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India sues the Queen for return of 'stolen' £100m Koh-i-Noor diamond
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#Diamond #Jewelry It was once the world's largest-known diamond, is worth a reported £100m and is currently part of Britain's crown jewels. The diamond can only be worn by a woman or a god, according to legend. Read more...
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'Digital India' Initiative Gets Big Boost From Oracle
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#DigitalIndia “Digital India,” a project to modernize and dramatically expand the country’s digital infrastructure. The initiative, which is expected to cost more than US $17 billion over the next three to five years, is intended to increase mobile connectivity and public access to the Internet across the country, including connecting rural areas through high-speed networks. Read more...
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Apple Watch lands in India
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The starting price for the Apple Watch Sport in India is 30,900 rupees ($468) for the 38mm version and 34,900 rupees for the 42mm edition. From there, the price shoots all the way up to 8.2 lakh ($12,400) and as high as 14.2 lakh ($21,480) for the Apple Watch Edition.
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Tamil Nadu to appoint India's first transgender police officer
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country's first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that faced one applicant. Read more...
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Chili pepper shortage dampens the heat of Indian cuisine in USA
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#IndianCuisineUSA A federal ban on certain green chili peppers has sent shockwaves through the Indian restaurant world — with chefs from Curry Hill to Jackson Heights scrambling to find fiery alternatives and customers crying spiceless tears over their weak chicken tikka masala and vindaloo. Read more...
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Earn Interest on Your Family Gold!
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#Gold Deposit Scheme (GDS) is in the nature of a fixed deposit in gold. The customers can deposit their idle gold under GDS which will provide them safety, interest earnings, tax benefits and a lot more. Read more...
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India is counting its butterflies for the first time since Independence
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#Wildlife India finally has its first comprehensive catalogue of butterflies since 1947. Peter Smetacek, a scientist at the Butterfly Research Centre at Bhimtal, spent years putting together a synoptic list of the 1,318 species found across the country. The exercise is not only to document the variety of butterflies in India, but to help save India’s rivers. Read more...
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Konark Temple: stories in stone celebrate miracle of the sun
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For many visitors, this is as good as it gets, but just half an hour away by road is the spectacular #Konark #Temple and this is the real reason I’ve come to Puri. “Here the language of stone surpasses the language of man,” wrote 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Read more...
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F1 visa students may be allowed to work for 6 years in the USA, like H-1B visa holders
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#H1B Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moving forward with proposals to expand the work authorization period for international students on F1 visas once they graduate, known technically as OPT (Optional Practical Training), and make it the same as for H-1B visa workers: a total of six years. Read more...
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India's telecom firms gear up for deals as competition heats ups
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#BuyAMobilePhone India's crowded telecoms sector is preparing for a long-awaited shake-up as highly indebted players jostle for access to costly airwaves and brace for the launch of a deep-pocketed new rival backed by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani. With about 980 million wireless users, India's mobile market trails only that of China. Read more...
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India Bhavan is open at 2611 Holmgren Way, Green Bay, Wisconsin
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#Biryani #IndianCuisineUSA Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays for lunch, and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays for dinner. The mega buffet will be available during lunch hours. The telephone number is (920) 499-1414. The website is: Read more...
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One Man's Plan to Build Singapore in India Sends Land Soaring
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#RealEstateForSale To build a new Singapore, Naidu, 65, turned to the Singaporeans. A master plan was developed in cooperation with the island-state’s government. An initial core area with government buildings should be completed by 2019, said P. Narayana, Andhra Pradesh’s minister of urban development. Land in the area that sold for as little as 1 million rupees per acre last year is now going for as much as 15 times that. Read more...
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E-commerce Resuscitates Moribund India Post, World's Largest Postal System
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#IndiaPost A declining state-owned firm has received a new lease of life on account of India’s e-commerce boom. India Post, the world’s largest postal system with 154,882 post offices staffed by 460,000 employees handling over six billion pieces of mail annually, has begun to flourish after offering deliveries to a host of leading online retailers
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Dysfunction Junction: Railway Puts India on Slow Train to Future
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#IndianRailways The 162-year-old system is Asia's oldest. It is the nation's economic artery, employer of more than 1.3 million people, and the government's most intractable problem. Unclogging its 65,000 kilometers of track is vital to any effort to develop the economy. Read more...
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Steakhouse in New Delhi - Get fine meats and cheeses from France, Italy, Spain, Dutch in New Delhi, India
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#Cheese Over 50 years and #Steakhouse is still providing the best in fine meats, as well as cheeses. Known for stocking French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch cheeses, they also have some finer local cheeses to offer. We suggest you go for their selection from Pondicherry or Sikkim.
Contact: 91 11 2461 1008, 91 11 2461 1129
Prices: Ranging from INR 850 – INR 4800 per kg
Where: 13/8, Jor Bagh Market, Lodi Road H.O.
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India's only town with full public wi-fi
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#OnlineCourses #Education Bhadra is an outlier in the Indian state of Rajasthan, better known for its forts and palaces and wide swathes of desert. The facility is a success among the students, who no longer have to rush to the main town of Hanumangarh, 160km (100 miles) away, for online lessons, job applications and alerts. The number of training centres for job tests has gone up in Bhadra after wi-fi arrived here in July. Read more...
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Best friends with buffaloes: Inside India's Van Gujjar tribe
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The Van Gujjars are among hundreds of nomadic tribes scattered all over India.
