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India: Climate & Weather
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Nagpur recorded the season's highest temperature so far at 46.7 degrees Celsius, which was 0.3 degrees more than Thursday. This temperature is 5 degrees above normal.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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April 2013 #Goa government has banned drinking liquor on beaches in a bid to curb littering and nuisance caused to women tourists.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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The National #Gallery of Modern #Art (NGMA) in Mumbai will display, from Friday, the internationally acclaimed exhibition "The Last Harvest" featuring paintings of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, an official said.
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India: Business & Economy
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The Indian supreme court has refused to allow one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies to renew its patent on an important cancer drug, in a decision that campaigners hail as a vital step forward for access to medicines for the poor in the developing world. Read more...
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India: Business & Economy
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According to data compiled by the animal husbandry departments of all states, meat from registered slaughterhouses increased from 5.57 lakh tonnes in 2008 to 8.05 lakh tonnes in 2011. Export earnings from bovine (beef and cattle) meat expected to touch Rs 18,000 crore in 2012-2013. India became the world's top exporter of beef in 2012.
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India Business & Economy
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Indian IT leader Tata Consultancy Services has announced that it has been ranked as number one top employer in Europe for 2013, by CRF Institute. Founded in 1991, the CRF Institute is an independent organisation that identifies top performers in the field of human resources worldwide.
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India Arts & Entertainment
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Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, will perform at the Times of India Film Awards in Vancouver, Canada next month.
The film superstars will take the stage on April 6 at the grand celebration and awards gala at BC Place Stadium.
It will be the first international performance for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan since she had her first child a year and a half ago.
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India Business & Economy
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Ford India is making apologies for three advertisements that never ran, one of which showed former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the front seat of a Ford Figo with three bound women in the trunk.
While the ads weren’t actually used, they were displayed over the weekend on a website meant to showcase creative advertising, The Associated Press reported Monday.
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India: Miscellaneous
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Italy said two marines on trial for murder in India would return to the country by Friday, in a stunning turnaround after Rome earlier unleashed a diplomatic furore by saying they would not go back.
The two, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, had been granted a special leave last month by an Indian court to return to Italy to vote in elections but had skipped bail.
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India: Business & Economy
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NEARLY three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water.
Founded in 2008, Sarvajal — which in Sanskrit means “water for all”—now sells clean drinking water to more than 70,000 people in rural India. In bigger villages, it employs local people to man filtration plants and sell water.
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India: Business & Economy
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Wind energy is an area in which India has thrived, with close to 20 gigawatts of installed capacity. An Indian company, Suzlon Energy, is the world's fifth-largest wind turbine supplier. Another success story is to be found in smart meters, where Secure Meters has beaten the likes of General Electric to sell hundreds of thousands of smart meters to western markets.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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In a travel briefing issued in response to the alleged rape of the Swiss woman, the global risk consultancy firm Control Risks said that "although the incident is serious, violent crime against foreigners remains relatively rare in India," reports the Wall Street Journal.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Gourmet Jar by Apeksha Jain
Where: Read more...'> Read more...'> Read more..., 09560077622
Price: From 200 rupees (about $4) for a 250-gram jar to 450 rupees ( $8 ) for 350 grams of cashew nuts
Delivery: Takes two to three days. For Noida and Delhi, charge of 100 rupees (about $2)
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Le Petite Pantry by Priya Halasyam and Anu Ram
Where: Read more...'> Read more...'> Read more..., 09650979093
Price: Starting at 250 rupees (about $5)
Delivery: 24 hours to 48 hours in Delhi and Gurgaon; no minimum purchase. Delivery areas and hours will vary, depending on the vendor
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Bakebox by Jennifer Duthie
Where: Read more...'> Read more...'> Read more..., 9711024429, contact@bakebox.in
Price: 850 rupees (about $15) for a box
Delivery: Every two weeks
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India: Business & Economy
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India cabinet approves food security bill.
The Indian cabinet has approved an ambitious plan to subsidise food for two-thirds of the population.
The Food Security Bill proposes to make food a legal right and seeks to provide 5kg of grain every month to some 800 million poor people.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Still, despite boasting the world's largest whiskey market, Indians are overall among the world's lowest consumers of alcohol. Only 30 percent of men and 3 percent of women have at least one drink a year, according to the India Centre for Alcohol Studies, a government research body.
By comparison, 60 percent of women in the United States drink at least once a year, according to another study.
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India: Miscellaneous
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A Swiss woman who was touring by bicycle with her husband through the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was gang-raped by a group of eight men, police said Saturday.
Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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Should India lower the age of consent?
India's government has reportedly cleared lowering the age of consent for sex to 16 years.
This comes after after increasing it to 18 in a tough anti-rape ordinance following the outrage after the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi last December.
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India: Housing, Lodging & Rentals
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With a rate of Rs 57,000 per sq ft, Mumbai is the 16th most expensive city globally in terms of owning a prime residential property, real estate consultancy Knight Frank has said in a report.
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India: Government & Politics
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Angered by Italy reneging on its commitment to send back its two naval guards, India is downgrading its diplomatic ties with it which means there will be no ambassador-level representation between the two countries.
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India: People & Places
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Father Nigel Barrett, a spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Mumbai, told India Real Time that the election of the new pope would encourage Catholics in India to take a more proactive stance on social justice.
India is home to 400 million poor according to the World Bank.
“He seems to be a man of simplicity and poverty and a man who stands up for justice,” Father Barrett said.
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