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India: Arts & Entertainment
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"My Dad's music touched millions of people," his daughter, musician Norah Jones, said in a statement. "He will be greatly missed by me and music lovers everywhere."
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured at the ongoing River To River 2012 Indian Film Festival in Florence, where he was presented with the keys of the City of Firenze. The 70-year-old actor said he was overwhelmed with the beauty of the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany as well as the honour bestowed on him.
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David Cameron called Jacintha Saldanha's death "a complete tragedy" during Prime Minister's Questions. The nurse was found dead on Friday, three days after taking the hoax call from two Australian radio station DJs. She transferred the call to a colleague who gave information about the condition of the pregnant duchess
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Ravi Shankar, a three-time Grammy winner with legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Festival and at Woodstock, had been in fragile health for several years and last Thursday underwent surgery, his family said in a statement.
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Ravi Shankar’s career was followed closely in the pages of The New York Times for more than 50 years. The classical Indian musician, who died on Tuesday at age 92, spent much of his adult life outside India, earning generations of fans in the United States and Europe, where he inspired musicians, sparked movements and won adulation.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92.
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India: Miscellaneous
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On November 12, 2012 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia," NASA said releasing a picture of India on Diwali night. India is home to more than 1.2 billion people and has 30 cities with populations over 1 million. (For comparison, China has 62 cities with more than 1 million residents and the United States has 9)
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An image that claims to show the region lit for #Diwali has been circulating on social media websites. It does not show what it claims. That image, based on data from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, is a colour-composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time," NASA said. #socialmedia
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India: Food and Restaurants
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December 11, 2012 Mumbai’s vegetarians aim to turn their neighbourhoods into vegetarian enclaves. In a supermarket in Malabar Hill — home to wealthy families, most of whom are staunchly vegetarian — none of these items is available.
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India: People & Places
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DEC 2012 Forbes said Sonia Gandhi the 65-year-old leader of India's ruling political party has the reins of the world's second-most-populous country and tenth-largest economy. "Son Rahul is next in line to take over India's most famous political dynasty," it added. Coming in at the 20th spot is Singh, the Oxford and Cambridge-educated economist, who is the architect of India's economic reforms.
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India: People & Places
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi have been named among the top 20 most powerful persons in the world by Forbes magazine in its annual power rankings, which placed US President Barack Obama as number one for a second year in a row. Gandhi ranks at number 12 this year ahead of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and French President Francois Hollande.
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India: Business & Economy
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10 DEC 2012 Microsoft Corporation India has launched the first of a planned 100 Microsoft Innovation Centers that will impact the technology expertise of some 500,000 Indian students. The program will certify 100,000 students on Microsoft technologies", "The program will also drive innovation and help build a product-based software economy by supporting product development, and over 500 start-ups.
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Toronto-born Bhullar brothers aim for new heights in the NBA. Sim, age 19, stands 7-foot-5 and wears size 22 sneakers. Tanveer, 17, is 7-foot-3 and wears size 19s, both have represented Canada on the international stage. Read more...
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Former Indian prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral dies after a long illness in a hospital near the capital, Delhi, aged 92. Mr Gujral was admitted to the hospital in Gurgaon on 19 November and was suffering from a lung infection. He became India's 12th prime minister, heading a United Front coalition government in 1997.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India's Supreme Court has asked the government in western Maharashtra state to explain last week's arrest of two women over a comment on Facebook. Shaheen Dhada was arrested for her comment following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Her friend, Renu Srinivasan, who "liked" the comment, was also arrested. The two were later released on bail. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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30 Nov 2012 London mayor Boris Johnson to go up against India's David Letterman. Boris Johnson will pit his wits against India's equivalent of David Letterman as he appears on one of the country's most famous current affairs programmes. Goswami is one of India's most prominent chat show hosts and has also interviewed Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Gandhi.
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27 NOV 2012 - Two senior Indian policemen have been suspended over the arrest of two women for comments made on Facebook following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Maharashtra state's home minister said the men had disobeyed orders. The judge in the case has also been transferred.
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NOV 2012 New Delhi has retaliated by stamping Chinese passports with a map of its own devising, claiming disputed areas of the India-China border — including the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed territory of Aksai Chin — as its own. The Guardian reports that India and China have tried to resolve the issue of the undemarcated region to no avail, even after 15 rounds of meetings.
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19 November 2012 India arrests over Facebook post criticising Mumbai shutdown. In recent months, Indian police have acted against several people for their posts on Facebook or Twitter Police in India have arrested a woman who criticised on Facebook the shutdown of the city of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray.
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India: History & Culture
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16 November 2012 India "The people of India have an emotional bond with me," Ms Suu Kyi said. "I always knew I would come back here."
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16 November 2012 India Ms Suu Kyi was warmly welcomed by her former teachers, many of whom remembered her as a quiet young girl."She was so dignified and had such sparkling eyes," said Nirmala Khanna who taught her international studies in 1964."I want to be able to say to her how proud of her I am, how she's grown up into a beautiful woman with so much poise."
