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LOS ANGELES/TUCSON - US President Barack Obama led a memorial service Wednesday night for six people killed in the shooting of US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, calling for greater civility in public discourse to honour the victims of the attack.
KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will hand over a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to Delhi later this month, urging the central government to declare Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birthday Jan 23 as "Deshprem Divas".
WASHINGTON - Nikki Haley, the daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from Amritsar, created history Wednesday as she became the first woman governor of South Carolina and the first Indian American woman to take the top state office.
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