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Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing an immigrant from India to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.The district attorney for Queens (NYC) said the suspect, Erika Menendez, 31, who was seen muttering to herself before the attack, had admitted to investigators that she pushed the victim on Thursday because “I hate Hindus and Muslims.”
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Russian aircraft maker MiG has delivered four MiG-29K/KUB ship-borne fighters to the Indian Navy under a contract concluded in 2010, the company said. In March 2010, Russia and India signed a $1.5-billion contract for the supply of 29 additional MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to New Delhi.
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Sonia Gandhi, India’s most powerful female politician and the president of the governing Congress Party, made a rare televised statement that was broadcast on Saturday. “As a woman, and mother, I understand how protesters feel,” she said. “Today we pledge that the victim will get justice,” she said.
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The woman, who has not been identified, has become a symbol for the treatment of women in India. She boarded a bus with a male friend after watching a movie at a mall, and was raped and attacked with an iron rod by the men, who the police later said had been drinking and were on a “joy ride.”
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 NEW DELHI In an unusual televised address, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm following the weekend clashes in New Delhi and vowed to punish the rapists for their "monstrous" crime.
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities throttled movement in the heart of the capital on Monday, shutting roads and railway stations in a bid to restore law and order after police fought pitched battles with protesters enraged by the gang rape of a young woman.
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A year after Russia sought to ban the Bhagavad Gita, the Iskcon Krishna temple in Moscow is facing closure by the Russian government. By January 15, 2013, Iskcon monks said their Moscow temple, the only Hindu temple in Russia, would be demolished by the city authorities.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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NOV 2012 New Delhi has retaliated by stamping Chinese passports with a map of its own devising, claiming disputed areas of the India-China border — including the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed territory of Aksai Chin — as its own. The Guardian reports that India and China have tried to resolve the issue of the undemarcated region to no avail, even after 15 rounds of meetings.
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19 November 2012 India arrests over Facebook post criticising Mumbai shutdown. In recent months, Indian police have acted against several people for their posts on Facebook or Twitter Police in India have arrested a woman who criticised on Facebook the shutdown of the city of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray.
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15 NOV 2012 New Delhi, India - When Burma’s military junta robbed Suu Kyi of her election victory in 1990, her struggle found resonance in the world’s largest democracy, which at the time sheltered many of Burma’s political dissidents.
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November 14, 2012 AP Indian woman in thick of Irish abortion debate. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian living in Galway since 2008 who was 17 weeks along in her pregnancy died in Irish hospital after being denied an abortion. The 31-year-old’s case highlights the bizarre legal limbo in which pregnant women facing severe health problems in predominantly Catholic Ireland can find themselves.
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The long-awaited low cost Aakash 2 tablet from UK firm Datawind has finally been officially launched in India. The Aakash 2, which is commercially available as the UbiSlate 7Ci for Rs 3,500 ($US64), is costing the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) Rs 2,263 ($US43), although government subsidies will put the price charged to students at just Rs 1,130($US24.65).
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October 26, 2012 - The Indian Grand Prix, which is running for the second year this weekend in Greater Noida, outside New Delhi, was one of the Formula One races that it had once seemed would never happen, could never happen — and then not only did it happen, but when it did it wowed the world. Read more...
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18 October 2012 BBC Hindi, Lucknow - A mother in northern India chased a leopard into the forest to retrieve her child from the animal's jaws. Read more...
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October 17, 2012: The average age of an Indian cabinet minister is 65, but the average Indian is only 25. The gap between these two figures is larger in India than in any other country. About 600 million Indians are under 25, and nearly 70 per cent of the country is under 40. By 2030, India will have more people than China.
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India's 1.2 billion people estimated to have stored up about 20,000 tonnes of gold in the form of jewellery, coins and bars, according to an estimate from industry body the World Gold Council -- about three times the holdings of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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YEONGAM, South Korea | Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:23am IST
YEONGAM, South Korea (Reuters) - Indian-born Monisha Kaltenborn became Formula One's first female team principal on Thursday after taking the helm at Sauber from founder Peter Sauber with immediate effect.
