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Indian student is century's youngest California Univ topper!

An 18-year-old Indian-American has become the youngest graduate topper of the prestigious University of California in more than a century. Kolkata-born Ritankar Das has been named as the University......

TEXT: US President Obama's State of the Union address

United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday delivered his State of the Union address in which he spelt out the agenda for the second term of his Presidency.Here's the verbatim text of his......

Here's to a New Year without fear

Much as we journalists try, it is sometimes difficult to 'switch off' the personal from the professional, says Ritu Jha. Last year was a year of homicides; say my year-long notes. I am astonished......

Indian Americans make it big under President Obama

The small Indian-American community -- constituting just about one per cent of the US population -- never had it so good as under the Barack Obama administration, with a record number of community......

Sikh-Americans elated over Obama's victory

Elated over the re-election of United States President Barack Obama, Sikh-Americans have said his victory is "especially great" for them because he has demonstrated in the last four years that he......

Gurindar Sohi in patent row with Intel

The University of Wisconsin has sued Intel Corp, the world's largest computer chipmaker, after the two failed to agree on licensing a patent related to microprocessors. The school's research arm......

US economy would dodge bullet for now under fiscal deal

A deal worked out by US Senate leaders to avoid the "fiscal cliff," was far from any "grand bargain" of deficit reduction measures.But if approved by the US House of Representatives, it could help......

Reliance ropes in ex-OnMobile CEO to drive 4G rollout

Reliance Industries-owned Infotel Broadband Services is understood to have hired Arvind Rao, former managing director and chief executive of mobile value-added services company OnMobile Global, to......

US awards $1.9 million to Indian

Chandramouli Vaidyanathan feels vindicated and happy after a federal jury awarded $1.9 million to him in a wrongful employment case he brought against Seagate Technology.Vaidyanathan, 47, came to......

Meet the man behind India's Genome Valley

This is the amazing story of Dr Krishna M Ella, a scientist who turned into a serial entrepreneur. Krishna Ella, chairman and managing director of Bharat Biotech International Ltd, is one of the......

Making the cut at an American TV show

To make the cut for the nationally televised Jeopardy! Collegiate Championship is no small feat. Suchita Shah reflects on her 15 minutes of fame.I'm a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,......

Sympathy for the terrorist

Like most New Yorkers, the events of September 11, 2001, left Ayad Akhtar shocked. For a Pakistani American born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his immediate reaction was of horror and terror.......

Actually, it's the poor rich Prime Minister!

The visiting American President with a roving eye cannot miss the plump aide to the new British Prime Minister. Unlike the president who has come to London without his wife, the Prime Minister is a......

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Q. ame the progeny of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble who made headline news recently.
: A. Mona E. Simpson (born Mona Jandali, June 14, 1957) is an American author. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Los...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/ame-the-progeny-of-abdulfattah-jandali-and-joanne-carole-sch//answers/20971116

Q. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF BC ?
Alok Goel: A. BC or B.C. may stand for:Before Christ, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth....... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-full-form-of-bc-/20971075/answers/4411889

Q. What do you know about Dr. Verghese Kurien?
Always Fresh: A. Known as the "father of the white revolution" in India; Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award; Awarded with Padma Shri (1965), Padma Bhushan...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-do-you-know-about-dr.-verghese-kurien/4411848/answers/16469548

Q. how come cattle/ animals knows the weather change or rain is coming
Francisco: A. This is called hibernation. Some folks have wondered whether there might yet be something scientific behind the groundhog tale. After all, the...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/how-come-cattle-animals-knows-the-weather-change-or-rain-is-/16469384/answers/15628672

Q. what sleeps actually when we sleep?
Thyagarajan Mahadevan: A. Scientists still don't know precisely what sleep is for. Is it to refresh the body? Not really. Researchers have yet to find any vital biological...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-sleeps-actually-when-we-sleep/15626727/answers/6126487

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PatientsLikeMe Calls for Researcher Participation in New Open Research Exchange Platform

pan>)--Today, PatientsLikeMe announces an open call for medical researchers to be among the first pilot users of its Open Research Exchange (ORE)... ...

http://www.presstrust.com/node/1608439

Epilepsy Foundation Elects New Board Of Directors And Chairman

-- Warren Lammert, Investor and Father of Child with Epilepsy, Named Chairman -- PR Newswire LANDOVER, Md., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/... ...

http://www.asianhhm.com/news/news_archives.asp?NewsID=45679&title=Epilepsy-Foundation-Elects-New-Board-Of-Directors-And-Chairman

Dozens Dead as Massive Tornado Devastates Oklahoma Town

A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people including 20 children,... ...

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/469356/20130521/51-dead-massive-tornado-devastates-oklahoma-town.htm

Asthma identified as potent...

People who have asthma may be at higher risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study by researchers at the University of... ...

http://www.siasat.com/english/news/asthma-identified-potential-new-risk-sleep-apnea

Business is booming for 'nontheist' ministers

Couples seek wedding celebrants who omit God from the ceremony. United States: Amanda Holowaty didn't need God to get married. She just needed her... ...

http://www.ucanindia.in/news/business-is-booming-for-nontheist-ministers/21023/daily

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