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Nidar: India launches 'lightest gun' weighing 250g
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Two years after India launched Nirbheek, a handgun pitched as the country's "first gun for women", a state-run arms factory has launched a similar gun which it says is India's lightest gun.
The new .22-calibre revolver is named Nidar, it weighs a mere 250g (8.8 ounces) - that's half of .32-calibre Nirbheek's 500g (1.1lb); and it costs 35,000 rupees ($513; £357) - Nirbheek came with a steep price tag of 122,360 rupees ($1,990; £1,213).
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China's curious cult of the mango
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Fifty years ago, China was plunged into the most chaotic and traumatic decade of its recent history - the Cultural Revolution. During this period, the nation was gripped by a peculiar hysteria: a mania for mangoes. Benjamin Ramm discovers how the fruit became an object of deep veneration, and a vehicle for the promotion of the cult of Chairman Mao. #Mango 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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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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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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Parrot 'arrested for swearing at 85-year-old woman' in India
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#Wildlife A parrot has been detained by police in India after an elderly woman filed a complaint against it for making abusive comments. The parrot, named as Hariyal, was reportedly trained for two years by its owner, Suresh Sakharkar, to abuse his stepmother, Janabai. Read more...
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Half of India's rivers are polluted, says government report
Number of rivers defined as ‘polluted’ in India has risen from 121 to 275 in the last five years, with increased levels of sewage a primary cause. Read more...
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Read more... The Psychedelic Customized Big Rigs of India The cargo trucks criss-crossing India are brash, psychedelic folk art.
Photographer Dan Eckstein traveled some 10,000 kilometers through the country and trained his camera on this slice of Indian life for his book, Horn Please, to be released in December.
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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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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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#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: 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: Miscellaneous
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April 2014 - A recent Pew survey shows that despite recent troubles, Indians trust and like America. For every Indian expressing an unfavorable view of the U.S., four Indians are favorable. By another four-to-one margin, Indians say the U.S. is the world's leading economic power, not China. By a margin of 21 percentage points, Indians are more favorable to the United States than China. #USIndia
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Italy said two marines on trial for murder in India would return to the country by Friday, in a stunning turnaround after Rome earlier unleashed a diplomatic furore by saying they would not go back.
The two, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, had been granted a special leave last month by an Indian court to return to Italy to vote in elections but had skipped bail.
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A Swiss woman who was touring by bicycle with her husband through the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was gang-raped by a group of eight men, police said Saturday.
Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha.
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India’s cows and buffaloes are producing about a fifth of its greenhouse-gas emissions, and using up to nine times more water than the crops they are raised on. Fed on crop residue rather than green fodder, they produce more gases because of the hard-to-digest foods #dairy
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India’s Home Ministry circulated late last year to Indian missions abroad, stipulating that gay couples, single men and women, nonmarried couples and couples from countries where surrogacy is illegal be prohibited from hiring a commercial surrogate in India.
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India leads day of 'One Billion Rising' for women
— Indians were at the forefront of global protests on Thursday in the One Billion Rising campaign for women's rights, galvanised by the recent fatal gang rape that shocked the country.
Flashmobs, marches, singing and dances were planned in about 200 countries as part of the campaign's day of action.
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CHICAGO - A federal judge imposed a 35-year prison sentence Thursday on David Coleman Headley for his role in plotting the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans, and for a foiled plot in Denmark.
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Cambridge University scientists say they have seen four-stranded DNA at work in human cells for the first time. The "famous molecule of life", is more familiar to us as a double helix. The existence of these structures may be loaded when the cell has a certain genotype or a dysfunctional state," said Prof Shankar Balasubramanian from Cambridge's department of chemistry.
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The recovery of Titanosaurus Indicus, or the Indian Tital reptile, was possible due to a collaborative programme between the Geological Survey of India and the University of Michigan, according to the latest issue of Current Science (Vol. 104, No. 1, Jan. 10, 2013, Pg. No. 34), brought out by the Bangalore-based Indian Academy of Sciences.
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More than a century after it went missing, the fossil of what has been regarded as India's first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal.The missing dinosaur, untraceable for nearly a century, was finally found at the GSI headquarters in Kolkata.
The fossil was originally discovered by WH Sleeman in the Jabalpur area of central India in 1828
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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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The ashes of an Indian woman who died after being gang-raped on a bus in the capital, Delhi, a fortnight ago have been scattered in the river Ganges.
The family, along with hundreds of well-wishers, performed the rituals in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh state.
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President Pranab Mukherjee cancelled all new year celebrations and appealed to the people not to greet him.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India's army and navy canceled New Year's celebrations on Monday out of respect for a New Delhi student whose gang-rape and murder has set off an impassioned debate about what the nation needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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