Friday, August 28, 2009
India down 1-0 in soccer opener
Ali Al Saad struck early to hand Lebanon a 10 win over holders India in the opening game of the five-nation Nehru Cup soccer tournament on Aug. 19.
Al Saad fired in a low, curling free kick from 22 yards following a foul by N.P Pradeep in the fourth minute as Lebanon started at a furious pace to rattle the hosts.
India went close a few times on either half but Lebanon, clearly the better side, tightened their defense and used quick counter attacks to keep the hosts from mounting sustained pressure.
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Al Saad fired in a low, curling free kick from 22 yards following a foul by N.P Pradeep in the fourth minute as Lebanon started at a furious pace to rattle the hosts.
India went close a few times on either half but Lebanon, clearly the better side, tightened their defense and used quick counter attacks to keep the hosts from mounting sustained pressure.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Hockey championship postponed due to H1N1 flu
India's hockey federation has postponed next month's national championships due to H1N1 flu, it said in a statement on Aug 19.
More than 25 people have died and 2,000 have been infected in India by the virus that has forced the Bollywood film industry to put off big releases and cancel shoots.
The tournament was due to be held from Sept. 13-27 in Pune, one of the worst hit by the virus
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More than 25 people have died and 2,000 have been infected in India by the virus that has forced the Bollywood film industry to put off big releases and cancel shoots.
The tournament was due to be held from Sept. 13-27 in Pune, one of the worst hit by the virus
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Jaswant Singh's book row signals change in Bharatiya Janata Party politics
A row over a controversial new book has underlined that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be leaning toward a more radical agenda to reinvent itself after a heavy election defeat in May.
The BJP expelled one of its top leaders on Aug. 19 for writing a book sympathetic to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim founder of rival Pakistan.
The step against Jaswant Singh, former finance and foreign minister, is testimony to the growing clout of the radical elements in the party that are overshadowing its more technocratic, pro-reform politicians, analysts said.
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The BJP expelled one of its top leaders on Aug. 19 for writing a book sympathetic to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim founder of rival Pakistan.
The step against Jaswant Singh, former finance and foreign minister, is testimony to the growing clout of the radical elements in the party that are overshadowing its more technocratic, pro-reform politicians, analysts said.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
California and Florida communities join nationwide celebrations
Organizers estimate at least 70,000 people trouped in to enjoy the three-day Festival of India held in Fremont, Calif. The event was organized by the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA).
The festivities began with a flag hoisting on Aug. 14 at San Jose City Hall, where the Indian and American flags were raised and the national anthems of the two countries sung. The parade and mela followed on subsequent days. The celebrations concluded with a banquet dinner Aug. 16.
Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia attended the dinner and Mauli Dave of the popular Indian TV program "Sa Re Ga Ma" performed live in concert. Romesh Japra, president of FIA, the health fair took on added importance because it offered an opportunity for health checks to people who had lost their jobs.
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The festivities began with a flag hoisting on Aug. 14 at San Jose City Hall, where the Indian and American flags were raised and the national anthems of the two countries sung. The parade and mela followed on subsequent days. The celebrations concluded with a banquet dinner Aug. 16.
Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia attended the dinner and Mauli Dave of the popular Indian TV program "Sa Re Ga Ma" performed live in concert. Romesh Japra, president of FIA, the health fair took on added importance because it offered an opportunity for health checks to people who had lost their jobs.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
4 Indian women among world's most powerful
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was ranked third by Forbes magazine in its 2009 list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Nooyi topped other candidates such as Queen of Jordan, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91.
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "
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Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91.
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Fox Star Studios to distribute ‘My Name is Khan'
Fox Star Studios said recently it had signed a deal to finance and distribute "My Name is Khan", a Bollywood film starring Shah Rukh Khan.The film, about an Indian Muslim in San Francisco embarking on a journey across the U.S., is due for release early next year.
Fox Star Studios, a joint ven-ture between Twentieth Century Fox and Star India, will distribute "My Name is Khan" in India while Fox will release the film elsewhere.
"This deal is part of our commitment to do good business in India and align with the best names in the industry," Vijay Singh, CEO of Fox Star Studios, said at a news conference.
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Fox Star Studios, a joint ven-ture between Twentieth Century Fox and Star India, will distribute "My Name is Khan" in India while Fox will release the film elsewhere.
"This deal is part of our commitment to do good business in India and align with the best names in the industry," Vijay Singh, CEO of Fox Star Studios, said at a news conference.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Border guards to ski down Everest, eye record
A n expedition by India's border guards will try to scale Mount Everest next month and ski down to a base camp in a world record attempt, officials said on Aug 12.
The 28-member team will climb Mount Everest from the South Col and scale the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) summit before skiing down to the nearest camp, Vikram Shirvastava, head of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, said.
