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India: Food and Restaurants
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Bakebox by Jennifer Duthie
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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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India: People & Places
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The election of the first non-European pope for over 1,200 years has been welcomed in India by Catholics, leaders of other faiths and political parties.Pope Francis is known for living a simple life devoid of the luxuries as well as for his concern for the poor.Five Indians were among those with a vote, the largest number ever to take part in a Papal Conclave.
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India: People & Places
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India’s Supreme Court barred Italy’s ambassador from leaving the country Thursday and demanded that he explain why his country is refusing to return two Italian marines to stand trial for the killing of two Indian fishermen, a government official said.
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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: Business & Economy
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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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India: People & Places
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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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India: People & Places
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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