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India: Travel & Tourism
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The quaint hill station of Horsley Hills in Chittoor district is the perfect refuge for weekend holidayers. Pristine air, panoramic views of the surrounding hillocks and forests, perfect weather and tranquillity. Located near the South Western border of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka with its rich foliage, wildlife and pleasant climate is one of the underrated hill stations in the country.
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India: People & Places
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As India and Pakistan take steps to mend their sometimes fractious relationship, the plight of 40-year-old Mohammad Idrees is a reminder of how animosity between nations can tear people and their families apart. Thirteen years after overstaying his visa in India by just three days, he is still struggling to get back home to his family. Read more...
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India court lets Italian marines go home for Christmas. An Indian court has allowed two Italian marines charged with the murder of two Indian fishermen to go home for Christmas. The court allowed them to leave for two weeks and asked for additional bail of 60m rupees ($1.1m; £676,000).
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India: Miscellaneous
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New Delhi: FC Bescola, the school that taught the likes of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas the basics of football, will kick-start in India in April 2013, it was announced here today. FC Barcelona and Conscient Football will now start their "most ambitious project" as the Catalan club termed it, with a capacity to train a total of 300 kids in the age group of 6-16 years.
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India: Business & Economy
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India lost $123 billion in black money during 2001-2010, Global Financial Integrity said in a report. India’s loss is far less than that of China, which suffered a loss of $ 2.74 trillion during the same period (2001 to 2010), followed by Mexico ($476 billion), Malaysia ($285 billion), Saudi Arabia ($201 billion), Russia ($152 billion), the Philippines ($138 billion) and Nigeria ($129 billion).
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India: Business & Economy
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TIRUPATI: Promoter of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines and UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya made an offering of gold bricks, weighing about three kg, at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara on his 58th birthday today.
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India: Business & Economy
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WASHINGTON: India's holding of US government debt securities has declined for the second consecutive month, even as many other countries including China, Japan, Brazil and Russia hiked their exposure to American treasury bonds. As per the latest data released by the US Department of Treasury, India's holding of treasury securities stood at $58.9 billion at the end of October 2012
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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For all of those who have been copiously trying Psy’s Oppa Gangnam Style! steps,it’s time to learn some Bhangra now. India’s Punajabi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh has clenched the top spot on the list of the most watched videos of 2012 in India. Singh’s video Brown Raang from the album International Villager has become the most popular Indian video on Youtube in 2012 with around 9 Million hits.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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The Indian censor board has passed without any cuts a film based on Sir Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. "India here we come-intact! Great news... Midnight's Children went through Indian Censor board without one picture cut. Salman Rushdie and I thrilled," Mehta wrote on Twitter. The film is due for release in India early next year.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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NEW DELHI: Actual mobile phone users in India are around 26 per cent of the total population, a study by global telecom body GSM Association (GSMA) has said. GSMA Director General Anne Bouverot said that on average, each user has 2 sim cards and in terms of unique number of subscribers, there are about 380 million actual users -- about 26 per cent of the total population.
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India: Business & Economy
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BANGALORE: Infosys today said it has been awarded the number one spot globally for its corporate governance practices by IR Global Rankings (IRGR).
IRGR is the most comprehensive technical ranking system for investor relations websites, corporate governance practices and financial disclosure procedures, according to the Bangalore-headquartered company.
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India: Business & Economy
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Infosys Ltd, India’s second-largest IT services provider on 12 December 2012 announced that its American Depositary Shares (ADS) have started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol INFY.
The company is also in the process of listing its ADS on the Paris and London exchanges of NYSE Euronext.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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According to the latest data, with 174 people on death row, the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of prisoners awaiting death sentence. The southern state of Karnataka with 61 convicts awaiting hanging is the second on the list. At number three is the western state of Maharashtra with 50 convicts while Bihar is at the fourth place with 37 awaiting their death sentences.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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13 December 2012 There are 477 convicts on death row in India, the government says. The information was revealed in the Rajya Sabha [the upper house of the parliament] in response to a question on the number of convicts on death row in Indian jails. Indian courts hand out capital punishment in the "rarest of rare" cases, but it is rarely carried out.
