Tag: India

Baby Sold On Facebook For Grandfather’s Drug Money
A newborn baby in India was rescued at the last minute from being sold by his own grandfather in order to fund his drug problem. 47- year old Feroz Khan has been arrested for a...
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Samsung Won’t Let Gangnam Style Rest in Peace
Gangnam Style, as impressive as it was (in terms of sheer global reach), it pretty much over as a thing, a fad, and craze - whatever. As a culture, we've run it into the ground. Pl...
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“Human Computer” Dies: Indian Savant Was 83
A woman who was nicknamed the "human computer" for her incredible math skills has died of respiratory illness. She was 83. Shakuntala Devi became famous as a child while traveli...
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Google Runs Afoul of Indian Agency over Mapping Contest
Google, who is no stranger to international dustups over its maps and street view service, has run afoul of India's federal mapping agency over a recent project to improve upon the...
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56 More Countries Get iTunes Store
Apple announced today that it has launched the iTunes Store in 56 new countries, including Russia, Turkey, India, and South Africa. It is now available in a total of 119 countries....
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Google Adds Street View Imagery To 150 More Universities
Google announced today that it is releasing Street View imagery for over 150 university campuses globally, adding to its...
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Amazon Takes The Kindle To India
India is one of the largest growing markets in the world right now. It's quickly growing at a pace similar to China which has many companies tripping over themselves to break into...
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India Calls on Facebook to Remove “Inflammatory” Content
Another day, another call for Facebook to remove content. This time it comes from officials in India, who claim that content hosted on Facebook has led to a mass panic and exo...
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India Announces Mars Mission One Week After Curiosity Landing
It was expected that NASA, and by extension the U.S., would be the envy of the world after they successfully landed the Curiosity Mars Rover on the red planet last week. Nobody exp...
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U.S. Ship Fires at Indian Fishing Boat in the Persian Gulf
U.S. ship fires at what authorities describe as a "small, white pleasure craft" after repeatedly telling its occupants that the vessel was too close for comfort,...
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Dara Singh, Indian Wrestler and Actor, Dies at 83
Today (June 12th, 2012), the Bollywood community loses a talented friend to its entertainment community, Dara Singh, well-known for his wrestling during his youth, and his actin...
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Indian Navy To Launch First Satellite
The space surrounding the planet Earth is about to get a little more crowded with the Indian Navy...
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Child Labor in India is Still a Major Problem
Child labor in India continues to be an alarming problem despite laws that forbid such practices....
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LinkedIn India Reaches 15 Million Members
LinkedIn's India division has reached a new milestone: 15 million Indian professionals now use the social network. Over on the LinkedIn Blog, Hari Krishnan, country manager at Lin...
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#OpIndia Is Anonymous’ New Campaign Against Internet Censorship
Anonymous is kind of like a global Batman that uses a computer instead of batarangs to fight what they perceive as injustice. They have started up operations in various...
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