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NEWS
J&K massacre: Sikhs in North America Ask Clinton, UN to Help Find Killers
The demand was made last weekend in many gurdwaras and at a rally attended by nearly 1,000 Sikhs and a handful of Muslims in Vancouver.

BOOKS
A Homeless Writer
"There are an increasing number of people who are living in the cracks between cultures," says Pico Iyer, who is in the US promoting his new book The Global Soul...

MOVIES
Oscar Musings
You thought Hollywood would have trouble with Manoj Night Shyamalan's name? You bet you were right.

NEWS
Soft Spoken Scientist Offers Fierce Defense of the Biotechnology Industry
"They peddle fear. Today it's biotechnology. Three years ago it was global warming. Five years before that it was nuclear power," says C S Prakash of the anti-bio-technology protesters.

RECENT FEATURES

Several Bills to Increase H1-B Visas Could Cause Trouble for the Visa Program
If the efforts to boost the visas fail, the current number of nearly 110,000 visas will drop back to the 1998 level of 65,000.

Sixth Sense Big Loser At Oscars
The film, which was nominated in six categories, went home without a single Oscar.

Newspaper Accuses Clinton of Ditching Milkmaids in a Rajasthan Village
Even those newspapers who thought their readers would not be interested in stories about his visit to India, decided to run his pictures with 'veiled' women.

North American media sees mostly negative stories in Clinton's visit
They noted that he had not been able to wrest any meaningful concession from India on nuclear issues.

Amazing success story of a teen techie
Anand Shimpi runs one of the most successful computer hardware websites in the US. And he is just 17.

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JJ shootout convict gets
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TV producer Suhaib Illyasi
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Pak under growing pressure
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War between SGPC and Akal
   Takht chiefs intensifies
India can end LTTE's
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Four ex-PMs meet, third front
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EC calls for curbing
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UP legislators turn into
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Advani asks Tripura police to
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Pic of slain tiger with
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