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• Siege protest at India's Nano car plant

  - 2008-08-24

  SINGUR, India AFP — About 40,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded the Indian factory slated to produce the world's cheapest car, alleging land for the site was forcibly taken from local farmers, police said. Demonstrators blocked main roads near the plant at Singur, 35 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the...

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• Indian capital locked down for tense torch relay

  - 2008-04-16

  NEW DELHI AFP — India's capital was barricaded and flooded with police and soldiers on Thursday for the latest and most sensitive leg of the protest-hit Beijing Olympic torch relay. With India home to more than 100,000 Tibetan refugees, including exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and radical youth...

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• Tibetan marchers arrested in India: police official

  - 2008-03-12

  DEHRA, India AFP — Indian police Thursday arrested a group of 100 Tibetan exiles trying to walk to their homeland as part of a major protest ahead of the Beijing Olympics, although the demonstrators vowed their march would go on. The marchers were rounded up as they approached the...

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• Body of Beatles guru cremated in India

  - 2008-02-11

  ALLAHABAD, India AFP — Thousands gathered on the banks of India's Ganges River on Monday to mourn Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual adviser to the Beatles who died last week in the Netherlands, witnesses said. Yogi, who died Tuesday in his home in the Dutch village of Vlodrop,...

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• Beauty queen's 'torture' film barred in Kashmir

  - 2007-06-22

  JAMMU, India AFP — Right-wing activists on Friday stopped cinemas in India's Jammu region from showing a film based on the experiences of a former teen beauty queen accused by police of being a porn star. Anara Gupta, now a 21-year-old law student and aspiring Bollywood actress, alleged that...

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• Tibetans protest Chinese leader's visit to India

  - 2006-11-19

  DHARAMSALA, India AFP — Hundreds of Tibetans have held protests to demand Chinese President Hu Jintao hold talks on the status of their Himalayan region during his state visit to India. About 500 activists began fasting in this northern Indian alpine town, home to the Dalai Lama since 1959 when...

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• Shipbreaking linked to asbestos illness in Indian report

  - 2006-09-06

  NEW DELHI AFP — One in six workers at the world's biggest shipbreaking yard in western India shows symptoms of the fatal illness asbestosis, a Supreme Court committee has said. Of 94 workers exposed to asbestos while working at Alang shipyard in Gujarat state, 15 showed abnormalities "consistent with asbestosis"...

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• India AIDS agency pushes for legalisation of homosexuality

  - 2006-07-20

  NEW DELHI AFP — The Indian government's AIDS prevention body has asked a court to scrap a law banning homosexuality, saying the move would help check the spread of HIV/AIDS. "MSM men who have sex with men is a high-risk group. Since we are in the field of AIDS...

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• India's Bhopal gas victims fast for compensation over toxic fumes

  - 2006-04-11

  NEW DELHI AFP — Indian activists launched a hunger strike, seeking compensation for thousands of slum dwellers poisoned by the 1984 Bhopal gas leak in which clouds of toxic fumes spewed from a plant. The six campaigners ate stuffed Indian bread with pickle as their last meal on a...

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• Indian watchdog quizzes officials, activists on 'asbestos' ship

  - 2006-01-20

  NEW DELHI AFP — A court-appointed Indian watchdog questioned French government officials and environmental activists over an asbestos-laden French warship on its way to be dismantled at an Indian ship-breaking yard. Environmental group Greenpeace and the Ban Asbestos Network sent delegates to the 11-member Supreme Court Monitoring Commission SCMC...

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