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| Indian
Americans celebrate 'historic' India-US treaty |
 Indian
American organisations and community leaders
have called the US Senate's final approval
of the India-US civil nuclear agreement a
"historic watershed" that will open
up vast areas of cooperation between the two
countries. Indian National Overseas Congress
(INOC), USA, said in a statement that it "celebrates
the historic agreement". 
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| Obama
- candidate of change offers continuity to
India |
 Barack
Obama, the first black American to win the
historic presidential nomination of a major
political party, hopes to make it to the White
House on a platform of change, but promises
continuity to India. Obama will seek votes
in the presidential election with a mandate
to build a still closer partnership with America's
"natural strategic ally" India.
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| Sonia
Gandhi, Mayawati on Forbes powerful women
list |
 Congress
president Sonia Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati, PepsiCo chief executive
Indra K. Nooyi and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
have been featured in the latest annual list
of "100 Most Powerful Women" compiled
by Forbes magazine. Nooyi and Gandhi rank
high up at third and twenty-first positions
in the list.
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| Indian-origin
woman named UN rights commissioner |
 Indian-origin
South African judge Navanethem Pillay, born
in Durban to a bus driver, has been appointed
the new UN High Commissioner of Human Rights.
Pillay, 67, is to succeed Louise Arbour of
Canada who completed her five-year term June
30. Pillay has served since 2003 as a judge
on the International Criminal Court (ICC)
in The Hague.
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| USA NEWS
2008 |
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Indian
Americans celebrate 'historic' India-US
treaty (10/08)
Obama
- candidate of change offers continuity
to India (08/08)
Sonia
Gandhi, Mayawati on Forbes powerful women
list (08/08)
India
hopeful of wrapping up n-deal by September
(07/08)
Indian-origin
woman named UN rights commissioner (07/08)
McCain
postpones meeting Jindal, speculation stays
(07/08)
Indian
American scientist plugs loopholes in computer
safety (07/08)
Indian
American 'slavery' couple sued by maids
(07/08)
Indian
American couple to pay $1 mn to maids in
slavery case (07/08)
Supporters
want visa for Modi, US non-committal
(06/08)
South
Asian forums in US forge coalition, common
agenda (06/08)
Indian
American is new foreign editor at Wall Street
Journal(06/08)
Hindus
in US are affluent, educated, socially stable
(06/08)
Seven
arrested in immigration racket run by Indian
American (06/08)
Indian
American community welcomes Obama's nomination
(06/08)
Indo-Canadians
make history as 5 elected MLAs in Alberta
(03/08)
Sikhs
lose challenge to helmet rule in Canada
(03/08)
Indian-American
develops bio-sensor to track food toxins
(03/08)
Jindal
succeeds in pushing ethics agenda in Louisiana
(02/08)
Tatas
give 65,000 new books to poor US kids
(02/08)
Rushdie
ponders over life and myth of Jodha
(02/08)
Rights
group launches video game on immigration
(02/08)
Greener
pastures bring overseas Indian doctors back
home (02/08)
Bobby
Jindal is the next Ronald Reagan, says talk
show host (02/08)
Indian
American to head health division at Gates
Foundation (02/08)
Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi passes away, aged 91 (02/08)
Three
Indian American women on Democrats' panel
11
Indians abroad get Padma awards (01/08)
'Philanthropy
in India is new mantra of NRIs' (01/08)
Governor
Jindal promises to clean up Louisiana
(01/08)
Asian
Americans faced discrimination while voting
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