A judge ordered that the suspect in Indian doctoral student Abhijit Mahato's shooting death last weekend to be held even as it was officially mentioned for the first time Mahato was robbed.
The resignation of Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, as president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute of Non-Violence he founded has been accepted following a furore over his critical remarks about Jews and Israel.
Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams; Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit; Prof Kaushik Basu, Prof Padma Desai and Dr Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan; filmmaker Manoj 'Night' Shyamalan; Dr Nirupam Bajpai and Sant Singh Virmani are from the United States who were honored with Padma awards. India will catch up with the West and take its place alongside "the best" in the world but it's not going to happen overnight, India's Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told an audience of young people at the World Economic Forum.
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Representatives of the Indian Sikh diaspora on Jan 25 vowed to take to the European courts and the United Nations (UN) their fight for their "fundamental right" to wear a turban.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy came to India with the right message to warm the heart of his hosts - backing India's nuclear energy needs, supporting its bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council and calling for expansion of the elite G-8 group "to G-13" with India as a member.
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Ambassador Ronen Sen unfurling tricolour in Washington DC | Kannappan gets Leadership Award | All set for Republic Day | National Bravery Award 2007 winners |
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Moving to Rhythm, Ontario, Feb17
