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Delhi braces for protests ahead of torch relay

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform
MSNBC -- In Beijing, the Chinese government said it was pleased with India's security preparations. "I think the Indian government will take effective measures to ensure the smooth and safe relay in New Delhi this evening," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesw.. Read More
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Indian building collapse kills 20, some trapped

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 3:13am neoform
CNN -- At least 20 people were crushed to death and several more trapped when an old building collapsed in India's financial capital, police said on Thursday, as rescuers used bulldozers and even bare hands to clear the debris. The seven-storey building in a cro.. Read More
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India court orders Gere's arrest

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform
CNN -- An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public. Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks.. Read More
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Train Crash in India Kills 11

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 9:15am neoform
FOX News -- A passenger train crashed into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring another 12 in the vehicle, police said. Seven of the injured were hospitalized in serious.. Read More
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Twin jet scare at Delhi airport

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform
Al Jazeera -- The passengers disembarked safely on to the runway, but as the aircraft was being towed away its front wheel collapsed, leaving its tail jutting out upwards on to the runway. Technical failure The second emergency landing was of an Air India Boe.. Read More
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Police hunt launched after uranium stolen in India

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 8:43pm neoform
Yahoo News -- A container packed with radioactive material has been stolen from a fortified research facility in eastern India, prompting a major hunt and fears of contamination, officials said... Read More
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Angelina Jolie causes stir on packed Indian train

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 6:33pm neoform
Reuters -- Hollywood star Angelina Jolie caught passengers of a packed commuter train unawares in India's financial hub of Mumbai on Monday where she shot for a film on a slain American reporter... Read More
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Another airliner passenger shows signs of TB

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform
SF Gate -- A Sunnyvale woman diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis who traveled from India to the Bay Area in December may have infected another passenger on her flight, health officials said this week. The passenger on the woman's Dec. 13 flight.. Read More
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Dhaka-Calcutta train link resumes

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform
BBC News -- The passenger train service between Calcutta in India and the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, has resumed after an interval of more than 40 years. Trains travelled in both directions on Monday - the first service since the 1965 war between India and Paki.. Read More
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Indian prisoner comes home

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform
BBC News -- An Indian man released from a Pakistani prison after spending 35 years on death row has been reunited with his family in India. Kashmir Singh, sentenced to death for spying in 1973, was released on Monday. He was discovered by Ansar Burney, a social.. Read More
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Brother of kidney-snatching 'mastermind' arrested

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform
CNN -- The brother of a man accused of being the mastermind in a kidney-transplant scheme has been arrested by India's elite police force. India's Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Jeevan Rawat, who is being accused of assisting his brother Amit Kumar in.. Read More
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Malaysia bans Indian recruitment

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform
BBC News -- Malaysia has suspended the recruitment of workers from India amid rising domestic tensions. A government official said the decision might be linked to the actions of a group that led protests complaining of discrimination against ethnic Indians. But.. Read More
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60 years on, people uprooted by birth of India, Pakistan live in camps

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform
SF Gate -- For seven days, Balwant Kaur trekked through hilly terrain cradling her newborn son in her arms while gently chastising her 5-year-old boy to keep quiet as they fled the violence that marked the partition of India 60 years ago this month. "I was fright.. Read More
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India celebrates 60th anniversary

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:58pm neoform
Al Jazeera -- We have moved forward in the many battles against poverty, ignorance and disease. But can we say we have won the war?" Sharpshooters were positioned on nearby buildings as Singh spoke, while troops and armed police guarded roads and key buildings acros.. Read More
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India marks independence day

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform
BBC News -- Indians are celebrating 60 years of independence from Britain. Delhi's Red Fort echoed to the sound of cannon as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised India's flag, where the British flag was lowered forever in 1947. He praised the work of those who.. Read More
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India marks 60th anniversary

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 12:41am neoform
CNN -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking on the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule, said the country needed to work harder to fight poverty, ignorance and disease, despite fast economic growth. "India cannot become a nation with isla.. Read More
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South Asia flood death toll reaches 575

WORLD / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform
USA Today -- Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 575 people. Torrential rains have.. Read More
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More floods hit South Asia; death toll crosses 450

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform
USA Today -- Heavy monsoon rains lashed new areas of India, submerging dozens of villages in the west, as health workers raced to provide food and medicine to avert an outbreak of disease in the water-logged north, officials said Thursday. More than two weeks of mo.. Read More
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Bollywood star appeals six-year sentence

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform
CNN -- Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed for six years for receiving guns from gangsters involved in India's worst bombing in 1993, challenged his conviction in the Supreme Court on Tuesday and sought bail. Legal experts said it could still be days before the.. Read More
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Monsoons Kill More Than 200 in South Asia, Millions displace

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform
FOX News -- Helicopters dropped food to almost 2 million marooned villagers in India on Saturday as the death toll from unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods in South Asia crossed 200, officials said. At least 229 people have been killed in India and neighborin.. Read More
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