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People With Actual Tails
The human tail is front and center this week, thanks to Ke$ha and a 12-year-old boy worshipped as a living God in India. Ke$ha, who previously claimed she had sex with a ghost, told the British publication Heat that she was born with a tail, but that it was removed before she could shake it.
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India lost 220 languages in last 50 years, survey finds
India has lost around 20% of its languages in the past five decades, a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has revealed.
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India's Forgotten Chinese Internment Camp
Following a brief border skirmish in 1962, India held 3,000 ethnic Chinese people in prison camps. A half-century later, survivors are still seeking justice.
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Train kills 35 pilgrims in eastern India
A train ran over a group of Hindu pilgrims crossing railroad tracks in eastern India early Monday, killing at least 35 people. An angry mob beat the driver severely and set fire to coaches in retaliation, officials said.
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Sexual harassment in India: 'The story you never wanted to hear'
American college student Michaela Cross struggles to describe her time studying abroad in India. She says it was full of adventures and beauty but also relentless sexual harassment, groping and worse.
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India bans shark 'finning'
India has banned hunting sharks for only their fins in a move to protect endangered species from indiscriminate hunting for parts wanted abroad.
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Cracked paddy field
An Indian farmer shows a dry, cracked paddy field. India's Meteorological Department says it expects the country to get at least 10 percent less rain this June-to-September monsoon season.
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Jyoti Amge, The World's Shortest Woman, Launches Guinness World Records 2014
At just under 25 inches tall, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, is the world's shortest woman. She's a college-bound student, with dreams of making it as an actress. Still, she weighs just 12 pounds -- only nine pounds more than she did at birth.
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A Vice Guide to Travel: Human Safari
Tourists on India's Andaman Islands are taken by the busload to watch the Jarawa tribe go about their daily lives. The Jarawa are treated like animals in a safari park, with large signs urging visitors not to feed them or give them clothing. Earlier this year, a crew from VICE Germany went to the Andaman Islands and brought back footage for this fascinating, if a bit depressing, documentary.
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India to build world's largest solar power plant in Rajasthan
India will build the world's largest solar plant to generate 4,000 mw from sunlight near the Sambhar lake in Rajasthan that will sell electricity at an estimated rate of Rs 5.50 per unit.
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Report says PRISM snooped on India's space, nuclear programs
NSA spooks risk alienating yet another US ally after new documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently revealed extensive surveillance of Indian domestic politics as well as the country’s nuclear and space programs.
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Huge cyclone bears down on India
Cyclone Phailin is expected to be the biggest storm in the region for 14 years
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Breathtaking images of the living bridges of India
Among the most beautiful places in the world is the Indian state of Meghalaya. Conjure up heaven on Earth and you might picture it: Chiseled by majestic waterfalls and carpeted in lush rain forest, misty gorges characterize the landscape. "Meghalaya" literally translates as "abode in the clouds."
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The mystery of India’s other golden temple: Archaeologists begin hunt for fabled hoard of treasure
As a boy, Ram Sagar listened to legends about untold riches that were said to lie beneath the very ground he was now clearing with a shovel. The stories said there was an enormous hoard of gold, the lost treasures of a king who had risen up against British rulers and been hanged for his dissent.
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Behind the 'Bad Indian Coder'
An ongoing debate about the quality of outsourced code prompts a look at the country’s precarious economic and educational picture.
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Google Earth Reunites An Indian Man With His Family After 26 Years
Google has published a video (Homeward Bound) and a post about how Google Earth reunited an Indian Man with his family after 26 years.
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The Indian Prime Minister Is Spy-Proof, Has no Email or Cell Phone
The U.S. has spied on 35 unnamed world leaders, but the Indian prime minister is sure he's safe -- as he doesn't have a phone or an email address to hack.
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Gang Rape in India, Routine and Invisible
At 5:30 p.m. on that Thursday, four young men were playing cards, as usual, when Mohammed Kasim Sheikh’s cellphone rang and he announced that it was time to go hunting. Prey had been spotted, he told a friend. When the host asked what they were going to hunt, he said, “A beautiful deer.”
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NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge between India and Sri Lanka
Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.
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India strives to join elite Mars explorer club
India is aiming to join an elite group of space explorers when it launches a mission to Mars. The country's space research organization (ISRO) is due to fire an orbiter to the Red Planet on Tuesday - only NASA, the former Soviet Union and the Europeans have previously been successful in operating probes from Mars.
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