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Racism has “swam” literally from Australia to United States of America. A young Sikh student working part-time as a pizza delivery boy has been reportedly physically assaulted a group of unscrupulous US citizens when he came to deliver a pizza to their house, the Skh Coalition, a community advocacy group said. The attackers neither paid him for the pizza nor were decently behaving with him. They have hurled racial abuses at him. Although the real identity of the student or the attackers or the place of the incident has been withheld, it happened somewhere in Texas.

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Replying to a media question on India’s stand in the global war against Taliban, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor told the parliament that India needs to support the US military aggression in Afghanistan against the Talibanis and any other separatist group within the Afghan boundaries.

Supporting the military offensive played by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under United States’ leadership, Tharoor reminded us the credits Afghanistan has given to India in its nation rebuilding. “Our efforts are appreciated and acknowledged by the people of Afghanistan,” the minister was quoted as  saying.

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Gunpowder in a passanger’s luggage accidentally exploded killing 20 people in the blast in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, 50 km from Lucknow, the state capital at around 5 p.m. “It was a private bus carrying over 50 passengers from Purwa to Mohrawan village when a piece of baggage, containing gun powder and kept on the luggage rail above the seats, exploded,” Purwa Deputy Superintendent of Police Raja Ram Verma stated over phone.

Although most of the passangers were treated in the district hospital and released after they showed no critical injury. All the passangers have denied the ownership of the gunpowder butthe police is confident enough to arrest the culprit, ” The baggage contained over 20 kg of the explosive.”

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United States FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force today arrested David Coleman Headley, an American national at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Toying on Lashkar-e-Toiba’s schemes to bomb India and Denmark as part of its terrorist attacks, Headley was about to board a flight to Philadelphia from where he was supposed to meet the fugitive Ilyas Kashmiri. Headley’s partner Pakistani-Canadian national Tahawwur Hussain Rana was already arrested by FBI on October 18.  Headley’s original namewas Daood Gilani which he chaged in the year 2006.

According to FBI’s chargesheet submitted at a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with top LeT leaders, identified by the sleuths as “LeT member A” and “Individual A”. The emails exchanged between Headley and Let member A “reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark.” FBI emphasized the fact that this  LeT member A “has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization” and his “identity is known to the government.”

The terrorists have been infuriated by a Danish Newspaper that allegedly published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

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Meera Shankar can finally take a deep breath. India has responded to the Indian Ambassador for US’s plea to set a probe on the practise of Indian government officials allegedly receiving bribes from  US companies to secure contracts. Departments in fire are some of the most important and prestigious ones of the Indian government, that is, the Indian Navy and Railways, Indian Central Insecticides Board and many others.

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On asking, an official from the Prime Minister’s Office who chose to remain anonymous, exclaimed, “The Department of Personnel and Training has been ordered to look into the matter and it has also been asked to coordinate with the Central Bureau of Investigation.” He added that “One of the reported beneficiaries is the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. There are over 1,000 employees working in it and obviously it is going to take time to zero in on the culprits, if any.”

In the wake of recent developments, the companies listed by the committee have already been fined. Among these are Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Mario Covino of Control Companies and Dow Chemicals.

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Sounding calm and composed, US-Indian Nobel Laureate, Venkatraman Ramakrishan told the media over the phone that he feels honoured after having received the world’s most prestigious  award for his “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”, which is found in cells with nuclei and translates the DNA code into life. He shares this. Thanking his team that comprised of American Thomas A. Steitz and Israeli Ada E. Yonath, the other two having shared the $1.42-million award with him, however, Ramakrishan pleads that good work must be kept aloof from the shadows of commercial victory. “This is a typical mistake that the public or even the press make. None of you called me about my work even two days ago…right?” Ramakrishan told media from Cambridge, Britain.  Perhaps there was a cynical tone underlying his addressal to the press where he admitted that the press seemed to be “hung up on Western awards like the Nobel”, and does not perhaps, appreciate good work before they have been idolised by such awards.

“I think people have to do what interests (them) and then pursue it…that’s the way to do important work. Whether prizes come your way or not, it’s really not so important,” he added, saying that media should encourage such scientists who are working fabulously despite staying away from the limelight.

When asked whether he thinks that Indian research programmes constituted the same standards of the West, Venkatraman frankly admitted that “In my days, the choices were rather limited. So the US was, and still is, the world centre for science. Talking about his personal choice of joining MRC Lab of microbiology, he said that “to do the kind of work I wanted to do, I chose to come to Cambridge because the MRC Lab of microbiology has a long standing tradition of supporting difficult fundamental work”.

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On October 2nd, on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, the leader who carved the path of Non-Violence, Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, told reporters that “some articulation and finalisation of institutional partnership in the field of energy, environment and climate change” is necessary in the wake of the recent global warming. India, according to the minister, is a“responsible player wanting a fair and equitable (climate change) agreement and prepared to play a leadership role in this regard, given its unique position in world affairs.”

Everything as of now depends on the meeting of the heads of the two states, Manmohan Singh and Barack Obama, on November 24, 2009.

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According to Robert Gibbs, White House Spokesperson, this meeting will trigger discussions on important issues such as global warming, nuclear programs and ohter such “global, regional, and bilateral issues of shared interest and common concern.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had hand-delivered the state-visit invitation from Obama during her July trip to India. Talks will be on to move forward the civilian nuclear trade between the two states that had been withdrawn some 30 years before.

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