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India: Miscellaneous
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In India, rice replaces ice in bucket challenge Read more... #RiceBucketChallenge
The famous "ice bucket" challenge is inspiring thousands of Indians to follow suit, but with a twist - they are replacing ice with rice in a bid to help the country's vast population of poor, hungry people.
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India: Communication & Transportation
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Flights in India Are the Cheapest in the World Read more... In India it costs $10.20 on average to travel 100 kilometers. That?s half the cost of flying in China and less than one thirteenth the cost of flying in the most expensive country, Finland, where it costs $136.83 to fly the same distance. #flightstoindia
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India: Business & Economy
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India's Narendra Modi to launch bank accounts for all Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor.
Nearly 40% of Indians have little access to financial services and are often at the mercy of moneylenders who charge extortionate interest. Read more...
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Read more... The Ambassador: A tribute to India's iconic car27 August 2014 Last updated at 00:53 BST
May this year marked the end of the line of one of India's most loved cars, the Ambassador.
Production of the car that was once omnipresent on Indian streets has stopped following falling demand.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India Slaps 14 Carmakers With $420 Million Antitrust Fine
India’s antitrust regulator fined 14 carmakers, including the local units of Honda Motor Co. (7267) and General Motors Co. (GM), a combined 25.4 billion rupees ($420 million) for stifling competition in the market for spare parts as the industry faces similar scrutiny in China.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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National carrier Air India will celebrate tomorrow its merger with erstwhile Indian Airlines as ‘Air India Day’, offering discounted tickets for Rs 100 for a limited period.
The sale of these tickets would be made only through the airline’s website for five days from August 27 to 31 for travel during the period August 27 to September 30 only #flightstoindia
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Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have outlined plans to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol to tackle the state's drink problem.
The first phase of the ban would see more than 700 bars and as well as some shops selling alcohol shut down, with more alcohol-free days introduced.
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India: People & Places
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Read more... Gujarati women excel as breeders of camels and buffaloes
Herder Meera Bhen, from the Kutch region, is making history throughout India, as her idea of marketing camels' milk takes off
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Travertino - the award winning Italian restaurant at The Oberoi, New Delhi.
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#DiningOutInDelhi Enjoy a lunch break at Travertino - the award winning Italian restaurant at The Oberoi, New Delhi.
You can enjoy the two course menu at a delightful price of Rs. 1,250 or have three courses for Rs. 1,500 per person, from the fixed lunch menu. #italianfood Read more...
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India: Food and Restaurants
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#DiningOutInDelhi THE SPICE ROUTE – South-East Asian Restaurant & Courtyard #spicyfood
Heralded as one of the top ten restaurants in the world by Condé Nast Traveler. The Spice Route reflects the journey of spices from the Malabar Coast in Kerala through Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia to Thailand and Vietnam. Read more...
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India: Government & Politics
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Mr Narendra Modi won 282 seats in the Lok Sabha parliament – a clear majority of ten – to become the first leader to win a single party majority in 30 years. His party’s wider National Democratic Alliance took a total of 337 in a sweep which wiped out the Congress Party in some of India’s largest states and left it with just 44 seats, 162 fewer than in 2009.
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India: Schools, Colleges & Universities
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The prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati has taken India into
the world's top 100 university rankings for the first time with an entry at No.
87.
IIT Guwahati
is the only Indian educational institute in the 2014 league table of '100 Under
50' institutions released by the 'Times Higher Education' (THE) magazine here
today. #education
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India's elections are the biggest democratic exercise in history. With 815 million people registered to vote, the world's largest democracy will likely have more ballots cast this year than were tallied in the last six U.S. presidential elections combined, according to the BBC. #indiaelections
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India: People & Places
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Environment prize goes to Indian activist who battled coal mine plan
The Goldman Environmental Prize for Ramesh Agrawal, who was attacked by gunmen, highlights the risks campaigners face.
Read more...: latimes/mostviewed (L.A. Times - Most Viewed Storie
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India: Miscellaneous
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#wildlife 22 April 2014 Last updated at 12:58 BST
A leopard caused panic in the city of Chandrapur, in Maharashtra, on Monday when it sprung from the roof of a house and charged at rescue workers.
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India: People & Places
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#wildlife Mark Shand, 62, was a British travel writer and auctioneer. As a BBC conservationist, he authored a book based on the life of the first female mahout, an elephant handler, in recent times — Parbati Barua of Kaziranga. The book went on to win the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Prix Litteraire d'Amis.
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India: Miscellaneous
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The 15 Indian species on the EDGE list are Bengal Florican, Forest Owlet, Red-headed Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Jerdon's Courser, Lesser Florican, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Sociable Lapwing, Siberian Crane, Great Indian Bustard, Greater Adjutant, White-bellied Heron, Wood Snipe, Masked Finfoot and Christmas Island Frigatebird. #edge #wildlife
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A recent study by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University has identified 100 evolutionary distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) bird species from around the world, of which 15 are from India. #edge #wildlife
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India: Constitution and Laws
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India's Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling. "It is the right of every human being to choose their gender," it said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female. According to one estimate, India has about two million transgender people. #transgender
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