Title: Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America: Editors: Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and Aditi Banerjee; Publisher: Rupa; Pages: 545; Price: Not listed.


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People from Kerala who wish to return from Baghdad can book air tickets if they are able to reach the airport safely, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here Wednesday.


Keralites in Iraq can book return tickets: Chandy


A 22-year-old youth has been arrested for an alleged racial attack on the family of a leading Indian businessman in Australia, a media report said Wednesday.


Youth charged with racial attack on Indian Australian family


Authorities in war-hit Tikrit are hopeful of


Efforts on to evacuate Indian nurses in Iraq: Red Cross


Joblessness, poor land holdings, vice-like grip of the drug mafia and, of course, the lure of better money is what drives thousands of youths from Punjab to risk going to conflict zones like Iraq for work. Those who are back say about 10,000 Indians could be trapped inside Iraq in different cities, many of which have fallen to advancing Sunni insurgents.


Joblessness, better money drives youth to Iraq (IANS Special)


Seventeen more Indians have been evacuated from Iraq's conflict zone, the government announced Tuesday even as the security environment in the area continued to be volatile.


17 more Indians evacuated from Iraq's conflict zone


Four Indian-Americans, including two women, were killed and another was injured in a car crash in the US state of Texas, media reported.


Four Indian-Americans killed in car accident in US


An Indian national has been arrested with three accomplices during an anti-drugs operation in Malaysia, police said Tuesday.


Indian held for running drug racket in Malaysia


An Indian expatriate has been jailed for 15 years, along with a local friend, for kidnapping and robbing a compatriot in Bahrain, a media report said.


Indian expat jailed for 15 years for robbing compatriot


An Indian-origin man in Australia, who sexually assaulted women on trains, was Monday sentenced to 21 months in jail, media reported.


Indian-origin man jailed for sexually assaulting women


The flow of information from Iraq has improved and Indians in the conflict zone there were safe, the external affairs ministry said Monday.


Indians in Iraq safe, trying to evacuate them: Government


Five Indians were detained for smuggling 36 gold bars weighing around 4.4 kg in a bus in Bangladesh, media reported Monday.


Five Indians held in Bangladesh for gold smuggling


The Indian government is in touch with agencies and countries that can be of help in securing the release of Indians who were rounded up by suspected Sunni militants in Mosul town of violence-hit Iraq, official sources here said Sunday.


Efforts on for release of abducted Indians in Iraq


Promised a good life in rich havens like Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Kuwait and Jordan, hordes of gullible youth from Punjab and Haryana are allowing themselves to be trapped by travel agents in the state and their links in these countries and to work in miserable conditions in conflict-torn Iraq.


'Phoren' dreams and big-buck hopes end in Iraq misery


Nearly 700 people from Punjab and Haryana are stuck in strife-torn Iraq, officials from both states said Sunday.


Nearly 700 from Punjab, Haryana stranded in Iraq


It has an Indian diaspora numbering 30,000 and houses 300 Indian business enterprises. And now Nottingham city in England is wooing Indian business, especially from northern  India, in an effort to build on its India links, says a top Nottingham City Council official.


Nottingham seeks to leverage on Indian diaspora for India tie-ups


The Punjab government Saturday announced it will foot the bill of phone calls made by family members of Indian men from the state who are stranded in strife-torn Iraq.


Free phone calls for families of Punjabis stranded in Iraq


"It's been two days since we feel we are in jail. Every time the phone rings, we wish it's one with good news, but so far that has not come," a carpenter from Kerala working in Iraq's Basrah told IANS over the phone.


We feel like being in jail: Kerala carpenter in Iraq


An Indian woman has been charged with y stabbing her husband 30 times in front of their five-year-old daughter in Bahrain, media reported Friday.


Indian woman in Bahrain charged with killing husband


A debit card belonging to an expatriate Indian in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hacked into and used for unauthorised transactions in the US, media reported Wednesday.


UAE-based Indian's debit card hacked in US


India raised the issue of Russia's decision to sell Mi-35 attack helicopters to Pakistan during talks between visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry O. Rogozin and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here Wednesday that also saw both discuss a host of bilateral issues, including ramping up trade ties.

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