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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.
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A British court on Jan 25 sentenced the controversial breakaway Tamil Tiger leader, 'Colonel' Karuna, to nine months in prison for travelling on a false Sri Lankan passport.
| | 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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A platform of Gulf nations recruiting overseas workers in large numbers has recommended that all such workers be protected under the national laws of their countries of residence. |
The Indian American woman who was found charred to death near the North Carolina-Virginia border had a money dispute with her estranged husband, who is not a suspect but is under police watch. |
India-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz on Jan 24 tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons in support of India receiving a seat on the United Nations Security Council. |
The president of a gurdwara in Canada where a failed refugee claimant from India is being sheltered says the shrine's management has not violated any law, though the country's Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has said there is no law allowing sanctuary at religious places. |
The five UN Security Council permanent members met for preliminary discussions of a draft resolution to impose further sanctions on Iran in the protracted dispute over its nuclear programme, diplomats said. |
President George W. Bush will give his annual State of the Union address on Jan 28, a day earlier than tradition calls for, in a move designed to show that his agenda is still important even as Americans look beyond his remaining time in office. |
Thousands of Malaysian devotees of Tamil origin on Jan 22 accompanied the silver chariot carrying the image of Hindu lord Murugan through Kuala Lumpur on the eve of Thaipusam, the festival that marks the wedding of the Hindu deity to Valli, a gypsy girl. |
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of doctoral student Abhijit Mahato at Duke University in North Carolina, even as his body was sent from Durham to reach his hometown in Jharkhand Jan 26.
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An Al Qaeda member, who was trained in Pakistan by the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also known as KSM, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a US federal court. |
Indian origin beauties from more than 20 countries will get a taste of South Africa when they gather in Lenasia for the Miss India Worldwide pageant next month. There is also a possibility that the weeklong pageant may have Bollywood stars gracing the stage. |
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