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  Indian-origin Kshama Sawant elected to Seattle City Council

  World | November 19, 2013 20:53 IST

  Washington: Indian-American Kshama Sawant has been elected to the prestigious Seattle City Council, making her the first socialist to be voted to an elected office, 97 years after the city sent their first outspoken radical

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  U.S. stock indexes hit round-number milestones

  November 18, 2013 23:56 IST

  New York:  U.S. stock market indexes briefly broke through major round-number milestones in early trading Monday.  The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 16,000 for the first time and the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose

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  US stocks get retail therapy, hit new highs

  November 14, 2013 21:22 IST

  New York: US stock indexes climbed back into record territory on Wednesday after department store chains gave an optimistic forecast for holiday sales. Macy's surged 9 percent, leading strong gains among retailers including JC Penney,

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  US futures head lower as markets await jobs report

  November 05, 2013 19:09 IST

  New York: Stock futures are heading lower in the second consecutive day of light trading, with markets waiting for the delayed October jobs report at the end of the week.Two Fed officials are speaking Tuesday

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  US stocks edge higher in early trading

  November 04, 2013 22:00 IST

  New York: Stock indexes are inching higher in early trading on Wall Street as more companies report higher earnings. Kellogg and Sysco, a food distributor, rose after their earnings beat analysts' estimates. BlackBerry plunged after

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  Shutdown cost 120,000 US jobs: White House

  October 23, 2013 21:25 IST

  Washington: The recent government shutdown and debt default crisis hit the US economy so badly that it cost the country 120,000 jobs and wiped out 0.25 per cent of economic growth for the fourth quarter,

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  Charlie Sheen to take a break from acting

  Hollywood | July 29, 2012 13:48 IST

  London: Troubled star Charlie Sheen says he is planning to take a break from acting to become a baseball scout.The 'Wall Street' actor said his new sitcom 'Anger Management' will be his last TV project

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  Rajat Gupta convicted on insider trading charges

  World | June 15, 2012 22:36 IST

  New York, Jun 15: Rajat Gupta, one of the most successful Indian Americans on the Wall Street, was today found guilty of passing confidential market information to Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, in one

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  Occupy Wall Street Urges May 1 Strike Over Arrests

  World | March 20, 2012 9:50 IST

  New York, Mar 20:  Occupy Wall Street activists on Monday called for supporters to skip work on May 1 to protest what they're calling police brutality during 73 arrests in New York during the weekend.Several

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  After Raids, Wall Street Protesters Shift Tactics

  World | December 01, 2011 7:37 IST

  New York, Dec 1: The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation's biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the

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  More Than 200 Arrested In Occupy LA Raid

  World | November 30, 2011 21:05 IST

  Los Angeles, Nov 30: In a massive show of force, 1,400 police officers stormed the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from the park and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to

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  LA Protesters Defy Eviction Efforts, Go To Court

  World | November 29, 2011 7:49 IST

  Los Angeles, Nov 29: For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn still have their tent city after defying a deadline to pack up and clear out. “Still occupied,”

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  Krishna Devotee From Mumbai Rasanath Das Leading Occupy Wall Street Protesters

  World | November 18, 2011 14:54 IST

  New York, Nov 18: Rasanath Das, a  former resident of Mumbai, who studied in the IIT there and later moved to the United States in 2000 to work as a consultant with accounting firm Deloitte,

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  Madoff Son Thought Text From Dad Was Suicide Note

  World | October 28, 2011 9:33 IST

  New York, Oct 28: A son of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff called authorities in a panic after receiving a text message he thought was a suicide note from his dad months after his

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  Landlord Cracks Down On NY Demo As Protests Spread

  World | October 14, 2011 7:27 IST

  New York, Oct 14: Protests against corporate greed and corruption are spreading across the United States into Canada and the United Kingdom, just as the New York demonstration that started the movement faces a crackdown

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  Protesters March Past Millionaires' NYC Homes

  World | October 12, 2011 7:22 IST

  New York, Oct 12: Now it's personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a “Millionaires March” on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer “Tax the rich!”