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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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India: Business & Economy
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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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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Business & Economy
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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: Travel & Tourism
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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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India: Travel & Tourism
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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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India: Business & Economy
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Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:45am EDT NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has launched a cheaper, more powerful and fuel-efficient version of its Alto - the world's best-selling small car - as competitors including Hyundai and Tata Motors flex their muscles in the entry-level market.
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India: Doctors, Hospitals, Nursing Homes
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TNN Oct 14, 2012 BANGALORE: On any given day, at least 10 new patients diagnosed with cancer are lining up at HCG to get that deadly tumour out of their system. Intrigued researchers in Harvard tried to figure out how this Central Bangalore hospital has not turned away any poor cancer patient. Its cancer care model is now a case study for the Harvard Business School.
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India's 1.2 billion people estimated to have stored up about 20,000 tonnes of gold in the form of jewellery, coins and bars, according to an estimate from industry body the World Gold Council -- about three times the holdings of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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YEONGAM, South Korea | Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:23am IST
YEONGAM, South Korea (Reuters) - Indian-born Monisha Kaltenborn became Formula One's first female team principal on Thursday after taking the helm at Sauber from founder Peter Sauber with immediate effect.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan turns 70 on Thursday. This is the man who carried the Olympic flame in London; was voted the greatest actor ever by a BBC online poll; was the first Indian actor to become a waxwork at Madame Tussaud's; acted in nearly 200 films; and was once forced to clear immigration in his hotel in Cairo, because his Egyptian fans became overly enthusiastic at the airport.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Authorities in the Indian state of #Kerala have shut down a restaurant of fast-food giant KFC after a customer complained that he had been served a chicken meal containing live worms. KFC said that it was "investigating the incident" but the "likelihood of it happening was almost close to negligible". Authorities say they found worms in the chicken when they inspected the eatery.
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India: Government & Politics
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10 October 2012 India's President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared a new set of protocols by which he will no longer be addressed as "His Excellency" within the country. The president felt this was "something that needs to be reformed" as he is an elected leader in a republic, his press secretary Venu Rajamony told the BBC. Under the new rules, Mr Mukherjee will be referred to as "Mr President".
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A census has begun in India's Uttar Pradesh state to count the number of endangered Ganges river dolphins. The three-day survey will stretch across 2,800km (1,740 miles) of the Ganges and several of its tributaries. Known as Soons in the local language, this dolphin species is among four freshwater dolphins found in the world.
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2 October 2012 Police in London say the stabbing of the Indian general who led the 1984 raid on Sikhism's holiest shrine was attempted murder. Lt-Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar was stabbed in the neck by four men with beards on Sunday night. He is out of hospital.Hundreds died when troops flushed Sikh separatist militants out of the Golden Temple in Amritsar in Punjab state.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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September 28, 2012 Starbucks will open its first outlet in India by the end of October in an upscale neighborhood of Mumbai and has appointed a chief executive to head its India joint venture, the company said Friday. The store will be in Mumbai's Horniman Circle neighborhood, which boasts an Hermes store and a stately neighborhood park. It will feature coffee sourced locally.
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India: Schools, Colleges & Universities
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i want to know how to arrange industrial visit in banglore & want to know who can organise it
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26 September 2012 Outrage over 'horrific' India Assam rhino attack - Kaziranga is home to the largest population of one-horned rhinos. Read more...
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26 September 2012 India Assam rhino attack. Wildlife authorities are appalled about a "shocking attack" on a rare one-horned rhino by suspected poachers in the flood-hit Indian state of Assam. The rhino was wounded when shot and had its horn cut off after it wandered out of Kaziranga national park, which has been inundated by flood waters.
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India Trinamool Congress party resigns from the government. A key regional party has pulled out of India's ruling coalition over its decision to open the retail sector to global supermarket chains. Six ministers belonging to the Trinamool Congress party led by Mamata Banerjee formally resigned from the coalition led by the Congress Party.
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India: Business & Economy
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Reuters Fri Sep 14, 2012 - India's beleaguered government roared back to life in dramatic fashion on Friday, announcing big bang reforms . A day after sharply increasing the price of heavily subsidized diesel, the government said it was opening up its supermarket sector to foreign chains and would allow more foreign investment in airlines and broadcasters.
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BHUBANESWAR/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) Thu Sep 20, 2012 - Schools, businesses and government offices were shut in many parts of India on Thursday as protesters blocked roads and trains as part of a one-day nationwide strike against sweeping economic reforms announced by the government last week.
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India: History & Culture
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30 August 2012 - The Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966. All 117 people on board died.The bag recovered from the glacier has markings saying "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", as the foreign ministry is called in India. Read more...
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India diplomatic bag found in French Alps after 46 years. The bag contained mail from India's foreign ministry.A bag carrying diplomatic mail from India has been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed 46 years ago.
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Classical Indian dancer and choreographer Menaka Thakkar has won the 2012 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.The Canada Council for the Arts announced Toronto-based Thakkar as winner of the $30,000 prize on Tuesday.
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Air India Ltd. is set to take delivery this week of its first 787 Dreamliner jet after a wait of some four years and following a long, public battle between the airline and Boeing Co. (BA) over compensation for the delay. Air India ordered a total of 27 Dreamliner jets in 2005 as part of a $15 billion, 111-plane contract with Boeing and Airbus.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters)- India blocked access to more than 300 Web pages after threatening mobile phone text messages and doctored website images fuelled rumours that Muslims, a large minority in the predominantly Hindu country, were planning revenge attacks for violence in the northeastern state of Assam, where 80 people have been killed and 300,000 have been displaced since July
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NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
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Aug. 22, 2012-- Amazon today launched the India Kindle Store on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com/kindlestoreindia) with the largest selection and lowest prices of any e-bookstore in India. The India Kindle Store offers over one million books, now available for India customers, including 70 of 100 Nielsen Bestsellers.
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India plans to send a spacecraft to Mars next year in a giant leap forward for science and technology in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. Singh said the unmanned spacecraft will enter orbit around the planet and collect scientific information. He announced the 4.5 billion rupee ($82 million) mission during a speech marking the 65th anniversary of India’s independence. #mars
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