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Breaking News
U.S., Sri Lanka
conduct military exchange *
(IANS/Yahoo)
Colombo, Nov 3 (IANS)
Experts from the U.S. and Sri Lankan air forces will join a special training
programme this month, Xinhua reports.A statement issued by the U.S. embassy here
Monday said about 30 highly qualified specialists of the U.S. Air Force would
participate in the exchange with the Sri Lankan Air Force. During the programme, the
U.S. group will exchange information on tactics, techniques and procedures. They
will also conduct a combined survey of airfields with the Sri Lankan Air
Force.
US seeking Nepal
military bases to target China: Maoists
* (ANI/Yahoo)
Kathmandu, Nov.3 (ANI): The United States is
planning to set up military bases in Nepal to target China and India, claimed
Maoist rebels.According to The News, the rebels were quoted as saying that
Washington was taking this step after declaring the guerrillas a national
security threat and freezing their foreign assets. In a statement issued here, the Maoists, who
are fighting to overthrow Nepal's monarchy, said: "Despite our declared policy
not to cause any harm to any foreigners or foreign power including America, the
Americans have taken this action so they can set up military bases with an aim
of encircling China and India."
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Top Stories
* Timely visit
(Washington Times)
*
Minority Candidate A Major Force in La. (NY
NewsDay)
* Maoist
Rebels Ambush Army Patrol; 10 Killed (LA Times - Registration
required)
* Fremont Sikh is victorious in quest for
airline's apology
(Oakland
Tribune)
Business
* Exotic India lures
employees (Deleware News
Journal)
Commentaries/Editorials/Letters to the
Editors
* Commentary: Breaking All the Rules (National
Review Online)
Defense
N/A
Other
* Life After the
Pulitzer Prize (The Ledger, FL)
* Indian American roots
celebrated in culture show (The
Michingan Daily)
*
Asylum Seeker Feels Sting of Post-9/11 Immigration Laws A 'Culture of No' Casualty * (NY
NewsDay)
* Monkeys torment Indian
officials, foreign visitors
(Nashua Telegraph) ( Cleveland Plain Dealer) (San Mateo County Times) (NY
NewsDay)
* Foreign-student enrollment slows at U.S.
colleges (Nashua Telegraph) (
Boulder Daily Camera) ( Sioux City Journal) (Tri
Valley Herald) (Oakland Tribune) (San Mateo County Times) ( LA
Times - Registration required) (Boston Globe)
* Indian Star Named Ambassador for
U.N. Fund
(Rapid City Journal) ( Miami Herald) (Attleboro Sun Chronicle, MA)
(Porterville Recorder, CA)* Cricket
players seek a proper place to play (Oakland
Tribune)
* Sikh Temple
of Hayward welcomes all on weekend ( Tri-Valley
Herald)
* Center Market's success is about
strategy (Stateman
Journal)
* Sean
'P. Diddy' Combs joins cast of thousands in marathon (New
York Times) (Times Picayune) (Fredericksburg.com) (MSNBC) (Albany Times Union)
(Attleboro Sun Chronicle) (NY
NewsDay)
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Top Stories
Timely
visit (Washington Times)
The ambassador from Sri Lanka
predicts tomorrow's meeting between his visiting prime minister and President
Bush will strengthen bilateral ties in a crucial period when talks with
separatist rebels are expected to resume after six months. Prime Minister
Ranil Wickremesinghe will thank Mr. Bush for U.S. support of the government
during its peace efforts with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, whose fight
for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority has cost 64,000 lives since it
began in 1983. "The prime minister's visit follows the earlier visit to the
White House in July 2002 to meet President Bush, during which the two leaders
discussed key bilateral and peace initiatives," Ambassador Devinda R. Subasinghe
said in a statement.
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Minority Candidate A
Major Force in La. (NY NewsDay)
The magazine India Today hailed his "sheer brilliance" and pronounced him
"Arnold Schwarzenegger with brains." And Indian-Americans everywhere - Silicon
Valley entrepreneurs, Texas oilmen, doctors and bankers in the East - haved their checkbooks for him. Bobby Jindal, the U.S.-born son of immigrants
from India, has emerged as an improbably strong contender for governor of
Louisiana, bringing forth pride and money from fellow Indian-Americans. "He's
going todoors for our community," said Dr. Bhupi Patel, president of the
Indian American Center for Political Awareness in Washington. He added: "We're
going to do everything in our power to see that he's
successful."
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Maoist Rebels Ambush Army Patrol; 10 Killed (LA Times -
Registration required)
Ten Nepalese
soldiers were killed and six injured when Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol,
a defense official said. The rebels, who want to replace the nation's
constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, recently started raiding
military and government installations in Terai — the main commercial and
industrial region of the Himalayan kingdom. The official said a bomb exploded
under a vehicle carrying 18 soldiers in Jitpur, southwest of the capital,
Katmandu.
