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Heartfulness aims to energize people with its Reset, Refresh, and Re-heart program at the start of 2021

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by VeenaDecember 31, 2020December 31, 202002097

3-day program to usher in the new year as an era of hope and transformation Atlanta, GA, December 31, 2020: Heartfulness, an organization that promotes a form of meditation

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Air India to commence new services to US from Jan

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by VeenaDecember 30, 2020December 30, 202001786

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) National carrier Air India is all set to expand its services to the United States from January 2021. Accordingly, the airline

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Court permanently shuts down US-India computer scam against elderly

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by VeenaDecember 30, 2020December 30, 202001404

New York, Dec 30 (IANS) A federal court has permanently shut down a US-based computer scam that preyed on elderly Americans using call centre operators in

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Sankara Nethralaya raises $200K to restore vision to 3000 blind patients in India

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by VeenaDecember 30, 2020December 30, 202001771

Atlanta, GA, December 30, 2020: Sankara Nethralaya (SN) is a not-for-profit charity organization providing ophthalmic (eye) care throughout India. For the last 4 decades, SN

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Digital communication expert Aisha Shah named for White House job

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by VeenaDecember 29, 2020December 29, 202001755

New York, Dec 29 (IANS) US President-elect Joe Biden has named Aisha Shah, a former staffer in his campaign, as the partnerships manager for his White

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Indian-American chemist finds new clue to how life began on Earth

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by VeenaDecember 29, 2020December 29, 202001814

San Francisco, Dec 29 (IANS) Adding a fresh viewpoint to the origin of life on Earth, an Indian-origin researcher Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy from Scripps Research in California

Books

Farzana Doctor’s Seven: Artistically crafted novel propagates against female genital cutting

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by VeenaDecember 28, 2020December 28, 202001834

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE As I turned over the final page of Farzana Doctor’s fourth novel Seven, I was instantly reminded of Kintsugi, the Japanese art

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‘Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors’ is relevant but flawed

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by VeenaDecember 26, 2020December 26, 202001375

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors (on Disney+ Hotstar VIP); Cast: Kirti Kulhari, Pankaj Tripathi, Anupriya Goenka, Jisshu Sengupta, Deepti Naval, Mita Vashisht, Shilpa Shukla, Ashish

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AK Vs AK: Quirkiest film Bollywood made this year

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by VeenaDecember 25, 2020December 25, 202002090

AK Vs AK (on Netflix); Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Sonam Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor; Direction: Vikramaditya Motwane; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and

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