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Former Garment Worker Fights to Unionize Walmart's Near-Slave Labor in Bangladesh
Garment workers have been voiceless for years, forced to endure long days for next-to-nothing wages without benefits or safety protections. Manufacturers like Walmart and European clothing giant Primark abuse the system to keep costs down and the price of their goods cheap. And they fear people like Kalpona Akter.
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The girl whose rape changed a country
She was attacked at a rural police station, and her landmark case awakened India decades ago. But did she manage to love, have children, find happiness? New headlines about rape in my homeland set me on a journey to find her.
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In India, Bill Gates shares what we can all learn from the fight against polio
India's success in eradicating polio offers a script for winning some of the world's most difficult battles in every area of human welfare, writes Bill Gates.
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Non-profit wins $300,000 Google prize to make India's first open-defecation free city
For every story about India's coming of age as a world power, there is another one about poop. Specifically, sanitation continues to be a public-health problem for the country of 1.1 billion. More than half of all homes do not have toilets, according to the latest census figures. Over the past decade, the number of homes with toilets has actually slipped by 11 per cent.
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India's Mars mission suffers glitch
India's Mars spacecraft suffered a brief engine failure on Monday as scientists tried to move it into a higher orbit around Earth. During a fourth repositioning to take it 100,000 kms from Earth, the thruster engines briefly failed, leading the auto-pilot to take over but controllers denied any setback to the ambitious low-cost mission.
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'Enjoy rape' remark puts India's top investigator under fire
The director of India's top investigation agency faces fierce criticism over his controversial comment, “if you can't prevent rape, you enjoy it”. Rights campaigners demanded the resignation of the country’s top investigator.
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53 p.c. of Indian households defecate in open: World Bank
As World Toilet Day was marked on Tuesday, India’s sanitation and toilet statistics continue to raise a stink. The World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimate that there are more than 620 million people practising open defecation in the country; over 50 per cent of the population.
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Gold bars worth $1M found in airplane bathroom
2 lunch boxes holding 12 bars each found hidden in toilets of Jet Airways plane in India
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India could replace the US as Facebook’s #1 market in a matter of months
Facebook has had wild success with its push into emerging markets. Now Jana CEO Nathan Eagle is predicting that it will only be months before India supplants the US and becomes Facebook’s largest market in terms of users.
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Why India Is Going to Mars
IF you want to marry in India and are looking for a bride or groom, normally you need to consult an astrologer, to learn whether the position of the planet Mars is favorable on your birth chart. If not, you may find it difficult to get the match of your choice. Lately, some employers have been trying this as well, matching their horoscopes with those of their prospective employees; companies are also comparing horoscopes with their clients for good fortune.
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India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously
Indian nuclear scientists haven't had an easy time of it over the past decade. Not only has the scientific community been plagued by "suicides," unexplained deaths, and sabotage, but those incidents have gone mostly underreported in the country—diluting public interest and leaving the cases quickly cast off by police.
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I tried to see where my T-shirt was made, and the factory sent thugs after me.
Aruna, a 19-year-old nurse I met in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a lot like some of my friends in Washington, DC—bright, single, self-assured, loves her job. She speaks quickly and eloquently, not stopping to drink her tea and hardly ever even pausing to breathe. When I first meet her in Coimbatore, a city known for its textile industry, she is on her lunch break, wearing her freshly starched white uniform and a traditional red bindi dot on her forehead.
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India editor Tarun Tejpal arrested after bail rejected
The editor of a prominent Indian news magazine has been arrested over sexual assault allegations, after a court rejected an extension of his bail.
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Mars Orbiter successfully placed in Mars Transfer Trajectory
Crossing a major milestone in the country's space history, Isro's Mars Orbiter mission in the early hours of Sunday ventured out of Earth's sphere of influence for the first time in an attempt to reach the red planet's orbit.
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India’s Mysterious Skeleton Lake
For decades, experts puzzled over hundreds of ancient dead bodies found at a remote lake. Were they victims of disease? Mass suicide? War? The answer is weirder than you think.
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India's Mars mission enters second stage
India's first mission to Mars left Earth's orbit early on Sunday, clearing a critical hurdle in its journey to the red planet and overtaking the efforts in space of rival Asian giant China.
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Why the Rest of the World Is Mad at India
It’s the type of powerful force that’s felt when 1.2 billion people clamor for more electricity—many of them trying to light, heat, and refrigerate their ways out of poverty; others throwing rupees at excessive air conditioning and other newfound luxuries. And it’s the type of unpredictable force that’s felt when the government of those 1.2 billion is in election mode, clamoring for votes by brazenly blocking progress at international climate talks.
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India's Dating Sites Skip Straight to the Wedding
The online dating scene in India is primarily matrimonial websites, predicated on the idea that the first meeting between two paired users will be to chat about their wedding. It highlights a false dichotomy between modern arranged marriages and fairytale love.
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