Federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges Chicago-Area Defendants with Defrauding Medicare

CHICAGO—Two area physicians and three health clinic co-owners are among seven defendants charged here with engaging in five separate, unrelated health care fraud schemes to defraud the Medicare program and/or private health insurers of millions of dollars, federal law enforcement officials announced on May 14.

06/19/13
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Historic Firsts as Hindus Celebrate Decade of Advocacy on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON -- A Hindu monk offered the opening prayer for the House of Representatives and the birth sesquicentennial of Swami Vivekananda, considered Hinduism's first ambassador to the West, was marked in the Congressional record  on morning of June 4.  

06/19/13
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The film industry means everything to me: Akshay Kumar

Mumbai, June 19 --  Bollywood star Akshay Kumar credits the film industry for all the name, fame, accolades, adulation, lifestyle and luxury that he has garnered in over two decades, saying filmdom "means a lot" to him.

06/19/13
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Australian charged in attack on Indian restaurant owner

Sydney, June 19 -- Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month.

06/19/13
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IPL saga: India’s gladiator games

By Biswajit Choudhury

The nature and scale of the crisis engulfing Indian cricket, the country's passion and also described as its only secular religion, makes one cast the mind back to the origin of games as a spectacle - to ancient Rome and the massive Colosseum, its rear stands still standing high in the heart of the eternal city.

06/18/13
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Veganism catches fancy of health-conscious Indians

New Delhi -- Meenu Nageshwaran, 53, felt she had been handed a life sentence when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012. What followed was never-ending appointments with doctors and a long list of prohibited foods. The grave malady left her anguished - and that is when she discovered the power of veganism.

06/18/13
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India-born Amol Rajan is editor of London’s The Independent

London -- Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white editor, the newspaper reported Monday.

06/18/13
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IITian Ravi Kumar becomes dean of Nanyang Business School (NTU) in Singapore

Singapore, June 18 -- Ravi Kumar, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology -Madras (IIT-M), has been appointed dean of the Nanyang Business School (NBS) in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), it was announced Tuesday.

06/18/13
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A ‘Spring Thunder’ that keeps shaking the Indian state

Candle light march at Gateway of India, Mumbai in memory of the those who lost their lives in Chattisgarh in Naxalite attack on May 27

06/18/13
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India Festival at Madison 2013

06/18/13
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