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India: Government & Politics
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Ballots are being cast in key elections in the western Indian state of Gujarat where a prominent Hindu nationalist leader is seeking re-election. The polls are seen as a referendum on the popularity of Narendra Modi, who has ruled since October 2001. Mr Modi has been tipped as a future prime minister, partly because of his record of turning Gujarat into one of India's economic powerhouses.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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The venue was the so-called Leisure Valley, a bare patch of earth in the center of Gurgaon’s business district, a clutch of high-rises housing the Indian offices of international companies like Google and Accenture. A crowd of about 8,000 turned up for the show, made up of office workers in suits and ties, college students in black T-shirts and even entire families.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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The legendary American rock band Guns N’ Roses made the outsourcing boomtown of Gurgaon the last stop on their debut tour of India Wednesday night, a tour 20 years in the making.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Shankar was amused after he and colleague Ustad Ali Akbar Khan were greeted with admiring applause when they opened the Concert for Bangladesh by twanging their sitar and sarod for a minute and a half. "If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more," he told the confused crowd, and then launched into his set.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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In 1971, moved by the plight of millions of refugees fleeing into India to escape the war in Bangladesh, Shankar reached out to Harrison to see what they could do to help. In what Shankar later described as "one of the most moving and intense musical experiences of the century," the pair organized two benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden that included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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While Shankar enjoyed Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas at the festival, he was horrified when Hendrix lit his guitar on fire. "That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God," he said.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury was born April 7, 1920, in the Indian city of Varanasi. At the age of 10, he moved to Paris to join the world famous dance troupe of his brother Uday. Over the next eight years, Shankar travelled with the troupe across Europe, America and Asia, and later credited his early immersion in foreign cultures with making him such an effective ambassador for Indian music.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Though the audience for his music had hugely expanded, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebelliousness of the hippie culture. "I was shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly. They were all stoned. To me, it was a new world," Shankar told Rolling Stone of the Monterey festival.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Shankar's popularity exploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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"My Dad's music touched millions of people," his daughter, musician Norah Jones, said in a statement. "He will be greatly missed by me and music lovers everywhere."
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured at the ongoing River To River 2012 Indian Film Festival in Florence, where he was presented with the keys of the City of Firenze. The 70-year-old actor said he was overwhelmed with the beauty of the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany as well as the honour bestowed on him.
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India: Miscellaneous
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David Cameron called Jacintha Saldanha's death "a complete tragedy" during Prime Minister's Questions. The nurse was found dead on Friday, three days after taking the hoax call from two Australian radio station DJs. She transferred the call to a colleague who gave information about the condition of the pregnant duchess
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Ravi Shankar, a three-time Grammy winner with legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Festival and at Woodstock, had been in fragile health for several years and last Thursday underwent surgery, his family said in a statement.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Ravi Shankar’s career was followed closely in the pages of The New York Times for more than 50 years. The classical Indian musician, who died on Tuesday at age 92, spent much of his adult life outside India, earning generations of fans in the United States and Europe, where he inspired musicians, sparked movements and won adulation.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92.
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India: Miscellaneous
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On November 12, 2012 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia," NASA said releasing a picture of India on Diwali night. India is home to more than 1.2 billion people and has 30 cities with populations over 1 million. (For comparison, China has 62 cities with more than 1 million residents and the United States has 9)
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India: Miscellaneous
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An image that claims to show the region lit for #Diwali has been circulating on social media websites. It does not show what it claims. That image, based on data from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, is a colour-composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time," NASA said. #socialmedia
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India: Food and Restaurants
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December 11, 2012 Mumbai’s vegetarians aim to turn their neighbourhoods into vegetarian enclaves. In a supermarket in Malabar Hill — home to wealthy families, most of whom are staunchly vegetarian — none of these items is available.
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India: People & Places
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DEC 2012 Forbes said Sonia Gandhi the 65-year-old leader of India's ruling political party has the reins of the world's second-most-populous country and tenth-largest economy. "Son Rahul is next in line to take over India's most famous political dynasty," it added. Coming in at the 20th spot is Singh, the Oxford and Cambridge-educated economist, who is the architect of India's economic reforms.
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India: People & Places
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi have been named among the top 20 most powerful persons in the world by Forbes magazine in its annual power rankings, which placed US President Barack Obama as number one for a second year in a row. Gandhi ranks at number 12 this year ahead of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and French President Francois Hollande.
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India: Business & Economy
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10 DEC 2012 Microsoft Corporation India has launched the first of a planned 100 Microsoft Innovation Centers that will impact the technology expertise of some 500,000 Indian students. The program will certify 100,000 students on Microsoft technologies", "The program will also drive innovation and help build a product-based software economy by supporting product development, and over 500 start-ups.
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India: Miscellaneous
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Toronto-born Bhullar brothers aim for new heights in the NBA. Sim, age 19, stands 7-foot-5 and wears size 22 sneakers. Tanveer, 17, is 7-foot-3 and wears size 19s, both have represented Canada on the international stage. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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Former Indian prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral dies after a long illness in a hospital near the capital, Delhi, aged 92. Mr Gujral was admitted to the hospital in Gurgaon on 19 November and was suffering from a lung infection. He became India's 12th prime minister, heading a United Front coalition government in 1997.
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India's Supreme Court has asked the government in western Maharashtra state to explain last week's arrest of two women over a comment on Facebook. Shaheen Dhada was arrested for her comment following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Her friend, Renu Srinivasan, who "liked" the comment, was also arrested. The two were later released on bail. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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30 Nov 2012 London mayor Boris Johnson to go up against India's David Letterman. Boris Johnson will pit his wits against India's equivalent of David Letterman as he appears on one of the country's most famous current affairs programmes. Goswami is one of India's most prominent chat show hosts and has also interviewed Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Gandhi.
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India: Miscellaneous
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27 NOV 2012 - Two senior Indian policemen have been suspended over the arrest of two women for comments made on Facebook following the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Maharashtra state's home minister said the men had disobeyed orders. The judge in the case has also been transferred.
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