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Meteor showers in Asia disappoint

AP News 4 days ago

Cloud, fog cover disappoint skygazers looking for dazzling meteor showers in India, Nepal Thousands of stargazers stayed awake overnight for what was forecast as an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia this year, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many ...

Kashmiri separatist denies start of 'quiet dialogue'

AFP South Asian Edition 5 days ago

Indian Kashmir's top separatist on Tuesday denied media reports stating he met India's home minister at the weekend to kickstart a peace process in the revolt-hit state. The Hindu newspaper reported Tuesday that moderate separatists Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Bilal Lone and Abdul ...

India puts nuclear plants on alert: report

Reuters US Online Report World News 5 days ago

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has put its nuclear power plants on alert and tightened security after intelligence about possible attacks, a report said on Monday. The step comes after a man arrested in the United States on charges of plotting attacks ...

Australian PM pledges to protect Indian students

AFP South Asian Edition 10 days ago

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on an official visit to New Delhi, vowed Thursday to take all possible action to end allegedly racial attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney. A series of assaults since May have strained ties between the ...

India's food dilemma: high prices or shortages

Reuters US Online Report World News 10 days ago

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - For a man who will inherit vast tracts of fertile farmland in Punjab, India's grain bowl, Jaswinder Singh made what seemed to him a logical career move -- he took a job with a telecoms company in New ...

India EU Summit

AP News 14 days ago

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, gestures as he poses for the media along with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, left, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, before a meeting in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan) ...

EU warns of climate change impact on India

AFP South Asian Edition 15 days ago

Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, acting as president of the EU, warned Friday of the impact of climate change on India unless a new emissions pact was reached in upcoming UN climate talks. At an annual European Union-India summit, Reinfeldt said the ...

Pre-paid mobile ban hits Kashmiri lovers

AFP South Asian Edition 17 days ago

Secret lovers in Indian-controlled Kashmir, used to arranging trysts on their mobile phones, are up in arms over a ban on pre-paid connections announced last week by the government. Justified on security grounds after a string of bomb blasts triggered by pre-paid ...

India's pot-bellied males hit gym for Bollywood buff look

AFP South Asian Edition 18 days ago

For Raghu Ghai, the day begins and ends at the same place -- a gym in New Delhi where he pursues his quest for bulging biceps, a "six-pack" stomach and slab-like chest muscles. Ghai, 28, explains his body obsession was triggered by ...

Injury doubts over India's Sehwag, Gambhir

AFP Global Edition 21 days ago

India's key batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are injury doubts for the fourth one-day international against Australia here on Monday. Sehwag was struck on his left foot by a Peter Siddle yorker while Gambhir was hit below the ear by a ...

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