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India: People & Places
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In an article published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the team of researchers says an analysis of the genetic history of Australian Aborigines and other peoples indicates the contact with Indians took place roughly 4,000 years ago.
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Long before Europeans began settling in Australia, people from India arrived on the continent and interbred with the aboriginal population there, a new study says. The Indians may also have introduced #dingoes to the vast Australian landmass, it suggests.
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India: Business & Economy
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An Indian court has issued a warrant of arrest for Matthias Mueller, the chief executive officer and chairman of Porsche AG, the iconic German carmaker, and eight other executives from the company.
The bailable warrants come as a result of a court case filed by Precision Cars India, a former importer of Porsche cars based in New Delhi.
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela comes from one of the most revered chapters of the ancient Hindu Purana texts, in which demigods fight with demons for possession of a Kumbha (urn) full of Amrita, a special nectar that would replenish the strength of the demigods. The fight lasted 12 days and 12 nights, the equivalent to 12 human years. During the fight, drops of nectar fell from the Kumbha at the four locations. #kumbhmela
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India: History & Culture
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Kumbh Mela 2013 This year’s festival, however, is especially significant as it is a once-in-a-lifetime Maha (Great) Kumbh, which is held after 12 Purna Kumbhs, so every 144 years, and only in Allahabad. #kumbhmela
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India: Food and Restaurants
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B.C. wines head to India -
A Kelowna area wine producer hopes India is the next hot market for B.C. wine.
Karnail Singh Sidhu of Kalala Organic Estate Winery is one of two producers flying about 1,000 bottles of ice wine and Riesling to India this week
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India: History & Culture
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The word Kumbh means an urn, and one of the several myths is the story of an urn filled with the nectar of immortality which emerged from the primeval waters when they were being churned by gods and demons. The urn was snatched by demons but the son of the ruler of heaven, the god Indira, recovered it. Drops from the urn fell at the Sangam and other places in India where Kumbh Melas are held. #kumbhmela
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India today announced that Pakistani citizens aged over 65 would be issued visas on arrival at the Wagah land border crossing from January 15 under a liberalised visa agreement signed by the two countries last year. The visa on arrival facility will not be available at any other border point and Pakistani senior citizens will be issued a 45-day, single-entry visa valid for up to five places.
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India: History & Culture
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Several million people have been bathing at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Allahabad in India, on the opening day of the Kumbh Mela festival.
At least 10 million pilgrims are set to do so by the end of the day.
The event, every 12 years, is billed as the biggest gathering on Earth. More than 100 million people are expected to attend the 55-day festival. #kumbhmela
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India: Business & Economy
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MUMBAI - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India's No.1 software services exporter, posted a 23 percent rise in quarterly profit, joining rival Infosys Ltd in topping market forecasts and adding to expectations for a revival in corporate technology spending. Net profit rose to 35.52 billion rupees ($652 million) for the quarter ended December from 28.87 billion rupees a year earlier.
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India: Business & Economy
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Nokia is the top selling brand in terms of sales of budget phones, with a 22.2% market share followed by Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE 1.24%of South Korea at 13%, according to India’s CyberMedia Research. But in the smartphone category, Nokia has lagged far behind. Samsung dominates the category in India with a 50% market share, ahead of Nokia with 11%, according to research firm Canalys.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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Two persons were on Friday arrested at Bhainsa town of Adilabad district for allegedly posting a hateful statement against a community on networking site facebook, police said.
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India: Business & Economy
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Thatspersonal.com has tied up with several global brands to exclusively sell their adult products in India. Samir Saraiya, CEO was formerly lead (business development) at Microsoft Singapore.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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Jan 10 2013 Air India spokesman K. Swaminathan said the airline’s debut Dreamliner flight to Paris on Thursday went without a hitch.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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In India — where state-owned Air India has taken delivery of six Dreamliner jets and has more on order — a senior official at the aviation regulator said there was concern at the recent spate of Dreamliner glitches. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has not ordered any Dreamliner checks for now, but is waiting for a safety report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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An Indian judge on Thursday sentenced a rapist to 10 years in prison, just eight days after receiving the case.
Judge JS Bhinder in Punjab state imprisoned Pawan Dubey for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old co-worker.
The judge said courts should be "more responsible and sensitive" in cases of sexual assault against women.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Indian animal welfare officials moved this week to block plans to put performing dolphins on display at theme parks and malls across the country, saying it would violate federal laws about cruelty to animals.Animal Welfare Board of India ruled that dolphin shows and exhibits would violate the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. #wildlife
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India: Business & Economy
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - L'Oreal(OREP.PA), the world's biggest cosmetics group, plans to quadruple sales over the next seven years in India, the fastest-growing beauty market in the world.
