SANTA CLARA, CA: The Nargis Dutt Cancer Foundation "Benefit Concert" was held at Santa Clara Convention Center on November 4 from 5 pm to 8 pm. The Nargis Dutt Cancer Foundation, established in 1981, is a non-profit and charitable organization committed to improving medical care in India. It supports the advanced training of physicians in the diagnosis and treatment...
FLUSHING, NY: Queens College has been recognized in the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges by its appearance on the top 10 list of Top Public Regional Universities - North. Other CUNY schools on this list include Baruch and Hunter. Queens College also enjoyed an overall 18-point rise in its category of Best Regional Universities-North.
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FREMONT: Karva Chauth is a religious event celebrated with zeal and fervor by married Indian women every year. On the 4th day of auspicious Kartik month of Hindu calendar, the festival is celebrated to pray for long life of husbands. Women fast whole day and break their fast in the evening after offering prayers and seeing a glimpse of...
WASHINGTON: Six Indian-Americans are in the race for a seat in the US House of Representatives, with the latest polls and mainstream media saying that three of them have bright chances of winning.Elections will be held for all 435 seats, representing the 50 US states on November 6. The winners of this election cycle will serve in the 113th...
MUMBAI: BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today came under attack from senior leader and lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani, who resigned from the national executive, saying he would not continue in the party's highest decision-making body as long as he was its president.Mahesh Jethmalani's decision came nearly a fortnight after his father and BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani asked Gadkari to...
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Digvijay Singh today took a dig at the BJP over its chief Nitin Gadkari's remark that the intelligence quotient level of Swami Vivekanand and Dawood Ibrahim could have been almost the same."In a function in Bhopal Gadkari said 'IQ of Swami Vivekanand and Dawood Ibrahim was same'. Any comment from (Narendra) Modi and his fans?"...
LUCKNOW: In a relief to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Allahabad High Court today dismissed a bunch of petitions seeking prosecution of the BSP supremo in the Taj Corridor case, holding they are devoid of merit.The Lucknow bench of the court gave the relief in the case while upholding the June 2007 order of the special CBI...
ISLAMABAD: Scores of Hindus participated in a special ceremony held at the historic Katasraj Temple in Pakistan's Punjab province following the restoration of its holy pond, which had begun drying up due to excessive use of groundwater by a nearby cement factory.A total of 115 Hindus from cities across Pakistan visited the temple in Chakwal district on Saturday.Shri Amar...
MUMBAI: Yuvraj Singh today staged a remarkable comeback to the Test fold, while struggling off-spinner Harbhajan Singh also returned from wilderness as India named a 15-member squad for the first two Tests against England starting November 15.The 30-year-old, who fought back after being diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer last year, forced his way back into the squad...
CHENNAI: Bodies of all five sailors, who went missing after an oil tanker ran aground off the city beach hours before cyclone 'Nilam' made landfall on November 1, have been recovered.While four bodies were recovered yesterday, one more was found washed ashore near Minjur coastal area early this morning, police said.The five went missing after their lifeboat capsized in...