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India: Business & Economy
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On Wednesday, India’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, voted against a measure forbidding foreign multibrand retailers from entering India. The upper house of Parliament also voted against the measure on Friday, cementing support for new retailers. State governments have the option to ban big foreign retailers from their state
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Sundance Film Festival 2013 - This year India is represented at Sundance Film Festival by one fiction film and two documentaries–Gangs of Wasseypur, Fire in the Blood and Salma.
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India: People & Places
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The first written evidence of the Kumbh Melas in India can be found in the accounts of the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang (602 – 664 CE), who visited India between 629 – 645 CE, during the reign of King Harshavardhan. However, it is believed that the observance dates back several millennia, to ancient India's Vedic period, when the first river festivals are thought to have been organised.
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India: People & Places
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The 2013 Kumbh Mela will last 56 days. With 80 million pilgrims expected, it will be the largest religious gathering in history: a conglomeration so vast and tightly packed that, as was the case at the last great Kumbh Mela in 2001, it will be visible from space.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (NYC) - In a play that opened in New York last week, a Hindu god who drinks wine and uses foul language goes to Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika from Hitler.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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CHENNAI: A 64-year-old woman was bitten by a rat in an AC III-tier coach of the Coimbatore-Chennai Cheran Express at Arakkonam station early on Tuesday. As the train was moving, irate passengers pulled the chain and stopped it. A doctor who was on duty at the station gave an injection to prevent infection and administered first aid.
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India is the latest country to ground its Boeing 787 Dreamliners. A series of safety scares, including a cracked windscreen and a battery fault leading to an emergency landing in Japan, have led to the decision to ground the planes until more checks are carried out. Dreamliners have also been grounded in Europe, the US, Japan and Chile
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India: Miscellaneous
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The recovery of Titanosaurus Indicus, or the Indian Tital reptile, was possible due to a collaborative programme between the Geological Survey of India and the University of Michigan, according to the latest issue of Current Science (Vol. 104, No. 1, Jan. 10, 2013, Pg. No. 34), brought out by the Bangalore-based Indian Academy of Sciences.
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More than a century after it went missing, the fossil of what has been regarded as India's first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal.The missing dinosaur, untraceable for nearly a century, was finally found at the GSI headquarters in Kolkata.
The fossil was originally discovered by WH Sleeman in the Jabalpur area of central India in 1828
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India: Constitution and Laws
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NEW DELHI—An Indian magistrate has ordered the trial of five men accused in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus to be shifted to a special fast-track court.
Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal sent the case on Thursday to the new court established to deal with crimes against women and set a hearing for Jan. 21. A sixth suspect in the attack claims to be a juvenile.
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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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India: People & Places
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The people who live in Khajuraho are not the same as those who built the temples,” the curator of the Archeological Museum in Khajuraho said. “They have been living in the village probably for only 200 years. Not one of them can sculpt in stone. Otherwise, they just live in the village and work on their farms and small businesses. They are quiet, unpretentious people".
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India: Housing, Lodging & Rentals
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Khajuraho also has many five-star hotels and luxury accommodations, like the Radisson, the Lalit and Hotel Clarks, all of them built in the past decade or so. For many years, the only decent place to stay used to be Hotel Jhankar, a Madhya Pradesh Tourism initiative. This hotel is still popular as it is located in the center of the town, close to all three temple complexes.
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India: Business & Economy
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Reliance Communications, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, had 134 million Indian mobile phone customers as of November, according to data from the sector regulator, ranking third in a market of nearly 900 million mobile users.
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela 2013 - Based on six years of studying smaller Melas on the Ganges, a group of Indian and Western researchers have published a paper in PLOS One journal arguing that the experience of participating in such mass, collective rites has long-term benefits for the individual. #kumbhmela
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela 2013 - The scale of the operation is so unprecedented that a cross-disciplinary team of Harvard scholars, under the aegis of the university’s South Asia Institute, is attending the Mela this year in a bid to analyze the economy and logistics of what they’ve dubbed a "pop-up megacity." #kumbhmela
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India: Business & Economy
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Bharti Airtel said Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India and South Asia) has resigned from the company and Gopal Vittal will take over as the head of its Indian operations with effect from March 1, 2013. "After almost 15 years of illustrious innings at Bharti Group, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel, has decided to pursue his future aspirations outside of Bharti," the company said.
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India: People & Places
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In an article published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the team of researchers says an analysis of the genetic history of Australian Aborigines and other peoples indicates the contact with Indians took place roughly 4,000 years ago.
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Long before Europeans began settling in Australia, people from India arrived on the continent and interbred with the aboriginal population there, a new study says. The Indians may also have introduced #dingoes to the vast Australian landmass, it suggests.
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An Indian court has issued a warrant of arrest for Matthias Mueller, the chief executive officer and chairman of Porsche AG, the iconic German carmaker, and eight other executives from the company.
The bailable warrants come as a result of a court case filed by Precision Cars India, a former importer of Porsche cars based in New Delhi.
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela comes from one of the most revered chapters of the ancient Hindu Purana texts, in which demigods fight with demons for possession of a Kumbha (urn) full of Amrita, a special nectar that would replenish the strength of the demigods. The fight lasted 12 days and 12 nights, the equivalent to 12 human years. During the fight, drops of nectar fell from the Kumbha at the four locations. #kumbhmela
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela 2013 This year’s festival, however, is especially significant as it is a once-in-a-lifetime Maha (Great) Kumbh, which is held after 12 Purna Kumbhs, so every 144 years, and only in Allahabad. #kumbhmela
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India: Food and Restaurants
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B.C. wines head to India -
A Kelowna area wine producer hopes India is the next hot market for B.C. wine.
Karnail Singh Sidhu of Kalala Organic Estate Winery is one of two producers flying about 1,000 bottles of ice wine and Riesling to India this week
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India: History & Culture
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The word Kumbh means an urn, and one of the several myths is the story of an urn filled with the nectar of immortality which emerged from the primeval waters when they were being churned by gods and demons. The urn was snatched by demons but the son of the ruler of heaven, the god Indira, recovered it. Drops from the urn fell at the Sangam and other places in India where Kumbh Melas are held. #kumbhmela
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India today announced that Pakistani citizens aged over 65 would be issued visas on arrival at the Wagah land border crossing from January 15 under a liberalised visa agreement signed by the two countries last year. The visa on arrival facility will not be available at any other border point and Pakistani senior citizens will be issued a 45-day, single-entry visa valid for up to five places.
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Several million people have been bathing at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Allahabad in India, on the opening day of the Kumbh Mela festival.
At least 10 million pilgrims are set to do so by the end of the day.
The event, every 12 years, is billed as the biggest gathering on Earth. More than 100 million people are expected to attend the 55-day festival. #kumbhmela
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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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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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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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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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