The company, which opened a research centre in Mumbai on Thursday to develop products specifically for Indian consumers, aims to grow sales to 70 billion rupees by 2020, its chief executive Jean-Paul Agon said.
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India: Business & Economy
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Cisco today appointed Jeff White as President, India & SAARC. White will also take on the role of Leader of a new India Board, which comprises senior executives from Cisco's headquarters as well as India.
Reporting to Jaime Vallés, President of Cisco in Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China, White will partner with Faiyaz Shahpurwala, Senior Vice President to drive innovation and talent.
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India: Business & Economy
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Jan 10 2013 NEW DELHI--India's federal cabinet Thursday approved a government plan to sell a 10% stake in state-run Engineers India Ltd. 532178.BY -4.11%as part of its disinvestment program aimed at boosting revenue that is necessary to reduce a gaping fiscal deficit.
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India: People & Places
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India to display Kallenbach papers about Mahatma Gandhi.
Hundreds of letters, papers and photographs related to Mahatma Gandhi will go on display in India's capital, Delhi, from 30 January.
The archive belonged to Hermann Kallenbach who became a close friend of Gandhi when he lived in South Africa. India paid $1.1m for the archive of papers about Mahatma Gandhi.
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India: Business & Economy
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10 January 2013 - Nokia has launched Lumia 920, its flagship smartphone, in India today.
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India: Miscellaneous
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The Hindu newspaper has reported that a spate of violence between India and Pakistan in Kashmir that allegedly led to the death of three soldiers this week has its roots in the decision of an 70-year-old Indian woman to leave for Pakistan-held Kashmir. Reshma Bi, a native of Churunda, crossed the Line of Control in September to go and live with her sons in Pakistan-held Kashmir.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India's Railway Minister Pawan Bansal has announced the first across-the-board train fare increases in 10 years.
He said the 20% rise would come into effect on 21 January to raise $1.2bn (£747m) for maintenance, cleaning and other improvements on the network.
First class and other fares have risen before but general compartments used by millions of the poor have been spared.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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(Reuters) - Three of the men accused of raping and murdering an Indian student have asked lawyers to defend them and the lawyers have agreed to do so, even though most of the judiciary has refused to represent the suspects because of outrage over the attack.
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India: People & Places
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Nepal's Army Gen Gaurav Shumsher Rana will pay a maiden visit to India from January 6.During his 10-day long trip, he will be conferred with the title of honorary General of the Indian Army by President Pranab Mukherjee.Since 1965, both the armies have been conferring the honorary rank of General on each other's Army chief in view of the close military ties shared by the two countries.
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India: Business & Economy
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The Economic Times newspaper had earlier said Bangalore-based Infosys, India's second-largest software services exporter and an icon in the country's $100 billion outsourcing sector, was sacking up to 5,000 workers to trim costs. Infosys said there was no mass lay-off planned at the company.
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India: Business & Economy
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(Reuters) - India's Infosys Ltd said on Friday a newspaper report it was planning to fire up to 5,000 poorly performing workers was "wrong", although it encourages "chronic underperformers" to leave as part of its routine staff management.
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Taj Mahal has been refusing to accept U.S. dollars
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The #TajMahal, India's famed white marble monument to love, which once charged tourists $15 (U.S.) or 750 rupees, has been refusing to accept U.S. dollars since November.
The move makes visits pricier for American tourists, who now have to shell out nearly $20 (U.S.) #heritagesite
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India's tourism minister said yesterday the greenback will no longer be accepted at the country's heritage tourist sites. For years the U.S. dollar was worth about 50 rupees and tourists visiting most sites in India were charged either $5 (U.S.) or 250 rupees. But with the dollar now hovering at around 39 rupees – that deal has become a losing proposition for the tourism industry. #tourism #heritagesite
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India: Constitution and Laws
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4 Jan 2013 NEW DELHI -- India's top law enforcement official says the nation needs to crack down on crimes against women with "an iron hand" if it is to prevent rapes and other attacks. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde spoke Friday at a conference of state officials from across India that was called to discuss how to protect women in the wake of a fatal gang rape in the capital last month.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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Friday, Jan. 4, 2013
NEW DELHI -- India's top law enforcement official says the nation needs to crack down on crimes against women with "an iron hand" if it is to prevent rapes and other attacks.
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India: History & Culture
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In developing mock modular forms, Ramanujan was decades ahead of his time, Ono said; mathematicians only figured out which branch of math these equations belonged to in 2002.
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India: History & Culture
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Ramanujan believed that 17 new functions he discovered were "mock modular forms" that looked like theta functions when written out as an infinte sum (their coefficients get large in the same way), but weren't super-symmetric. Ramanujan, a devout Hindu, thought these patterns were revealed to him by the goddess Namagiri.
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"We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters. For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years," Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said.
Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.
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India: History & Culture
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While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right. Read more...
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