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NATURAL WITH ENGLISH, HINDI SPEECH (more…)

NATURAL WITH ENGLISH SPEECH (more…)

First Sikh NYPD cop on duty during the 29th India Day Parade and Festival held on August 16, 2009 in Manhattan, New York. Couresy:ANI

Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday inaugurated the first ever train service in the Kashmir valley by flagging it off from the Nowgam railway station near summer capital Srinagar. (more…)

Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) His father’s poetry and some dry fruits - that is all that Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan wants on his 66th birthday Saturday. (more…)

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) While distancing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Bajrang Dal, party president Rajnath Singh has stopped short of blaming the rightwing outfit for continuing anti-Christian violence and attributed it to ‘Hindu anger’ against forcible conversions instead. (more…)

Now that India and the US have formally inked the 123 civil nuclear cooperation agreement and sealed another pact with France following the Sep 6 waiver by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), it is time to look at the fierce debate on the issue in this country with some detachment. (more…)

Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) Bhupen Hazarika, the 82-year-old veteran Assamese composer whose health has been rapidly declining, had an unexpected surprise on his birthday. He received a message from Lata Mangeshkar saying she wanted to meet him. (more…)

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) As rights violations and anti-Christian attacks spread across the country, many turn to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for redressal. But the statutory body to address the issues is hamstrung by rules that severely limit its role, admits its chairperson S. Rajendra Babu on the eve of the commission’s 15th birthday. (more…)

If Prakash Karat is honest with himself, he will see the similarity between his opposition to the nuclear deal and Mamata Banerjee’s scuttling of the Nano automobile project in Singur in West Bengal. (more…)