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  • SPONSOR A CHILD IN INDIA

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    Yorkshire physio Manasi Marathe  returns to India to visit her sponsored child A Yorkshire physiotherapist who wanted to “make a difference” in her home country of India has been to visit the girl she sponsors there through global children’s charity Plan UK. Manasi Marathe who was born and brought up in India, visited 14-year-old Anjali at…

  • SPECIAL: Dubai ruler on ISIS & Jihadism

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     HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, calls for united front against Jihadists like ISIS.  Only one thing can stop a suicidal youth who is ready to die for ISIS: a stronger ideology that guides him onto the right path and convinces…

  • WHAT SORT OF A STAFFER ARE YOU?

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra The next time you hear someone say, “but that’s the way we’ve always done it” suggest you take him for a long one way walk. It must rank as the most annoying cop out available for avoiding doing something. The award winning Urdu writer Quratulain Haider once said that anyone…

  • Screening of film ‘Haider’ for B-Town celebs

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    Shahid and Shraddha Kapoor, the lead actors of Haider, hosted a special screening of the film to the entire Bollywood fraternity. All the big directors were present at the event, cheering their feoow director Vishal Bharadwaj for a superb movie. Shahid and Shraddha were seen posing in the famous candid posture, a pose that has…

  • Alia turns designer

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    Actor Alia Bhatt unveils clothing line Alia in association with Jabong.com in Mumbai. The young and versatile actress Alia Bhatt has turned designer for a line titled ‘Alia’ for an online shopping portal. She says her love for fashion is courtesy filmmaker Karan Johar. Alia says she was not much of a fashionista initially, but…

  • Mary Kom vie for Asiad boxing gold

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    India’s M.C. Mary Kom secured a berth in the gold medal bout of the women’s flyweight (48-51kg) after a convincing win in the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games here Tuesday. The 31-year-old Indian beat Vietnam’s Le Thi Bang by a unanimous 3-0 decision to enter the final. The five-time world champion was in fine…

  • India, US special forces train together in India

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    An India-US military exercise, underway in Uttarakhand, has seen combined training between detachments of both armies’ special forces as well as given a platform for both sides to share their experiences in UN-mandated counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism missions, a defence ministry release said Monday. “Yudh Abhyas 2014” brought together troops of a mountain brigade of Indian Army and…

  • Indian Muslims will fail Al Qaeda: Modi

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    Terrorism has been exported to India and it is not home-grown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here Monday, adding that the Indian Muslims will fail the Al Qaeda. Answering a query at the Council of Foreign Relations here, Modi said India has the second largest Muslim population in the world. He said India’s basic philosophy…

  • Did glaciers flow through Mars?

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    Using satellite images, researchers for the first time have identified the first mineralogical evidence of past glaciers as they flowed through the Grand Canyon of Mars. The team from the Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, US, and the Freie Universitat, Berlin, mapped the acid-sulphate mineral jarosite within Valles Marineris – the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) long chasm…

  • Living with values and hope @79

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    Revered by the Tibetans as a ‘living god’ and idolised in both the Orient and the West, the Dalai Lama, known for his simplicity and typical jovial style, transcends all barriers of religion, language and even distances. He stepped back from an adminstrative role almost three years back but is active like never before in…

  • Modi impressed with Obama welcome

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      Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had a “wonderful meeting” with US President Barack Obama at the White House and both share a vision for partnership in which both countries would work together for the benefit of the entire humankind. In a Facebook post after his first meeting with Obama Monday night, the…

  • Prisoner No 7402 will have to wait

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    The criminal revision petition of jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa for suspension of her sentence and bail was Tuesday adjourned to Oct 6 by the judge of a vacation bench of the Karnataka High Court here. After admitting the revision petition, Justice Rathnakala posted the bail plea to Oct 6 by a…

  • ‘Chalein saath saath’, US tells India

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    Once shunned by America, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the guest of honour at a private dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama ahead of their formal summit Tuesday to reset stalled India-US relations. As Modi, fasting for the Hindu festival of Navratri, sat down with Obama in the Blue Room of the president’s…

  • GALLERY: Obamas says Kem Chho

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    Modi was greeted at the doorstep of the White House by Obama with “Kem Chho” – the Gujarati equivalent of “Hello, how are you”. At the private dinner that Obama held for Modi, the two sides discussed opportunities of working together. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was also greeted by Obama and other officials, including US…

  • WHO IS JOHN MICHAEL D’CUNHA?

