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Facebook Arrests Ignite Free Speech Debate In India

Shaheen Dhada is an unlikely looking protagonist in the battle under way in India to protect free speech from government restrictions in the new media age.Slight and soft-spoken, Dhada perches on the...

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Free-Speech Debate In India Heats Up

It looks like the case in India against two young female Facebook users has been dropped.

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India's Legislature Paves Way For Big-Box, Multinationals Like Wal-Mart

(Reporting from New Delhi, NPR's Julie McCarthy sends along an update on a story that aired on Morning Edition Wednesday.

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Wal-Mart's Lobbying In U.S. To Be Probed By Indian Government

India's government has approved an inquiry into Wal-Mart's lobbying activities in the U.S. as a heated debate over the retail giant's plans for stores in India moves into a new phase, NPR's Julie...

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Indian Musicians Remember Their Teacher, Ravi Shankar

The world mourned the death this week of Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, whose name became synonymous with the sitar. Tributes eulogized Shankar as the great connector of the East and West who'd hobnobbed...

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Rape Case In India Provokes Widespread Outrage

The gang rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi has touched off outrage and soul-searching in the increasingly unsafe Indian capital.Spontaneous protests have erupted, while anguished members of...

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In India, All Religions Join In 'The Big Day'

India, the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism, marks the birth of Jesus with a national holiday.Indians call Christmas bara din, or the Big Day.Chef Bhakshish Dean, a Punjabi Christian,...

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Anger Swells As Indians Mourn For Rape Victim

By Saturday evening, more than 1,000 candles glowed at a somber scene in a central Delhi park as India mourned the death of the young woman whose gang rape two weeks ago shocked the country.What began...

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Six Men Charged In India's Fatal Gang-Rape

Demonstrations in India continued for a second straight day after a young woman who was gang-raped on a public bus died of her injuries over the weekend. Police are awaiting forensic reports that would...

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In India, Five Charged With Rape And Murder In Crime That Shocked Nation

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Amid Pandemonium, Court In Indian Rape Case Is Closed To Public

The five men accused in the rape case that has reverberated around the world were brought before a New Delhi magistrate for the first time today — but only after she sealed the proceedings.A chaotic...

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India, Pakistan Trade Accusations Over Border Killings

India reacted angrily today at what it called the "inhumane treatment" of one of two soldiers killed Tuesday in a skirmish along the de facto border with Pakistan.Pakistan challenged the Indian army's...

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In 2nd Term, Obama To Pivot To Asia

Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president of the United States, as his title suggests, is the leader of this country, but in many ways is also the leader of the world. And so we're looking at how...

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India's Supreme Court To Hear Venue Appeal In Notorious Rape And Murder Case

India's Supreme Court will hear a petition Wednesday on behalf of one of the defendants in the New Delhi rape and murder case that has provoked mass protests in that nation. One of the accused, Mukesh...

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Outside The Big City, A Harrowing Sexual Assault In Rural India

It began as an innocent Sunday outing to see the movie The Life of Pi. By the time the night was over, it had become a grisly gang rape that shocked the world.Five men went on trial this week, charged...

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In The Waters Of India's Holy Rivers, Seeking A Glimpse Of Immortality

The Hindu gathering known as Kumbh Mela is on a scale difficult to fathom: The world's largest religious festival is millions of feet shuffling, millions of mantras chanted, countless sales of firewood...

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In A Swirl Of Humanity, A Chance Encounter With A Saint

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "What makes life worth living are the saints. ... They can be longtime friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society."And so...

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Violent Street Clashes In Bangladesh Leave Dozens Dead

A wave of violence has rocked Bangladesh after a special war crimes tribunal Thursday imposed the death penalty on an Islamist leader for his role in the country's 1971 war of independence from...

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Remembering Hugo Chavez

I first encountered Hugo Chavez in Caracas, starring in his own television show, Hello, Mr. President. I couldn't take my eyes of the program, which began at 11 a.m. and ended after 7 p.m.It was an...

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On India's Trains, Seeking Safety In The Women's Compartment

Headlines in India's national newspapers tell the story of the state of women in the country.

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