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India: Miscellaneous
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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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India: Government & Politics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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