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One dead and over 22 injured as car mows down pedestrians in Times Square, New York
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One killed as car drives into crowd in New York’s Times Square; no indication of terrorism
World | May 18, 2017, 11:51 PM ISTA car plowed into pedestrians at the busy tourist destination Times Square in New York today, killing one person and leaving 22 others injured.
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New York Times article criticizing Army censored, replaced with blank space in Pakistan
World | May 09, 2017, 05:18 PM ISTIn an unabashed move that proves Pakistan’s insecurity in dealing with dissent, a newspaper critique of the Pakistan Army in the local edition of the reputed New York Times was brutally censored and replaced with a blank space.
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Karisma’s estranged husband Sunjay Kapur and Priya Sachdev's reception pics are going viral!
Bollywood | Apr 20, 2017, 01:36 PM ISTKarisma Kapoor’s estranged husband Sunjay Kapur tied nuptial knots with his long-time rumoured girlfriend, Priya Sachdev in Delhi and now his reception pics are going viral. Sunjay got married to Priya last week in a silent affair.
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White man shouts ‘go back to Lebanon’ at Sikh-US girl in NY
World | Mar 25, 2017, 07:14 PM ISTA white man in New York mistook a Sikh-American girl to be from the Middle East and allegedly shouted “go back to Lebanon” and “you don’t belong in this country”.
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You saw it right! This weird U-shaped building in New York is going to be the ‘longest’ in the world
Life | Mar 24, 2017, 07:02 PM ISTHaving a first glimpse of this building might make you feel like you’re drunk. But trust your power of perception, because what you just saw is not an ‘augmented reality’.
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Watch: Indian-origin girl faces ‘racial abuse’ on train in New York
World | Mar 03, 2017, 01:34 PM ISTDays after the killing of Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla in an allegedly racially motivated shooting at a Kansas city bar in the United States, another incident of possible “racial abuse” in the US has come into light.
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‘Refugees Welcome’ banner unfurled at statue of liberty
World | Feb 22, 2017, 08:40 PM ISTA 20-feet red and white banner reading "Refugees Welcome" was illegally placed on the base of the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday afternoon. National park police officers were investigating how the banner got on, the
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About 30 injured after passenger train derails at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal
World | Jan 04, 2017, 09:19 PM ISTA New York commuter train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn on Wednesday during rush hour and injured around 30 people. Online images Wednesday show the train at a slight angle in its track bed
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Hard work pays, and how! Generous CEO rewards 800 US employees with Caribbean cruise
World | Dec 29, 2016, 11:18 PM ISTIn an act of extreme generosity, over 800 employees at a US-based company have been rewarded with a Caribbean cruise for their hard work over the last 12 months. The CEO of Bertch Cabinets will
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NYPD could allow Sikh police officers to wear turbans, maintain beards
World | Dec 29, 2016, 02:34 PM ISTIn a move seen as an attempt to woo the Sikh community present in large numbers in the US, the New York Police Department is planning to relax its uniform policy to allow its religious officers to wear turbans and maintain beards.
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Indian-origin man accused of groping woman on flight, tenders ‘I was stupid’ apology note
World | Dec 23, 2016, 01:18 PM ISTAn Indian man, living in New Jersey, allegedly groped a woman onboard an Air India flight from Mumbai to Newark and later wrote that his actions were “stupid” in a pair of apology notes, authorities said on Thursday.
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Future buildings could ‘sense’ internal damage after earthquake, says research
Oct 20, 2016, 04:34 PM ISTBuildings of the future may well be able to foresee the harms after an occasion like a quake, thanks to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who have built a computational model that
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover to discover fluid-carved gully
World | Oct 08, 2016, 04:32 PM ISTIn a first, the Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission, NASA said. "Fluid-carved gullies on Mars
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Sikh techie brutally assaulted, hair cut with knife in alleged hate crime in US
World | Oct 08, 2016, 06:23 AM ISTA 41-year old Sikh-American IT specialist was brutally attacked by some men, who knocked off his turban and allegedly cut his religiously-mandated unshorn hair with a knife
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Facebook rolls out end-to-end encryption option in Messenger
Oct 05, 2016, 04:27 PM ISTSocial media giant Facebook has rolled out a new feature for Messenger that will provide end-to-end encryption for messages in the Messenger app on the lines of its popular mobile messaging platform WhatsApp. People
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‘Mr President, please go get him’, 6-year-old wants Obama to bring wounded Syrian boy to his home
World | Sep 23, 2016, 06:28 PM ISTA few months ago, a photo of a 5-year-old Syrian boy surfaced on the internet that questioned our faith in humanity. In a direly wounded state, Omran Daqneesh brought tears to many eyes and anger
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New York bombing suspect’s wife left US days before attack: report
World | Sep 21, 2016, 01:32 PM ISTThe wife of the man suspected of bombings in New Jersey and New York allegedly left the US just days before the attack. The woman, who has not been identified, was intercepted by authorities in
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New York bombing suspect arrested after a dramatic gun battle
World | Sep 20, 2016, 03:14 PM IST28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghanistan-born American, suspected of detonating a bomb in the heart of New York City and planting other devices, was arrested by police on Monday.
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Suspect in New York City bombings under police custody, sources say
World | Sep 19, 2016, 11:26 PM ISTThe main suspect in the bombings in New York and New Jersey is now under custody after a shootout with the police, sources said today. Hailing from Afghanistan, Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man wanted for