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Salman Rushdie stabbed at New York event, undergoes surgery

Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born controversial author who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing The Satanic Verses, was stabbed and suffered multiple wounds to the neck and is in......

Man arrested for planning terror attack in New York

A 27-year-old man, who was allegedly an al Qaeda sympathiser, has been arrested in New York by law enforcement authorities on charges that he planned to carry out terror attacks in the city......

NY: NRI on fast unto death to save ashram

AIndian-originbusinessman turned-priest has gone on a fast unto death in upstate New York to prevent a local bank from foreclosing his ashram.72-year old Swami Madanji, a businessman who made a......

New York City Immigrant Affairs chief: I was in tears

'This is not the country certainly that my parents came to -- right? -- that they have made their home.''Many of the people who were detained for hours on end were people like my family,......

Mata Amritanandmayi honoured at NY university

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, commonly known as the hugging saint, was conferred an honorary doctorate in humane letters at a special ceremony by the State University of New York at its campus in......

Have You Heard Of Crotonville?

The top-notch faculty at Crotonville, including Noel Tichy, Ram Charan, Vijay Govindarajan, along with GE's top leaders Jack Welch, Gary Reiner, Bill Conaty, Jeffrey Immelt and Susan Peters,......

Obama spooked by India's economic growth?

Visiting Buffalo in upstate New York, a city that has been badly hit by the current economic crisis, US President Barack Obama did not repeat his 'Buffalo to Bangalore' rhetoric but did say the......

Guharoy wins SUNY Chancellor's award

Sudip Guharoy, director of pharmacy services and associate chief of the section of clinical pharmacology at the Department of Medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of......

Telling the truth about AIDS

Towards the middle of A Closer Walk, Robert Bilheimer's strong documentary on the global AIDS epidemic, the filmmaker visits the Tambaram sanitorium in Chennai. It is a harrowing scene in which the......

Comedy legend Jerry Lewis passes into the ages

The famous comic departs for the great comedy club in the sky. Legendary comic Jerry Lewis, celebrated for his brash slapstick humour, has died at the age of 91. Lewis's agent confirmed that the......

Nargis Fakhri: I wanted to become a teacher

'When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. We had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.' 'Slowly, I......

'We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed'

Keeping it short and so sweet at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. Host Jimmy Kimmel may have made sure the speeches remained short this year -- the shortest speech would win a Kawasaki jet......

Indian sportsman pleads guilty to abusing minor in US

Hussain will now be deported as his visa expired in August. IMAGE: Kashmiri snowshoer Tanveer Hussain. Photograph: ANI/Twitter A 25-year-old Indian sportsman, who was arrested in New York in March......

NASCAR champ Stewart to retire after 2016 season

Tony Stewart, one of auto racing's biggest names, announced on Wednesday he would retire from NASCAR driving after the 2016 season, saying: "Deep down you know when it's time to do something......

F1 Pit-lane tales: Ecclestone wants more races in America

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he wants more races in the United States, despite recently expressing a lack of......

Sports Shorts: Davis Cup to remain annual event

Switzerland's Roger Federer. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters The Davis Cup will remain an annual tournament despite persistent complaints from some players that it over-burdens an......