Food
McDonald's To Open Its First Veg-Only Restaurants In India
McDonald's announced its first all-vegetarian outlets near Amritsar's Golden Temple and the Vaishno Devi shrine — a milestone for the Big Mac empire.
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Entertainment
Dhoom 3 Pics From Chicago Shooting, Courtesy Uday Chopra
Dhoom 3 took over downtown Chicago in 2012 — Aamir Khan's villain, Abhishek and Uday Chopra's cops, and a river shoot that stopped traffic.
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Business
Story Of Deep Foods: Humble Beginnings
Deep Foods started in 1977 with Bhagwati Amin's Gujarati snacks in New Jersey. It became one of America's largest Indian food brands.
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Sony's Whopping 84-Inch 4K TV Will Dominate Your Living Room
Sony's Bravia XBR-84X900, unveiled at IFA 2012: an 84-inch 4K LED TV at 3840x2160 — four times Full HD — with 4K X-Reality Pro upscaling.
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Business
Osamu Suzuki Revisits History and Dwells on India-Japan Ties
Suzuki's chairman donned a turban in New Delhi and talked history — Sanjay Gandhi, Maruti, and the Indian judge Japan still reveres.
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Posing As Spy- Conman From Bihar Arrested For Keeping Six Wives
Rohtas police arrested a Bihar man after his sixth wife complained he had married five more women while posing as an Intelligence Bureau officer.
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NRI Grooms No Longer In Style
The American groom was once the top prize in India's marriage market. Brides' families are looking twice — and often looking away.
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Do You Know What Your Kids Are Doing Online?
Parents can't track everything their kids do online — and shouldn't try. What actually works: watching patterns, setting boundaries, and talking.
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Besse Cooper, World's Oldest Person (116), Does Not Eat Junk
Besse Cooper turned 116 — one of only eight people ever to do so. Her secret, per Guinness: mind your own business, and don't eat junk food.
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India Politics
Will They Stop Teasing Us If We Stop Wearing Jeans? Guess Not!
The eve-teasing debate keeps blaming what women wear. The evidence — and plain logic — says the jeans were never the problem.
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Health & Spirituality
What Women Can Learn From Men's Workouts
Women were told to fear the weight room. The men had it right all along: lift heavy, eat enough, rest — and stop doing endless cardio.
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Scientists Successfully Hack Brain to Obtain Private Data
At USENIX 2012, researchers showed a $299 gaming headset could pull PINs, addresses, and birth months from brainwaves — welcome to brain spyware.
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School Reunions on the Rise — The Facebook Effect. Is It Worth the Time and Effort?
Facebook has killed the mystery of school reunions — so why do people still go? On nostalgia, comparison anxiety, and the ones worth attending.
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One Of A Kind Exhibition In Naperville On Sept. 8
The One of a Kind artisan exhibition in Naperville brought together dozens of Midwestern makers — ceramics, jewelry, textiles — with a growing South Asian
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Bollywood
Mira Nair's New Film Is Based On The Book "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Mira Nair's adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson.
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Duped by Pakistani Man, Indian Woman Yearns To Return Home
Shabnam, once Shirley Ann Hodges, married Gul Khan in 1997 and was imprisoned in Karachi for 13 years - until Pakistan human rights groups took up her case.
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Health & Spirituality
Teen Develops Less Invasive Means to Detect Breast Cancer
Brittany Wenger, 17, won the 2012 Google Science Fair with a neural network that detects breast cancer malignancy with 99% accuracy.
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Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addiction; clinical trials possible within 18 months
Adelaide and Colorado scientists found opioids trigger addiction via the immune system's TLR4 receptor — and (+)-naloxone blocks it in lab studies.
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Home Decoration Must Haves
Ten accessories that transform any room — from statement lighting to layered textiles to a single perfect plant. Small touches, big difference.
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Obama 'cancelled missions to kill bin Laden THREE TIMES after getting cold feet - until Hillary Clinton stepped in', claims explosive new book
A 2012 book by Rich Miniter claimed Obama scrapped three bin Laden missions before Hillary Clinton pushed the raid through — claims the White House denied.
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