David Tyler, visa chief at the consulate, said the number of applications for tourist, business and education visas had reached the pre-September 2008 level and they were likely to issue 200,000 visas this year.
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The IOC is set to formally strip American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his gold from the 2004 Athens Games and reassign the medals after his admission of doping, according to an Olympic official familiar with the case.
A trial date for Dharun Ravi, 19 has been set for February 21. If convicted at trial, Ravi faces 10 years or more in prison.
Andre Greipel silenced the doubters with his second back-to-back bunch sprint victory in the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race on Thursday.
Indian student Dharun Ravi, convicted of spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, has publicly apologised for the first time for his "insensitive and immature" actions, saying he will surrender this week to begin his month long jail term.
Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, on trial for allegedly masterminding a doping ring in cycling, will not be obliged to identify any of the clients whose frozen blood was found in bags seized by police, the judge in the case ruled on Wednesday.
Dharun Ravi was not convicted of a hate crime. He has been convicted of a bias crime and there is a difference, said the judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail on Monday for using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate. Suman Mozumder reports
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Ravi was found guilty in March on charges of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy and faces up to 10 years in prison and possible deportation to India when he is sentenced on May 21.
Olympic champion Ryan Lochte won the men's 200 metres backstroke world title on Friday to claim his third gold medal of the world championships.
Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour de France after Briton Mark Cavendish took Sunday's final stage on the Champs Elysees for the third year in a row.
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Ravi Pazhani and his wife Sabita sat silently as Steve Altman, their son Dharun Ravi's lawyer, and members of the Support Ravi initiative declared that Ravi was judged unfairly -- first by public opinion and then by the 'muddled' New Jersey hate laws in the case of camera spying on his Rutgers University roommate Taylor Clementi, who later committed suicide.
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An Indian-origin boy convicted of a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate, who later committed suicide, has said he acted in an immature manner when he watched the fellow student's sexual encounter with another man on a webcam, but insisted that he had not intimidated him. Dharun Ravi, 20, had been found guilty by a jury of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy charges after a three-week long trial. He could face up to 10 years in prison and eventual deportation.
The petition claims that the ex-student of Rutgers University was prejudged and declared guilty, reports Arthur J Pais in New Jersey
Crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines would come up with a recovery road map in three days, chairman Vijay Mallya promised on Thursday.
A key witness in the trial of Dharun Ravi accused of spying on his roommate's homosexual tryst has testified that the Indian-origin student had sent her text messages to know what she was telling investigators about the case.
Tyler Hamilton, who was allowed to keep his Athens Olympics gold medal despite failing a doping test, has finally confessed to cheating and accused other top cyclists, including Lance Armstrong, of doing the same.
Supreme Court is the final legal option open to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who allege that Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking site.
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An Indian-origin student has been indicted on charges of bias and invasion of privacy for secretly filming and posting online a sexual encounter between his male roommate and another man at Rutgers University in the United States last year that led his roommate to commit suicide.
The judge ruled that the 2008 settlement that gave $65 million to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in cash and stock still stands.
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The NYT identified the missing journalists as Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by Taliban in 2009, and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa
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The 20-time English Premier League champions are far from their best, but, in the final analysis, it is the results that matter, and at the moment they are on a winning spree, says Bikash Mohapatra
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
May 21 promises to be a crucial day for the Indian-American community as one of corporate America's most prominent India-born executives is scheduled to go on trial here while miles away a New Jersey court is to decide the fate of a Chennai native convicted of a hate crime.
The arrest of Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, after the suicide of his roommate at Rutgers University in NJ has shocked the Indian community. Tyler Clementi, 18, of Ridgewood, a freshman at Rutgers, appears to have killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge last week. Ravi and another student, Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton University, NJ, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for secretly placing a camera in the dormitory room
Ryan Lochte registered his second consecutive victory over rival Michael Phelps at the United States National Championships with a gritty win in the 200 metres backstroke on Saturday.
Ryan Lochte defeated Michael Phelps by more than a second in the 200 metres individual medley at the United States national championships on Friday with the year's best time of 1:54.84.
Dharun Ravi, 20, is accused of spying on his Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi kissing a male guest through his webcam on September 19, 2010, and trying to set up the webcam again two days later. Prosecutors say Ravi targeted Clementi because Ravi is biased against gay people and hence committed a hate crime
Witness Michelle Huang told the court that Ravi not only spied on Clementi but also sent the message 'Keep the gays away'. Arthur J Pais reports.
The lawyer for an Indian student accused of spying on his roommate's homosexual tryst on Saturday said his client acted in a "childish and immature" manner. The trial of 19-year-old Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, began in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with both sides making their opening statements.
Lance Armstrong and his team ran the most sophisticated doping programme in sport according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USDA) which released its report on the case against the US Postal cycling team on Wednesday.
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