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India Has the Most People Without Clean Water, Report Says
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India has the world's highest number of people without access to clean water — imposing a major financial burden for some of the country's poorest people, according to a report released Tuesday.
The international charity Water Aid says 75.8 million Indians are forced to either buy water at high rates or use supplies that are contaminated with sewage or chemicals
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The Indian curry is merely a figment of the British colonial imagination
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By examining the legacies of things we see around us today, it is possible to make the argument that the colonial form of domination has never really gone away. Moreover, it continues to reproduce itself in new, insidious and sometimes bland and gloopy ways. Let’s take curry as an example. Read more...
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Shipwreck Discovered from Explorer Vasco da Gama's Fleet
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The wreck is believed to be that of the Esmeralda, which was part of a fleet led by legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during his second voyage to India (1502-1503). Includes a Portuguese coin minted for trade with India (one of only two coins of this type known to exist)
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Capitol Hill’s popular Malaysian spot Kedai Makan thrives in its new home
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Many nationalities have influenced Malaysian cuisine over the centuries. The country straddles the South China Sea, bordering Indonesia and Thailand. Singapore sits at the peninsula’s southern tip. Seafaring traders from India and China stopped at its ports long before the British, Dutch and Portuguese took an interest in the area.
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Goat arrested in India for eating plants in judge's garden
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#Wildlife The animal, whose owner was also apprehended by police, is said to be a repeat offender Don't kid around in a judge's garden.
That's the lesson learned by a man in central India after he - and his goat - were arrested for repeatedly damaging a senior bureaucrat's garden.
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Technology Can't Trump India's Lunchtime Traditions
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Food apps, after a boom in start-ups over the past three years, have been failing or scaling back in India. They are no match for the famed tiffin-delivery business that has been in operation for decades. Bloomberg photographer Dhiraj Singh followed dabbawalas Dadabhau Shivaji and Dasharath Kedari on their daily rounds.
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Indian Sikhs Seek a Ban on Sikh Jokes
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A movement to stop people making fun of Sikhs is gaining momentum in India.
India’s Supreme Court last month asked an organization representing followers of the religion, the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, to frame rules on how to implement a ban on jokes or negative remarks about Sikhs, if such a ban were announced
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India’s Literary Festivals Multiply Amid Anxiety Over Free Expression
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#BooksAboutIndia JAIPUR, India — Literary notables including Margaret Atwood, Aleksandar Hemon and Thomas Piketty came Jaipur, India end of January, an 18th-century complex temporarily filled with tents, food kiosks and bookstores. breaking the attendance record and once again making the Jaipur Literature Festival the largest event of its kind in the world.
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Finding Peace (and Quiet) In India's Tamil Nadu
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For two decades, Guy Trebay has been escaping to this serene corner of southern India—and while its sacred #temple towns, extravagant mansions, and gracious people are now deeply familiar, he finds it’s still a place for unscripted adventure. Read more...
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Sheryl Sandberg applauds Indian laundry detergent ad
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An Indian #laundry #detergent commercial has one big fan -- Sheryl Sandberg.
The Facebook (FB, Tech30) COO praised the commercial for spreading the message that dads should "share the load" of household responsibilities with their wives. Read more...
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What is India's caste system?
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Manusmriti, widely regarded to be the most important and authoritative book on Hindu law and dating back to at least 1,000 years before Christ was born, "acknowledges and justifies the caste system as the basis of order and regularity of society". Read more...
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Forgotten heroes – the true story of India
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In his history of the people who made modern India, Sunil Khilnani set out to complicate western stereotypes. Here he reflects on how he challenged the prejudices and stories Indians tell themselves about their past
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How 'black money' saved the Indian economy
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Kaushik Basu, the chief economist of the World Bank and former chief economic adviser to the Indian government, says the nation's tradition of petty corruption helped India avoid the worst of the banking crisis that has crippled most other large economies in the last few years.
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Enough is enough: India women fight to enter temples
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For centuries, #temples and shrines in India have used "tradition" to keep women out, but now women are increasingly fighting for their right to worship, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.
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LIGO-India gets the green light
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The latest ground-based gravitational-wave detector will allow scientists to figure out where these ripples in space-time are coming from. Read more...
