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A 7-month-old wild tiger died in an Indian zoo, two days after veterinarians tried to save her with a rare blood transfusion, officials said.
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India’s largest outsourcing firm, Tata Consultancy Services, is buying Citigroup’s back-office operations in India for $505 million in cash, the companies said on Wednesday.
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At least one of the suspects belonged to the youth wing of a Hindu nationalist political party, police officials said.
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The first lunar probe from India landed on the moon and has been transmitting images back to Indian space control, the Indian Space Research Organization said.
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Manish Kumar, 15, was kidnapped by members of the rival caste on his way to school and thrown under a train, the police said.
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President Dmitri A. Medvedev signed agreements Friday to develop new nuclear plants in India.
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An Indian woman who says she is about 70 years old has given birth to her first child.
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India’s lower house of Parliament approved legislation aimed at combating terrorism in response to last month’s attacks in Mumbai.
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Wipro, an outsourcing company, said it would buy Citi Technology Services for $127 million, as Citigroup sheds assets. Wipro said it would also sign a six-year outsourcing agreement with Citi worth at least $500 million. Citi Technology Services was started in 2005 and is expected to report revenue of $80 million in 2008.
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India’s exports fell for a second consecutive month, adding pressure on the central bank to cut interest rates.
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India’s national airline has fired nine flight attendants for being overweight, an official said Tuesday.
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The Indian unit of General Motors will raise its car prices by 1 to 2 percent to cover rising costs and does not expect the market to improve in the first half of 2009, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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Credit Suisse said it had injected 7.94 billion rupees ($164 million) into the operations of its nonbanking financial company in India.
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Voting in the Maldives’ first multiparty presidential election was extended Wednesday after problems arose.
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Thai riot police officers used a cheap Chinese tear gas, which contained an explosive powerful, to disperse protesters, an investigator said.
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North Korea lifted its ban on U.N. inspections of the plant that produced plutonium and announced that it would resume deactivating a related nuclear facility within days.
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The police surrounded Pakistan’s biggest stock exchange to thwart violence by investors demanding a trading halt.
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China’s trade surplus in September hit a new monthly high of $29.3 billion, the government said.
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Four former Khmer Rouge rebels were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the deaths of a British mine clearing expert and his Cambodian interpreter.
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Singapore’s High Court ordered a prominent government critic, Chee Soon Juan, his sister and his political party to pay $416,000 in defamation damages to the prime minister and his father.
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Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged rocket and rifle fire for about an hour in a confrontation at their border over claims to a 900-year-old mountaintop temple.
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The Venezuelan authorities say six people, including three army intelligence officials and a police officer, have been detained in the killing of a student leader.
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Zhang Mingqing, a senior Beijing official, was knocked to the ground but not seriously injured by pro-independence demonstrators in Taiwan.
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At least five suspects linked to regional Islamic terrorist groups were arrested in raids in and near Jakarta, the police said Wednesday.
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China’s legislature began reviewing a draft law that would strictly limit food additives, after more than 50,000 infants were sickened by tainted milk formula.
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American prosecutors accused an Afghan man of running a global drug-trafficking organization and using the proceeds to finance the Taliban.
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The government said that it would execute three men convicted of the terrorist bombing attacks in Bali nightclubs six years ago that killed 202 people.
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China has strongly condemned the decision by the European Parliament to select a jailed Chinese dissident, Hu Jia, for a prestigious human rights award.
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No one claimed responsibility for the blast, which occurred near the district courts in the southwestern city of Quetta.
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