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Adam Rizvi June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 0 Comments

Happy to announce Our India Bureau Chief is joining the prestigious Symbiosis Pune

From the Desk of Adam Rizvi, Editor in Chief & Publisher, The India Observer I have worked closely with Dr.

India World

Adam Rizvi June 14, 2018June 15, 2018 0 Comments #humanrights, #Jammu&Kashmir, #Pakistan, #UN, India

UN rights chief calls for international inquiry into Kashmir violations

Decades of rights violations on both sides of the Line of Control in Kashmir have “claimed or ruined numerous lives”

India

Adam Rizvi June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 0 Comments #Hindu-Muslimharmony, #Iftar, #IftarDinner, #Lucknow, #Ramadan, #Ramzan, #roza

Harmony: Ancient Hindu temple hosts roza-iftar for Muslims

Lucknow, Jun 11 There was no usual chanting of mantras or lighting of earthen lamps at the ‘Aarti sthal’ of

India

Adam Rizvi June 11, 2018 0 Comments #Drkafeelkhan, #Gorakhnathtemple, #Gorakhpur, #UPgovt, #yogiadityanath, #Yogigovt

Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan says he won’t ‘bend’ after brother gets shot by assailants

A day after his brother was allegedly shot at by unidentified assailants, Dr Kafeel Khan, an accused in the BRD

India World

Adam Rizvi June 11, 2018 0 Comments #MehulChoksi, #NiravModi, #PNBfraud, #politicalasylum, #UK

PNB Fraud: Nirav Modi Seeking Political Asylum in the UK

London, Jun 11 Absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi who is at the centre of a money laundering case linked to over

India

Adam Rizvi June 11, 2018 0 Comments #dhaba, #McDonald, #RahulGandhi, #Shikanji

Netizens troll Rahul Gandhi for saying Coca-Cola owner sold ‘Shikanji’

Gandhi was trying to take a jibe at PM Modi and make a point that while big businessmen are given

India

Adam Rizvi June 11, 2018 0 Comments #CivilService, #Government, #JointSecretary, #Modigovt., #PMModi, #professional

Government Opens Up Ten Joint Secretary-Level Posts to Lateral Entry

New Delhi: The government has opened up senior-level bureaucratic posts in several departments to people who are “talented and motivated” and

News NRI World

Adam Rizvi June 9, 2018 0 Comments #DACA, #IndianAmericans, #SenatorKamlaHarris, #Trumpadministration

Speak truth, raise voice against bigotry, hatred: Kamala Harris to Indian-Americans

Addressing a unique gathering of over 200 Indian-American candidates, elected officials, philanthropists, community leaders and other interested parties, Harris urged

India

Adam Rizvi June 8, 2018 0 Comments #asthma, #fish, #Hyderabad, #jaggery

Hyderabad: Thousands take ‘fish prasadam’ in Hyderabad

The distribution of traditional annual fish medicine, claimed to cure Asthma and other Respiratory Illnesses, began at Exhibition Grounds at

India

Adam Rizvi June 8, 2018 0 Comments #Bribery, #UttarPradesh, #yogiadityanath, #Yogigovt

Lucknow: Businessman detained after making bribe charge against Yogi Adityanath’s aide

Lucknow’s Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar confirmed that an FIR has been registered against the businessman at city’s Hazratganj

India

Adam Rizvi June 8, 2018 0 Comments #AshokKhemka, #BabitaPhogat, #GeetaPhogat, #haryana, #ManoharlalKhattar, #SardarSingh, #SushilKumar, #Yogeshwardutt

Haryana govt seeks share of athletes’ earnings, withdraws after flak

Chandigarh, Jun 8 (PTI) The Haryana government today courted controversy when it asked sportspersons employed by it to deposit one-third

India

Adam Rizvi June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 0 Comments #constitutionalpatriotism, #Mohanbhagwat, #pluralism, #Pracharak, #PranabMukherjee, #RSS, #Sangh

Any attempt to define India through religion, intolerance will dilute its existence: Pranab Mukherjee

Nagpur, Jun 7 Former President and Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee today warned that any attempt to define India through “religion,

India

Adam Rizvi June 6, 2018June 7, 2018 0 Comments #Congress, #HDK, #JDS, #Karnataka, HDKumaraswamy

HDK expands Cabinet amid heartburn

Bengaluru, June 6 Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday expanded his 15-day-old Cabinet, inducting 25 new ministers after intense

