India
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Sink or swim, return money to flat buyers, Indian Supreme Court tells Supertech
New Delhi: In an unambiguous message, the Supreme Court on Tuesday told real estate giant Supertech to return flat buyers’…
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India may have up to three times more TB patients than assumed
New Delhi–Ground zero of the global battle against one of humankind’s deadliest diseases, India could have between two and three…
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Even the dead affected in flood-hit Varanasi
By Sidhartha Dutta Varanasi– The Ganga was in spate and the neighbourhoods on its banks in this soulful but chaotic…
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Opinion: Kolkata will take a century to recover from Mother Teresa
By Aroup Chatterjee If Mother Teresa, to be canonised at the Vatican on September 4, is to be named a…
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Eco-friendly toilets launched in Mumbai
Mumbai– Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday inaugurated the first of the eco-friendly, state-of-the-art and hygienic toilet facilities set up…
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India short of 500,000 doctors, bodies on shoulders reminders of health crisis
New Delhi– In Odisha, a man slung his wife’s body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being…
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2,057 foreigners arrested in India in 2015, 168 in Delhi
New Delhi–A total of 2,057 foreigners were arrested across India in 2015 for various criminal offences with Delhi figuring second…
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Indian GDP grows at 7.1 percent in Q1
New Delhi– India’s first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 7.1 per cent is mainly the result of more…
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RTI prevents sale of historic Maharashtra sea fort
By Quaid Najmi Ratnagiri– The single-minded pursuit by an RTI activist led to an expose and finally prevented the sale…
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India approves permanent residency status for foreign investors
New Delhi– In an attempt to encourage foreign investments in India, the central government on Wednesday approved a scheme to…
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