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"Chalo Chalo!" Vote for Biden: Bollywood hit tune to woo Indian Americans

Turning a Bollywood hit tune into a campaign anthem, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden's supporters are wooing Indian American voters with an eye on swing states where small margins can decide who becomes the next president

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Indian Muslim cleric seeks government nod for slaughter on Bakrid

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Protests erupt over US policeman kneeling on Indian origin man's neck

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Following protests, US says students in-person, online course combinations can get visas

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‘Taliban’s violence will damage national consensus for peace’

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History made as first Pakistani American officer given charge of a New York precinct

A Pakistani origin police officer serving in the New York Police Department (NYPD) made the nation proud when he was appointed as the first-ever Muslim American to be appointed as Commanding Officer of a precinct in the force’s history

The man who chiselled a mountain into a temple

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Suicide cases increase in Nepal during lockdown

At least 1,647 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal which was imposed first imposed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, police said

The new cultural cross-pollination in Pakistan, but Bollywood obsession remains

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India-aided Sanskrit school inaugurated in Nepal

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Afghan women beaten up by Taliban

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Mahatma Gandhi caught in US 'culture war'

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