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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – There are no signs of a slowdown in India’s industrial output growth, Kaushik Basu, the finance ministry’s chief economic adviser said on Thursday.
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No signs of slowdown in industrial output growth – adviser
KABUL (Reuters) – India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church’s plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions.
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India leads calls for action to stop Koran burning
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will carry out its first caste census in 80 years, in a controversial decision that could define how political parties campaign for votes and help government schemes offering quotas to lower castes.
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India to conduct first caste census in 80 years
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.
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India not treating AIDS patients early – Global Fund
BHOPAL: At least 17 people were killed and a further 35 feared dead after a passenger bus plunged into a fast-flowing river in central India, police said Thursday. The bus crashed into the river when trying to cross a flooded bridge in the state of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening. “The rescue work is ongoing and specialist teams are at the scene searching for bodies washed away by the water,” local inspector general of police Pawan Jain said
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At least 50 feared dead in Indian bus accident
NEW YORK: Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi has reached the US Open men’’s and mixed doubles finals and hopes to win both in tribute to the 21 million flood victims in his homeland. Qureshi and partner Rohan Bopanna of India, trying to foster peace between their rival homelands, advanced to the men’’s doubles final Wednesday by beating Argentina’’s Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zaballos 7-6 (7/5), 6-4. The 16th-seeded duo will face US top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan in Friday’’s championship match, but Qureshi has already booked another title date.
MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) – One of India’s most popular actors, Aamir Khan, is considered Bollywood’s man with the Midas touch.
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A Minute With: Aamir Khan and his Midas touch
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s tax department has jurisdiction over tax bills in cross-border mergers, a court ruled, dismissing a petition by Vodafone and setting a precedent for foreign firms looking to buy into Indian companies.
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Bombay High Court rules against Vodafone in tax case
PARIS (Reuters) – Formula One will stretch to a record 20 races next year with India making its grand prix debut in late October although no new teams will be coming in, the sport’s governing body said on Wednesday.
Mumbai (Reuters) – The number of internet users in rural India is forecast to rise 30 percent to 5.4 million in 2010, according to a joint study conducted by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and market research firm IMRB.
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India rural web users to grow 30 pct in 2010 – study
