Modi Guru Ramdev gets ‘Z’ category security

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    He reminds the Rasputin days in Russia. The controversial Yoga guru Ramdev gets ‘Z’ category security. This is a happening in a country where young mothers dying without proper sterilisation equipment. It is very easy preach, but difficult to practice Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been provided ‘Z’ category security by the central government in view…

  • Modi promises a resurgent India

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      In a replay of the crowd and the euphoria at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was cheered lustily by an over 16,000-strong gathering of the Indian diaspora at Sydney’s Allphones Arena, where he promised to fulfill their expectations of a resurgent India. Modi, who arrived from Brisbane earlier in…

  • Clean chit for Srinivasan

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      The Supreme Court-appointed Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee, which investigated the allegations of spot fixing and betting in the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has said that sidelined BCCI president N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was involved in betting. The report, however, gave a clean chit to Srinivasan on both counts of…

  • INTERVIEW: Kidambi Srikanth

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    By Sandip Sikdar   Newly-crowned China Open champion Kidambi Srikanth said he never took the victory for granted and never believed that he could pull it off until he won as he knew that his opponent in the final — two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan of China — could make a comeback at any point. A…

  • ? Fortunate to be born in free India: Modi

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        Prime Minister Narendra Modi  said that that it was his good fortune to be the first Indian prime minister to be born post-Independence. “It is my good fortune that I’m the first prime minister of India to be born post-1947,” Modi said at a massive gathering of the Indian diaspora at the Allphones…

  • Fadnavis announces memorial to Thackeray

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      For the first time in nearly three months, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray amidst protests by some Sena activists at Bal Thackeray’s memorial here. Fadnavis with over half a dozen of his cabinet ministers and several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders arrived at the Thackeray memorial in Shivaji Park…