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MSNBC
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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FOX News
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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..
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Al Jazeera
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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..
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Yahoo News
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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...
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Reuters
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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...
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SF Gate
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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BBC News
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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.
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SF Gate
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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..
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Al Jazeera
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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USA Today
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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..
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USA Today
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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FOX News
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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..
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