Texas Republican senator urges Juneteenth emancipation holiday
June 19th, 2012 - 5:10 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The proposed bill of the Texas Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison would establish June 19th as Juneteenth.
The senator’s staff according to reports, do not believe ... Read more...
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Obama-Dalai Lama meet undermines US as major power: Chinese daily
July 18th, 2011 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 18 (IANS) US President Barack Obama's weekend meeting with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has undermined the US's status as a major world power, a state-run ... Read more...
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Indian diaspora’s beginnings to be recorded for posterity
July 3rd, 2011 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Indentured migration that took thousands of poor Indians across the seas to the new British plantation colonies to meet the shortage of labour after the ... Read more...
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Indian arrival in Mauritius through rare documents
March 17th, 2011 - 9:49 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Mauritians have the opportunity to view rare documents and photographs on the indenture system at an exhibition put up by the National Archives of India ... Read more...
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World’s largest slave graveyard uncovered on St Helena Island
December 12th, 2009 - 5:17 pm ICT by ANI
London, December 12 (ANI): Archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest slave graveyards anywhere in the world on the tiny island of St Helena.According to a report in the Times, the bones ... Read more...
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After Post, LA Times and Chicago Tribune too endorse Obama
October 18th, 2008 - 11:10 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) With just 17 days to go before the Nov 4 US presidential election, Democratic nominee Barack Obama has won endorsements from two more leading newspapers -- the Chicago ... Read more...
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British schools to teach history of British India and slave trade
August 27th, 2008 - 3:07 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 27 (IANS) Secondary school students in Britain are to be taught history of Mughal and British India and black slavery as part of the government's move to make students ... Read more...
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‘Economic, cultural power shifting from West to India, Africa’
August 5th, 2008 - 9:55 am ICT by IANS
By Paras Ramoutar
Port of Spain (Trinidad), Aug 5 (IANS) Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor says power - both economic and cultural - is shifting from the developed nations of the West to ... Read more...
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