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India's Luxury Hotel Boom

Jim Calio | Posted 05.26.2012

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Today, Leela Hotels, Palaces & Resorts is one of the fastest-growing luxury hotel chains in India.

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Israeli PM Blames Iran For Blasts

AP | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: India, Georgia Bomb, Delhi, Netanyahu, New Delhi, India Car Bomb, Israel Diplomat India Bomb, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, India Israel, Delhi Car Bomb, Israel, Israel Diplomat Bomb, World News

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli prime minister accuses Iran of being behind car bombings in India, Georgia....

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WATCH: Gay Indian Artist Attacked During Exhibition

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Gay Artist Balbir Krishan, Delhi, Artist Balbir Krishan, Gay Artists, Gay Artist Attacked, Balbir Krishan, Balbir Krishan Attacked, Balbir Krishan Attack, Gay Art, Video, Gay Voices News

An Indian artist was brutally attacked by an unidentified assailant during an exhibition of his homoerotic paintings in Delhi, the Times of India is r...

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PHOTOS: Cold Wave Hits India

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: India, India Cold Wave, Delhi, India Weather, India Cold, India Cold Spike, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, World News

While India is known for its blistering summer heat, a cold wave has swept through the north of the country in the past week. A thick fog cloud envelo...

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The Future's Orange...The Future's Orange Business Services

Monty Munford | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Orange Business Services, India, Aquant, Tsunami, Delhi, UK World, Orange, UK Travel, UK Tech, Gurgaon, Obs, UK Tech News

It's not every day that I am presented with a silk scarf, have to negotiate a terrestrial design of lotus flowers and have a bindi plastered to the mi...

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PHOTOS: The 4th Annual Delhi Queer Pride March

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: India, Delhi, India Gays, Delhi Pride Parade, Delhi Queer Pride, Delhi Queer Pride March, India Gay Pride, Delhi Gay Pride Parade, Gay Pride, Delhi Gay Pride, Aditya Bondyopadhyay, Gay Pride Parade, Video, Gay Voices News

Sunday was the the 4th annual Delhi Queer Pride March. The parade moved from Barakhamba Road-Tolstoy Marg to Jantar Mantar. The event was organized...

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PHOTOS: Observations From A First-Time Visitor To India

Terri Colby | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: India Novice, Rajasthan, India, Delhi, India-Newspapers, India Language, International Destinations, Destinations, Travel Blogs, Slidepollajax, Travel News

India is truly a love-it-or-hate-it destination. For me, its pull is magnetic.

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Browsing Designer Delhi (PHOTOS)

Designer Delhi | Meghana Gandhi | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Asia Travel, Fashion, Delhi, Style, Destinations, India Travel, International Destinations, Travel News

For most of my adult life, I had thought that New York City sample sales — in which harried women argue over who grabbed an item first and, in the a...

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India Arrests Three In Kashmir In Connection To Court Blast

AP | AIJAZ HUSSAIN | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: India Terror, Delhi Court Blast, India, India Kashmir, Delhi, Pakistan Kashmir, Delhi Court Blast Kashmir, India Pakistan Relations, Kashmir, World News

SRINAGAR, India — Investigators arrested three people, including two teenagers, in India's portion of Kashmir on conspiracy charges in connectio...

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Terror Returns To Delhi With Second Bomb Blast

Indian Decade | Sanjay Kumar | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: India Terrorism, India, Delhi, Delhi Bomb, Terrorism, Delhi-Terrorism, Delhi-India, Delhi Explosion, World News

It was on a Wednesday less than two months ago that serial blasts shook India's financial capital of Mumbai. And it was on Wednesday of this week, wit...

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Police Question 3 In Delhi Bomb Probe

AP | KATY DAIGLE | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Delhi Courthouse Bomb, India Terrorism, Delhi Bomb Probe, Delhi Courthouse Bomb Probe, Delhi, Delhi Terrorism, Delhi Bomb, India Delhi, India Terror Attacks, World News

NEW DELHI — After a team of gunmen blasted through Mumbai in November 2008, India pledged to overhaul its police forces and root out terrorism n...

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World's Best Free Attractions (PHOTOS)

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Delhi, Lotus Temple, Parc Guell, Gateway of India, Vatican City, Barcelona, Mumbai, Free Attractions, Travel News

Like most budget travelers, the word that makes eyebrows leap the highest is 'free'. While the you-get-what-you-pay-for statute makes it uncool to gra...

