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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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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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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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India: People & Places
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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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India: Food and Restaurants
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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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India: Arts & Entertainment
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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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India: Constitution and Laws
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February 3, 2013 India's president approved an ordinance strengthening sexual-assault laws Sunday, with death as the maximum punishment in cases of rape.
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Thirty Indian software product companies have come together to form a new association, marking the first break from the omnibus IT industry body Nasscom and reflecting the growing confidence and maturity of the software product community.
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India: People & Places
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Pope Benedict XVI has nominated Cardinal Mar Besalios Cleemis from India in two important panels, including the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, of the Vatican.
Cardinal Cleemis, head of Kerala-based Syro Malankara Catholic Church, was also made a member of the Council for Eastern Congregations .
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India: Schools, Colleges & Universities
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WASHINGTON: Ten Indian-American school students have made it to the 40 finalists of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search for the year 2013.
These 40 students were selected from 300 semifinalists and more than 1,700 entrants to compete in Washington, DC from March 7-13 for $630,000 in awards, with the top winner receiving $100,000 from the Intel Foundation.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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1 Feb 2013: Dense fog over parts of north India today led railways to cancel 10 trains and reschedule two of them.
Fourteen trains are running late due to bad weather, a northern Railway spokesperson said.
A thick blanket of fog in Amritsar, Patiala, Ludhiana, Ambala and New Delhi this morning disrupted normal life in the region.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India's Supreme Court has ordered the police not to arrest leading academic Ashis Nandy for making controversial remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
But the court advised Mr Nandy to be more cautious when speaking.
The sociologist was reported as saying that some of India's most disadvantaged groups were the "most corrupt".
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India: History & Culture
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Before hostilities erupted between Indian and Pakistani troops in the Kargil sector in 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf crossed the Line of Control in a helicopter and spent a night at a location 11 km inside Indian territory, a former aide to the military ruler has said. Col Ashfaq Hussain, who was a senior officer in the Pakistan Army's media arm, said Musharraf flew across the LoC on March 28, 1999.
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India: Hotels & Resorts
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According to Reuters, Trivago, a “travel metasearch website,” compiled hotel reviews from more than 140 accommodation booking sites and found Delhi came 80 in a list of 100 cities that had at least 135 hotels and 60 reviews. It did not include TripAdvisor postings.
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India: Business & Economy
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The iPhone - its five hottest rivals in the Indian market: Nokia Lumia 920, Apple iPhone 5, LG Optimus Vu, Samsung Galaxy Note II and HTC's own One X .
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