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra To my mind more important than the Modi bandwagon’s huge US success the Oscar for courage, conviction and commitment goes to a man called John Michael D’Cunha. He is a judge in Tamil Nadu and he is the first judicial official in the history of our country to remove a…

  • Telangana release Rs 46 crore for families of its ‘martyrs’

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    The Telangana government has released Rs.46.2 crore towards financial assistance for families of those who laid down their lives for separate Telangana state. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao  signed the orders for payment of Rs.10 lakh each to the families of the martyrs. According to an official statement, the money will be paid to the…

  • FAO: 805 million in dire poverty

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    World hunger falls but 805 mn still chronically under-nourished Despite the overall progress made in global hunger reduction, 805 million people are estimated to be chronically undernourished in 2012-14, down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990-92, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. In the…

  • Obama acknowledges underestimation of ISIS

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      US President Barack Obama has in a television interview acknowledged that intelligence agencies underestimated the rise of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group in Iraq and Syria. “Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” Obama said Sunday on…

  • Modi meets the Clinton’s

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      Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former US president Bill Clinton and his wife and former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was also present during the meeting. Hillary Clinton and Sushma Swaraj shared a hug, according to pictures of their meeting tweeted by the external affairs ministry. Hillary Clinton,…

  • Modi off to win Washington

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    After wowing the Indian-American community and wooing the big business in the Big Apple, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to Washington for his first summit with President Barack Obama to reset stalled India-US relations. When Modi fasting for the Hindu festival of Navratri sits down for a private dinner with President Barack Obama…

  • Nasscom bats for Amazon dealers

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    The Karnataka government should facilitate the growth of e-commerce by removing tax issues faced by dealers of global e-tail major Amazon India in selling goods in the state, a top IT industry representative said. “The Karnataka government should remove impediments in the growth of e-commerce and be a catalyst for economic growth in the state,”…

  • ‘No development without peace, security’

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    Sheikh Hasina says Sustainable development cannot be achieved in the “absence of durable peace and security….reports Asian Lite News   Sustainable development cannot be achieved in the “absence of durable peace and security”, said Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she underlined the importance of a “balanced, pragmatic and ambitious agenda” while the global body…

  • Sachin unveils Kerala Blasters jersey and anthem

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      Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, co-owner of Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Kerala Blasters, Monday unveiled the Kochi-based football team’s jersey and the anthem. Tendulkar said the yellow coloured jersey signifies determination and faith. “Our jersey symbolises determination as far as the players are concerned and faith for all the well wishers of the team.…

  • Imran Vows to continue protest

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    Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan said the protest in Islamabad will continue until the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. “We will celebrate Eid at ‘Azadi Chowk’ in style and will continue our protest,” he said while talking to media in Islamabad. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief said the Election Commission had itself admitted that there was…

  • NHS deserves a better treatment

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    I marched 300 miles recently because I believe in the NHS and which is the best system in the developed world. In the coming few months I hope there will be more clarity from the Labour Party on how they plan to save the NHS. They must not count on the blind faith just because…

  • C’Wealth Unveils Post-2015 Agenda

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    Forum aims to tackle the causes of poverty, exclusion and inequality’….reports Asian Lite News Commonwealth Heads of Government have endorsed a Commonwealth Statement on the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda at a meeting in New York, which took place in the wings of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly. In it, Commonwealth leaders…

  • Yvette praises Manchester Police

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    Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP has praised the work of Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner in building safer communities. Speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, Ms Cooper confirmed that Labour will scrap police and crime commissioners if the party wins the next election and promised a system of ‘stronger accountability as…

  • Modi & Netanyahu discuss defence

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      With India-Israel ties on the upswing after Narendra Modi’s election, the prime ministers of the two countries met in New York to discuss boosting cooperation, with the Israeli prime minister saying “sky is the limit” for this cooperation. An official statement issued by the Indian Prime Minister’s Office said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…

  • SURVEY: Labour Leads in Marginal Seats

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    A new ComRes / ITV News poll of the 40 most marginal Labour-Conservative constituencies, shows Labour holding an 11 point lead over the Conservatives. At the 2010 General Election the two parties were tied on 37% across these 40 seats. Labour currently has 41% of the vote in these battleground constituencies, an increase of five points since June, with…

  • Tories to create 3 million apprenticeships

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    The Conservative party will cap benefits further to fund three million apprenticeships if they win the general election, the prime minister has said. David Cameron told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show he wanted to “abolish” youth unemployment. A Tory government would cut the maximum benefits a household can claim a year from £26,000 to £23,000,…

  • PICTORIAL: ‘NAMOSTE’America

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  • GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2014

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    Actress Priyanka Chopra,Aditi Rao Hydari,Arjun Kapoor,Imran Khan,Lisa Haydon,Mandira Bedi,Mugdha Godse,Nargis Fakhri during GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2014, in Mumbai.

  • Ahmadzai sworn in as Afghan president

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    Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as the new president of Afghanistan in a ceremony at the presidential palace here. The former finance minister was inaugurated, marking Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Al Jazeera reported. Ghani succeeds Hamid Karzai after a three-month standoff over disputed…

  • British jets return after Iraq combat mission

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    Two British Tornado fighter-bombers returned to base in Cyprus after their first combat mission over Iraq since the parliament authorised military action against the Islamic State (IS). According to eyewitnesses, the planes took off early Saturday morning and returned late evening, Xinhua reported. The British defence ministry said in a statement in that the planes…

  • Sonakshi walk for Tarun

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    Fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani with Bollywood actor Sonakshi Sinha during his solo show for Sahachari Foundation in Mumbai.