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A census has begun in India's Uttar Pradesh state to count the number of endangered Ganges river dolphins. The three-day survey will stretch across 2,800km (1,740 miles) of the Ganges and several of its tributaries. Known as Soons in the local language, this dolphin species is among four freshwater dolphins found in the world.
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26 September 2012 Outrage over 'horrific' India Assam rhino attack - Kaziranga is home to the largest population of one-horned rhinos. Read more...
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26 September 2012 India Assam rhino attack. Wildlife authorities are appalled about a "shocking attack" on a rare one-horned rhino by suspected poachers in the flood-hit Indian state of Assam. The rhino was wounded when shot and had its horn cut off after it wandered out of Kaziranga national park, which has been inundated by flood waters.
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Air India Ltd. is set to take delivery this week of its first 787 Dreamliner jet after a wait of some four years and following a long, public battle between the airline and Boeing Co. (BA) over compensation for the delay. Air India ordered a total of 27 Dreamliner jets in 2005 as part of a $15 billion, 111-plane contract with Boeing and Airbus.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters)- India blocked access to more than 300 Web pages after threatening mobile phone text messages and doctored website images fuelled rumours that Muslims, a large minority in the predominantly Hindu country, were planning revenge attacks for violence in the northeastern state of Assam, where 80 people have been killed and 300,000 have been displaced since July
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NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
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Aug. 22, 2012-- Amazon today launched the India Kindle Store on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com/kindlestoreindia) with the largest selection and lowest prices of any e-bookstore in India. The India Kindle Store offers over one million books, now available for India customers, including 70 of 100 Nielsen Bestsellers.
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India plans to send a spacecraft to Mars next year in a giant leap forward for science and technology in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. Singh said the unmanned spacecraft will enter orbit around the planet and collect scientific information. He announced the 4.5 billion rupee ($82 million) mission during a speech marking the 65th anniversary of India’s independence. #mars
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No country has as many stray dogs as India, and no country suffers as much from them. Free-roaming dogs number in the tens of millions and bite millions of people annually, including vast numbers of children. An estimated 20,000 people die every year from rabies infections — more than a third of the global rabies toll.
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Indian Conglomerate Buys New York’s Plaza Hotel. The storied Plaza Hotel in New York is the latest buy for Lucknow’s Sahara India Pariwar. The hotel owners Elad Properties, a real estate company owned by the Israeli businessman Yitzhak Tshuva, said the Sahara group had agreed to buy a controlling stake in the property for $570 million.
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India's top electricity official says power has been restored across the country after a major system collapse led to the worst blackout in history. An estimated 620 million people were without power after India's northern, eastern and north-eastern grids failed on Tuesday. Electricity workers restored most of the system in the hours after the crash.
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30 July 2012 A massive blackout hit northern and eastern India on Tuesday afternoon, leaving 600 million people without electricity in one of the world’s most widespread power failures.
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A mysterious woman in red has caused an international incident at the London Olympics. Indian officials are mystified after an unknown young woman managed to march with the country's athletes and officials during the opening ceremony Friday night. Indian media identified her as Madhura Nagendra, a graduate student from the southern city of Bangalore who had been living in London.
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30 July 2012 - India grid failure puts 370 million in the dark. Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people — more than the population of the United States and Canada combined — sweltering in the summer heat.
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Indian Scientist Forgotten in Higgs Boson Drama. Scientists in Switzerland said they had discovered a new particle which is likely crucial to current understanding of how the universe is built. But did people know there’s an Indian angle to all off this? Satyendra Nath Bose, worked with Albert Einstein in the 1920s and made discoveries that led to a kind of particle being named for him.
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An ambitious project to ship cheetahs from Africa to reintroduce them to India has been halted by the country's Supreme Court after an expert said the idea was "totally misconceived". a court adviser pointed out while cheetahs may have once been a common sight in India, the African and Asian varieties of the big cat were entirely different in both characteristics and genetics.
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