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Sanjay Puri

'An NRI should be made Overseas Minister' Details on page 6

India-born Rajeev Suri to head Nokia Details on page 12

Hagel urged to allow Sikhs to serve in US army

VOL 19, No. 1024

May 2, 2014

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INDIAN ACTIVIST WINS 'GREEN NOBEL' SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Six enviThe award was given to D'Sa for ronmental advocates from India, his work that led to the shutting Peru, Russia and South Africa have down the Bulbul Drive landfill in won this year's Goldman Prize, 2011, one of the largest hazardous which is awarded annually for waste sites in South Africa. grass-roots activism. The winners received $175 000 at a ceremony on Other winners April 29 at the San Francisco Opera Peru's Ruth Buendia was House. recognised for helping to prevent India's Ramesh Agrawal received construction of two large dams that the prize for helping villagers fight a would have displaced nearly 10,000 large coal mine in Chhattisgarh state, indigenous people in the Peruvian the San Francisco-based Goldman Amazon, and Russian zoologist Environmental Foundation said. Suren Gazaryan won for defendRamesh Agrawal South Africa's Desmond D'Sa ing protected areas around Sochi won the award for helping to close down one of the SA's from illegal land seizures for Olympic construction largest toxic waste dumps in Kwa Zulu Natal. projects, it said. Details on page 5

Nisha Desai Biswal

Bilateral treaty critical for IndoUS economic ties Details on page 12

EU bans Indian Alphonso mangoes Details on page 13

NRI to undertake walk from Tamil Nadu to Delhi Details on page 8

US court dismisses lawsuit against Congress

Details on page 6 Details on page 8

Priyanka dubs Modi's attacks 'childish'

Vinod Khosla family blackmailed

Details on page 9 Details on page 6

Two Indian American docs charged

CONTENTS Bollywood ---------------------- 28-29 Classifieds ------------------------- 48

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Community Post -------------- 16-25 Date Book -------------------------- 50 Edit Page --------------------------- 54

INDIA POST SURVEY

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Horoscope ------------------------- 26

This week’s question

Immigration Post ------------- 44-46

Will Priyanka entry make a difference to Congress fortunes?

Life Style ----------------------- 51-53 Philosophy ------------------------- 49

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Will the insurance pool on n-liability satisfy US? YES 87%

NO 13%

Publisher’s Diary ------------------ 4

BYE HOLLYWOOD, HAIL BOLLYWOOD: Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey performs the Lungi dance with actress Deepika Padukone and actor Shahid Kapoor at IIFA 2014 Awards in Tampa bay, Florida on April 26. (Details on page 51)

Real Estate -------------------- 38-39 TechBiz Post ------------------- 12-15 Travel & Hospitality Post ---- 40-43

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