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India: Food and Restaurants
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McDonald's doesn't have the Indian fast-food market to itself:
Domino's Pizza has more than 500 restaurants across India
KFC has more than 300 restaurants
Dunkin Donuts has more than 30 outlets in India
Burger King has just opened its first restaurant in Delhi and other outlets are reported to be opening shortly - it too has dropped pork and beef from its menu
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India: Food and Restaurants
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How McDonald's conquered India. A staunch vegetarian, Amit Jatia was 14 when he walked into a McDonald's for the first time.
It was in Japan and all he could have was a milkshake.
He loved it.
He is now the man behind McDonald's in India, responsible for the phenomenal growth the company has had in the country.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Read more... Five hundred Bengal tigers live in the largest mangrove forest on earth, situated on the border of India and Bangladesh. But so do more than a million humans. Every year the tigers attack up to 60 people, and only half survive to tell the tale. #wildlife
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India: Business & Economy
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India and the US have resolved their disagreements on food security issues, paving the way for a global trade pact.
The prospect of a global trade deal had faded at a World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Indonesia last year, after India said it would not budge on some rules governing food subsidies.
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India: Doctors, Hospitals, Nursing Homes
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An Indian surgeon used infected instruments to sterilize 83 women in about six hours, according to a local medical official, leaving 10 of them dead and another 69 hospitalized in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
The doctor breached guidelines that limit surgeons from performing more than 30 sterilizations a day.
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India: Science & Technology
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Google doodle for India Mangalyaan Mars mission
Google has marked the success of India's Mars mission in its famous daily doodle, exactly one month after a robotic probe went into orbit around the red planet.
Thursday's doodle depicts the Mangalyaan probe, which has been studying the planet's atmosphere.
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India: History & Culture
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Tales from the India Office - A transgender singer hits stardom in Baghdad. Officials scramble to impose order after a Kuwaiti restaurant is found to be selling cat meat. Gulf royals on an official visit to London are left marooned in a drab south London suburb because of a shortage of hotel rooms in the West End. Read more...
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India: Travel & Tourism
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NEW DELHI—
India says it has set in place a tracking and surveillance system, similar to Nigeria’s, to detect any cases of Ebola in the country as it steps up efforts to keep the virus out of the country. Nigeria has been declared “Ebola-free” by the World Health organization.
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India: People & Places
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Sixty-year-old Kailash Satyarthi today became the fifth Indian citizen to win the Nobel Prize joining Rabindranath Tagore, CV Raman, Mother Teresa and Amartya Sen in the elite club.
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India: People & Places
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Read more... Indian man pedals bicycle rickshaw from seaside to Himalayan pass
Trek to the roof of the world promotes bicycle rickshaw as an environmentally sound travel option.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India wields the axe on Her Majesty's "laughable" laws
Read more... If you happen to unearth treasure worth even as little as 10 rupees (16 U.S. cents) in India, don't even think of pocketing it - that's because under a law introduced by the former British colonial rulers, it still belongs to "Her Majesty".
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India: History & Culture
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WHEN India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited America in 1949 he spent weeks crossing the country, speaking at universities and calling on Albert Einstein. He was shocked by the commercialism he saw, joking that “one should never visit America for the first time”. Read more...
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India: Science & Technology
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#IndiaMarsMission India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words When the crowded command control room of India's Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each other. Read more...
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Read more... Brain repair 'may be boosted by curry spice' A spice commonly found in curries may boost the brain's ability to heal itself, according to a report in the journal Stem Cell Research and Therapy.
The German study suggests a compound found in turmeric could encourage the growth of nerve cells thought to be part of the brain's repair kit. #spicyfood
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India: People & Places
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Dalai Lama calls inter-faith meeting in India amid rising tension
Buddhist spiritual leader to convene unprecedented talks in attempt to boost religious harmony in emerging economic power Read more...
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India: Miscellaneous
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In India, rice replaces ice in bucket challenge Read more... #RiceBucketChallenge
The famous "ice bucket" challenge is inspiring thousands of Indians to follow suit, but with a twist - they are replacing ice with rice in a bid to help the country's vast population of poor, hungry people.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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Flights in India Are the Cheapest in the World Read more... In India it costs $10.20 on average to travel 100 kilometers. That?s half the cost of flying in China and less than one thirteenth the cost of flying in the most expensive country, Finland, where it costs $136.83 to fly the same distance. #flightstoindia
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India: Business & Economy
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India's Narendra Modi to launch bank accounts for all Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor.
Nearly 40% of Indians have little access to financial services and are often at the mercy of moneylenders who charge extortionate interest. Read more...
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India: Miscellaneous
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Read more... The Ambassador: A tribute to India's iconic car27 August 2014 Last updated at 00:53 BST
May this year marked the end of the line of one of India's most loved cars, the Ambassador.
Production of the car that was once omnipresent on Indian streets has stopped following falling demand.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India Slaps 14 Carmakers With $420 Million Antitrust Fine
India’s antitrust regulator fined 14 carmakers, including the local units of Honda Motor Co. (7267) and General Motors Co. (GM), a combined 25.4 billion rupees ($420 million) for stifling competition in the market for spare parts as the industry faces similar scrutiny in China.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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National carrier Air India will celebrate tomorrow its merger with erstwhile Indian Airlines as ‘Air India Day’, offering discounted tickets for Rs 100 for a limited period.
The sale of these tickets would be made only through the airline’s website for five days from August 27 to 31 for travel during the period August 27 to September 30 only #flightstoindia
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have outlined plans to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol to tackle the state's drink problem.
The first phase of the ban would see more than 700 bars and as well as some shops selling alcohol shut down, with more alcohol-free days introduced.
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