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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/28
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In Pictures: World AIDS Day 2010
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Global News Blog After shipwreck, Costa Concordia gets the musical treatment
The 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking is the loose inspiration for a new Bollywood-style musical to be filmed in Italy this summer.
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Thousands of Indians flee Bangalore after text message warnings
Indian leaders appealed for calm on Friday as natives of northeastern India now living in the south left en masse for a third day over safety concerns.
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Tsunami warning: This time, the system mostly worked
Tsunami warning sirens sounded around the Indian Ocean region after an 8.6 earthquake hit yesterday. During the 2004 tsunami, few warning systems were in place.
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Cover Story In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges
To become an economic powerhouse, India needs to educate as many as 100 million young people over the next 10 years – something never done before.
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The price of gold: as influential as a global power
The record price of gold and the universal obsession with the sparkling metal make it a parallel global power.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/28
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Opinion: Have we outsourced sexual harassment?
As Western companies increasingly turn to Indian labor, they must be willing to acknowledge and confront widespread sexual harassment of female employees in India.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 03/03
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Indian start-up strikes deal to combat counterfeiting of medicine
PharmaSecure, a New Delhi outfit founded by a Dartmouth grad, has devised a grass-roots method to stem such counterfeiting. Fake drugs make up more than 10 percent of the global market.
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In Pictures: World AIDS Day 2010
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India's $5 billion microfinance industry faces backlash over profits
The role of profit-driven companies in India's microfinance industry is raising concerns about its social mission.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/15
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US college degrees: Still the best among world's top universities?
A US college degree has been the gold standard. But global economics and a crisis of confidence may be pushing the US down in rankings among top universities.
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Difference Maker Planting saplings in tree-starved Mumbai 'is the least I can do.'
Satish Vijaykumar's The Sapling Project wants to plant 10,000 trees in Mumbai, where trees are losing out to rapid economic development, and then expand to the rest of India and beyond.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 05/19
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In Pictures: Holi: Festival of colors
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 01/08
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India: On 'Ladies Special' trains, there are no men to harass women
India's new female railways minister introduced women-only trains in major cities, in response to the female workforce doubling and complaints of harassment on public transit.
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Sri Lanka accused of shelling civilians
At least 378 died in an overnight bombardment, a government doctor said. The military denies the attack.
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The climate was different but the spirit was the same
It didn't matter that Christmas wasn't white.
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CD Reviews: Torrential tropical music reigns
Brazilian and Latin musicians, via San Francisco and Boston, join British electronica wizards, via India, to redefine global musical styles.
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Rice demands 'robust' cooperation from Pakistan in Mumbai probe
While Pakistan confronts growing evidence that the terrorist attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India braces for further sea, air assaults
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The charms of Indian beach food
It must be the fresh, salty air that makes seaside snacks taste so good.
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In India, new rat trap boosts low-caste tribe
The new device has enabled the Irula people to quadruple their daily catch. Once ridiculed, they're now called 'saviors' by farmers.
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