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LAX's Poor Excuse for Mass Transit

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Delhi, Public-Private Partnerships, Bart, Metro, America Fast Forward, San Francisco, India, Lax, Mass Transit, Indira Gandhi, Transformation, Lawa, 30/10 Initiative, Santa Monica, Big Blue Bus, Los Angeles News

The time has come to give commuters to the world's sixth busiest airport a truly rapid mass transit option.

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'Tiger in Your Tank': On the Road in India

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amber Fort, Elephant Riding, India, Highways, Delhi, Road Trips, Jaipur, Travel News

The highway out of Delhi looks like it has a rash. What is this stuff? It's smashed-up watermelons from a truck.

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Revealing Dress Grounds For Divorce?

DNA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Delhi, Divorce, International Divorce, Religious-Divorce, Revealing Clothing Divorce, Delhi Divorce, Divorce News

Wearing a revealing dress during her honeymoon proved costly for a woman as a court granted divorce to her husband saying improper dressing by the wom...

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Will India Win Coveted UN Seat?

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, UK, United Kingdom, India, Sarkozy, France, USA, Obama Wars, David Cameron, Washington DC, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Vladimir Putin, President, Hu Jintao, Manmohan Singh, United Nations, Obama's Wars, Washington, Carla Bruni, Un, Putin, Britain, United States of America, New Delhi, Pakistan, England, Cameron, Wen Jiabao, United Nations Security Council, Uno, The UK, Great Britain, US, Barack Obama, UN Security Council, Kashmir, Bob Woodward, Prime Minister, Delhi, Singh, Dimitri Medvedev, Michelle Obama, United States, The US, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev, The UN, China, Dave Cameron, World News

The mandarins of New Delhi must be pleased as punch to have had over to visit leaders of all five permanent member countries in quick succession. Inexorable appears the march but will India find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

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India To Offer Eunuchs Special Pension Each Month

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India Eunhc, Transgender, New Delhi, India Pension, Delhi, LGBT Rights, Handicapped, Transvestite, India, Disabled, Transgender Rights, Pension, India Eunuchs, Eunuch, World News

India's oft-discriminated "third sex" is about to receive government acknowledgment, with thousands of the capital city's massive eunuch population ex...

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This Big Fat Mosquito Hotel

Bharati Chaturvedi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heat, India, Delhi, Chikungunia, Disease, Climate Change, Green News

For the last 7 weeks, I've been the target of several minor viruses. They've entered my body through the air, pushed me to exhaustion, forced me to s...

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The Camel and the Cell Phone

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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We have gotten to a place where we are so interconnected that you can no longer escape, even in some of the most remote spots on earth.

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India Scrambles To Save Commonwealth Games

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Commonwealth Games Canada, Manmohan Signh, Delhi, Jaipal Reddy, Commonwealth Games, India, Sports, World News

With his country scrambling to organize facilities for the Delhi Commonwealth Games, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Signh summoned two fellow minister...

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Gunmen Shoot At Tourist Bus In Delhi, Wound 2

AP | NIRMALA GEORGE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi Tourist Bus, Tourist Bus Shot At, Delhi Tourist, Travel News

NEW DELHI — Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at tourists near one of India's biggest mosques, wounding two Taiwanese and raising concerns ...

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America's Imam and His Problematic Mosque: A Muslim Viewpoint

Parvez Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Parvez Sharma, American Muslims, Muslims, Woodstock, Mosque, Obama, Daisy Khan, Facebook, Sufis, Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Delhi, Keith Olbermann, Sarah Palin, Politics News

I, a mosque-loving Muslim, am against this mosque. The mostly tolerant fabric of the city, which is now my home, is being damaged, irrevocably perhaps, in this discussion.

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Will the Sun rise from India's East?

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calcutta, India, Kolkata, Delhi, Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, New Delhi, Sonia Gandhi, Bengali, West Bengal, World News

All parts of India have given birth to a prime minister, except the eastern. Subhash Chandra Bose and Jyoti Basu, both sons of the East, came close to...

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Indian Couple Electrocuted By Bride's Family For Marrying Outside Caste

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Wedding, Marriage Outside Caste @Y:World, India, Delhi, Indian Caste, Indian Couple Killed, World News

By Andrew Buncombe, The Independent In an alleyway in Delhi choked with flies and neighbours in mourning, Devindri Devi held up a photograph of her...

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India Makes Remarkable Strides Towards a More Perfect Democracy

Lina Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Delhi, India Democracy, India Right to Information, World News

Perhaps fitting for a country where everything is just of a bigger scale, a single law in India is making democracy profoundly more meaningful for the vast majority that has always been powerless.

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