NEWS
Sikhs win second discriminatory suit
Weck, a surgical instrument manufacturer in Durham, North Carolina agreed to pay Major Singh $ 23,000 following a settlement.

MOVIES
Shyamalan's Oscar chances dim
American Beauty director Mendes bagged the Directors Guild of America award and the Golden Globe. And only four previous 51 DGA honorees have failed to win the Academy award...

NEWS
More damaging testimony in Virk case
A teenager says Kelly Ellard was "happy and even proud" that she had killed Reena.

GOOD SAMARITANS
In the name of the Mahatma
Father of murdered boy reaches 70 schools with his message of non-violence.

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Raji cooks up a fusion cuisine book
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Asians at UIC demand courses in Asian studies
The protest sought to bring to the attention of the authorities the perceived neglect of Asian-American studies and other programs for Asian Americans at UIC.

Pak agents in Bangladesh: State dept
The official said the Inter-Services Intelligence is fomenting extremist violence in Assam.

Let the H1-B visas flow, says think tank
The Cato Institute believes that the smaller the government and the freer the trade, the more the prosperity.

Ismail Merchant bites the bullet
After his Cotton Mary faced flak from Anglo-Indian groups in India, the director took consolation in Deepa Mehta's endurance when dealing with intolerance.

Another first for Relativity
Vivek Wadhwa, who wooed over former KGB agents and impressed Wall Street, now teams up with NIIT.

Deepak Chopra wins sexual harassment case
A 12-member jury in San Diego, California, has unanimously rejected a lawsuit brought by a former employee against the new age guru.

Reddy's lawyer asks for DNA tests
Ted Cassman hopes to prove that Reddy, or his son Vijaykumar, is not the father of the child the 17-year-old girl known as Seetha Vemireddy was carrying when she died from carbon monoxide poisoning in November.

Clinton's Pak visit irks Indian-Americans
Several Indian community leaders felt the Pakistan lobby had won, and they wondered what lobbyists for India, like former Congressman Stephen Solarz, have been doing.

Computer scientist walks into jail
Dr Dhiraj Pradhan, a former computer science professor at Texas A&M University, checked into the Brazos County's minimum security prison after making 2,000 copies of an award-winning article.

Three Indians vie for top Intel prizes
Dilip Bobby Biswal, Beneet Kothari and Priyanka Agarwal make the grade with their scientific work.

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