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BBC News
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An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight.
The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and..
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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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BBC News
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A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men...
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Reuters
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Nearly two-thirds of young Indian men expect the woman they marry to be a virgin, but nearly half have had sex with prostitutes, according to a poll...
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BBC News
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Two Pakistani boys have been reunited with their family days after they strayed into Indian territory after running away from school.
The boys say they were beaten by Indian police, who suspected them of spying.
A Pakistani official said the boys we..
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CNN
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An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday. Nishant Tiwari, a police official in northeastern India, said a journalist who filmed the beating called him..
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CNN
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The mother of a 15-year-old British girl found dead on a beach in Goa has urged the Indian prime minister to investigate claims that police tried to cover up the fact she had been raped and murdered. Police initially said Scarlett Keeling drowned after dr..
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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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CBS News
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A powerful earthquake off western Indonesia triggered warnings of a potentially destructive tsunami across much of the Indian Ocean region Wednesday, meteorological agencies said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the underwater quake had a preliminary m..
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BBC News
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Five people are confirmed dead and 55 are missing believed dead after heavy rain triggered a landslide that buried Dharla village in the Indian Himalayas.
Record rainfall across Himachal Pradesh state in the past several days has led to the deaths of 4..
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CNN
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Torrential rains overnight compounded the misery of 2 million marooned Indian villagers, killing another 11 people and raising the death toll from house collapses and floods in South Asia to 240, officials said Sunday. Helicopters have dropped food to hun..
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BBC News
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A train carrying Indian government officials has crossed the border and arrived in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.
The 500km (310 mile) journey marked the resumption of a direct passenger rail service between the two countries.
The link was suspended f..
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Washington Post
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Deep in a labyrinth of stucco buildings, in a dark, cavelike warehouse, Mohamed Javen, 18, switched on a light bulb, sat before his rickety loom and began working on what was once the prize possession of every Indian bride: the hand-woven silk sari.
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BBC News
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Police stations across the Indian city of Calcutta have been equipped with oxygen devices to enable police to offset the effects of pollution.
The extra air is for the benefit of hundreds of traffic policemen in the city who have to brave some of the w..
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ABC News
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Two years after a teenage gunman went on a rampage at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, the community is grieving once again.
The bodies of two young brothers missing since November were found encased in ice Sunday about a half-mile from where they live..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, a jovial Indian lawyer and part-time farmer, has always been fascinated by France. Framed pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the palace of Versailles implausibly decorate his house in a dusty, bustling suburb of the central In..
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BBC News
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Indian police say two men from the outskirts of New Delhi may have killed as many as 15 children and women...
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Yahoo News
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Indian authorities plan to release 47 leopards into the wild with electromagnetic chips planted in their tails but will haul them back to captivity if they attack people, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday...
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Guardian Unlimited
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A church group that protests at military funerals around the country will be barred from services for an American Indian soldier on a reservation, tribal officials say...
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