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'The bidding was like a small Cuban missile crisis

James Otis stood outside a building on New York's Madison Avenue on Thursday afternoon at 1400hrs announcing, with his pro-bono lawyer Ravi Batra, that he had asked the Antiquorum auction house not......

Indian-origin Sikh elected mayor of historic US city

Satyendra Singh Huja, a Sikh American, has been unanimously elected as the mayor of Charlottesville, a historic city in Virginia. Huja, who originally comes from Nainital in Uttarakhand, was......

US homicide suspect had plans to kill Obama

A 41-year-old man has been arrested for plotting to kill United States President Barack Obama. James Vernon McVay, a homicide suspect accused of killing a 75-year-old woman was arrested near......

Is shooting a thief always justified?

In this fifth part (see part one, two, three and four) of a series, rediff India Abroad discusses a different side of its analysis of the growing gun culture among Indian Americans.Is shooting a......

'Gandhi would not have approved of this circus'

UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya made international headlines last Thursday when he bought Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia for a whopping $1.8 million from an auction in New York. The New York Times......

ADAG, Spielberg plan $300mn movie on Martin Luther

The Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is all set to get into Hollywood's big bucks league. DreamWorks Studios, a joint venture between Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, along with the ADA......

Don't Watch The Zohan

In You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Adam Sandler plays Zohan Dvir, a disco dancing Israeli Special Forces soldier, who wants to give up his life of violence and go to New York to become a......

Dreamgirls is a complete letdown

Oscar schmoscar. Dreamgirls is a bad musical --and a barely passable film.You might be wondering, with that one-line summation, why a bad musical isn't automatically a bad movie. A fair question......

Weekend Watch: Bridges Of Madison County

Sometimes, the best moments of your life are the briefest ones.It takes just four days for Francesca (Meryl Streep), a bored housewife in the sleepy town of Iowa to discover that 'this kind of......

The ultimate producer

Ismail Merchant died yesterday in London. I learnt about his death in the early afternoon. For a while in between, phone calls, friends and journalists speculated that he was simply ill. And then......

Ismail's story

Ismail Mechant, who died in London on Wednesday, told Aseem Chhabra why he decided to write his memoirs in a feature that originally appeared in India Abroad, a rediff.com publication, October 26,......

NBA: Proud Celtics making stand against Knicks

It might be the last Celtics stand for the tandem of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett but they showed their class and determination as Boston humbled the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on......

NBA: Spurs, Thunder stay close in battle for top spot

The San Antonio Spurs stayed mere percentage points in front of Oklahoma City for the Western Conference lead after both teams won Sunday to intensify their battle in the final month of the NBA......

NBA: Knicks win big in coach Woodson's debut

Mike Woodson did not have long to wait for his first win as new coach of the New York Knicks as his team trampled the Portland Trail Blazers 121-79 at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to end a......

Heat and red-hot James scorch Knicks by 22 points

The sizzling hot Miami Heat and their Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh scorched the New York Knicks 113-91 for their 11th win in a row on Friday at Madison Square Garden in New......

Toney stripped of WBA title

James Toney was stripped of his WBA heavyweight title victory over John Ruiz last month and suspended for 90 days by the New York State Athletic Commission on Wednesday for violating its illegal......

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Q. Which president signed the congressional resolution admitting Indiana to the Union?A: James MadisonB: George WashingtonC: Jimmy Carter
Prince Deva: A. more

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Q. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself._ James Madison Any comment ?
Radhakrishnan: A. option A more

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Q. name the institution in washington DC is made of the the Thomas Jefferson /building, John Adams building and James Madison Memorial building ?
Radhakrishnan: A. library of congress more

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Q. Which President was not in office during Wartime? Choice: Theodore Roosevelt,Franklin Roosevelt OR James Madison.
Rajni: A. james madison more

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