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July 8, 2011 India's poverty will fall from 51% to 22% by 2015: UN report PTI - Jul 8, 2011, 07.58pm IST UNITED NATIONS/NEW DELHI: As many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years, while India's poverty rate is projected...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT), a judicial body aimed at expediting environment-related cases and the first in the country, will soon have four regional benches. India is only the third country after Australia and New Zealand to have a dedicated green court. It resumed hearings Monday...

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times June 26, 2011 Images: Man crippled from polio, children lined up for their polio vaccinations Reporting from Moradabad, India— Scientists, health workers and community outreach officials in India believe they're finally on the cusp of a major milestone...

India divided over communal violence bill By Sudha Ramachandran Communal violence Bill will only divide communities: BJP BANGALORE - India is on the brink of enacting legislation that will seek justice for minorities of all categories when they become victims of targeted, mass violence...

June25, 2011 Time to ‘forgive’ and build a new India, Chidambaram tells Sikhs PTI - New Delhi, - June 25, 2011 Seeking to put behind memories of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said the country has moved on since the “tragic incident” and that it was time...

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition." -Mark Twain With 16 major languages, 1,652 dialects, 5 main religions, over 2,000 castes, thousands of Gods, and the remains...

06/23/11 Air India Memorial: Prime Minister Stephen Harper Unveils Montreal Monument 06/23/11 03:02 PM ET Friends and relatives look at the names of victims at a new memorial for Air India Flight 182 Thursday in Montreal. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press) THE CANADIAN...

June 18, 2011 India's oldest prisoner walks out of jail at 108 Rajiv Srivastava, TNN | Jun 18, 2011, 12.27am IST LUCKNOW: In 1987, when he was 84, Brij Bihari went on a killing spree. All his life, he had cherished one dream: to be mahant of Maharajganj's Jagannath temple. Towards that...

June 8, 2011 Canada and India pursue a natural bond JOE FRIESEN DEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER— From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jun. 08, 2011 Canada could be considered among the most Indian of countries. The Indian diaspora in Canada is about one million strong...

May 24, 2011 India announces $5 bn aid for Africa, seeks support for UN reforms May 24, 2011 IANS | Addis Ababa Taking its burgeoning ties with Africa to a new high, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday announced a massive $5 billion aid for the next three years and an...

India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven - activists fear eight million female foetuses may have been aborted in the past decade. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi explores what has led to this crisis. Kulwant has three daughters aged 24, 23 and 20...

by Professor Himadri Banerjee If you ask any senior middle class Kolkatan about his perceptions of Sikhs, he would likely be responding in many voices. Literature has not only made him aware of many Sikh heroes of history but in his memory of bygone years the community also dominantly figures...

AMRITSAR: Pakistani writer Iqbal Kaiser's latest book has come under severe criticism for distorting historical facts. The controversial book titled 'Historical Sikh Shrines in Pakistan' is published by Punjabi History Board, Lahore and is being sold for Rs 2000, Pakistani currency. "In...

May 21, 2011 India Elected to UN Human Rights Council Betwa Sharma/United Nations | May 21, 2011 India and 14 other countries have been elected to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council based in Geneva. India was not in competition for the seat since there were four countries and four seats...

Poverty, Caste and Religion to be Simultaneously Mapped by SMITA GUPTA A nationwide survey that will simultaneously map the economic, caste and religious backgrounds of the entire population was approved by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. The survey marks two firsts: firstly, in a break...

Every sixth person in the world in an Indian India will take over China in terms of population by 2025, an analysis of the provisional Census, 2011 data suggests. With more than 1.2 billion people, India contains about 17.5 per cent (every sixth person in the world is an Indian) of...

May 16, 2011 Will India Continue to Rise Peacefully? Yogesh Joshi - May 16, 2011 The 21st century's great shift of power from West to East is not limited to China alone. The Asian century also belongs to India. Already the world's fourth-largest economy, India has continued to grow...

May 15, 2011 The new caste system of free India Sunday, May 15, 2011 By Ashok Nanda The enactment of Right to Education Act, 2009 has generated a nation-wide debate on the school and mass education. There are various aspects of this act which needs a proper discussion and debate. One...

May 13, 2011 India ratify UN conventions against transnational organised crime, corruption Friday - May 13, 2011, 07:24pm New Delhi - India has ratified the United Nations convention against transnational organised crime and its three protocols and the United Nations convention...

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...