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India: Business & Economy
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Coca-Cola Co. says it will invest an additional $3 billion in India through 2020 as it looks to capitalize on the growing market.
The world’s biggest beverage maker, whose brands include Minute Maid and its namesake, has seen some of its biggest gains come from emerging markets like China and India.
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India has unveiled a new version of what it says is the "world's cheapest tablet computer" - the Aakash 2. The device, primarily for students, is to be sold for 2,263 rupees ($40; £26). It has a faster processor, longer battery life and more programming capability than an earlier version.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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NEW DELHI—Dunkin' Donuts officially launched in India on Tuesday in a bid to tap the country's growing café culture, a move that is set to pave the way for competition in the Indian market with Starbucks Corp. The Indian unit of the U.S. food retail chain opened a flagship store in the heart of New Delhi at Connaught Place.
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The French capital has been named as the most expensive city in the world for a Club Sandwich, according to Hotels.com, which calculated the average price across 30 hotels in each of 26 major cities around the world. The cheapest of the 26 cities in the so-called Club Sandwich Index (CSI) is New Delhi, where the average Club costs £5.91.
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India: Miscellaneous
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An ambitious project to ship cheetahs from Africa to reintroduce them to India has been halted by the country's Supreme Court after an expert said the idea was "totally misconceived". a court adviser pointed out while cheetahs may have once been a common sight in India, the African and Asian varieties of the big cat were entirely different in both characteristics and genetics.
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9 MAY 2012 - India has one of the world’s largest industries for breaking down old ships and oil tankers centred around Alang, and workers in the coastal town are expected to process the ship to salvage scraps of metal and parts that retain value.
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The Exxon Valdez was bought recently by the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of an Indian shipbreaking firm and was being taken to the coastal town of Alang, the hub of India’s shipbreaking industry, for dismantling. After the court’s order, Gujarat maritime authorities and pollution control authorities withdrew the permission they had granted to the company to anchor the ship near Alang beach.
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NEW DELHI—India’s Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated. The ship, now known as the “Oriental Nicety,” entered Indian waters last week and was headed for the western Indian state of Gujarat, when the Supreme Court gave its order.
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India: History & Culture
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Buddhist manuscript Lotus Sutra to be released.The document was studied by Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein who announced the important find to the world.
The ancient manuscripts managed to survive for centuries because they were written on the bark of birch tree which does not decay and the freezing sub-zero temperatures of the Gilgit region.
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Rare Buddhist manuscript Lotus Sutra to be released. A rare Buddhist manuscript, discovered by cattle grazers in 1931, is set to be released in a book form in India on Thursday. The Lotus Sutra was found in Gilgit, Kashmir. The manuscripts were discovered in a wooden box in a circular chamber inside a Buddhist stupa by cattle grazers who brought the box to the Wazir of Gilgit.
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Four of the world's major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here. Judaism arrived in the 6th century B.C.E. Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE
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India: Miscellaneous
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Barefoot lawyers bring food security to India's tribes. In the scheme, which is likely to be rolled out nationally, young people often armed with only a secondary-level education are drawn from mud-and-brick villages and trained as paralegals, then sent out to help people to understand their rights and secure title, or "patta", to their land.
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India: People & Places
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April 27, 2012 - Visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was yesterday conferred an honorary degree of doctor of letters at Jamia Millia Islamia here and told his audience that "when I am in India, I am at home". He began his professional career in India, his son was born in India, daughter is married to an Indian and his grandson is named Jai (an Indian name).
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India: History & Culture
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Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur, has the second largest pre-modern dome in the world after the Byzantine Hagia Sophia
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India: Communication & Transportation
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First Intel-powered smartphone to be launched in India The phone will run Google's mobile operating system, Android
Intel has confirmed details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors.
The OLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees (£265).
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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has unveiled a cheaply priced phone it hopes will attract users in India's thriving telecom market.
The BlackBerry Curve 9220 smartphone's appeal rests heavily on its use as social media device, rather than on the security and email features that have attracted more business-minded customers in the past. #socialmedia #blackberry
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In India, more people have access to cellphones than toilets, according to a 2010 report from the United Nations University.
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India: History & Culture
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A Hindu trust in India's eastern state of Bihar has begun building a replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple.
A foundation-laying ceremony for the $20m (£12.5m) project has been held 25km (16 miles) from Bihar's capital Patna, on the banks of the Ganges.
The builders say the result will be the world's largest Hindu templ
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India: Travel & Tourism
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WWF-India says it is the second photo sighting of endangered snow leopards in Kargil, after one was photographed hunting a herd of Asiatic Ibex in 2009. The recent sighting has encouraged environmentalists as it suggests the big cats were not scared away from the Kargil mountains by the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict. #wildlife #snowleopard
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World Wildlife Fund-India filmed the adult snow leopards in Kargil district
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A pair of rare, reclusive snow leopards have been photographed wandering a remote, mountain region once ravaged by conflict between India and Pakistan.
