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India is holding the world's biggest exercise in democracy to elect 543 members of parliament. The inclusive character and the social diversity of voters have drawn a number of people from developing countries which they say can learn from this mammoth task.... |
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Engineering and infrastructure major Kirloskar Brothers has set up a giant facility in the Egyptian capital Cairo to provide services like energy audits and systems analysis, the company said.... |
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In March last year, Chef Sabyasachi Gorai, “Saby” to friends, admirers and the general eating public, was concerned.... |
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Weary of a political turmoil that never seems to end, Egyptians are now again awaiting with anticipation the election of a new president next month following the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president of the country, in July last year.
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Bangalore born Indian-American poet Vijay Seshadri has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "3 Sections", called "a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia."... |
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Ashrita Furman, a Guinness World Records record-breaker, has lit what is claimed to be the world's biggest torch in New York in honour of Indian spiritual leader Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, popularly known as Sri Chinmoy.... |
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Centuries of having to live with the oppression of an indeterminate identity came to an end for transgenders — or hijras — on Tuesday when the Supreme Court recognized them as the "third gender", separate from male or female, and gave them a leg up in their effort to secure a better social and economic future by ordering their inclusion in the OBC category for education and jobs.... |
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Anil Kumar, an Indian-American surgeon and small business owner in Michigan has filed papers as a Democratic candidate in the race for the US House of Representatives from the state's 11th Congressional district.... |
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A newly-launched training centre here is expected to play a significant role in enabling the endangered Jarawa tribe, one of the oldest inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands whose number has shrunk to a mere 400, to decide their own future, an official said.... |
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Two Indian peacekeepers have been injured in a “deadly and unprovoked” attack by a mob of armed men on civilians sheltering inside a UN base in the war-ravaged town of Bor in South Sudan.
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India's first double-decker flyover was opened for public use in this west coast megapolis and the country's commercial capital Friday.... |
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As growing consumption stokes fears of acute water scarcity, the demand for technology to purify and reuse waste-water is creating opportunity for several startups that focus on the area.
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Germany-based high-end domestic appliances maker Miele would invest around Rs.100 crore on expanding its presence in India, mostly in tier-2 cities like Raipur, Indore and Coimbatore, a top company official said.... |
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Indian scientists experimenting with a novel vaccine candidate against malaria say they have found "promising results" in mice, with "80 to 85 per cent efficacy" observed in a dozen animals they recently vaccinated.... |
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One of the oldest patients to undergo an open heart bypass surgery in India, a 96-year-old man recently underwent the life-saving procedure and was discharged from hospital Friday, doctors said.... |
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White House has named Indian-American professor Rajendra Singh as one of ten "Solar Champions of Change" who are taking the initiative to spur solar deployment across America.... |
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Thottiankulam village on the Sevaiyur-Tuticorin highway in Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu in south India is bone dry all through the year. Farmers, mostly small and marginal, have either left the place seeking work in towns or have moved to other vocations.... |
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The Maldives has sought academic tie-ups with the Jamia Millia Islamia, one of India's oldest universities, and help in establishing an Islamic university in the island nation, a visiting Maldivian minister said here.... |
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India favours a multilateral role in net governance and management, a "transformational shift from the Internet of today to the Equinet of tomorrow".... |
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It is easy to think of applications for visually challenged people in the context of "text-to-speech" software (TTS), but now there is an application which uses TTS to help out farmers. The Sandesh Pathak application, developed jointly by C-DAC Mumbai, IIT-Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, and C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram will enable SMS messages to be read out loud, for the benefit of farmers who may have difficulty in reading.... |
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