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India: People & Places
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Israeli national Alice Miller lives a quiet life in Shivanandi village, nestled in the Himalayas at over 3,000 feet. Nearly two decades ago, she had attempted altitudes higher still.
South Africa-born Miller, 41, has the distinction of getting the Israeli air force open its doors to women fighter pilots.
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India: Business & Economy
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Apple has managed a significant turnaround in India’s smartphone market, according to new figures out from IDC today (via CNN). The Apple smartphone grabbed 15.6 percent of India’s smartphone market by revenue in Q4 2012, according to new data from the research firm, just behind market leading Samsung with its 38.8 percent,
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India: Shopping
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Billed as India's biggest shopping mall, the Lulu Shopping Mall was inaugurated by #Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy here. It was built at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore, an official has said.
The mall is spread over 2.5 million square feet of space and is owned by EMKE group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) businessman M A Yousuf Ali, who hails from Kerala. #megamall
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India Uttar Pradesh state gives away free laptops to students. The government in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has distributed the first of an estimated 1.5 million free laptops to college students. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav handed out the Hewlett-Packard laptops, worth 19,000 rupees ($350) each, to 10,000 students on Monday.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Holiday India Provides Char Dham Yatra tour Packages including Badrinath - Kedarnath - Gangotri and Yamunotri.All our tours are well planned and customized as per the specified requests and needs of our clients.If you want more information regarding any tour you can visit our website. Read more...
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India: Business & Economy
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Bank for women - Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the bank was likely to be launched in October, with initial capital of $184m (£120m), and will be run by the government.
The bank will employ women, lend mostly to women and "address gender-related issues, empowerment and financial inclusion", he said.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Sugar Sammy will perform in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai in mid-March for U.S. cable TV channel Comedy Central.Sugar Sammy will do three stand-up shows in India - the land of his parents - in mid-March for Comedy Central, the U.S. cable TV channel will announce Thursday. The wildly successful Montreal comedian will perform in Bangalore on March 15, New Delhi on the 16th and Mumbai on the 17th.
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India: People & Places
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“My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together,” Mitra said. Mitra said his “school in the cloud” will be overseen remotely by a global network of mediators. He will build a self-sustaining test school in India. Once the research is complete, the work will be made available for anyone.
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Sugata Mitra, 2013 TED Prize Winner.Dr. Mitra is best known for an experiment in which he carved a hole from his research center in Delhi into an adjacent slum, placing a freely accessible computer there for children to use.
The children quickly taught themselves basic computer skills. Dr. Mitra was given the 2013 TED Prize ($1 million) to build a learning laboratory based on this principle.
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9 Year old India born kid develops app for iPhone - Tanmay Bakshi is only 9, but he's been programming and learning code since he was in senior kindergarten. Read more...
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Apple is now working with two distributors – Ingram Micro and Redington India to sell the iPhone directly to customers.
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Health experts view India’s livestock sector with some alarm. Livestock spread illness to humans through food-borne disease, from the shared human-animal diseases and through human diseases that emerge from animals in the process called zoonoses, such as bird flu. Animals give humans sleeping sickness, rabies, leishmaniasis, brucellosis and leptospirosis.India has no animal surveillance at present
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India: Miscellaneous
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India’s cows and buffaloes are producing about a fifth of its greenhouse-gas emissions, and using up to nine times more water than the crops they are raised on. Fed on crop residue rather than green fodder, they produce more gases because of the hard-to-digest foods #dairy
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Only India’s poultry industry is formalized, with 70 per cent of the chickens on the market raised in dedicated facilities and professionally processed. Nadir Godrej, managing director of the holding company Godrej Industries, which includes India’s largest animal feed business and a major chicken processing venture, said he believes there are huge opportunities for growth in poultry production. #dairy
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Milk is India’s great success story – the country has been the world’s largest milk producer since 1998 – but this sector too is largely unorganized or informal. Every second rural household owns a dairy animal, either a cow or a buffalo, but 90 per cent of these households have only between one and three animals, according to Dilip Rath, managing director of the National Dairy Development Board. #dairy
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Livestock industries, from eggs to pigs to butter, are expanding rapidly, and it is growth that directly engages the poorest people in the country.Three-quarters of India’s livestock is produced by small-scale farmers, the majority of them women, and by landless people who raise animals at home.
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Beef exports from India are expected to surge 30 per cent this year, giving the country a quarter of the world market. Only three years ago, India’s market share was just 8 per cent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which says India will be the single biggest exporter of beef. Demand is being driven from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Vietnam was the biggest buyer last year.
