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An intimate look at India's royal women
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India's royalty lost their official powers when the nation gained independence in 1947, but there is still a great sense of romance and fascination with the men and women who once ruled large tracts of the country. Read more...
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Pranav Dhanawade, Indian schoolboy, scores record 1,009 runs in one innings
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An Indian schoolboy has made headlines after becoming the first batsman to score 1,000 runs in an innings in an officially recorded match. The 15-year-old Pranav Dhanawade, the son of a Mumbai rickshaw driver, finished his innings on 1,009 not out, with his side, KC Gandhi School, declaring on 1,465 for three. Read more...
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Tamil Nadu to appoint India's first transgender police officer
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country's first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that faced one applicant. Read more...
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Best friends with buffaloes: Inside India's Van Gujjar tribe
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The Van Gujjars are among hundreds of nomadic tribes scattered all over India.
Originally from Jammu and Kashmir state, they have spread out across the Himalayas in search of rich forests and meadows for their water buffaloes. Their lives are mainly spent caring for their animals.
Every year, as the snow begins melting in the mountains, this nomadic tribe begins walking up in search of newer pastures. Read more...
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Inside the Creation of What India Says Will Be the World’s Tallest Statue
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A huge new monument set to rise on a rocky island in a river surrounded by jungle in western India. When the planned 590-foot-high tribute is done, it will stand roughly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. The subject of this soaring veneration: the late Indian independence leader Vallabhbhai Patel. Read more...
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How India's writers are fighting intolerance
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#BooksAboutIndia More than 40 Indian writers have returned their literary awards or written letters of protests in an unprecedented challenge against what they call "rising intolerance and growing assault on free speech". Read more...
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Image collection called Broken India shows the sometimes stark realities behind glamorous shots
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An Indian tech company in Singapore called Limitless has now released a collection of images - They have created a series of pictures that show a glamorous Instagram picture, as well as the often less attractive surrounds that are regularly cropped out. Read more...
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Putting Human Faces on India’s Mega Problems
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#BooksAboutIndia Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World Crisis, From The Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, puts a human face on seemingly insurmountable challenges. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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India leads rescue of foreign nationals, including Americans, trapped in Yemen. More so than any other nation, India has taken the lead in the rescue of foreigners trapped in Yemen, evacuating more than 550 foreigners from 32 countries, including a dozen Americans and three Pakistanis. Read more...
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An award known as "the Nobel Prize for water" has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages.
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An award known as "the Nobel Prize for water" has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages.
The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and rivers, and brought back wildlife.
The prize-winner, Rajendra Singh, is dubbed "the Water Man of India". Read more...
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India: People & Places
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More than a decade after he spent his meandering postcollegiate years on the Indian subcontinent studying Sufi mysticism and following a musical guru, the Austrian artist Matthias Kaiser returns today to open a pop-up ceramics shop under a neem tree in Ahmedabad, India. Read more...
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India: People & Places
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On high-profile India visit, Obama says progress made on nuclear sticking point. American President visits world's largest democracy Read more...
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India: People & Places
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Sixty-year-old Kailash Satyarthi today became the fifth Indian citizen to win the Nobel Prize joining Rabindranath Tagore, CV Raman, Mother Teresa and Amartya Sen in the elite club.
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Read more... Indian man pedals bicycle rickshaw from seaside to Himalayan pass
Trek to the roof of the world promotes bicycle rickshaw as an environmentally sound travel option.
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Dalai Lama calls inter-faith meeting in India amid rising tension
Buddhist spiritual leader to convene unprecedented talks in attempt to boost religious harmony in emerging economic power Read more...
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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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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.
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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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Trip to India an opportunity for two men. Nebraskans will be given the opportunity of a lifetime Rotary District 5630 of Nebraska and District 3190 of India have joined forces to send two men to India for a two-week stay. #USIndia #education
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On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring the age-old friction between science and religion. Science and the Indian Tradition: Einstein Met Tagore recounts the historic encounter #Einstein #Tagore
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India: People & Places
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In 2009, Obama marked India's Republic Day by saying Indians "have no better friend" than the people of the United States. Obama won Indian hearts and minds as he chowed down kebabs at the city's famous Bukhara restaurant. The chefs created a special platter that exists to this day -- the Obama platter. (There was already a Bill Clinton platter, as well as a Hillary one.) #obama #bukhara
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Stray puppies from India find shelter in Minn. Heather Bruhn-Worm became attached to the dogs while on a business trip to India and decided to have them transported to the U.S.
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Father Nigel Barrett, a spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Mumbai, told India Real Time that the election of the new pope would encourage Catholics in India to take a more proactive stance on social justice.
India is home to 400 million poor according to the World Bank.
“He seems to be a man of simplicity and poverty and a man who stands up for justice,” Father Barrett said.
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