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Mysterious space plane lands on California coast after 674 days in Earth's Orbit
World | Oct 18, 2014, 01:10 PM ISTCalifornia: A top-secret space plane landed today at an Air Force base on the Southern California coast.The plane spent nearly two years circling Earth on a classified mission. Known as the X-37B, it resembles a
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California bans use of plastic bags
World | Oct 01, 2014, 10:51 AM ISTLos Angeles: California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a legislation banning grocery stores from using plastic bags.This legislation has made California the first US state to prohibit the distribution of plastic bags in stores, Xinhua
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'Natural gas usage won't help curb CO2 emission'
World | Sep 25, 2014, 01:46 PM ISTNew York: Increased use of natural gas will not help arrest carbon dioxide (CO2) emission significantly because it delays the widespread construction of low-carbon energy facilities, such as solar arrays, says a US-based study.Inexpensive gas
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Hurricane Odile slams Mexico's Baja California
World | Sep 16, 2014, 08:25 AM ISTCABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico: Hurricane Odile blazed a trail of destruction through Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Monday that leveled everything from ramshackle homes to luxury hotels and big box stores, leaving entire neighborhoods as
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California man set his vehicle ablaze, dances around the inferno
World | Jun 20, 2014, 01:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: Authorities arrested a man for setting his car on fire and then dancing by its side near a toll between Oakland and San Francisco.According to the authorities the man intentionally burnt his car
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Split California into 6: Man behind Hotmail has a pipedream
Feb 23, 2014, 08:56 PM ISTWashington: It isn't India alone that faces moves to split big states for one reason or another. If a venture capitalist has his way California, America's largest state, would be split into six separate states
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US woman leaves California to become rural housewife in India
India | Jan 29, 2014, 07:21 AM ISTNew Delhi: A 41-year-old American woman Adriana Peral has swapped her swanky lifestyle to become a traditional housewife in a remote village near Panipat, Haryana.Adriana Peral fell in love with a 25-year-old young man from
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Paul Walker's organs too charred to be donated
Hollywood | Jan 05, 2014, 09:08 AM ISTLos Angeles: Late actor Paul Walker's injuries, following his car crash in November 2013, were so bad that none of his organs were fit to be donated, new autopsy details reveal.The actor officially died from
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10 mind-blowing facts about McDonald's
Jan 02, 2014, 07:38 AM ISTNew Delhi: There is no doubt that McDonald's is a huge fast food chain of restaurants that is growing in numbers with each passing day. McDonald's, which began as a hamburger stand in California in
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Nearly 100 people evacuated, 15 homes destroyed in California fire
World | Dec 17, 2013, 11:24 PM ISTCalifornia: A wildfire burning on Tuesday in the Big Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on its way toward
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Boy who killed Nazi dad at age 10 to be sentenced
World | Oct 25, 2013, 11:28 AM ISTSanta ana, California : The blond boy was 10 when he put a gun to the head of his sleeping neo-Nazi father and pulled the trigger.It was over in an instant for Jeff Hall, but
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Indian-American named judge in California
World | Sep 06, 2013, 10:56 AM ISTWashington: A leading Indian American lawyer, Sunil R. Kulkarni, has become the first South Asian American state judge in Northern California with his appointment to Santa Clara County Superior Court.Palo Alto, California, resident Kulkarni, 41
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US Hunger Strike: Prisoners on hunger strike close to death in California
World | Aug 29, 2013, 10:05 AM ISTDozens of California state prison inmates have been staging a hunger strike for more than seven weeks, prompting a federal judge last week to approve a request to force-feed them if necessary.Officials with the California
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Speeding Car mowed down pedestrians in California
World | Aug 04, 2013, 05:11 PM ISTCalifornia, Aug 4: A driver plowed into a crowd walking along one of the most popular beach boardwalks in Southern California on Saturday evening, killing one person, injuring 11 others and leaving behind a chaotic
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Indian American announces bid to run for mayor in US city
World | Aug 02, 2013, 11:37 AM ISTWashington, Aug 2: Chennai-born Indian American Suja Lowenthal has announced her bid to run for Mayor of Long Beach, which is the second largest city in Los Angeles County of California in US.Currently serving her
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California gurdwara vandalised
World | Jul 31, 2013, 04:57 PM ISTWashington, July 31: A Sikh gurdwara in Riverside, California has been vandalised in an apparent hate crime with the word 'TERRIST!' in capital letters spray painted around the complex, according to a community organisation.Citing community
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Death toll rises to 3 in Asiana plane crash in California
World | Jul 13, 2013, 04:04 PM ISTSan Francisco, Jul 13: A third girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed in San Francisco died on Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed
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North West enjoys first outing with Kim-Kanye
Hollywood | Jul 07, 2013, 02:53 PM ISTLos Angeles, July 7: Socialite Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West's new-born daughter North West enjoyed her first outing in Malibu, California.Kim and West stepped out with their daughter to celebrate Independence Day at a
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Bera, Tulsi create history; sworn in as US lawmakers
World | Jan 04, 2013, 09:38 AM ISTWashington, Jan 4: Indian American physician from California, Ami Bera, and the young Iraq war veteran from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, created history yesterday after being sworn in as new members of the US House of
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Clashes between Sikhs outside California gurdwara, 2 stabbed
World | Nov 12, 2012, 11:36 AM ISTWashington, Nov 12 : Two men have been stabbed outside a Gurdwara in California and more than a dozen people pepper-sprayed in violent clashes that broke out between two groups over a power struggle to