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Marco Polo's India Returning home from China in 1292 CE, Marco Polo arrives on the Coromandel Coast of India in a typical merchant ship with over sixty cabins and up...

NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water NASA Hydrologist Matt Rodell discusses vanishing groundwater in India. › Watch Video Groundwater resides beneath the soil surface in permeable rock, clay and sand as illustrated in this conceptual image. Many aquifers...

Chaundal Indian Mongoose 2009/09/06 0352.338 GMT-4 By Jerod Lutz Geographic Range The small Indian mongoose was originally found across southeast Asia from Pakistan to the south coast of China, and...

Leh: Chinese troops entered the international border in Ladakh and painted "China” on boulders and rocks in Indian territory, Indian border patrol reportedly found on July 3. Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 km into Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as international...

The government on Monday announced that it will introduce grading system in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools and make Class X board exams optional from coming academic year (2010-11). Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal [ Images ], during a press...

India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations By- Gethin Chamberlain, Bathinda in The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009 Gurpreet Sigh, 7, who has...

source: India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste | World news | The Observer India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations Gethin...

Historian Stanley Wolpert's book -- Shameful Flight -- revisits Partition, and lays the blame for one of the most horrific episodes of the 20th century squarely on the shoulders of a Briton, finds Arthur J Pais. Admiral Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas 'Dickie' Mountbatten, the favourite...

India third on global 'female smoking list' Kounteya Sinha , TNN 27 August 2009, 08:39am IST | NEW DELHI: Indian women are among the worst in the world when it comes to smoking. According to the latest Tobacco Atlas, the country ranks third in the top 20 female smoking...

In India, the NRI Groom Goes Out of Style By Mridu Khullar Monday, Aug. 17, 2009...

India and Indians now tell us that 1984 was a mere blip on the stellar record of the world's most populous democracy. What a difference 25 years make? In June 1984, when the Indian army attacked the Harmandar (Golden Temple) in Amritsar and 40 other gurdwaras across Punjab, the...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivers a speech on India's Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi. Dear countrymen, brothers and sisters, I consider myself fortunate to once again have the opportunity to address you on this sacred day of 15th August. On this...

Train to India Manmohan Singh Kohli Having survived the nightmare at Haripur, my father and I spent three days confined to the Haripur Fort. We were than shifted to the Kakul military camp near Abbottabad which was overflowing with refugees looking for safety. We were...

India is wearing new clothes, and putting on a new face — but behind the mask of economic progress and cosmopolitan values is a deeply conservative nation fighting change. A nationwide opinion poll across 16 cities has thrown up surprises: results very different from popular perceptions about...

For decades, American leaders and opinion makers have chosen to ignore the dark side of democratic India. Now new reports documenting the pervasive abuses committed by the Indian police are providing firsthand evidence not only of warrant less arrests, illegal detentions, torture and the...

Corrupt Democracy in India By Barbara Crossette Sexual abuse in police stations. Crimes "solved" by countless extrajudicial killings. Life-threatening prison conditions. Widespread torture. Thousands of unpunished murders in politically inspired pogroms. Sixty million children in forced...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pull out of India Bill Gates was in India recently and received an award from the government for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) work. India has been the largest...

source: washingtonpost.com U.S., India Set Up 'Strategic Dialogue' Annual Forums Will Bring Together Cabinet Members of Both Countries By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 21, 2009 NEW DELHI, July 20 -- The United States and India on Monday established a...

World’s Healthiest Foods: Lentils (India) Lentils are to India as meatloaf is to America: the...

Washington : Guru Gobind Singh Foundation honored the Sikh Human Development Foundation and gave Sewa Award 2009 to SHDF “for Its Outstanding work in Outreach, Helping the needy Students in India & Empowering them to fulfill their dreams”. Dedicated to poverty alleviation, human development...