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Skier photographs rare snow leopard on Indian mountainside
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#Wildlife An Australian skier says he captured on camera the "amazing" moment an endangered snow leopard leapt across his path on a mountainside in India.
Owen Lansbury said he was following skiing guide Dave Marchi down a slope at a resort in the popular skiing town of Gulmarg in India's north, when the animal suddenly bounded in front of them in deep snow.
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An intimate look at India's royal women
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India's royalty lost their official powers when the nation gained independence in 1947, but there is still a great sense of romance and fascination with the men and women who once ruled large tracts of the country. Read more...
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How India Helped Prove Einstein Right on Ripples and Gravity
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“I am so grateful for the major contributions, by Indian scientists working in India and abroad, that helped make this discovery and future discoveries possible,” said Kip Thorne, a Caltech theoretical physicist and co-founder of the LIGO project, in a statement.
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Nidar: India launches 'lightest gun' weighing 250g
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Two years after India launched Nirbheek, a handgun pitched as the country's "first gun for women", a state-run arms factory has launched a similar gun which it says is India's lightest gun.
The new .22-calibre revolver is named Nidar, it weighs a mere 250g (8.8 ounces) - that's half of .32-calibre Nirbheek's 500g (1.1lb); and it costs 35,000 rupees ($513; £357) - Nirbheek came with a steep price tag of 122,360 rupees ($1,990; £1,213).
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China's curious cult of the mango
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Fifty years ago, China was plunged into the most chaotic and traumatic decade of its recent history - the Cultural Revolution. During this period, the nation was gripped by a peculiar hysteria: a mania for mangoes. Benjamin Ramm discovers how the fruit became an object of deep veneration, and a vehicle for the promotion of the cult of Chairman Mao. #Mango Read more...
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India schools shut in Bangalore over leopard fears
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#Wildlife More than 100 schools have been closed in Bangalore after reports that another leopard was sighted on the outskirts of the Indian city.
Residents were asked to stay indoors and police and forest officials were trying to track the elusive cat.
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Why India’s Jewelers Are on Strike
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#Gold #Jewelry Thousands of jewelry shops in India pulled down their shutters Wednesday as they went on strike to protest against the government’s move to bring more jewelry sales under the tax net. A rule that came into effect Jan. 1 requires customers to share their tax identification number every time they spend 200,000 rupees ($2,946) or more on jewelry.
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Indian leopard injures six in Bangalore school
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#Wildlife A male leopard which entered a school in the Indian city of Bangalore injured six people trying to capture it.
A scientist and a forestry employee were among those mauled during the near 10-hour long effort to corner the dangerous animal on Sunday.
The leopard, which strolled into the Vibgyor International school, was eventually tranquillised and released.
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Wild elephant rampages through India town
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KOLKATA, India -- A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing homes and sending panicked residents running.
As the frightened elephant ran amok, trampling parked cars and motorbikes, crowds of people gathered to watch from balconies and roof tops. Some followed from a distance as the elephant moved through the streets.
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For years, many people considered chicken tikka masala to be Britain’s national dish
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#Goat The famous curry’s reputation was so well established that the European Union even considered granting it protected status, which would place it in the same tier as Champagne, Gruyère cheese and Cornish pasties. Both made and served in one stainless steel bowl, balti is one of Britain’s best-loved dishes – but where it came from remains a bit of a mystery. Read more...
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Pranav Dhanawade, Indian schoolboy, scores record 1,009 runs in one innings
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An Indian schoolboy has made headlines after becoming the first batsman to score 1,000 runs in an innings in an officially recorded match. The 15-year-old Pranav Dhanawade, the son of a Mumbai rickshaw driver, finished his innings on 1,009 not out, with his side, KC Gandhi School, declaring on 1,465 for three. Read more...
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How an Indian doctor built a billion dollar company by making heart surgeries affordable
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Even in a country of 900,000 odd doctors, 62-year-old Devi Prasad Shetty stands out—and how.
In his three decades in the profession, Shetty has conducted more than 15,000 heart surgeries—including India’s first neonatal cardiac surgery in 1992—and held the distinction of serving as Mother Teresa’s personal physician. Shetty has taken India’s stock markets by storm.Narayana Hrudayalaya is valued at a staggering $1.02 billion, with Shetty and his wife stake worth more than $620 million.
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