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Reliance Jio To Set Up 40-Acre Data Centre Near Kolkata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday laid the foundation stone of a Silicon Valley hub proposed to come up over 100 acres of land at New Town, a satellite city of Kolkata.
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Donald Trump Supporters Heckle NDTV Reporter, Threaten To Knock Her Mic Down
Minutes after Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed around 5,000 people in Newtown, Pennsylvania, his supporters shoved and pushed an NDTV reporter outside the venue calling her "liar" and threatened to "knock the mic down".
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Australian School Criticized For Allowing Cross-Dressing
An Australian high school has created a national furor by allowing students to wear boy or girl uniforms regardless of gender.
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PTSD Nation? US Shootings Inflict Growing Mental Toll
Mass shootings from Newtown to San Bernardino are weighing ever more heavily on Americans, with signs of post-traumatic stress spreading far beyond the circle of survivors and loved ones, experts say.
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Opinion: The Gun That Killed My Grandson
Motives do not matter to the dead. They don't matter much to survivors, either. When my 6-year-old grandson, Noah, was gunned down three years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, along with 19 other first-graders and six educators, we were engulfed in a grief so brutal and so profound that an explanation was the last thing ...
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Couple's Motive in California Rampage a Mystery for Police, Family
A man and woman armed with assault-style rifles opened fire on the holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, and then were slain hours later in a shootout with police, authorities said.
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Couple Identified As Suspects in California Shooting That Left 14 Dead
A couple who were suspected of killing 14 people in a mass shooting in California and were later slain in a shootout with police were identified by authorities on Wednesday as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, described as possibly married or engaged.
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Oregon State Had Recently Tightened Gun Laws
Oregon, the location Thursday of the latest deadly US mass shooting, had recently strengthened its gun sale laws, like many Democrat-leaning states frustrated over political inaction at the federal level.
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Strident Barack Obama Says Gun Control Laws Will Change
US President Barack Obama voiced confidence Friday that a "shocked and heartbroken" nation would eventually tighten permissive gun laws, striking a more strident tone after the deadly Charleston shooting.
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Families of Sandy Hook Massacre Victims Sue Gunmaker
Families of victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre filed a US lawsuit Monday seeking damages from the manufacturers of the high-powered assault rifle used in the slaughter.
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Newtown Massacre Shooter Indulged Dark Obsessions Online, Says Report
By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder, a report released on Friday said.
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Police Seek Motive in Fatal Washington State School Shooting
Authorities were seeking a motive on Saturday as to why a high school student in the United States' Washington state shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself.
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US States Look to Gun Seizure Law After Mass Killings
As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.
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20 hurt in mass stabbing at US high school
An American student stabbed or slashed 20 teenagers and an adult in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburgh high school.
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Shootings frustrate US military efforts to secure bases
The latest shooting at Fort Hood is throwing a spotlight on the U.S. military's so-far frustrated efforts to secure its bases from potential shooters, who increasingly appear to see the facilities as attractive targets.
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Reliance Jio To Set Up 40-Acre Data Centre Near Kolkata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday laid the foundation stone of a Silicon Valley hub proposed to come up over 100 acres of land at New Town, a satellite city of Kolkata.
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Donald Trump Supporters Heckle NDTV Reporter, Threaten To Knock Her Mic Down
Minutes after Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed around 5,000 people in Newtown, Pennsylvania, his supporters shoved and pushed an NDTV reporter outside the venue calling her "liar" and threatened to "knock the mic down".
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Australian School Criticized For Allowing Cross-Dressing
An Australian high school has created a national furor by allowing students to wear boy or girl uniforms regardless of gender.
-
PTSD Nation? US Shootings Inflict Growing Mental Toll
Mass shootings from Newtown to San Bernardino are weighing ever more heavily on Americans, with signs of post-traumatic stress spreading far beyond the circle of survivors and loved ones, experts say.
-
Opinion: The Gun That Killed My Grandson
Motives do not matter to the dead. They don't matter much to survivors, either. When my 6-year-old grandson, Noah, was gunned down three years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, along with 19 other first-graders and six educators, we were engulfed in a grief so brutal and so profound that an explanation was the last thing ...
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Couple's Motive in California Rampage a Mystery for Police, Family
A man and woman armed with assault-style rifles opened fire on the holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, and then were slain hours later in a shootout with police, authorities said.
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Couple Identified As Suspects in California Shooting That Left 14 Dead
A couple who were suspected of killing 14 people in a mass shooting in California and were later slain in a shootout with police were identified by authorities on Wednesday as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, described as possibly married or engaged.
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Oregon State Had Recently Tightened Gun Laws
Oregon, the location Thursday of the latest deadly US mass shooting, had recently strengthened its gun sale laws, like many Democrat-leaning states frustrated over political inaction at the federal level.
-
Strident Barack Obama Says Gun Control Laws Will Change
US President Barack Obama voiced confidence Friday that a "shocked and heartbroken" nation would eventually tighten permissive gun laws, striking a more strident tone after the deadly Charleston shooting.
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Families of Sandy Hook Massacre Victims Sue Gunmaker
Families of victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre filed a US lawsuit Monday seeking damages from the manufacturers of the high-powered assault rifle used in the slaughter.
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Newtown Massacre Shooter Indulged Dark Obsessions Online, Says Report
By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder, a report released on Friday said.
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Police Seek Motive in Fatal Washington State School Shooting
Authorities were seeking a motive on Saturday as to why a high school student in the United States' Washington state shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself.
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US States Look to Gun Seizure Law After Mass Killings
As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.
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20 hurt in mass stabbing at US high school
An American student stabbed or slashed 20 teenagers and an adult in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburgh high school.
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Shootings frustrate US military efforts to secure bases
The latest shooting at Fort Hood is throwing a spotlight on the U.S. military's so-far frustrated efforts to secure its bases from potential shooters, who increasingly appear to see the facilities as attractive targets.