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has visited the Delhi college from which she graduated with a degree in politics nearly 50 years ago. Old friends, teachers, diplomats and students turned out in large numbers at the Lady Sri Ram College to greet her. As she entered the packed auditorium, where she had performed plays as a young college student, she was greeted with rapturous cheers.
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15 NOV 2012 New Delhi, India - When Burma’s military junta robbed Suu Kyi of her election victory in 1990, her struggle found resonance in the world’s largest democracy, which at the time sheltered many of Burma’s political dissidents.
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November 14, 2012 AP Indian woman in thick of Irish abortion debate. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian living in Galway since 2008 who was 17 weeks along in her pregnancy died in Irish hospital after being denied an abortion. The 31-year-old’s case highlights the bizarre legal limbo in which pregnant women facing severe health problems in predominantly Catholic Ireland can find themselves.
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India: Government & Politics
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It feels very good to be in India, and I am glad that I can still recognise parts of Delhi, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said. Suu Kyi studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School and graduated in political science from Lady Shri Ram College. Suu Kyi and her mother -- Suu Kyi's father was a friend of Nehru - lived in the 1960s on 24 Akbar Road, now headquarters of the Congress party.
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Diwali which lasts several days, is one of the biggest events in the spiritual calendars of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. It celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, although the actual legends that go with the festival are different in different parts of India.
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The long-awaited low cost Aakash 2 tablet from UK firm Datawind has finally been officially launched in India. The Aakash 2, which is commercially available as the UbiSlate 7Ci for Rs 3,500 ($US64), is costing the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) Rs 2,263 ($US43), although government subsidies will put the price charged to students at just Rs 1,130($US24.65).
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India: Business & Economy
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9 November 2012 - The UK is to end financial aid to India by 2015, international development secretary Justine Greening has said.Ms Greening said the move, which will be popular with Tory MPs, reflected India's economic progress and status.Giving his reaction, India's foreign minister Salman Khurshid said: "Aid is the past and trade is the future."
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Fri Nov 2, 2012 MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Playboy club is coming to India -- but with "bunnies" in non-revealing outfits. "The costumes of the bunnies, who are integral to the Playboy culture, will be based on Indian sensibilities and morals," Sanjay Gupta, CEO of PB Lifestyle, which is bringing the brand to India through a licensing agreement, told Reuters.
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India: Government & Politics
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2 November 2012 BBC India anti-Sikh riots: Australia petition to call it genocide. A petition which seeks to recognise the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as "genocide" has been tabled in the Australian parliament. The petition was moved by MP Warren Enstch on Thursday. Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed after the assassination of then PM Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards.
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New Delhi Nov 01, 2012 - Businesses in India recorded losses worth a whopping Rs 6,600 crore last year with a significant portion of these frauds occurring in the financial services sector that includes banking, investments and insurance businessesaccording to Fraud Indicator, a first of its kind report by Consulting firm Ernst & Young.
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October 26, 2012 - The Indian Grand Prix, which is running for the second year this weekend in Greater Noida, outside New Delhi, was one of the Formula One races that it had once seemed would never happen, could never happen — and then not only did it happen, but when it did it wowed the world. Read more...
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NEW YORK: Five Indian companies -- Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, TCS and Sun Pharma have made to a list of the world's 50 most innovative firms, with the engineering giant L&T ranking among the top-ten. The global list, released by US-based business magazine Forbes. HUL (12th), Infosys (19th), Tata Consultancy Services (29th) and Sun Pharma (38th) .
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18 October 2012 BBC Hindi, Lucknow - A mother in northern India chased a leopard into the forest to retrieve her child from the animal's jaws. Read more...
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India: Travel & Tourism
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16 October 2012 BBC - Tiger numbers have shrunk alarmingly in India in recent decades. A 2011 census counted about 1,700 tigers in the wild. A century ago there were estimated to be 100,000 tigers in India. Read more...
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India's Supreme Court has lifted its ban on tourism in "core zones" of more than 40 government-run tiger reserves. The court order came after the National Tiger Conservation Authority announced fresh guidelines to protect the tiger. Under the new rules, no new tourism infrastructure would be created and all permanent structures would be gradually removed from the core tiger habitat.
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17 Oct 2012 BBC - 70 environment ministers from around the world are meeting in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad to discuss biodiversity. On Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged $50m (£30.96m) towards conservation schemes. India has taken over the presidency of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) until 2014.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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17 Oct 2012 Greenpeace activists have dived to the bottom of the Indian Ocean to highlight the need to protect sea waters. The activists dived to a depth of 65ft (19.81m) off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar islands and unfurled a sign with the words "India, Protect Our Oceans Now!"
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October 17, 2012: The average age of an Indian cabinet minister is 65, but the average Indian is only 25. The gap between these two figures is larger in India than in any other country. About 600 million Indians are under 25, and nearly 70 per cent of the country is under 40. By 2030, India will have more people than China.
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