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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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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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India: Government & Politics
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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"My Dad's music touched millions of people," his daughter, musician Norah Jones, said in a statement. "He will be greatly missed by me and music lovers everywhere."
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured at the ongoing River To River 2012 Indian Film Festival in Florence, where he was presented with the keys of the City of Firenze. The 70-year-old actor said he was overwhelmed with the beauty of the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany as well as the honour bestowed on him.
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India: Miscellaneous
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David Cameron called Jacintha Saldanha's death "a complete tragedy" during Prime Minister's Questions. The nurse was found dead on Friday, three days after taking the hoax call from two Australian radio station DJs. She transferred the call to a colleague who gave information about the condition of the pregnant duchess
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Ravi Shankar, a three-time Grammy winner with legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Festival and at Woodstock, had been in fragile health for several years and last Thursday underwent surgery, his family said in a statement.
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Ravi Shankar’s career was followed closely in the pages of The New York Times for more than 50 years. The classical Indian musician, who died on Tuesday at age 92, spent much of his adult life outside India, earning generations of fans in the United States and Europe, where he inspired musicians, sparked movements and won adulation.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92.
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India: Miscellaneous
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On November 12, 2012 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia," NASA said releasing a picture of India on Diwali night. India is home to more than 1.2 billion people and has 30 cities with populations over 1 million. (For comparison, China has 62 cities with more than 1 million residents and the United States has 9)
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An image that claims to show the region lit for #Diwali has been circulating on social media websites. It does not show what it claims. That image, based on data from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, is a colour-composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time," NASA said. #socialmedia
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India: Food and Restaurants
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December 11, 2012 Mumbai’s vegetarians aim to turn their neighbourhoods into vegetarian enclaves. In a supermarket in Malabar Hill — home to wealthy families, most of whom are staunchly vegetarian — none of these items is available.
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India: People & Places
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DEC 2012 Forbes said Sonia Gandhi the 65-year-old leader of India's ruling political party has the reins of the world's second-most-populous country and tenth-largest economy. "Son Rahul is next in line to take over India's most famous political dynasty," it added. Coming in at the 20th spot is Singh, the Oxford and Cambridge-educated economist, who is the architect of India's economic reforms.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi have been named among the top 20 most powerful persons in the world by Forbes magazine in its annual power rankings, which placed US President Barack Obama as number one for a second year in a row. Gandhi ranks at number 12 this year ahead of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and French President Francois Hollande.
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India: Business & Economy
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10 DEC 2012 Microsoft Corporation India has launched the first of a planned 100 Microsoft Innovation Centers that will impact the technology expertise of some 500,000 Indian students. The program will certify 100,000 students on Microsoft technologies", "The program will also drive innovation and help build a product-based software economy by supporting product development, and over 500 start-ups.
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Toronto-born Bhullar brothers aim for new heights in the NBA. Sim, age 19, stands 7-foot-5 and wears size 22 sneakers. Tanveer, 17, is 7-foot-3 and wears size 19s, both have represented Canada on the international stage. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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Former Indian prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral dies after a long illness in a hospital near the capital, Delhi, aged 92. Mr Gujral was admitted to the hospital in Gurgaon on 19 November and was suffering from a lung infection. He became India's 12th prime minister, heading a United Front coalition government in 1997.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India's Supreme Court has asked the government in western Maharashtra state to explain last week's arrest of two women over a comment on Facebook. Shaheen Dhada was arrested for her comment following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Her friend, Renu Srinivasan, who "liked" the comment, was also arrested. The two were later released on bail. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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30 Nov 2012 London mayor Boris Johnson to go up against India's David Letterman. Boris Johnson will pit his wits against India's equivalent of David Letterman as he appears on one of the country's most famous current affairs programmes. Goswami is one of India's most prominent chat show hosts and has also interviewed Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Gandhi.
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India: Miscellaneous
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27 NOV 2012 - Two senior Indian policemen have been suspended over the arrest of two women for comments made on Facebook following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Maharashtra state's home minister said the men had disobeyed orders. The judge in the case has also been transferred.
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NOV 2012 New Delhi has retaliated by stamping Chinese passports with a map of its own devising, claiming disputed areas of the India-China border — including the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed territory of Aksai Chin — as its own. The Guardian reports that India and China have tried to resolve the issue of the undemarcated region to no avail, even after 15 rounds of meetings.
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19 November 2012 India arrests over Facebook post criticising Mumbai shutdown. In recent months, Indian police have acted against several people for their posts on Facebook or Twitter Police in India have arrested a woman who criticised on Facebook the shutdown of the city of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray.
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India: History & Culture
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16 November 2012 India "The people of India have an emotional bond with me," Ms Suu Kyi said. "I always knew I would come back here."
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16 November 2012 India Ms Suu Kyi was warmly welcomed by her former teachers, many of whom remembered her as a quiet young girl."She was so dignified and had such sparkling eyes," said Nirmala Khanna who taught her international studies in 1964."I want to be able to say to her how proud of her I am, how she's grown up into a beautiful woman with so much poise."
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has visited the Delhi college from which she graduated with a degree in politics nearly 50 years ago. Old friends, teachers, diplomats and students turned out in large numbers at the Lady Sri Ram College to greet her. As she entered the packed auditorium, where she had performed plays as a young college student, she was greeted with rapturous cheers.
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15 NOV 2012 New Delhi, India - When Burma’s military junta robbed Suu Kyi of her election victory in 1990, her struggle found resonance in the world’s largest democracy, which at the time sheltered many of Burma’s political dissidents.
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November 14, 2012 AP Indian woman in thick of Irish abortion debate. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian living in Galway since 2008 who was 17 weeks along in her pregnancy died in Irish hospital after being denied an abortion. The 31-year-old’s case highlights the bizarre legal limbo in which pregnant women facing severe health problems in predominantly Catholic Ireland can find themselves.
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India: Government & Politics
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It feels very good to be in India, and I am glad that I can still recognise parts of Delhi, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said. Suu Kyi studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School and graduated in political science from Lady Shri Ram College. Suu Kyi and her mother -- Suu Kyi's father was a friend of Nehru - lived in the 1960s on 24 Akbar Road, now headquarters of the Congress party.
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Diwali which lasts several days, is one of the biggest events in the spiritual calendars of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. It celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, although the actual legends that go with the festival are different in different parts of India.
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