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The
troubled life and times of Rahul Mahajan
 New
Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television
thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan
understands television very well.
Not so long ago, when he was still an unknown entity,
Rahul Mahajan was a television producer for Doordarshan
but the spotlight turned on him, in May 2006 when
he lost his father to an alleged fratricide and
even before that faded in public memory, came another
shocker.
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1984
Sikh carnage was wrong: Rahul
 Amritsar,
November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath
of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever
happened was wrong”.
“The 1984 riots were wrong. I strongly condemn
the carnage,” Rahul said at a news conference
in response to a question on Operation Bluestar
and the riots. “There is no truth that there
is hatred among Sikhs against the Congress party.
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Indian
Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
 Gulf
of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack
of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s
warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank
a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
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FM calls for
price cuts, CEOs divided
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DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday
called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels
and airlines to cut prices to boost demand
and beat the slowdown. The auto sector ruled
this out as unrealistic in the current situation,
while airlines — looking for
a lifeline from the government —
seemed more receptive to the suggestion. Real estate
companies, however, remained noncommittal.
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Season of
pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India
 NEW
DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000
more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across
industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies
which are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however,
has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only writing
about pink slips, it hunted out companies that are
actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:
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Indian origin journo`s
book nominated for UK literature prize
London,
Nov 19: The Times journalist Sathnam Sanghera is the
latest British-Asian to blaze a literary trail as his
book on the travails of his Sikh immigrant family has
been short listed for the biography prize at the British
Costa Book Awards for 2008.
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California holds fund raiser for eye hospitals in India
San
Francisco, Nov 19: Having completed setting up three
eye hospitals in India this year, the US-based non-profit
Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) has now begun raising funds
for two more charitable eye hospitals in Punjab and
Uttar Pradesh.
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Boogie Woogie New York
Finalist 2008, Announced
New York(IVS TV) :
Four Kids have yet given another proof that the NRIs
in USA are no more behind their counterparts in India.
In the “Boogie Woogie New York Finals 2008”
show, Arvin Batra, Sahil Batra, Nikhil Sadhnani, Rahul
Roy have proved their excellence in dancing in the Boogie
Woogie show, in front of a big gathering.
This show was a part of the Diwali Mela, New York, which
the NRIs celebrate annually, with zeal and fervor. This
year, it was 21st celebration, what Indian call a “MELA”.
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Bodies of Indians killed
in Kabul blast flown in
New
Delhi: Bodies of the four Indians killed in the suicide
attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul were flown into
the capital late Monday night in special Indian Airforce
plane.
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Indian gets top UAE environment
award
DUBAI: A leading Indian
climatologist has won United Arab Emirate's top environment
award for his pioneering work on the effect of pollutants
in global warming. V Ramanathan was presented with the
Zayed Prize for Scientific/Technological Achievements
in Environment by Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai, at a ceremony in
Dubai on Monday.
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Indian to head new Oxford
faculty
An Indian-origin expert
in linguistics, whose work on Bengali dialects is widely
recognised, has been chosen to head a new faculty at
the University of Oxford. Aditi Lahiri, currently a
professor of Linguistics at Oxford, will head the new
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics to
be launched on August 1.
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Sikh policeman gets 70,000
pounds as compensation in UK
A Sikh policeman has
been awarded 70,000 pounds in compensation in Britain
for being denied a promotion after he took legal action
against the police force accusing it of racial discrimination.
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Simplify visa process
for students: India to Canada
India has asked Canada
to simplify visa procedures for its students and formulate
''aggressive'' strategies to further attract them by
establishing linkages in education, immigration and
jobs.
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NRI woman convicted for
drunk driving in UK
LONDON: An Indian-origin
woman convicted for drunk driving has been banned from
driving for four years and ordered to sell her car to
pay the court's costs in Leicester, east Midlands.
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Divorced NRI parents
in SC over US visit of minor daughter
A divorced American
couple of Indian origin is fighting a legal battle in
India over custody of their minor daughter. The Supreme
Court on Tuesday asked the mother to produce the child
before it on June 4 to find out if the daughter wanted
to be with the mother or the father.
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Indian cabbie attacked
in Adelaide, drivers protest
Melborn : An Indian
taxi driver was brutally beaten Down Under, in Adelaide,
over the weekend. Balraj Singh was severely injured
in his face and his nose broken in an attack by the
two men who had hired his cab, Australian media reported.
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Devotee bails out Hindu
guru, to pay $ 10-mn surety
Houston:
A Hindu spiritual guru arrested three weeks ago on charges
of indecency with two underage girls has been permitted
to visit India after his devotee agreed to put up a
$ 10-million guarantee that he would return to the US.
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US
Sikhs irked over turban burning
The Sikh community
in New Jersey has demanded a full fledged inquiry
into an incident in which a high school student allegedly
set afire the ''patka'' or small turban worn by a
fellow Sikh student, in an unprovoked attack.
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Indian
community in US condemns Jaipur blasts
NEW
YORK: Support and sympathies have poured in for the
victims of the deadly Jaipur terror blasts from the
Indian community across the United States. As
they watched pictures of ghastly incidents on their
TV sets, Indians stood shocked and many who had their
loved ones in Jaipur tried frantically to contact
them.
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