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Four Men Convicted in Rape Case That Transfixed India By ELLEN BARRY - THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 10, 2013 NEW DELHI — Four men were convicted of all charges Tuesday in the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman who was attacked when she boarded a bus in New Delhi last December...

Arizona Sees Surge of Asylum Seekers from India http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/ariz-sees-surge-of-asylum-seekers-from-india/2781025/ PHOENIX -- On a recent Friday night in Phoenix, an unmarked white Department of Homeland Security bus pulls up to a curb near the...

The venue of Zubin Mehta's Saturday concert is the spectacular 15th Century Shalimar Gardens, which has the Himalayan mountains as its backdrop. The garden has not looked so glorious in recent years - huge yellow marigolds, chrysanthemums, dahlias and other flowers line the pathways on which the...

Monday, September 02, 2013 Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, September 02, 2013 Half of the missing children in 2013 remain untraced in India In a disturbing trend the number of missing children remaining untraced in India is increasing. More girls...

Experts say India's rapid social change plays role in gang rapes, and nation's fury over them By Katy Daigle, The Associated PressSeptember 2, 2013 7:00 AM FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 23, 2013 file photo, protesters shield themselves as Indian police beat them with sticks during a...

India gang rape teen suspect found guilty of rape, murder Juvenile court sentenced teen to three years in a reform home The Associated Press Posted: Aug 31, 2013 6:56 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 31, 2013 7:43 AM ET An Indian juvenile court convicted a teenager of rape and murder...

Sikhs of north-east, south India don't flaunt surnames: Study Amaninder Pal Sharma http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Sikhs-of-north-east-south-India-dont-flaunt-surnames-Study/articleshow/22131981.cms PATIALA: Contrary to Punjab, where nearly every youth has started...

Sikhs, the Biggest Spenders in India: Survey Bangalore: India, the second most populous country and also the most populous democracy in the world is home to over 1.2 billion people belonging to multi-ethnic groups and a multilingual society. Sikh community is one such major community...

Milkha Singh says India needs to tap into rural talent for athletics http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/athletics/211207-milkha-singh-says-india-needs-to-tap-into-rural-talent-for-athletics Hailed as the 'Flying Sikh' for his legendary prowess on the track field, Singh says he used to run...

'India sitting on a tinder-box of tragedies; guilty must be punished' Sunday, July,21 2013 - 12:18 NEW DELHI: Is India sitting on a "tinder box" of tragedies, waiting for accidents to happen that jolt the country's conscience for a while, before warnings go unheeded in the build-up to...

Corruption rate in India is double of global average Kounteya Sinha, TNN - Jul 9, 2013, 05.22 PM IST LONDON: Corruption in India has reached an all-time high with rates being exactly double of the global prevalence. Globally, 27% people say they paid bribe when accessing public...

Indian Buddhist Sites Hit By Blasts By INDRAJIT SINGH 07/07/13 12:23 PM ET EDT PATNA, India — A series of blasts hit three Buddhist sites in eastern India early Sunday, injuring at least two people and drawing condemnation from the prime minister. Senior police officer S.K. Bhardwaj...

Stem-cell therapy wipes out HIV in two patients By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus from their bodies, researchers reported on Wednesday...

India floods: 'Thousands still missing' in Uttarakhand http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23123795 Nearly 3,000 people are still missing following floods and landslides which hit India's Uttarakhand state a fortnight ago, the chief minister of the state has said. More than 800...

Caste or Class? Yogita Limaye http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23003532 2027, India is projected to have the biggest middle class population in the world. In a society fragmented by caste, there has been much debate about whether recent economic growth has reached the country's most...

Revisiting the Air India tragedy from a Ghadar perspective by Gurpreet Singh on Jun 23, 2013 at 2:24 pm On the centenary of the Ghadar Party—which formed in North American to fight colonialism in British-controlled India—it's time to revisit the Air India to analyze political factors that...

Brasil & India- Interesting Similarities INDIAN Benefit Yourself & Fight To Change Your Attitude... Stop cutting into a queue... Stop parking your vehicle under NO PARKING sign..... Stop making double queue... Let the elderly go in front of you.... Do not litter the streets... Do not...

Reuters New Delhi, June 20, 2013 First Published: 11:59 IST(20/6/2013) Last Updated: 12:06 IST(20/6/2013) India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax...

Out of India's Trash Heaps, More than a Shred of Dignity by Sharika Bonsal http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/out-of-indias-trash-heaps-more-than-a-shred-of-dignity/ PUNE, India — “Trash! Trash!” yelled Chandani Nagtilak as she pushed her cart through a residential...

US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22809541 US spy chief James Clapper has strongly defended government surveillance programmes after revelations of phone records being collected and internet servers being tapped. He said...