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By Rupak De Chowdhuri KOLKATA | Fri May 13, 2011 8:09am EDT (Reuters) - India's beleaguered ruling coalition has managed to avoid a major voter backlash over a series of embarrassing corruption scandals, winning three of five regional polls and overturning two communist state governments...

Can folks advise if these two videos are tempered with? YouTube - New Punjabi ,True Sikh Part 1.wmv YouTube - New Punjabi ,True Sikh Part 2.wmv I am impressed with this young leader, his courage quietened a few people in the Sabha - I wonder if the message has gone or will go any further than...

India's New Age Charlatans by SHEELA REDDY It was the last 'miracle' by the man who flew in the face of reason and defied the sceptics for seven decades. As 85-year-old Sri Sathya Sai Baba's emaciated body was lowered into his grave in a spectacle worthy of a rock star on Wednesday, April 27...

Here is the survey of India's most competetive states.It is divided in 3 parts.High income.middle income and lower income.Punjab is ranked 3rd in the middle income.While Haryana is ranked 5th and Himachal is ranked 4th in High income group...

MUMBAI, India — Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.” The new rules, quietly issued by the country’s Department of Information...

Tue, Apr 26, 2011 | Updated 04.58PM IST26 Apr, 2011, 10.53AM IST,Times Now Black money comes mainly from India: Julian Assange, Wikileaks At a stage where governments around the world have tried to hide away from the embarrassment caused by WikiLeaks expose on black money , founder Julian...

With the number of elderly people in the country expected to be 9 crore in the Census 2011 report, the government has to recognise that diseases of the elderly is going to be a very important public health problem in India, said Dr. K. Jacob Roy, who was recently elected chairman of Alzheimer's...

The demand for professional ragis is increasing in India and abroad. This is helping hundreds of boys and girls from rural Punjab in making career in this field after procuring a professional degree. The Department of Gurmat Sangeet, Punjabi University, is helping them to strike the right chord...

April 15, 2011 India needs the requisite critical climate for political reforms Gobind Thukral - South Asia Post - April 15, 2011 A few days back Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal declared that corrupt should either be hanged or jailed for life. He also said that electoral...

06 Apr 2011 India's Sex Ratio Imbalance a Threat to Stability Valerie M. Hudson - World Politics Review - 06 Apr 2011 Many Western observers hope that India's growth as a global power will both balance China's rise and ensure that rise remains peaceful. Indeed, the U.S. has...

South India's cultural past not confined to one religion: Prof. Champakalakshmi The empirical pre-eminence in the study of history in inscription-rich Tamil Nadu and a modern outlook on historiography combine to provide a fresh understanding of the past in a book launched here on Tuesday...

If you live with your spouse in a house that is owned by his parents, you might wonder if you will be asked to vacate it on their death if your husband’s siblings demand their share in the property. But the good news is you won’t have to. Under the Hindu Succession Act, there are rules as to how...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/9444277.stm India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in a pulsating final to deliver World Cup glory to their cricket-mad population for the first time since 1983. Sri Lanka smashed 91 from their last 10 overs to post 274-6 in Mumbai, with Mahela...

Apr. 01, 2011 Rate of aborted female fetuses increases in India STEPHANIE NOLEN NEW DELHI— From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Apr. 01, 2011 Female fetuses are being aborted at higher rates in India than ever before, new data from the national census have revealed...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/census-of-india-2011-child-sex-ratio-drops-to-lowest-since-independence/articleshow/7836942.cms NEW DELHI: Indicating a continuing preference for boys in society, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000...

March 31, 2011 India's population rises to 1.2 billion, says Census report PTI | Mar 31, 2011, 12.22pm IST NEW DELHI: India's population rose to 1.21 billion people over the last 10 years — an increase by 181 million, according to the new census released today, but significantly the...

An all-round Indian bowling performance, helped by some athletic ground fielding, propelled India into its third World Cup final. India maintained its unbeaten record against Pakistan in World Cup cricket, securing a 29-run win in Wednesday's marquee semifinal in Mohali to set up a title...

NEW DELHI: The Congress Party of India has been summoned by a US court to appear on April 1, 2011 to respond to the charges of conspiring, aiding, abetting and organizing large scale anti-Sikh violence in India in 1984. Even as the deadline of April 1, 2011, given by the US Court summons to...

http://tehelka.com/story_main47.asp?filename=Ne201110Maariyamma.asp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mother, shall I put you to sleep? Maariyamma is likely to be killed by her children because they cannot afford her. They will give her a loving...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537 The government is expected to freeze the level of assistance given to India at £295m ($480m) a year. But why does a nuclear power with its own space programme need British aid? In a widely-signalled move, it is anticipated that International...