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India: Government & Politics
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Arms sales will be on the agenda when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits India on Monday to court a country that has traditionally been a top client.
Putin's trip, his first to India since he started a new Kremlin six-year term in May, is a chance to reaffirm Russia's interest in India, long a regional ally and now a partner in the BRICS group of emerging market nations.
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India: Miscellaneous
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A year after Russia sought to ban the Bhagavad Gita, the Iskcon Krishna temple in Moscow is facing closure by the Russian government. By January 15, 2013, Iskcon monks said their Moscow temple, the only Hindu temple in Russia, would be demolished by the city authorities.
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India: People & Places
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23 Dec 2012 Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement from India's one-day international cricket side. "I have decided to retire from the One Day format of the game," he said.
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India: Business & Economy
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NEW DELHI: Blackberry smartphone maker Research-In-Motion has roped in Ranbir Kapoor as its brand ambassador in India, a move that is aimed at attracting young entrepreneurs and professionals.
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India: Hotels & Resorts
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The Oberoi Vanyavilas - Nestling in the natural beauty of the wilds, The Oberoi Vanyavilas is India’s leading luxury jungle resort on the edge of the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. The perfect base from which to explore the territory of the majestic tiger. While it is warm during the day, mornings and evenings are pleasant.
Telephone : 91 7462 22 3999
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India: History & Culture
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In Hindu lore, the Goddess Durga rode tigers into battles to save the world from demons. In early times grateful peasants did their best to protect them. In early times grateful peasants did their best to protect them. But weaker animals pushed out of their normal rangelands sometimes preyed on humans, triggering a backlash. #tiger
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India: Travel & Tourism
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#tiger #wildlife Ranthambore National Park - A matrix of lakes and razor sharp gorges in the shadow of the Aravalli and Vindhya Mountains, Ranthambore is the perfect backdrop for panthers, caracals, jackals, samba deer and 200 types of birds. But the main draw is the tiger. Read more...
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India: Travel & Tourism
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By 1970, India’s tiger population became so depleted that the government outlawed hunting the animals and, to bolster their numbers, in 1973 launched “Project Tiger.” Today, roughly half of the world’s few thousand remaining tigers reside in Ranthambore and 38 other Indian preserves. #tiger #wildlife
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India: Business & Economy
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Malaysia has moved its way up to be India's second most important trading partner among Asean countries and also India's premier gateway to the region and China, while India is now Malaysia's largest trading partner in South Asia.
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India: Business & Economy
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Malaysia has commercial links with India dating back to the pre-Christian era, the relationship has evolved into strategic partnership, resulting in strong bilateral ties, vibrant people-to-people exchanges and extensive trade opportunities.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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There are 477 convicts on death row in India, the government says. The information was revealed in the Rajya Sabha [the upper house of the parliament] in response to a question on the number of convicts on death row in Indian jails. Indian courts hand out capital punishment in the "rarest of rare" cases, but it is rarely carried out.
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India: Business & Economy
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Mr Tata has been the king of India’s corporate scene for the past two decades. Indians look up to him in much the same way that Italians once looked up to Gianni Agnelli at Fiat or Americans did to J.P. Morgan. Read more... #tata
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India: Business & Economy
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20 DEC 2012 You can live in a house, drive a car, make a phone call, season your food, insure yourself, wear a watch, walk in shoes, cool yourself with air-conditioning and stay in a hotel, all courtesy of Tata firms. #tata
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India: Business & Economy
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Ratan Tata, retires as chairman of Tata Sons on December 28th. The conglomerate he runs is India’s largest private-sector concern, accounting for 7% of the stockmarket. It pays 3% of all India’s corporate tax and 5% of all its excise duty. #tata
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India: History & Culture
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In 2001, during Kumbh Mela more than 40 million people gathered on the main bathing day at Allahabad, breaking a world record for the biggest human gathering. #kumbhmela
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India: History & Culture
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The Kumbh Mela has been held on the banks of the Ganges for thousands of years. It is at its largest once every 12 years when it attracts tens of millions of people. The festival is scheduled to take place from 14 January to 10 March 2013 and is billed as the biggest religious gathering in the world.
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India: History & Culture
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The northern Indian city of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh state is getting ready for the Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela when tens of millions of pilgrims are expected to visit to bathe at the Sangam - the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers. Many of them have already begun arriving over the past month. Read more... #kumbhmela
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India: Travel & Tourism
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The quaint hill station of Horsley Hills in Chittoor district is the perfect refuge for weekend holidayers. Pristine air, panoramic views of the surrounding hillocks and forests, perfect weather and tranquillity. Located near the South Western border of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka with its rich foliage, wildlife and pleasant climate is one of the underrated hill stations in the country.
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India: People & Places
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As India and Pakistan take steps to mend their sometimes fractious relationship, the plight of 40-year-old Mohammad Idrees is a reminder of how animosity between nations can tear people and their families apart. Thirteen years after overstaying his visa in India by just three days, he is still struggling to get back home to his family. Read more...
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India court lets Italian marines go home for Christmas. An Indian court has allowed two Italian marines charged with the murder of two Indian fishermen to go home for Christmas. The court allowed them to leave for two weeks and asked for additional bail of 60m rupees ($1.1m; £676,000).