  • Human genome shaped by evolutionary race

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    An evolutionary race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks that orchestrate the activity of genes in every cell of our bodies, reveal new research. The race was between mobile DNA sequences known as ‘retrotransposons’ (jumping genes) and the genes that have evolved to control them. Scientists…

  • India’s Airtel touches lives in Ghana

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    By Francis Kokutse   Ignatius Bugyei is an ICT teacher at Som Nyame Kodur Junior High School in the Central Region of Ghana. But his school does not have the basic ICT set-up — computers. For that he has to travel with his students by public transport on rough and dusty roads to the nearest town,…

  • Jaya moves Karnataka HC for bail

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        Jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday filed a criminal revision petition in the Karnataka High Court here, seeking suspension of the four-year jail sentence and bail in the corruption case. Jayalalithaa’s senior counsel B. Kumar filed a set of four applications with the high court registrar for an early hearing,…

  • Deepak Perwani wants to design for Deepika

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    By Natalia Ningthoujam   Like most Pakistanis, Karachi-based designer Deepak Perwani too is a fan of Bollywood celebrities. After styling Indian stars like veteran actress Shabana Azmi and her husband, renowned lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar, he now seeks to design for the younger lot like Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor. Perwani admits that he and fellow Pakistani…

  • Turkey calls for ground action against ISIS

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      Turkish president has urged the international community to escalate attacks against the Islamic State (IS) militant group, warning that the armed group could expand its reach beyond Iraq and Syria. “We see a deeper problem. The situation is now unsustainable as Islamic State gains a global character. We must extinguish the danger before it…

  • US continue to strike ISIS targets in Syria

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    The US-led anti-terror coalition targeted a position of the Islamic State (IS) militant group at a key gas production facility in Syria’s Deir al-Zour province Sunday night, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said the US strikes hit the entrance of the Konico factory, which is the biggest gas production facility…

  • Modi overshadowed Sharif at UN

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      Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the UN was everything his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif’s was not, said a Pakistani daily . An editorial “Modi at the UN” in the Daily Times said: “Modi continued his charm offensive in the west with a speech to the UN General Assembly that was everything Nawaz…

  • Congress criticise Modi over drug pricing

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     West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi-led central government over its drug pricing policy and accused the BJP of spreading communalism by facilitating the RSS to get a foothold in the state. Hitting out at the central government’s decision to withdraw powers of the drug pricing authority to cap prices…

  • India’s software technology exports increase

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    By Sujit Chakraborty  India’s exports from the Software Technology Parks (STP) across India are rising at a pace of 8 to 10 percent annually and would further increase in the upcoming years as the industry spreads across the country, a senior sector official said. “There are huge software technology markets across the world and India’s…

  • Panneerselvam sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM

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      Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam was Monday sworn in as the new chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Panneerselvam, 63, elected leader of the AIADMK legislature party Sunday evening, succeeds J. Jayalalithaa, who was sentenced to four years in prison Saturday for indulging in corruption. Several AIADMK legislators were also sworn in as ministers.…

  • Modi rocks New York

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rock star like reception by a rapturous Indian-American community at Madison Square Garden made quite a splash in the US media too ahead of his summit Monday with President Barack Obama. Modi “sold himself on Sunday as a onetime tea vendor who wanted to lift India to glory by cleaning up…

  • President’s rule in Maharashtra

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      President’s rule was Sunday imposed in poll-bound Maharashtra. President’s rule has been imposed and the state assembly has been kept under suspended animation in Maharashtra, an official release said here. Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly are slated for Oct 15. The decision to impose President’s rule was cleared by the union cabinet in…

  • Jaya to seek bail from High Court

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     Jailed AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa will file a criminal revision petition Monday in the Karnataka High Court to seek bail in the four-year jail term she has been sentenced to for corruption. “A team of senior lawyers met Jayalalithaa Sunday in the visitors’ room of the central jail where she is lodged since Saturday and…

  • Join to build a new India:Modi

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected with thousands of rapturously cheering Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden here Sunday, promising them he would deliver on the electoral promise of a resurgent India and urged them to join in the mass movement to work for their country of origin. Addressing a 20,000-strong crowd at the venue…

  • Lifelong visas for Indian diaspora

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      Amid cheers from thousands of Indian-Americans, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday announced several measures to ease travel to their motherland including life-long visas. “Happy?” he asked as the crowd cheered his announcement with chants of “Modi, Modi” at the huge Madison Square Garden community reception for him. “There is even more to come,” he…