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NEW DELHI, India — Despite the booming information technology industry that has made it "the back office to the world," India still lags far behind nimble China in the race to provide universal internet access to its citizens. But as prices for smart phones plunge and India's cost-slashing...

Chained To Their Desks: India's Murder Convicts To Man Its Call Centres by JASON BURKE For a man serving a life sentence for murder, Pradeep Deburma has a slightly unlikely dream: to work in a call centre like hundreds of thousands of other young ambitious Indians. Even more improbably, he has...

https://www.sarcajc.com/Women_unsafe_in_india.html Women unsafe in india 13 February 2011 The front page of Mail Today shouts in bold-" SHAME ON DELHI MEN". The survey by United Nations Development Fund for women (UNIFEM) & Jagori reveals the dark side of Delhi, which woman in Delhi come...

INTERVIEW HARBHAJAN SINGH - 'Almost left India for Survival on his mind, a young Harbhajan Singh came close to leaving India forever after the death of his father a decade back. “At that time, cricket was the last thing on my mind. I was thinking of going abroad where I was ready to...

By VIKAS BAJAJ Published: February 11, 2011 Lack of Attention to Farming Is Catching Up With India BAMNOD, INDIA — The 50-year-old farmer knew from experience that his onion crop was doomed when torrential rains pounded his fields throughout September, a month when the Indian monsoon normally...

India's family dynamic undergoing a change Relatives splitting up into own homes Daily Telegraph - February 7, 2011 2:02 AM <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> function resizeImage() { var imgBox = document.getElementById('imageBox'); var...

Toronto, Feb 6 (IANS) Wooing Bollywood tops the agenda of Dianne Watts, mayor of Canada's 'Indian city' of Surrey, when she begins her 11-day business mission to India Feb 10. Watts said she will use her city's 'many connections to India, both socially and economically', to woo businesses and...

Surge of Immigrants from India Baffles Border Officials in Texas From India have entered Texas illegally from Mexico in the last year. Most are Sikhs who claim religious persecution at home. By Richard Marosi and Andrew Becker Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United...

A California federal appeals court has denied the political asylum request of a Sonoma County man who says he was beaten by police in his native India because his father was writing a book about Sikh separatists. Ratnesh Sharma, who left India a decade ago, says he helped his father write the...

In this thread we will be updating news related to problems that Indians residing in the diaspora encounter when trying to return to India. As news items are located they will be posted here. Forum members are also welcome to comment on articles, share experiences, and post news articles...

By Jim Yardley NOIDA, India — Bhisham Singh Yadav, father of the groom, is stressed. His rented Lexus got stuck behind a bullock cart. He has hired a truck to blast Hindi pop, but it is too big to maneuver through his village. At least his grandest gesture, evidence of his upward mobility, is...

India Through A Birder’s Eyes By SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: January 14, 2011 IT began with parakeets, the brash, busybody rose-ringed parakeets of Delhi, with their lipstick red beaks and their irrepressible chatter, gossiping in the crevices of 15th-century tombs. Then one morning...

India in a stew over onion shortage STEPHANIE NOLEN DELHI— From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 8:13PM EST Last updated Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 8:32PM EST Maoist insurgencies, government graft, regional instability: In India, there are plenty of things for aam...

Dear all , I heard about many cases where the verdict was against the innocent persons who were never culprit. Here I'm discussing the case of kehar singh . The debate about death penalty versus life sentence would never have arisen were it not for an earlier SC obeservation that the death...

AMRITSAR: More than one hundred Hindu families of Baluchistan province of Pakistan are making efforts to migrate to India after becoming the target of extremists and fundamentalist groups who kidnap them for ransom. Five Hindu families have already migrated from Balochistan's Mastung district to...

India's diaspora conclave concludes with honours, outreach India Gazette Sunday 9th January, 2011 (IANS) India's annual convention to connect with its 27-million strong diaspora in over 150 countries concluded Sunday with President Pratibha Patil honouring 14 individuals for their...

VOICES FOR FREEDOM (VFF) CONCERNED AT TARGETING OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS BINAYAK SEN, TEESTA SETALVAD, DALJIT SINGH BITU, BHAI JASPAL SINGH MANJHPUR & PAL SINGH. FREEDOM OF FAITH AND HUMAN DIGNITY ARE AT STAKE. NEW DELHI: 7 January 2011: ... Voices For Freedom (VFF) expresses deep distress at...

Air India Bomber Gets Nine Years For Perjury THE TORONTO STAR - January 07, 2011 Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings of 1985, waits outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday September 10, 2010. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER...

'Night' is a nightmare in India Abhinav Sharma, TNN, Jan 4, 2011, 05.47pm IST <script>var facebookktitle='\'Night\' is a nightmare in India'; facebookktitle=facebookktitle+" - The Times of India"...

West Midlands terror cops visit India over politician murder Dec 26 2010 by Tony Larner, Sunday Mercury ANTI-terror detectives have arrived in India to collect evidence against four British Sikhs arrested in the Midlands on suspicion of shooting dead a controversial high-profile Indian...