Health India

Adam Rizvi June 5, 2018June 5, 2018 0 Comments #Nipah, #NotATarget, #nurses, #WHO, #WomeninGlobalHealth

World Health Organisation pays tribute to Kerala nurse who died of Nipah virus

Thiruvananthapuram, June 5 (PTI) The World Health Organisation has paid glowing tributes to Kerala’s young nurse Lini Puthussery, who died

Diaspora News

Adam Rizvi June 4, 2018 0 Comments #CaliforniaGovernor, #IndianAmerican, #JerryBrown, #ShubhamGoel, #UCLA

22-year-old Indian-American techie in race for California Governor

A 22-year-old Indian-American IT professional, who was graduated from UCLA, is drawing everybody’s attention these days as the young man in

India

Adam Rizvi June 4, 2018 0 Comments #Banplastic, #June5, #SaveTaj#Whitemarble, #Tajmahal, #WorldEnvironmentDay

‘Taj Mahal Declaration’ adopted to check plastic pollution in Agra

A Taj Declaration to Beat Plastic Pollution was adopted on Sunday as part of which efforts would be made to

India

Adam Rizvi June 4, 2018 0 Comments #Boston, #HarvardBusinessSchool, #NitinNohria, #RatanTata, #TataSons, #TheDailyCaller

Tata Sons slams US daily for ‘defamatory’ report on $50 mn gift to Harvard, demands apology

Tata Sons also strongly rejected the claim made in the article that the $50 million gift agreement was “brokered” between

India

Adam Rizvi June 4, 2018 0 Comments #Adani, #cagedparrot, #CBI, #Maharashtra, #Powertransmission

PIL on over-invoicing by power firms: Delhi HC told about closure of enquiry by CBI

The CBI, in its affidavit, said not much progress could be made in the enquiry and the Preliminary Enquiry (PE)

India

Adam Rizvi June 2, 2018 0 Comments #JammuandKashmir, #stonepelters, Srinagar

Youth run over by CRPF vehicle dies; Internet suspended in Srinagar

Srinagar, June 2. A youth run over by a CRPF vehicle here a day ago succumbed to his injuries on Saturday

India

Adam Rizvi June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 0 Comments #BJPMLA, #Bypollloss, #ModiSarkar, #UnitedOpposition, #Yogigovt

Yogi Adityanath criticised by his own MLA after BJP’s loss in Kairana bypoll, resort to poetry

Lucknow/Ballia/Hardoi, Jun 1 (PTI) A BJP MLA today blamed the ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government for the party’s humiliation

News NRI

Adam Rizvi June 1, 2018 0 Comments #DineshDsouza, #IndianAmerican, #PreetBharara, #PresidentialPardon, #Trumpadministration

Indian Americans D’Souza, Bharara in Twitter spat

Two prominent Indian Americans, representing two different political ideologies – Preet Bharara and Dinesh D’Souza – engaged in a bitter

India

Adam Rizvi June 1, 2018 0 Comments #BharatBandh, #Farmersstir, #farmersuicide, #GaonBand, #loanwaiver

Farmers begin 10-day nationwide protest against ‘anti-farmer’ govt policies

Bhopal/Mandsaur/Chandigarh, Jun 1 Protesting farmers dumped vegetables, milk and other farm produce on roads and blocked supplies to cities in

India

Adam Rizvi May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 0 Comments #bypolls, #Elections2019, #oppositionunity, #UP, #yogiadityanath

Bypoll results: United Opposition wins big against BJP to score 11/14; limits BJP and allies to just 3 wins

New Delhi/Lucknow/Mumbai/Patna, May 31. In a big setback to the ruling BJP, opposition parties today appeared winning 11 bypolls, limiting

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Adam Rizvi May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 0 Comments #DelhiCM, #Kejriwal

People missing ‘educated PM’ like Manmohan, says Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Kejriwal and members of his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have earlier, too, questioned Modi’s academic credentials and the authenticity of

India

Adam Rizvi May 30, 2018 0 Comments #Chicago, #ParliamentofWorldReligions, #RaghuramRajan, #SwamiVivekanand, #VishvaHinduParishad

Former RBI chief Raghuram Rajan invited by VHP to speak at World Hindu Congress in Chicago

To commemorate 125 years of Swami Vivekananda’s landmark address at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, the Vishva Hindu