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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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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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India: History & Culture
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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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India: History & Culture
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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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India: History & Culture
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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The woman, who has not been identified, has become a symbol for the treatment of women in India. She boarded a bus with a male friend after watching a movie at a mall, and was raped and attacked with an iron rod by the men, who the police later said had been drinking and were on a “joy ride.”
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India: Constitution and Laws
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NEW DELHI — As protests grew in India on Saturday over the death of a young woman who was raped in Delhi this month by several men in a moving bus, the police said six men accused of attacking her had been charged with murder. A police spokesman, Rajan Bhagat, said that if convicted of murder, the men could face the death penalty in the Dec 16 attack, which shocked India because of its savagery.
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India: Business & Economy
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NEW DELHI--The Ikea Group's India plans looked brighter Wednesday, with a senior minister hinting that the government is likely to approve the Swedish retail giant's application to set up wholly owned stores and that it may drop a key condition that would have limited its product offerings.
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India: Government & Politics
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NEW DELHI - Russia and India signed weapons deals worth billions of dollars Monday. Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hailed co-operation between their countries as officials signed a $1.6 billion deal for 42 Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets that will be license-built in India from Russian components and a $1.3 billion contract for the delivery of 71 Mil Mi-17 military helicopters.
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India: Miscellaneous
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 NEW DELHI In an unusual televised address, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm following the weekend clashes in New Delhi and vowed to punish the rapists for their "monstrous" crime.
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India: Miscellaneous
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities throttled movement in the heart of the capital on Monday, shutting roads and railway stations in a bid to restore law and order after police fought pitched battles with protesters enraged by the gang rape of a young woman.
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India: People & Places
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Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, a pearly architectural extravaganza is Lord Curzon's homage to Queen Victoria, Empress of India. It's a sumptuous marble building with domes, columns, maidens in draped gowns and snarling stone lions. There is a statue of the Queen in front of the main doors. #heritagesite
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India: People & Places
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St Paul's (Kolkata) has its original finely carved mahogany pews, frescoes on the walls showing the life of St Paul and an Edward Burne-Jones stained glass window.
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India: People & Places
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St Paul's Cathedral in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta), has an English service at 10.30am. The Cathedral, built in 1847, is a gothic revival building.
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India: Business & Economy
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At a time when the country’s energy needs are growing at a staggering pace, India depends heavily on coal, drawing on the fifth-largest reserves in the world. But mining has consistently fallen below target, imports are rising fast and the problems in the largely state-run industry may have even more far-reaching implications
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India: Business & Economy
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Across India, thermal power stations are running below capacity because they can’t get enough coal, and factories are running on expensive diesel generators because they can’t get enough power. Millions of tons of coal are stockpiled because they can’t be transported quickly to the nearest rail yard.
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