India

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October 23, 2007 -- New Delhi, India – Taking the first step toward a long term relationship with a key Indian state, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signed a sister-state partnership agreement between the State of Minnesota and State of Haryana during a ceremony today in New Delhi, India with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

This is the first sister-state agreement in the history of India and Minnesota's second sister-state agreement.    » read more »

Kolkata, International, 12 October 2007 – Six Indian Greenpeace volunteers are spending the weekend in jail after being refused bail after a protest at a coal-fired power plant outside of Kolkata. The ruling came on the same day that Al Gore and the IPCC jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for increasing international knowledge of, and action on climate change.    » read more »

12 October 2007 -- An Indian court is allowing organizers of a Hindu festival to build a replica of the imaginary school depicted in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.

A judge ruled Friday that the community group in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata will not have to pay compensation to Rowling.

Festival organizers argued the celebrations are for the public interest and not for profit.    » read more »

The Untouchable Kids of India Premieres Sunday, October 21, at 8:30 P.M. (Et/Pt) On Nickelodeon

07 October 2007 -- Indian exports, particularly those by small and medium companies, have been hit by the recent surge in the rupee against the dollar. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi.

The Farida Group, based in the southern city of Chennai, is one of India's biggest footwear exporters. A large part of its production goes to the United States.

But Farida Group's business has taken a beating due to an 11 percent appreciation in the value of the rupee against the dollar this year.    » read more »

- In the Largest Expansion of Foreign Bureaus in Two Decades, ABC News Announces the Deployment of Seven Reporters to Posts Around the Globe
- Reporters Dispatched to New Delhi, India; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; Jakarta, Indonesia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dubai, UAE; and Nairobi, Kenya

28 September 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of her much-condemned kiss with fellow movie star Richard Gere.

Immigration authorities at Mumbai Airport briefly detained the Indian actress on September 26, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of her April 15 kiss.    » read more »

30 September 2007 -- India's Central bank has announced a series of measures aimed at slowing the rupee's rise against the dollar. The strong rupee is hurting several sectors of the economy.

The Central Bank recently relaxed limits on overseas investments by Indian mutual funds, domestic companies and individuals.

Mutual funds can now invest $5 billion outside the country - an increase of 25 percent. Domestic companies can now invest up to four times their net worth abroad, and individuals are allowed to double the amount they send overseas every year, to $200,000.    » read more »

22 September 2007 -- A political storm is raging over a project to build a shipping canal in southern India. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, Hindu activists say the canal will destroy a bridge they believe was built by the Hindu god Rama and his army of monkeys.

It is known as "India's Suez Canal," a project to dredge a deep passage between India and Sri Lanka, to allow cargo ships a faster route around the southern tip of India.    » read more »

U.S.-Indonesia agreement targets ocean climate science, observations

18 September 2007 -- Washington -- A second tsunami-detection system for the Indian Ocean will launch from Jakarta, Indonesia, September 19, part of the $1 billion U.S. recovery, restoration and technical contribution to the region after the 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated the area in 2004.    » read more »

16 September 2007 -- India's Information Technology sector has boomed for more than a decade on the back of a cheap and plentiful supply of a skilled labor. But Indian IT companies have begun establishing new facilities overseas as they grapple with rising salaries and a shortage of skilled personnel at home.    » read more »

September 4, 2007, Boston, MA – It has been known that countries with rapidly developing economies may experience a double-disease burden that results from undernutrition and overnutrition. People living in poverty experience diseases that result from a lack of resources, while affluent individuals may suffer from diseases that result from an abundance of resources.    » read more »

02 September 2007 (VOA News) -- India has won the fifth one-day international cricket match against host England in Leeds.

Rain Sunday forced play to be scored using the Duckworth/Lewis method. India ended up a 38-run winner to reduce England's lead in the seven-match series to 3-2.

England was initially chasing 325 to win, but lost three wickets for seven runs in 13 balls as it slumped to 104 for four. After rain stopped play midway through the 17th over, England was chasing a revised target of 311 in 45 overs.    » read more »

Plans to Hire from Local Universities; State-of-the-Art Facility will Strengthen U.S. Presence of Major Indian Company

August 27, 2007 -- ATLANTA – Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), will open its new global software development center in Atlanta.    » read more »

08/26/2007 -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the following statement today regarding the terrorist attacks in Hyderabad, India:    » read more »