America
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Mondays in May observe most suicide deaths in USA: study
World | Feb 05, 2015, 07:21 PM ISTOver 40,000 Americans killed themselves in 2012 with Mondays in May accounting for maximum deaths, says a report by the American Association of Suicideology. The figure exceeds the total deaths in car crashes.The suicide rate
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Pak doctor who helped locate Osama bin Laden facing terror threat inside Peshawar jail
World | Feb 02, 2015, 06:35 PM ISTIslamabad: Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani surgeon who helped the CIA uncover terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad by running a fake vaccination programme, is facing threat to his life inside jail from
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Barack Obama congratulated for clean energy agreement with India
India | Jan 27, 2015, 11:14 AM ISTWashington: A top American Senator has congratulated US President Barack Obama for reaching an agreement with India to generate more renewable energy and thus reduce impact on the world's climate."This agreement with India is significant
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A third of America's budding science talent are of Indian origin
India | Jan 23, 2015, 11:13 AM ISTWashington: Nearly one-third of the 40 high school seniors named finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2015, America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science and math competition are of Indian origin.The finalists receive an
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Facebook most popular social network: Survey
World | Jan 12, 2015, 11:14 AM ISTWashington: Facebook is by far the most popular social media website with its large base of "very active" users visiting the site daily, a new survey of American internet users has found.The survey conducted by
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73 Indian-American teens among Intel science talent semi-finalists
World | Jan 10, 2015, 11:38 AM ISTWashington: As many as 73 Indian-Americans figure among 300 high school seniors named semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2015, America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science and math competition.The contest is designed to
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Gandhi's image on beer cans; US company draws ire, apologises
World | Jan 04, 2015, 02:59 PM ISTHyderabad/Washington: The use of Mahatma Gandhi's image on beer cans and bottle by a US company has raised hackles with a petition being filed in a Hyderabad court alleging it had insulted the father of
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CIA interrogators are heroes not torturers: Cheney
World | Dec 15, 2014, 08:02 AM ISTWashington: Former US vice president Dick Cheney Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes."I'm perfectly comfortable that they should be praised, they should be
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Sikhs ask US lawmakers to ensure religious liberty in military
World | Dec 06, 2014, 10:10 AM ISTWashington: Sikhs enjoy greater religious liberty in the militaries of countries like India, Canada and Britain than the US, a Sikh advocacy group has said, presenting a case for removal of barriers for the members
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Roofs collapse under historic snowfall in western New York
World | Nov 21, 2014, 11:31 AM ISTBuffalo: Roofs creaked and collapsed and homeowners toiled to clear waist-high snow drifts atop their houses on Thursday as another storm continued to bury Buffalo and western New York state, which remained paralyzed by the
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Interesting facts about America's 'Statue of Liberty'
World | Nov 06, 2014, 09:44 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Statue of Liberty turns 128 on 28th October 2014. The Statue of Liberty depicts a woman holding on high a book and a 46 m long torch set on Liberty Island, situated
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Nisha Desai making critical efforts in key part of world: Kerry
World | Oct 24, 2014, 12:06 PM ISTWashington: US Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged the critical role being played by Nisha Desai Biswal, one of his top diplomats, in building America's relationship with countries in South and Central Asia, particularly India.“I'm
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Narendra Modi's America visit very successful: US think tank
World | Oct 02, 2014, 10:59 AM ISTWashington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit was ‘very successful' on many counts as he reached out to various interest groups in the US in unprecedented ways, according to a leading US think tank."On many
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Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed spews venom against India and America
World | Jul 12, 2014, 08:39 AM ISTLahore: Just days after his organisation was declared a terror outfit by the US, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, who orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, addressed a seminar at the Lahore High Court spewing venom
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Meet the latest cricket crazy nation
Cricket | Jun 04, 2014, 07:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: The seventh edition of IPL has just concluded and it has fans all around the world. In the last edition of ICC World T20, Nepal became the latest entrant . But this time
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India's rising middle class competing with America :Barack Obama
World | May 29, 2014, 11:24 AM ISTWashington: As a rising middle class - from Brazil to India competes with Americans, and as new nations embrace democracy and market economies, the US has to be ready to respond to this new world
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Al-Qaida's wing in Yemen vows to attack America
World | Apr 17, 2014, 01:15 PM ISTDubai: The leader of Al-Qaida's wing in Yemen has vowed to attack the United States, in a video apparently showing a gathering of the group celebrating a mass jailbreak of fighters.The video was brought to
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10 of the coolest corporate perks in America
May 27, 2014, 06:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: In addition to all of the traditional perks like 401K matching funds and free medical and dental benefits, employers in America are offering some really interesting perks. Read on to find about them:
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America braces for potentially catastrophic winter storm
World | Feb 13, 2014, 11:24 AM ISTWashington: The American capital braced for a massive winter storm that knocked down power in nearly half a million homes and business in Southeast America before moving north to wallop the Washington region.More than 97
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Obama thanks Lakshmi Mittal for investing in America
World | Nov 15, 2013, 08:52 AM ISTWashington : US President Barack Obama has thanked London-based Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal for investing in America and creating jobs in the country. “I want to thank your CEO, Lakshmi Mittal, for investing in