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India: Business & Economy
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MUMBAI - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India's No.1 software services exporter, posted a 23 percent rise in quarterly profit, joining rival Infosys Ltd in topping market forecasts and adding to expectations for a revival in corporate technology spending. Net profit rose to 35.52 billion rupees ($652 million) for the quarter ended December from 28.87 billion rupees a year earlier.
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Nokia is the top selling brand in terms of sales of budget phones, with a 22.2% market share followed by Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE 1.24%of South Korea at 13%, according to India’s CyberMedia Research. But in the smartphone category, Nokia has lagged far behind. Samsung dominates the category in India with a 50% market share, ahead of Nokia with 11%, according to research firm Canalys.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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Two persons were on Friday arrested at Bhainsa town of Adilabad district for allegedly posting a hateful statement against a community on networking site facebook, police said.
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Thatspersonal.com has tied up with several global brands to exclusively sell their adult products in India. Samir Saraiya, CEO was formerly lead (business development) at Microsoft Singapore.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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Jan 10 2013 Air India spokesman K. Swaminathan said the airline’s debut Dreamliner flight to Paris on Thursday went without a hitch.
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In India — where state-owned Air India has taken delivery of six Dreamliner jets and has more on order — a senior official at the aviation regulator said there was concern at the recent spate of Dreamliner glitches. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has not ordered any Dreamliner checks for now, but is waiting for a safety report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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An Indian judge on Thursday sentenced a rapist to 10 years in prison, just eight days after receiving the case.
Judge JS Bhinder in Punjab state imprisoned Pawan Dubey for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old co-worker.
The judge said courts should be "more responsible and sensitive" in cases of sexual assault against women.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Indian animal welfare officials moved this week to block plans to put performing dolphins on display at theme parks and malls across the country, saying it would violate federal laws about cruelty to animals.Animal Welfare Board of India ruled that dolphin shows and exhibits would violate the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. #wildlife
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India: Business & Economy
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - L'Oreal(OREP.PA), the world's biggest cosmetics group, plans to quadruple sales over the next seven years in India, the fastest-growing beauty market in the world.
The company, which opened a research centre in Mumbai on Thursday to develop products specifically for Indian consumers, aims to grow sales to 70 billion rupees by 2020, its chief executive Jean-Paul Agon said.
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Cisco today appointed Jeff White as President, India & SAARC. White will also take on the role of Leader of a new India Board, which comprises senior executives from Cisco's headquarters as well as India.
Reporting to Jaime Vallés, President of Cisco in Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China, White will partner with Faiyaz Shahpurwala, Senior Vice President to drive innovation and talent.
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Jan 10 2013 NEW DELHI--India's federal cabinet Thursday approved a government plan to sell a 10% stake in state-run Engineers India Ltd. 532178.BY -4.11%as part of its disinvestment program aimed at boosting revenue that is necessary to reduce a gaping fiscal deficit.
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India: People & Places
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India to display Kallenbach papers about Mahatma Gandhi.
Hundreds of letters, papers and photographs related to Mahatma Gandhi will go on display in India's capital, Delhi, from 30 January.
The archive belonged to Hermann Kallenbach who became a close friend of Gandhi when he lived in South Africa. India paid $1.1m for the archive of papers about Mahatma Gandhi.
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10 January 2013 - Nokia has launched Lumia 920, its flagship smartphone, in India today.
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India: Miscellaneous
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The Hindu newspaper has reported that a spate of violence between India and Pakistan in Kashmir that allegedly led to the death of three soldiers this week has its roots in the decision of an 70-year-old Indian woman to leave for Pakistan-held Kashmir. Reshma Bi, a native of Churunda, crossed the Line of Control in September to go and live with her sons in Pakistan-held Kashmir.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India's Railway Minister Pawan Bansal has announced the first across-the-board train fare increases in 10 years.
He said the 20% rise would come into effect on 21 January to raise $1.2bn (£747m) for maintenance, cleaning and other improvements on the network.
First class and other fares have risen before but general compartments used by millions of the poor have been spared.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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(Reuters) - Three of the men accused of raping and murdering an Indian student have asked lawyers to defend them and the lawyers have agreed to do so, even though most of the judiciary has refused to represent the suspects because of outrage over the attack.
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India: People & Places
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Nepal's Army Gen Gaurav Shumsher Rana will pay a maiden visit to India from January 6.During his 10-day long trip, he will be conferred with the title of honorary General of the Indian Army by President Pranab Mukherjee.Since 1965, both the armies have been conferring the honorary rank of General on each other's Army chief in view of the close military ties shared by the two countries.