"This expedition is also vital for honing the skills in operational preparedness and also REUTERS crucial for survival strategy," Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country's home minister, said at a flag-off ceremony on Aug. 12
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The 28-member team will climb Mount Everest from the South Col and scale the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) summit before skiing down to the nearest camp, Vikram Shirvastava, head of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, said.
"This expedition is also vital for honing the skills in operational preparedness and also REUTERS crucial for survival strategy," Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country's home minister, said at a flag-off ceremony on Aug. 12
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Krishnamoorthi gets campaign tips from Obama
Sitting in the Oval Office facing President Barack Obama talking to him felt surreal to Raja Krishnamoorthi, who hails from Illinois like the president. The last time Krishnamoorthi sat with Obama in such close proximity was in his dining room a decade ago when the latter was campaigning for the U.S. Senate.
On July 31 afternoon, Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat and candidate for Illinois state comptroller, entered the West Wing and someone from President Obama's personal staff escorted him to the waiting area just outside the Oval Office where the president's secretary sits.
Suddenly, he heard a loud voice bellow "Raja," and he turned: It was the president of the United States, standing at the door to his office, smiling his wide smile. "He gave me a big hug and took me into his office," Krishnamoorthi says.
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On July 31 afternoon, Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat and candidate for Illinois state comptroller, entered the West Wing and someone from President Obama's personal staff escorted him to the waiting area just outside the Oval Office where the president's secretary sits.
Suddenly, he heard a loud voice bellow "Raja," and he turned: It was the president of the United States, standing at the door to his office, smiling his wide smile. "He gave me a big hug and took me into his office," Krishnamoorthi says.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
President Clinton to keynote PanIIT Global Conference
The seventh annual PanIIT Global Conference 2009 to be held in Chicago from Oct. 9-11, has bagged President Bill Clinton as its keynote speaker. Other highprofile participants include President Obama's Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and India's Ambassador Meera Shankar.
"All of them are confirmed speakers," Piyush Agrawal, spokesperson for PanIIT told Desi Talk.
The theme of this year's conference is "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Global Economy," said an Aug. 3 press release from PanIIT, an umbrella alumni organization for all the campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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"All of them are confirmed speakers," Piyush Agrawal, spokesperson for PanIIT told Desi Talk.
The theme of this year's conference is "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Global Economy," said an Aug. 3 press release from PanIIT, an umbrella alumni organization for all the campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Teen gets 17 years in store clerk's killing
A teen has pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the fatal stabbing of Vatsala Thakkar, a store clerk in Hanover Park. Thakkar, 56, was killed in November Seneca Berry, 16, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison by DuPage County Circuit Court Judge John Kinsella
As part of a plea deal, prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Berry, who has agreed to testify against two other accomplices, Dewaun Tate, 17, and Jerry Lockhart, 40 State law requires Berry to serve 85 percent of his sentence before he can be deemed eligible for parole
Tate and Lockhart have been charged with murder and armed robbery in the killing of Thakkar, who was found stabbed in the back multiple times in a strip mall parking lot on the 5600 block of Arlington Drive East.
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As part of a plea deal, prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Berry, who has agreed to testify against two other accomplices, Dewaun Tate, 17, and Jerry Lockhart, 40 State law requires Berry to serve 85 percent of his sentence before he can be deemed eligible for parole
Tate and Lockhart have been charged with murder and armed robbery in the killing of Thakkar, who was found stabbed in the back multiple times in a strip mall parking lot on the 5600 block of Arlington Drive East.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Jewelry dealer fined 100,000 dollars for bribing visa officer
Businessman Sunil Agrawal, 50, was fined $100,000 by U.S. District B Court Judge Paul L Friedman on July 29 for allegedly bribing visa officer Mike O'Keefe when he was stationed in Toronto, Canada. O'Keefe was sentenced to a year in prison.
Agrawal, who owns STS Jewels Inc. in Long Island City in New York, admitted in February he gave thousands of dollars worth of gifts to O'Keefe and paid for trips to Las Vegas and New York City, as well as limos with strippers, according to a press release from the office of Jeffrey A Taylor, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
O'Keefe, on his part, speedily cleared visa requests from STS for its employees, mostly persons of Indian origin.
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Agrawal, who owns STS Jewels Inc. in Long Island City in New York, admitted in February he gave thousands of dollars worth of gifts to O'Keefe and paid for trips to Las Vegas and New York City, as well as limos with strippers, according to a press release from the office of Jeffrey A Taylor, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
O'Keefe, on his part, speedily cleared visa requests from STS for its employees, mostly persons of Indian origin.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
The ‘other' Independence Day and the ‘other' generation
A t the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again."
