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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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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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India: Government & Politics
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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: Government & Politics
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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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No country has as many stray dogs as India, and no country suffers as much from them. Free-roaming dogs number in the tens of millions and bite millions of people annually, including vast numbers of children. An estimated 20,000 people die every year from rabies infections — more than a third of the global rabies toll.
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Indian Conglomerate Buys New York’s Plaza Hotel. The storied Plaza Hotel in New York is the latest buy for Lucknow’s Sahara India Pariwar. The hotel owners Elad Properties, a real estate company owned by the Israeli businessman Yitzhak Tshuva, said the Sahara group had agreed to buy a controlling stake in the property for $570 million.
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India's top electricity official says power has been restored across the country after a major system collapse led to the worst blackout in history. An estimated 620 million people were without power after India's northern, eastern and north-eastern grids failed on Tuesday. Electricity workers restored most of the system in the hours after the crash.
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30 July 2012 A massive blackout hit northern and eastern India on Tuesday afternoon, leaving 600 million people without electricity in one of the world’s most widespread power failures.
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A mysterious woman in red has caused an international incident at the London Olympics. Indian officials are mystified after an unknown young woman managed to march with the country's athletes and officials during the opening ceremony Friday night. Indian media identified her as Madhura Nagendra, a graduate student from the southern city of Bangalore who had been living in London.
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30 July 2012 - India grid failure puts 370 million in the dark. Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people — more than the population of the United States and Canada combined — sweltering in the summer heat.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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25 July 2012 - The Supreme Court also announced stiff penalties on Indian states that have not created buffer zones around tiger habitats, said Wasim Kadri, a lawyer with the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
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25 July 2012 - India's supreme court bans tourism in tiger parks. India's top court banned tourism in tiger reserves across the country on Tuesday in a ruling that aims to protect the endangered big cats but may disrupt travel plans for droves of tourists.
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July 22, 2012 - Political Veteran Is Elected as India’s President - Pranab Mukherjee became the 13th elected president of India on Sunday, capping a four-decade career as a central figure in Indian politics.
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India: History & Culture
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India buys Mahatma Gandhi letter archive from Sotheby's - India has bought thousands of documents relating to Mahatma Gandhi in a private transaction ahead of a planned auction, said Sotheby's auctioneers. The government paid £700,000 ($1.1m), Sanjiv Mittal at the Ministry of Culture told Agence France-Presse.
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Assam’s Floods Take Toll on India’s Rhinos - Monsoon floods have killed at least 600 animals in a national park in Assam, including 14 of India’s rare one-horned rhinos. Kaziranga National Park, spread over 332 square miles in northeastern India, is home to two-thirds of the world’s one-horned rhinos and has other 37 mammal species, including tigers, deer, elephants and wild boar #wildlife
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India: People & Places
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The Jarawas are among the world's most ancient people, with many still hunting with bows and arrows and rubbing stones together to make fire. Scientists believe they were among the first people to migrate from Africa to Asia around 70,000 years ago. Jarawas didn't have any contact with government authorities until 1996 and did not begin leaving their habitat until a few years ago
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India's Supreme Court has banned all commercial and tourism activity near an ancient tribe's habitat in the country's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Indian Ocean. The Jarawa are among the world's most ancient people, with many still hunting with bows and arrows and rubbing stones together to make fire.
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Indian Scientist Forgotten in Higgs Boson Drama. Scientists in Switzerland said they had discovered a new particle which is likely crucial to current understanding of how the universe is built. But did people know there’s an Indian angle to all off this? Satyendra Nath Bose, worked with Albert Einstein in the 1920s and made discoveries that led to a kind of particle being named for him.
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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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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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