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Obama lights up Diwali celebrations in White House

United States President Barack Obama celebrated Diwali in the East Room of the White House on October 14 by lighting a diya (lamp) accompanied by Vedic chants by a Hindu priest.Obama doubled up......

Dzhokhar used cell phone to set off bombs, says FBI

Chechen-origin teenager Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apparently used his cell phone to blow up the pressure cooker bomb at the Boston Marathon last week that killed three people and wounded nearly 200 others,......

Creating a moral base for US foreign policy

Obama is signalling much more than a new leadership style of using more carrots than sticks, more ideas and persuasion than threats and sanctions. The bottom line is that now that he won't be......

Health-care law minus immigration reform equals disaster

Experts doubt if United States President Barack Obama's health-care law, that is to come into effect in 2014, can be translated into reality without matching immigration reform. Without immigration......

US Vice Prez Biden leads White House Diwali celebrations

Just one week after United States President Barack Obama's convincing re-election, his faithful Vice President Joseph Biden led the White House celebration of Diwali, reflecting on the significance......

Obama to make public statement on fiscal cliff

Getting down to his job soon after his electoral victory bid, the US President Barack Obama would make a public statement on Friday, the White House said."The President will deliver a statement in......

This is the future of computing!

Jefferson Han, a pale, bespectacled engineer dressed in Manhattan black, faced the thousand or so attendees on the first day of TED 2006, the annual technology, entertainment, and design conference......

How Bhagavad Gita has charmed US corporates

Times have changed since Gordon Gekko quoted Sun Tzu in the 1987 movie Wall Street. Has the Bhagavad Gita replaced The Art of War as the hip new ancient Eastern management text?Signs of worldly......

NRI picks top US tech award for Motorola

Padmasree Warrior, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Motorola, and the driving force behind the company's recent growth and innovative successes, accepted the 2004 National......

Why the world must watch out for India, China

It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal......

'No more Maa Exchange for me in future!'

This week, Maa Exchange peeks inside the lives of the popular television star kids -- Avinash Mukherjee of the Balika Vadhu fame and Ishita Panchal of Uttaran fame. The child actors' mothers will......

Barack Obama to honour Sir Paul McCartney

Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will receive the third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress from US President Barack Obama.The singer will perform at the White House as he will......

When I met Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro launched the Tribeca Film Festival as a measure to revive the lower Manhattan area devastated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11.Seven years later, the festival has become the largest......

Hollywood actor Charlton Heston dead

Iconic Hollywood actor Charlton Heston, best known for his portrayal of a larger than life figure in the 1959 Oscar-winning film Ben Hur, is dead. He was 84.Heston died at his Beverly Hills home on......

Namastey London is a fun ride

She's all British. He's all Punjab. They are a perfect mismatch. This antithesis provides the premise of Vipul Amrutlal Shah's, Namastey London. Seeing as this is a romantic comedy, there is no......

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Q. What are your suggestions to keep home cool,?
: A. Install white window shades, drapes, or blinds to reflect heat away from the house. Close blinds, shades and draperies facing the sun (east-facing...... more

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Q. i want to build house shall i go as per vatsu or not
Vilas Manohar Deshpande: A. Building a House Congrats.. Understand what is vastu first. Vaastu states that man must co-habitat with nature in harmony, to derive the maximum...... more

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Splendour in the grass

Among travellers from the West in India in the early 19th century Mrs.Meer Hassan Ali's name stands out. She is not well known today, and many... ...

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jhd Architects Gain Consent To Convert A Listed Kent Pub Building Into Two Homes 'Against All Odds'

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Obama to honor Carole King at White House concert

President Barack Obama is showing singer-songwriter Carole King that she has friends at the White House. At an East Room concert Wednesday night,... ...

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China's Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

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SUICIDE, THEY WROTE ~ BUT MURDER IT WAS

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