A These famous words were uttered in a monumental speech by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, as it approached midnight on Aug. 14, 1947.
This year on Aug. 15, when the Indian flag is hoisted above the Red Fort in New Delhi, what will be going on in the hearts and minds of young Indian Americans born in the United States? What does India's Independence Day mean to them?
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A These famous words were uttered in a monumental speech by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, as it approached midnight on Aug. 14, 1947.
This year on Aug. 15, when the Indian flag is hoisted above the Red Fort in New Delhi, what will be going on in the hearts and minds of young Indian Americans born in the United States? What does India's Independence Day mean to them?
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Rights group urges resettlement of Sri Lanka's displaced
The international advocacy group Human Rights Watch urged the Sri Lankan government on July 28 to release hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians confined to displacement camps despite the end of the country's civil war.
The appeal comes days after the United States called for the resettlement of more than 280,000 civilians held in sprawling camps in the north since May, when government troops crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to end a 25-year old war.
"Haven't they been through enough?" asked Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch's Asia director, in an e-mailed statement
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The appeal comes days after the United States called for the resettlement of more than 280,000 civilians held in sprawling camps in the north since May, when government troops crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to end a 25-year old war.
"Haven't they been through enough?" asked Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch's Asia director, in an e-mailed statement
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Sonu Nigam announces online deal to reach out to fans
Fans of Bollywood sensation Sonu Nigam will now have one more way to access his music and much more. Nigam has entered into a partnership with media and software company Cinsay Inc. to market his music to Western audiences.
The collaboration, facilitated by Music Is Nirvana, a leading content aggregator that owns more than 500,000 songs and 1,000 movies, was announced at a press conference in New York on July 28 that also promoted Nigam's 2009 US Explosion Tour.
As part of the new partnership, Cinsay will produce a new line of apparel, along with videos, audio and never-before seen footage of the singer.
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The collaboration, facilitated by Music Is Nirvana, a leading content aggregator that owns more than 500,000 songs and 1,000 movies, was announced at a press conference in New York on July 28 that also promoted Nigam's 2009 US Explosion Tour.
As part of the new partnership, Cinsay will produce a new line of apparel, along with videos, audio and never-before seen footage of the singer.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Muttiah Muralitharan announces 2010 retirement plan
Sri Lanka's world record holder spinner Muttiah Muralitharan announced on July 30 he was planning to retire from test cricket in 2010.
"We don't have many test matches next year but I am thinking that next year's test series against West Indies (in Sept) will be my last two test matches," Muralitharan, the world's highest wicket-taker in tests and one dayers, told reporters.
The 37-year-old has struggled with a knee injury in recent years and the problem forced him to miss the three-test series against Pakistan.
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"We don't have many test matches next year but I am thinking that next year's test series against West Indies (in Sept) will be my last two test matches," Muralitharan, the world's highest wicket-taker in tests and one dayers, told reporters.
The 37-year-old has struggled with a knee injury in recent years and the problem forced him to miss the three-test series against Pakistan.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Veteran journalist is dead
Veteran journalist Dharam Shourie, 72, died after a prolonged illness, July 29. Shourie came to the United States in 1989, as the United Nations correspondent for Press Trust of India. Before that, he served in New Delhi with the PTI.
According to news reports sourcing family members, Shourie had been ill for the last two months and was hospitalized two weeks ago. He died from multiple complications.
"It's really a sad day for all of us in the journalism world that we lost Dharam sahib," said New York based photojournalist Jay Mandal.
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According to news reports sourcing family members, Shourie had been ill for the last two months and was hospitalized two weeks ago. He died from multiple complications.
"It's really a sad day for all of us in the journalism world that we lost Dharam sahib," said New York based photojournalist Jay Mandal.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
The last princess
Gayatri Devi, 90, an Indian princess considered one of the world's most glamorous women and who became a prominent member of parliament in the 1960s before being imprisoned during a controversial state of emergency, died July 29 of stomach and respiratory problems at a hospital in Jaipur, India.
She was born in London on May 23, 1919, the fourth child of the ruler of Cooch Behar state in what is now eastern India.
Brought up as a thoroughly Anglicized Indian princess, in a palace with 400 servants, she reportedly fell in love at 12 with the dashing maharajah of Jaipur, Sawai Man Singh II. He was 21 at the time and a champion polo player who was exceedingly rich and exceedingly handsome.
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She was born in London on May 23, 1919, the fourth child of the ruler of Cooch Behar state in what is now eastern India.
Brought up as a thoroughly Anglicized Indian princess, in a palace with 400 servants, she reportedly fell in love at 12 with the dashing maharajah of Jaipur, Sawai Man Singh II. He was 21 at the time and a champion polo player who was exceedingly rich and exceedingly handsome.
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