Infrared camera traps set up months ago by World Wildlife Fund-India filmed the adult snow leopards in Kargil district just a few kilometres from the heavily militarized Line of Control that runs through the disputed territory of Kashmir.
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India's retail trade is currently worth about $450 billion annually, the seventh largest in the world. More than 90 percent of the market is currently serviced by small, independent shopkeepers, and India has one of the highest shop densities in the world, with about one shop for every 10 people.
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India: History & Culture
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In 1967 Mr Singh died. Svetlana saw to it that he was cremated according to Hindu rites and then decided to bring his ashes to India to consign them to the Ganges river, held sacred by Hindus. Enough evidence emerged later to show that Alexi Kosygin, then prime minister, had personally told her that she was taking a grave risk as orthodox Hindus sometimes burned the widow along with her husband.
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The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has died in the US, aged 85. In 1967 she travelled to India to scatter the ashes of her Indian Communist lover in the river Ganges. During that visit she defected to the US causing a political sensation.
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Goldman Sachs, the institution which coined the acronym BRICs to define Brazil, Russia, India and China as a formidable economic grouping, says that by 2050 the bloc (BRICS now includes South Africa) will overtake the GDP of all developed economies including Japan.
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In the past 15 years, India's trade with the US and Japan has been almost stagnant, but that with China has almost doubled every four years and is expected to touch $100bn by 2013.
In the next five years India has to produce 1,000,000 megawatt of power, and 20% of all power equipment is being bought from China.
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India has already started producing more additional GDP than Germany, and China is contributing more to the world economy incrementally than even the United States.
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India: History & Culture
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Uttar Pradesh: Hotels, banquet halls, bands and caterers are fully booked for Nov. 26-29 because they are auspicious days for marriage (Amarujala).
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Maharashtra: The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has sanctioned 2 billion rupees — about $38.3 million — for a new international airport in Pune (Daily News & Analysis). The Chakan International Airport, as it will be called, will be situated on a 1,730-acre site and linked to an international exhibition center at Moshi by a metro rail line.
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India: History & Culture
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Neither the state of Kerala nor the descendants of the Travancore royal family have made any claim on the treasure more than £12bn ($20bn), which they say is the property of the 16th Century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and its deity. Security has since been stepped up at the temple, which is now one of the richest in the world.
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The India Supreme Court ordered an inspection of the 16th Century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple vaults and when inspectors broke through, they found huge amounts of treasure including diamonds, jewellery, pots and gold coins.
Local legend had long held that vast riches had been interred in the walls and vaults of the temple by the Maharajahs of Travancore over many years.
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The man who led a legal battle which led to the recent discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars in an Indian temple has died at the age of 70.
TP Sundara Rajan, a retired police officer, petitioned for the vaults of the 16th Century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in #Kerala to be opened.
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An eight-day excursion on Indian Railways (www.irctc.co.in) that includes historic Buddhist places in northern India, before ending at the Taj Mahal
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One luxury train is the Mahaparinirvana Express, an eight-day excursion on Indian Railways (www.irctc.co.in) that includes historic Buddhist places in northern India, before ending at the #TajMahal. Starting from New Delhi, includes air-conditioned sleeper cars, meals, hotels and English-speaking guides. Tickets range from $665 a person for a three-tier sleeper to about $1,050 for first class. #tajmahal #IndianRailways
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India: Housing, Lodging & Rentals
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In Sarnath, the Shangri-la Tibetan Restaurant (Dharmapala Road; 91-988-992-8289) serves great thukpa, as well.
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In Bodhgaya, the Tibetan Market, near the Kalachakra Grounds, has Buddhist-themed food tents serving Tibetan dishes like momos (meat or vegetable dumplings) and other Tibetan specialties. American-style breakfasts are available at the Aahar Restaurant in the Embassy Hotel (Dumhan Road; 91-631-220-07711), opposite the Thai Temple.
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In Kushinagar, the Yama Cafe (91-995-611-2749), on Mahaparinirvana Path near the Chinese Temple, is a mandatory stop for ample dishes and a scrumptious thukpa, a Tibetan noodle soup; just don’t look in the kitchen.
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King Ashoka planted a pilar in Sarnath — he left around 84,000 Buddhist pillars and stupas throughout his kingdom — depicting four snarling lions, standing back-to-back with veins popping from their legs, protecting the dharma, or Buddhist teachings. The lions are now the national emblem of India; the dharmachakra wheel on the capital base is the symbol in the middle of India’s flag.
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After his enlightenment in Bodhgaya, the newly minted Buddha walked 160 miles west to a deer reserve now called Sarnath outside Varanasi to deliver his famous teaching on the Four Noble Truths.
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