Originally from Jammu and Kashmir state, they have spread out across the Himalayas in search of rich forests and meadows for their water buffaloes. Their lives are mainly spent caring for their animals.
Every year, as the snow begins melting in the mountains, this nomadic tribe begins walking up in search of newer pastures. Read more...
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India's Mysterious Glowing Forests
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#Wildlife During monsoon season, the rain-drenched jungles of the Western Ghats can give off an eerie glow, allowing a rare glimpse into one of nature’s spectacular eccentricities. Read more...
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Travel on First or Business Class between Delhi and San Francisco and get Domestic Executive Class ticket FREE.
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#FlightsToIndia Any passenger, who travels on Air India’s non-stop flight AI 173 & AI 174 between Delhi and San Francisco either One Way (OW) or Return Trip (RT) in First or Business Class, between 2nd December 2015 and 31st January 2016, will be entitled for one Executive class One Way (1 Flight Coupon) or one Return Ticket (2 flight coupons) on Air India’s domestic network respectively. Read more...
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Inside the Creation of What India Says Will Be the World’s Tallest Statue
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A huge new monument set to rise on a rocky island in a river surrounded by jungle in western India. When the planned 590-foot-high tribute is done, it will stand roughly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. The subject of this soaring veneration: the late Indian independence leader Vallabhbhai Patel. Read more...
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Looking for Burglar Resistant glass for your windows?
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“Impact Safety Glass Works Pvt. Ltd.” are the largest organization involved in manufacturing and supplying of architectural and automotive glasses. These comprise Toughened Glass Manufacturers , Tempered Glass Manufaturers, Atul Temp Glass, Ceramic Printed Glass, Solaire Glass, Solaire Lite Glass, Double Glazing Glass, Solaire Low E DG Glass, Noise Reduction Glass, Building Integrated Photovoltaic Glass... Read more...
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How India's writers are fighting intolerance
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#BooksAboutIndia More than 40 Indian writers have returned their literary awards or written letters of protests in an unprecedented challenge against what they call "rising intolerance and growing assault on free speech". Read more...
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India pharmacies strike to protest online drug sales
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At least 800,000 pharmacies in India are on a one-day strike, demanding an end to online drug sales which they say is affecting their business.
The pharmacies say that online drug retailers are putting customers at risk by failing to follow existing rules.
The government says it is in the process of drawing up guidelines to regulate online drug sales
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Indian firm uses cow urine in its cosmetics
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When you buy product to put on your skin, do you take a close look at what's in it?
In the latest in a series of films looking at businesses based on religion, India Business Report visited a farm in Delhi where one firm is using unusual ingredients in its line of cosmetics and other household items. Read more...
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Jet Airways offers up to 30 per cent discount on international flights
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#FlightsToIndia Select destinations under the offer include Abu Dhabi, Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Basra, Beirut, Belgrade, Cairo, Casablanca, Dallas, Fort Worth, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Larnaca, Los Angeles, CA, Madrid, Manchester, Manchester, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nairobi, New York, Rome, San Francisco, Sydney, Washington DC, Dulles and Zurich. Read more...
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indian accent showcases indian food for the 21st century with a path-breaking contemporary menu
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#DiningOutInDelhi awarded the san pellegrino best restaurant in india award by asia's 50 best restaurants 2015 and the best restaurant in india by tripadvisor. indian accent is located at the manor hotel, a luxurious boutique hotel in the heart of delhi. open 7 days a week
lunch: 12:00noon – 2:30pm
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second seating: starts at 9:45pm
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World Toilet College Set To Open In India
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#Architecture #HomeDesign In a country where people are more likely to have access to a cellphone than to a toilet, one man plans to spark a sanitary revolution in India with the first World Toilet College looking set to start teaching classes soon. Read more...
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Image collection called Broken India shows the sometimes stark realities behind glamorous shots
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An Indian tech company in Singapore called Limitless has now released a collection of images - They have created a series of pictures that show a glamorous Instagram picture, as well as the often less attractive surrounds that are regularly cropped out. Read more...
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Disney brings Broadway musical to India
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At the end of October Disney is bringing one of its most famous Broadway shows to Mumbai and Delhi.
The BBC's Yogita Limaye went along to rehearsals to find out more for India Business Report. Read more...
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In pictures: Coffee houses of India
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Stuart Freedman's journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafes which can be found in cities throughout the country. Read more...
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Thirsty India leopard gets head stuck in pot
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#Wildlife #Rajasthan A male leopard spent five hours with its head stuck in a metal pot. Local people told reporters that the animal appeared to have been foraging for water, and then got its head stuck inside the vessel. The confused and frightened animal wandered around the village as residents took pictures and videos. Wildlife officials eventually tranquilised the leopard and used a saw to remove the pot from its head. Read more...
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Meet India's home-grown IKEA
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#Ikea Customers can choose from hundreds of design ideas on Livspace, based on color preferences, style, and the price range. They can purchase the relevant furniture and accessories directly from the company and have someone from Livspace come in to finish the installation. Livspace operates in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Read more...
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First time an Indian vehicle has been used to place US satellites in orbit
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#Astronomy #Telescopes India has launched its first dedicated space laboratory Astrosat from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The multi-wavelength observatory has a five-year lifespan and will "study celestial objects" 650km (404 miles) above earth. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said Astrosat was carrying four X-ray payloads, a UV telescope and charge particle monitor.
Astrosat is Isro's biggest project since its Mars orbiter mission in 2014. Read more...
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