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Sex-Selective Abortions Rise in India

For centuries, sons have been preferred over daughters in India. But now the desire for a boy coupled with medical technology has led to a rise in illegal sex-selective abortions. India's 2011 census shows that the gender ratio of children younger than 6 has declined to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in...

Top Organizer of India's Commonwealth Games Jailed for Corruption

NEW DELHI -- The spiraling investigation into India's troubled Commonwealth Games landed its chief organizer behind bars on Monday - a long-anticipated arrest after months of allegations and cries of corruption over the event. India had hoped the two-week international sporting competition in October would highlight its...

5 Asian Nuclear Reactors Face Tsunami Risk

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The skeleton of what will soon be one of the world's biggest nuclear plants is slowly taking shape along China's southeastern coast - right on the doorstep of Hong Kong's bustling metropolis. Three other facilities nearby are up and running or under construction. Like Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant...

India Debates: Was Fast an Anti-Corruption Uprising or Blackmail?

A 72-year-old social activist in India has become the people's champion after his threat to fast until he was dead forced the Indian government to act on an anti-corruption bill, which had been dead for decades. Dressed in simple white clothes, Anna Hazare, a Gandhian activist, went on a hunger strike for four days in...

Hunger Strike Shines Light On Corruption in Indian Government [VIDEO]

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Why the Women's Rights Movement Must Listen to Sex Workers

"The key demand of the sex workers' movement in Burma, in Asia and all around the world is simple. We demand that sex work is recognized as work. But we have one other key demand, specific to certain parts of the women's movement. We demand that we are not treated as victims."

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Warren Adler: The Greying of America

The success of the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel may yet prove to be the watershed moment when the movie industry gets the message that ignoring people over 60 is a profound marketing mistake, not only for the film business but for "everything."

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Erica Dasher & India de Beaufort: Nylon Night!

Erica Dasher and India de Beaufort hit up the red carpet at Nylon Magazine's Summer Music Issue at The Roxy in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (May 30).

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Who's Quoted More In Stories About Women's Issues: Men Or Women?

Girls in India are too often treated like an infectious diseaseâthey're sold into sexual slavery, forced into child labor, and sometimes, killed or abandoned at birth, simply for being female. "

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Soraya Chemaly: 160 Million Missing Females: PRENDA and Misogyny

Because of gender bias and sex discrimination, there are an estimated 160,000,000 girls and women missing from the planet today.

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06/03/12 Iran praise with nudge Source: The Telegraph of India Tehran has described New Delhi's political stance on international issues as "quite fair and impartial" in what India sees as a further effort to embarrass it into adopting a more pro-Iran line in that country's tussles with the West. Iran foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who ended a two-day New Delhi trip on Friday, had stressed the commonalities between the two countries and urged India to treat Iran as "a reliable partner" and "a reliable source of energy for India".
06/03/12 Global economy at risk as U.S., Europe and Asia slow Source: The Times Herald - Port Huron MI Having rebounded strongly from the recession of 2007-2009, Chinas economy grew a sizzling 10.4 in 2011.
06/03/12 141 licences, not 122, should have been cancelled:... Source: The Economic Times - India Idea Cellular has warned that implementing Trai's latest recommendations on spectrum will change the competitive structure of India's telecoms landscape and could even create natural monopolies.
06/03/12 Shami shines, scalps three Source: The Telegraph of India The pace-spin combination of Mohammed Shami Ahmed and Rahul Sharma shared six wickets as India A bowled out West Indies A for 252 on the opening day of their four-day match at the Kensington Oval here on Saturday.
06/03/12 Solution to EU car row Source: The Telegraph of India The heavy industries ministry has said a "calibrated" duty reduction on cars imported from Europe can be considered at a later stage.

Background on india

India (), officially the Republic of India ('), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world.

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