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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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| Indian American 'slavery' couple sued by maids |
 The
wealthy Indian American couple sentenced to jail less than a month
ago in the high-profile "modern slavery" case has now been
sued by the victim Indonesian housekeepers. The civil suit seeks millions
of dollars in damages under the federal racketeering statute from
Varsha and Mahender Sabhnani.
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| Indian American couple to pay $1 mn to maids in slavery case |
 A
multi-millionaire Indian American couple, already sentenced to jail
for virtually enslaving two Indonesian maids, has been ordered by
a US court to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to the women. The
federal judge ruled Friday that the workers were entitled to double
the amount of unpaid wages they were owed by their employers.
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