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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...

Chandigarh, Dec 26 (IANS) A unique pilgrimage of Sikh shrines across India on board the Deccan Odyssey luxury train is all sold out. Never mind if the nine-day journey costs a minimum of Rs.210,000 ($4,665) per person. Titled 'A spiritual journey to the Guru's abode' on the Deccan Odyssey, all...

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80 percent of India's infants are underfed, risk death <SMALL>India Gazette Wednesday 22nd December, 2010 (IANS)</SMALL> A global report released Wednesday has said that over 80 percent of infants born in India each year - 20 million out of a total of 26 million - are insufficiently fed...

India's Latest Export: Rent-a-Womb by SHARON KIRKEY Inside two special houses in the Indian state of Gujarat, the women spend their time waiting. They live together, eat meals together and take sewing, cooking and English classes together: 67 surrogates whose bellies bulge with the babies of...

India loses Rs 24,000cr annually due to lack of toilets, hygiene: World Bank TNN, Dec 21, 2010, 12.03am IST <SCRIPT>var facebookktitle='India loses Rs 24,000cr annually due to lack of toilets, hygiene: World Bank'...

India's One-woman Charity December 19, 2010 Rick Westhead - The Star, Toronto Canadian Crystle Mazurek speaks to Monica, a 9-year-old student in Chamiyari, India. After years donating to well-known charities, Mazurek decided to start her own and now works in rural India. Rick...

India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattached to extremism, US diplomatic cables have said, endorsing India's vibrant democracy, inclusive culture and nationalistic nature of the minority community. "Separatism and religious extremism have little appeal to Indian Muslims, and...

Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 Accountability of India's Nonprofits Under Scrutiny By Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi TIME MAGAZINE In 2004, Jerry Almeida, then the fundraising director of ActionAid India, was shocked to discover an office in the garage of their Bangalore headquarters where some of the...

India on list of countries where bribery is way of life PTI, Dec 9, 2010, 06.25pm IST BERLIN: India is among the countries topping the list for reported bribe payments over the year along with Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, the Palestinian territories, Senegal...

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-terror-strikes-varansai-again/20101207.htm Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow and Vicky Nanjappa One infant was killed and 37 others, including six foreigners, were injured in a blast that rocked the crowded Shitla Ghat bank of the Ganga river...

Systems in the Western Ghats region have lost over 30 species in the last 60 years The freshwater biodiversity of the country is being assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It is after a gap of 13 years that the freshwater biodiversity of the country...

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-indias-leadership-unknown-to-almost-half-the-world-finds-survey/20101202.htm More than half of the people in the former Soviet Union, the Americas and Europe don't have an opinion about India's leadership, it said, adding that this may be...

NEW DELHI: As French President Nicolas Sarkozy landed in Delhi on Sunday, government sources indicated that the contentious issue of Sikh turbans in France would again be taken up with the French side. The government is expected to politely convey to Sarkozy how strongly India feels about the...

British students could soon sit and study alongside Indians in lecture halls at universities in India as part of plans to make UK students more employable by giving them international experience of living in other countries. There is much hand-wringing among Britain’s education leaders and...

Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The Indian subcontinent in November got its first Western-Eastern mix of ecological movements as Punjab, the green-revolution leader of India, launched a United Nations-vetted endeavor on behalf of the Sikh community. Two young professional Sikhs, Ravneet...

WikiLeaks: Hillary called India self-appointed front-runner for UNSC seat PTI, Nov 29, 2010, 07.07pm IST WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described India as a "self-appointed front-runner" for a permanent UNSC seat and directed US envoys to seek minute details about Indian...

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