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India: Miscellaneous
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New Delhi: FC Bescola, the school that taught the likes of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas the basics of football, will kick-start in India in April 2013, it was announced here today. FC Barcelona and Conscient Football will now start their "most ambitious project" as the Catalan club termed it, with a capacity to train a total of 300 kids in the age group of 6-16 years.
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India: Business & Economy
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India lost $123 billion in black money during 2001-2010, Global Financial Integrity said in a report. India’s loss is far less than that of China, which suffered a loss of $ 2.74 trillion during the same period (2001 to 2010), followed by Mexico ($476 billion), Malaysia ($285 billion), Saudi Arabia ($201 billion), Russia ($152 billion), the Philippines ($138 billion) and Nigeria ($129 billion).
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TIRUPATI: Promoter of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines and UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya made an offering of gold bricks, weighing about three kg, at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara on his 58th birthday today.
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WASHINGTON: India's holding of US government debt securities has declined for the second consecutive month, even as many other countries including China, Japan, Brazil and Russia hiked their exposure to American treasury bonds. As per the latest data released by the US Department of Treasury, India's holding of treasury securities stood at $58.9 billion at the end of October 2012
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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For all of those who have been copiously trying Psy’s Oppa Gangnam Style! steps,it’s time to learn some Bhangra now. India’s Punajabi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh has clenched the top spot on the list of the most watched videos of 2012 in India. Singh’s video Brown Raang from the album International Villager has become the most popular Indian video on Youtube in 2012 with around 9 Million hits.
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The Indian censor board has passed without any cuts a film based on Sir Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. "India here we come-intact! Great news... Midnight's Children went through Indian Censor board without one picture cut. Salman Rushdie and I thrilled," Mehta wrote on Twitter. The film is due for release in India early next year.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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NEW DELHI: Actual mobile phone users in India are around 26 per cent of the total population, a study by global telecom body GSM Association (GSMA) has said. GSMA Director General Anne Bouverot said that on average, each user has 2 sim cards and in terms of unique number of subscribers, there are about 380 million actual users -- about 26 per cent of the total population.
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India: Business & Economy
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BANGALORE: Infosys today said it has been awarded the number one spot globally for its corporate governance practices by IR Global Rankings (IRGR).
IRGR is the most comprehensive technical ranking system for investor relations websites, corporate governance practices and financial disclosure procedures, according to the Bangalore-headquartered company.
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Infosys Ltd, India’s second-largest IT services provider on 12 December 2012 announced that its American Depositary Shares (ADS) have started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol INFY.
The company is also in the process of listing its ADS on the Paris and London exchanges of NYSE Euronext.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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According to the latest data, with 174 people on death row, the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of prisoners awaiting death sentence. The southern state of Karnataka with 61 convicts awaiting hanging is the second on the list. At number three is the western state of Maharashtra with 50 convicts while Bihar is at the fourth place with 37 awaiting their death sentences.
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13 December 2012 There are 477 convicts on death row in India, the government says. The information was revealed in the Rajya Sabha [the upper house of the parliament] in response to a question on the number of convicts on death row in Indian jails. Indian courts hand out capital punishment in the "rarest of rare" cases, but it is rarely carried out.
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Ballots are being cast in key elections in the western Indian state of Gujarat where a prominent Hindu nationalist leader is seeking re-election. The polls are seen as a referendum on the popularity of Narendra Modi, who has ruled since October 2001. Mr Modi has been tipped as a future prime minister, partly because of his record of turning Gujarat into one of India's economic powerhouses.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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The venue was the so-called Leisure Valley, a bare patch of earth in the center of Gurgaon’s business district, a clutch of high-rises housing the Indian offices of international companies like Google and Accenture. A crowd of about 8,000 turned up for the show, made up of office workers in suits and ties, college students in black T-shirts and even entire families.
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The legendary American rock band Guns N’ Roses made the outsourcing boomtown of Gurgaon the last stop on their debut tour of India Wednesday night, a tour 20 years in the making.
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Shankar was amused after he and colleague Ustad Ali Akbar Khan were greeted with admiring applause when they opened the Concert for Bangladesh by twanging their sitar and sarod for a minute and a half. "If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more," he told the confused crowd, and then launched into his set.
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In 1971, moved by the plight of millions of refugees fleeing into India to escape the war in Bangladesh, Shankar reached out to Harrison to see what they could do to help. In what Shankar later described as "one of the most moving and intense musical experiences of the century," the pair organized two benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden that included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.
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While Shankar enjoyed Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas at the festival, he was horrified when Hendrix lit his guitar on fire. "That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God," he said.
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Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury was born April 7, 1920, in the Indian city of Varanasi. At the age of 10, he moved to Paris to join the world famous dance troupe of his brother Uday. Over the next eight years, Shankar travelled with the troupe across Europe, America and Asia, and later credited his early immersion in foreign cultures with making him such an effective ambassador for Indian music.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Though the audience for his music had hugely expanded, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebelliousness of the hippie culture. "I was shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly. They were all stoned. To me, it was a new world," Shankar told Rolling Stone of the Monterey festival.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Shankar's popularity exploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock.
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