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Bomb Explodes Outside Indian Court

AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 11.06.2011

NEW DELHI — A briefcase bomb tore through a crowd of people waiting to enter a New Delhi courthouse, killing 11 people and wounding scores more ...

Indian Activist Agrees To End Hunger Strike

AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 10.27.2011

NEW DELHI — An Indian reform activist agreed Saturday to end an 11-day hunger strike after Parliament expressed nonbinding support for parts of ...

JK festival -Mega Multi-Cultural Show at New Delhi

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 05.25.2011

  New Delhi ,Octobor 9 (Vijay Kumar) - The three day long Jammu and Kashmir  festival concluded Friday evening in New Delhi with presentatio...

In India, growth-first advocates battle progressives, cynics

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Climate change workshop at a school in Vilandai, India. Photo: Flickr user 350.org Navroz K. Dubash is a senior fellow at the Centre for Poli...

Kashmir hosted Conference of Indian Society for Buddhist Studies after a gap of 2000 years

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 05.25.2011

  On the inauguration of 9th Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Buddhist Studies,Prof Punjabi while expressing his pleasure to host the...

Kashmiri dispute looms large in politics of South Asia

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

A de-miner near Srinagar, Kashmir. Photo: Flickr user Haumont Ambassador S. Azmat Hassan is a former Ambassador of Pakistan to Malaysia, Syri...

Honda "New Small Concept" Revealed

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 05.25.2011

Almost immediately after Toyota announced that it would be unveiling a new economy car concept at the Auto Expo 2010 in New Delhi, India this month,...

31 die as tourist boat capsizes in southern India

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW DELHI — A boat carrying 75 tourists capsized on a reservoir in southern India on Wednesday, killing at least 28 people and leaving dozens missing, police said.

The state-owned boat was traveling in the remote Thekkady forest area in Kerala state and capsized after the tourists rushed to one side as they spotted some animals in the forest, tilting the vessel over, said police officer R. Rajesh.

Rescuers have fished out 28 bodies from the reservoir and were looking for 27 other missing tourists, police officer Rajesh told The Associated Press.

Rajesh also said 20 people have been rescued so far and taken to the hospital.

Most of the tourists were from the neighboring state of Karnataka, he told The Associated Press.

14 die in chimney collapse at power plant in India

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Rescuers used heavy cranes and saws to free more than a dozen people still trapped in the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed at a power plant under construction in central India, killing at least 14 people, police said Thursday.

R.K. Vij, inspector-general of police, revised the death toll to 14 from the figure of 20 that was given earlier by police, and said another seven people were hospitalized. All 14 bodies have been recovered.

"There was some confusion about the number of dead and the injured" soon after Wednesday's accident, Vij told The Associated Press.

Vij said at least 20 workers were still trapped in the rubble at the construction site in Korba, nearly 600 miles (960 kilometers) southeast of New Delhi.

The 250-foot (75-meter) chimney came crashing down in the plant's cafeteria as construction workers had tea, said Vishwa Ranjan, the director-general of police in Chhattisgarh state, where the accident occurred.

20 die in chimney collapse at power plant in India

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

A chimney caved in at a power plant being constructed in central India on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 15 others, a news report said.

About 70 workers were feared trapped under the rubble at the plant being built by the Bharat Aluminum Co. at Korba in Chattisgarh state, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted local administrator Ashok Agarwal as saying.

About 300 people were working at the power plant at the time of the accident, PTI said.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

Raman Singh, the top elected official of Chhattisgarh state, ordered a probe into the accident, PTI said.

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's detainment at Newark airport prompts outrage in India

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW DELHI -- Angry fans burned a U.S. flag in protest today, a Cabinet minister suggested searching visiting Americans and an actress tweeted h...

India Decriminalizes Gay Sex

Indipepal | Posted 05.25.2011

By Mansi Poddar In what many are calling "India's Stonewall", the New Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalized homosexual intercourse between c...

Take a Test Drive of World's Cheapest Car

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

Words like "revolutionary" have already been attached to the Tata "Nano," although few have actually seen it up close. With its zippy 2-cylinder alumi...