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Fremont Sikh
is victorious in quest for airline's apology (Oakland
Tribune)
In what may be the first legal victory over a
major airline accused of post-Sept. 11 discrimination, Satnam Dhillon got what
he wanted after being barred from boarding a flight a month after the terrorist
attacks. An apology. "That's all I wanted from Day 1," said Dhillon, a former
Fremont resident who moved to Antioch recently. Dhillon, a Sikh who wears a long
beard and turban in accordance with his religious beliefs, missed his business
flight to Las Vegas on Oct. 16, 2001, when, he said, he was surrounded by six
police officers and escorted away from the boarding gate at San Francisco
International Airport.
Business
Exotic India lures employees (Deleware News Journal)
A
London travel agency has taken outsourcing to a new extreme by shipping
call-center jobs and workers to India. Begun with five young Finns who moved to
New Delhi in July 2002, ebookers PLC is sending Europeans to answer phones and
e-mails at a call center in India for wages that are roughly one-fourth of what
similar jobs fetch at home. Now ebookers' Indian subsidiary plans to expand and
sell the idea as a service to other businesses. The company is pitching the jobs as a way to see
the world, the information-age equivalent of joining the Peace Corps or the
foreign legion. So far, it has drawn more than 50 adventure-seeking recruits
from Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Ireland and Germany.
The online-travel agency's Scandinavia manager, Tera
Komulainen, a 52-year-old Finn, came up with the idea during an April 2002 visit
to New Delhi. She had fond memories of riding elephants and falling in love with
a local man during a stay in India more than 30 years ago. This trip, she was
looking for a way to cut costs by shifting customer-service work to ebookers'
Indian subsidiary, Tecnovate eSolutions, as her U.K. counterparts had done.
Commentaries/Editorials/ Letters to the
Editors
Commentary: Breaking All the Rules (National Review
Online)
" ... We performed several searches on the
Clinton presidency, and the results are very interesting. Only 23 of his
statements during his eight-year presidency mention bin Laden — despite the fact
that the 1993 bin Laden-backed bombing of the World Trade Center took place
during Clinton's first year in office. Even more startling is the fact that al
Qaeda was mentioned in only six documents. (Our search included all spelling
variants of the terrorist organization's name.) What about the states
that Clinton mentioned? India was mentioned by Clinton in 342 documents and
Pakistan in 252. Next on his security-threats-to-neutralize list was North
Korea, which produced 299 hits. And rounding out the bottom of Clinton's to-do
list was Iraq. Ironically, Clinton singled out Iraq in 490 separate presidential
statements — usually with more than one mention of Iraq in each statement. The
name "Saddam Hussein" showed up 190 times. So Saddam Hussein's Iraq was
mentioned 680 times in total, compared with 29 times for Osama's al Qaeda."
Defense
N/A
Other
Life After the Pulitzer
Prize (The Ledger, FL)
NEW YORK -- For Jhumpa Lahiri,
writer, observer and ABCD -- "another badly confused Deshi" -there is that
place, a place she watches with a certain detached bemusement, the place she
arrived at in the midst of all that post-Pulitzer fuss. The place where there
are glitzy spreads in Vogue and where paparazzi stake out her wedding, a place
she constantly hops on planes to a seemingly endless array of cities, where
someone is always there at the ready, snapping pictures. And then there is this other place, a
quieter place, the place where she is really most comfortable. Home. Toys are
scattered about, a shirt lies forgotten on the bathroom floor, testimony to
lives given over completely to the care and feeding of the very, very young. The
tea kettle is humming on the stove in the galley, where her husband, Alberto, a
man lean of face and frame, is futzing about, making lunch for the
baby.
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Indian American roots celebrated in culture show (The Michingan Daily)
In front of a sold-out crowd at the Michigan Theater, members of the
Indian American Student Association dressed in brilliant traditional clothing
while performing to the beat of rousing songs during IASA's 20th annual culture
show. Using a mix of modern and traditional styles, performers were able to
embrace both their Indian roots and American upbringings. This year's show was titled "Sahastitva," a phrase translated as "life as
it is" and used to illustrate the theme of this year's show - the celebration of
India's many ethnicities and cultures. Culture show
co-coordinator Jasen Mehta clarified the goals of this year's show. This year, one of our main objectives is to show that Indian people may
not always be united but that they manage to coexist. The beauty is that they
can coexist," Mehta said.
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Asylum Seeker Feels Sting of Post-9/11 Immigration Laws
- A 'Culture of No' Casualty (NY
NewsDay)
"... Last month,
Tanmay Girish Lal, a surgeon originally from India, was denied a work visa that
would allow him to join the staff of Akron City Hospital in Ohio and perform
kidney transplants. In denying the visa, immigration officials wrote that Lal,
while "an accomplished physician," did not meet the required standard of
"national or international acclaim." Hospital officials say
there are few doctors available for kidney transplants and that if they lose Lal
they may have to shut down their 36-year-old transplant program by March
1."