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The Economic Times newspaper had earlier said Bangalore-based Infosys, India's second-largest software services exporter and an icon in the country's $100 billion outsourcing sector, was sacking up to 5,000 workers to trim costs. Infosys said there was no mass lay-off planned at the company.
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(Reuters) - India's Infosys Ltd said on Friday a newspaper report it was planning to fire up to 5,000 poorly performing workers was "wrong", although it encourages "chronic underperformers" to leave as part of its routine staff management.
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Taj Mahal has been refusing to accept U.S. dollars
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The #TajMahal, India's famed white marble monument to love, which once charged tourists $15 (U.S.) or 750 rupees, has been refusing to accept U.S. dollars since November.
The move makes visits pricier for American tourists, who now have to shell out nearly $20 (U.S.) #heritagesite
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India's tourism minister said yesterday the greenback will no longer be accepted at the country's heritage tourist sites. For years the U.S. dollar was worth about 50 rupees and tourists visiting most sites in India were charged either $5 (U.S.) or 250 rupees. But with the dollar now hovering at around 39 rupees – that deal has become a losing proposition for the tourism industry. #tourism #heritagesite
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4 Jan 2013 NEW DELHI -- India's top law enforcement official says the nation needs to crack down on crimes against women with "an iron hand" if it is to prevent rapes and other attacks. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde spoke Friday at a conference of state officials from across India that was called to discuss how to protect women in the wake of a fatal gang rape in the capital last month.
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Friday, Jan. 4, 2013
NEW DELHI -- India's top law enforcement official says the nation needs to crack down on crimes against women with "an iron hand" if it is to prevent rapes and other attacks.
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India: History & Culture
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In developing mock modular forms, Ramanujan was decades ahead of his time, Ono said; mathematicians only figured out which branch of math these equations belonged to in 2002.
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Ramanujan believed that 17 new functions he discovered were "mock modular forms" that looked like theta functions when written out as an infinte sum (their coefficients get large in the same way), but weren't super-symmetric. Ramanujan, a devout Hindu, thought these patterns were revealed to him by the goddess Namagiri.
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"We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters. For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years," Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said.
Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.
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While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right. Read more...
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NEW DELHI — Indian police Thursday filed formal charges, including gang-rape and murder, against five adult men for the alleged rape and killing of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student last month in a case that has shocked India. The police are pursuing a case against a sixth suspect in juvenile court. Thursday's charges were filed at the Saket district court complex in south Delhi.
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Jan 3, 2013 Authorities filed rape and murder charges Thursday against five men accused of the gang rape of a 23-year-old university student on a New Delhi bus. The men charged are Ram Singh, 33, the bus driver; his brother Mukesh Singh, 26, who cleans buses for the same company; Pavan Gupta, 19, a fruit vendor; Akshay Singh, 24, a bus washer; and Vinay Sharma, 20, a fitness trainer.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Air and rail traffic has been disrupted in India by dense fog which has enveloped the capital, Delhi in recent days.
On Tuesday more than 100 flights were affected as visibility fell to near-zero levels, officials said.Disruption due to fog in winter has become routine in north India.
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The ashes of an Indian woman who died after being gang-raped on a bus in the capital, Delhi, a fortnight ago have been scattered in the river Ganges.
The family, along with hundreds of well-wishers, performed the rituals in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh state.
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President Pranab Mukherjee cancelled all new year celebrations and appealed to the people not to greet him.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India's army and navy canceled New Year's celebrations on Monday out of respect for a New Delhi student whose gang-rape and murder has set off an impassioned debate about what the nation needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing an immigrant from India to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.The district attorney for Queens (NYC) said the suspect, Erika Menendez, 31, who was seen muttering to herself before the attack, had admitted to investigators that she pushed the victim on Thursday because “I hate Hindus and Muslims.”
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Russian aircraft maker MiG has delivered four MiG-29K/KUB ship-borne fighters to the Indian Navy under a contract concluded in 2010, the company said. In March 2010, Russia and India signed a $1.5-billion contract for the supply of 29 additional MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to New Delhi.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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The roads leading to India Gate, the site of earlier protests that had turned violent, were barricaded by the police early Saturday, and nearby subway stations were closed. More than 40 police units were deployed in the area, including 28 units of the Central Reserve Police Force
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Sonia Gandhi, India’s most powerful female politician and the president of the governing Congress Party, made a rare televised statement that was broadcast on Saturday. “As a woman, and mother, I understand how protesters feel,” she said. “Today we pledge that the victim will get justice,” she said.
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