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My Sympathies Are Entirely With Saif Ali Khan

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, center, is surrounded by police officials as he left a police station in Mumbai. South African businessman Iqbal Sharma and Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan got into an altercation at a restaurant in the ...
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Tech Journal: Balancing Advertising and Content

By Amit Agarwal Scott Olson/Getty Images The Google Search team recently rolled out a new Page Layout update to search algorithms that is likely to affect the search rankings of sites that have a low content-to-ad ratio above the fold. The ...
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India Digest: Etisalat to Shut India Operations

Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and ...
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India Soccer League Postponed

India’s attempt to launch a sparkling soccer league in West Bengal featuring fading international stars like Hernan Crespo and Fabio Cannavaro has hit a pretty major snag: the pitches aren’t ready. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images Security personnel sit in the pavilion area ...
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India This Evening: New Amphibian Family Found in Indian Mud

Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and websites ...
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IT Company Goes Knocking on Small Town Doors

Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Not many IT companies have gone to a town like Shimoga, which has a population of about 1.7 million and is the rice bowl of the state. In an attempt to keep a lid on costs and ...
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Want to Make Green Investments? Watch the Greenex

Punit Paranjpe/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Indian media gathered during the launch of eco-friendly index BSE-Greenex at the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai Wednesday. Stock market investors and fund managers now have an option if they want to invest in the ...
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Nepal’s ‘Bandh’ Generation on the Silver Screen

By Aarti Virani When Nepalese filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar was en route to the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival earlier this month, he found himself stuck at Newark Liberty International Airport. This reminded him of the movie he was heading there to screen: ...
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Inside Google and Facebook’s India Courtroom

Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and several other Internet companies are battling a criminal case in New Delhi filed against them by journalist Vinay Rai. Jin Lee/Bloomberg News Logos of Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Skype Technologies displayed on a computer screen, ...
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