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Monkeys torment Indian officials, foreign
visitors * (Nashua
Telegraph) ( Cleveland Plain Dealer) (San Mateo County Times) (NY
NewsDay)
NEW DELHI, India – In a capital city where cows roam the
streets and elephants plod along in the bus lanes, it’s no surprise to find
government buildings overrun with monkeys.But the officials who work
there are fed up. They’ve been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys
that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on
office windows.The Supreme Court has stepped in, decreeing that New
Delhi should be a monkey-free city after citizens filed a lawsuit demanding
protection from the animals.
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Foreign-student enrollment
slows at U.S. colleges * (Nashua Telegraph) ( Boulder Daily
Camera) ( Sioux City Journal) (Tri Valley Herald) (Oakland Tribune) (San Mateo
County Times) ( LA Times - Registration required) (Boston Globe) (Washington
Post)
A new study says the number of foreign students attending
U.S. colleges rose by less than 1 percent in 2002-03 – the lowest growth rate in
seven years. It’s just the latest piece of evidence that international students
are shying away from the United States because of tough immigration rules. The Institute of International
Education said tightened visa procedures enacted after the 2001 terrorist
attacks, which have delayed the entry of many foreigners into the United States,
contributed to the low growth rate.
The IIE said in its annual “Doors” report, to be released
today, that foreign enrollment increased by only 0.6 percent last year. In each
of the two previous academic years, foreign enrollment had increased by 6.4
percent.
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Indian Star Named Ambassador for U.N. Fund (Rapid
City Journal) ( Miami Herald) (Attleboro Sun Chronicle, MA) (Porterville
Recorder, CA)
Indian movie star Amitabh Bachchan has been
named goodwill ambassador for the United Nation's Children's Fund."Mr.
Bachchan's tremendous appeal to young people makes him an ideal Goodwill
Ambassador," said a statement quoting Maria Calivis, UNICEF's India
representative. "Our hope is to leverage Mr. Bachchan's
powerful connection with the people of India to make a difference in children's
lives, as he has already done for polio," Calivis
said.
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Cricket
players seek a proper place to play (Oakland
Tribune)
Sumant Kumar didn't play much cricket before he
came to the United States six years ago. Most of us are more Indian here than we
were in India," said Kumar, who joined a cricket team shortly after his arrival
to meet others from his native country and to preserve some of the culture he
left behind. The sport, extremely popular in British-influenced countries such
as India, is growing rapidly in the Bay Area. Three of the largest cricket
leagues in the Bay Area boast a combined membership of about 1,500, officials
say. In October, Fremont's recreation department offered a class for youth on
the basics of cricket. It filled immediately.
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Sikh Temple
of Hayward welcomes all on weekend ( Tri-Valley
Herald)
A spicy aroma wafts across the
sprawling four acres as bearded men with head wraps sit in prayer, people read
the Holy Book aloud for 48 hours straight and everyone eats lunch together. This
is a weekend at the Sikh Temple of Hayward, and anyone who wants to stop by and
enjoy it is perfectly welcome, said Ranjit Singh Sabharwal, a founder of the
temple. Known
as a young, modern religion, much of the Sikh faith is said to be rooted in the
sharing and acceptance of others. During its 10 years at its Hayward location,
the temple's services, communal lunches and, occasionally, its land have beento all. From 10 a.m. Friday to 10 a.m. Sunday, the Holy Book of the Sikhs,
called the Adi Granth, is read without interruption in a small room toward the
back of the temple's main building. Five people who are familiar with the
1,430-page publication each take turns delivering aloud the poetic hymns
included in the literature.
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A small grocery store doesn’t try to compete with bigger
chains but caters to small areas (Statesman
Journal)
Think of Vijay Singh’s
success as a convenience store owner like being a big fish in a small pond. As
the owner of the four Center Market locations in the Willamette Valley, Singh is
finding that success is not about being the biggest, but instead about being in
the right spot.
He is hoping that philosophy will work again starting today
when he his fourth Center Market; this one is in Dayton. Singh, who
emigrated from India 15 years ago, bought his first store in Salem in 1999.
Gravitating to smaller communities is not a new concept for Singh. His other
stores are in Willamina and
Dallas.
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* Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs joins cast of thousands in marathon
(New York Times) (Times Picayune) (Fredericksburg.com) (MSNBC)
(Albany Times Union) (Attleboro Sun Chronicle) (NY
NewsDay)
Fauja Singh, a 92-year-old Sikh marathoner from Britain, crossed the
finish line in darkness, 7 hours 34 minutes after he started. Speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter, Singh said: "I'm very happy.
When I was running I felt very good, but now that I've stopped, I'm tired."
Because of a knee problem, he did not meet his goal of
beating his personal record of 5:40, but he said he felt he accomplished his
goal of promoting tolerance towards Sikhs. Singh came back
to running — a love of his youth — after his wife died about 10 years ago. In
1999, at the age of 89, he decided to run marathons for charities.
His first charity was for premature babies, and he billed
himself as the oldest person running for the youngest. This
was his second marathon in six weeks, and his trainer, Harmander Singh, said he
first noticed Fauja when he was competing in a community center that held races
for seniors in North East London. "No one could beat
him," Harmander Singh said. Jill
Weiner
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