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India: History & Culture
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Lost continent connecting India and Madagascar found. Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests.
Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.
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Four small satellites -- two of which are Canadian-owned and another two developed in Canada - were successfully lofted into orbit Monday atop an Indian rocket. The rocket blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, 7:31 a.m. ET. Ground control teams have confirmed that contact has been established with all four satellites, which appear to be in good working order.
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Canadian satellites to be launched from India Monday. There’s a lot riding on NEOSSat and Sapphire, two Canadian satellites scheduled to be launched from India on Monday.A total of seven satellites will be launched aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, at 7:25 a.m. ET.NEOSSat will be on the lookout for “Aten” asteroids which, every once and a while, will cross Earth’s path.
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Offices and factories were shut in many places and transport was disrupted. New Delhi and Mumbai, were mostly unaffected and financial markets were open. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry said on Tuesday the two-day strike was expected to cause a loss of 150 billion-200 billion rupees ($2.8-billion to $3.7-billion U.S.), hurting sectors such as banking, insurance and transport.
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Britain's then colonial governor-general of India arranged for the huge diamond to be presented to Queen Victoria in 1850.
If Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, eventually becomes queen consort she will don the crown holding the Koh I Noor diamond on official occasions.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that was set in the late Queen Elizabeth I's crown will not be returned.
Speaking on the third and final day of a visit to India aimed at drumming up trade and investment, Cameron ruled out handing back the 105-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond, now on display in the Tower of London.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Dumplings stuffed with a variety of ground meat (pork, mutton, chicken, lamb, yak), vegetables or cheese, steamed, fried or boiled in a soup called mothuk, momos probably originated in China and passed through Tibet to the Himalayan regions. They are now most popular in places with a significant Tibetan and Nepalese diaspora - Dilli Haat, Kolkata's Tiretti BazarChinese market and Gangtok's dhabas.
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Mahesh Gupta supervises a thin staff mould anywhere between 500 to 1000 plates of momos every other day for corporate parties. After an MBA in 2010, Gupta roamed the country tasting momos. His goal is simple — make momos synonymous with Mumbai street food. After conceiving 21 varieties including those with bombil, chocolate and chicken bhuna, he set up a kiosk at Orchid City Centre Mall.
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Milan Thapa set up Kepchaki Momos on Carter Road (Mumbai) in 2011 when he failed to find the kind they make back home in Bahundangi, a village in Jhapa District of Nepal. Recently set up a second stall in the lane leading to Bandra's National College. Kepchaki is one of the few to serve the original pork variant (Rs 90 for 6 pieces), and a prawn version.
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Dim Sum and More inside Churchgate station serves yummy chicken momos. (Rs 50 for 6). Moktu, a chain with outlets at Infinity Mall, Andheri, Malad and Oberoi Mall in Goregaon, serves excellent Momo-cha — traditional Nepali chicken momos (Rs 85 for 6).
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India: Miscellaneous
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India’s Home Ministry circulated late last year to Indian missions abroad, stipulating that gay couples, single men and women, nonmarried couples and couples from countries where surrogacy is illegal be prohibited from hiring a commercial surrogate in India.
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India leads day of 'One Billion Rising' for women
— Indians were at the forefront of global protests on Thursday in the One Billion Rising campaign for women's rights, galvanised by the recent fatal gang rape that shocked the country.
Flashmobs, marches, singing and dances were planned in about 200 countries as part of the campaign's day of action.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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The asteroid 2012 DA14, which will fly at a distance of 27,700 km above the surface of Earth on February 15, will be visible across Asia including India, but only with the help of binoculars and telescopes.N Sri Raghunandan Kumar, general secretary Planetary Society of India, said that the asteroid will appear as a slow moving dot in the background of various pattern of stars.
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Helicopter executives with ties to ORNGE arrested in India bribery scheme. Two Italian helicopter executives who dealt with Ontario's ORNGE air ambulance deal are facing bribery allegations involving a chopper deal in India.
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Police in the northern Indian city of Allahabad have detained a photographer from France for flying "dangerously low" in a helicopter over the Kumbh Mela festival. Read more...
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Insurgents in India's troubled northeast are suspected of using AK-47 assault rifles to hunt rare, one-horned rhinos to cash in on a huge demand for the animals' horns in China and Southeast Asia, police said Wednesday.21 rhinos were killed last year and eight so far this year. A half dozen of them were killed in the past month alone using AK-47s.
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SRINAGAR, INDIA—The first all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir has decided to disband after only one concert because of threats its teenage members received on #socialmedia and a demand from a top Muslim cleric that they stop performing.
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