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Apple Plant Closed After Pesticide-Linked Illness

Hundreds of Foxconn workers hospitalized

(Newser) - Foxconn has closed a factory in India for at least a week after hundreds of workers were hospitalized. The company, which makes components for Apple and other electronics firms, says most of the 250 workers sent to local hospitals after experiencing "sensations of giddiness and nausea" were released soon...

India Unveils $35 Tablet Computer
India Unveils
$35 Tablet Computer
Jul 23, 2010 11:35 AM CDT

India Unveils $35 Tablet Computer

World's cheapest could be in students' hands next year

(Newser) - India plans to roll out the world's cheapest tablet computer next year. The $35 touchscreen device—that's one-14th the price of an iPad, notes the AP —is aimed at students, and the price could eventually come down to $10 or $20. The government still hasn't lined up a manufacturer,...

61 Dead in India Train Crash
 61 Dead in India Train Crash 
Jul 19, 2010 4:20 AM CDT

61 Dead in India Train Crash

Officials have not yet ruled out sabotage

(Newser) - A train crash powerful enough to thrust the roof of one of its cars into a bridge above the tracks has killed 61 people in India. Another 120 were injured after the express train hit a standing train early today at a station in the town of Sainthia, about 125...

India's Rupee Finally Gets a Symbol

It's a sign of a growing economy, says government

(Newser) - India's rupee has joined the ranks of the dollar, the pound, the euro, and the yen: It now can be designated with a symbol. After a nationwide contest, India's government announced the winning symbol for its currency, a combination of the Roman letter R and its Hindi equivalent. The government...

Semenya Not Picked for South Africa Team

Despite IAAF permission, won't race in Kenya on July 28

(Newser) - Though the IAAF cleared her for competition last Tuesday, Caster Semenya's year-long absence from racing still isn't over: The women's 800m world champion has been left out of South Africa's team for the African Championships on July 28 in Kenya, after the country's athletic group determined she wasn't in good...

Mom Tries to Flush Newborn Down Airplane Toilet

Baby critical, mother busted

(Newser) - An Indian woman gave birth to a baby in a tiny airplane bathroom, the tried to flush the newborn down the toilet, authorities said. The baby was discovered stuck when the plane landed, and the entire toilet was removed and rushed, with the newborn, to a local hospital. The baby...

Indian Couple Electrocuted for Cross-Caste Love

Woman's family arrested for Delhi 'honor killing'

(Newser) - The well-to-do family of a 19-year-old Delhi woman who fell in love with a taxi driver from a lower caste responded to the couple's desire to marry by torturing them to death. Police say the woman and her boyfriend, 21, were bound, beaten and electrocuted, the Independent reports.

Execs Found Guilty 25 Years After Bhopal Disaster

Union Carbide bosses guilty of death by negligence

(Newser) - More than a quarter-century after one of the worst industrial disasters in history, the verdicts are in. An Indian court has found 8 former executives at Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary guilty of causing death by negligence for their role in 1984's Bhopal disaster, CNN reports. A leak at the chemical...

Obama Will Visit India in November
Obama Will
Visit India in November
Jun 3, 2010 6:18 PM CDT

Obama Will Visit India in November

Calls partnership among his 'highest of priorities'

(Newser) - President Obama today called deepening ties with India one of his administration's most important goall and said he will visit in early November. The US-Indian relationship, he said, will help shape the coming century. Obama's comments came during the inaugural US-India Strategic Dialogue, a high-level meeting meant to ease Indians'...

Pigeon Detained on Suspicion of Spying

Seriously: India suspects Pakistani subterfuge

(Newser) - A pigeon was taken into custody by Indian police last week when residents along the border with Pakistan suspected it was involved in a spy caper. The bird wasn't bearing a message when it was caught, but it did have a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body...

Hundreds Die in India Heatwave
 Hundreds Die in India Heatwave 



May 31, 2010 7:44 AM CDT

Hundreds Die in India Heatwave

Heatstroke, blackouts, water shortages plague parched country

(Newser) - Hundreds of people have died in northern India as the country suffers the hottest temperatures it has ever recorded. Along with the at least 260 people reported dead, thousands have flooded hospitals suffering heat stroke or food poisoning. In cities the heat has also led to electricity blackouts and water...

India Elders Get Death in Honor Killing

First use of capital punishment for this crime

(Newser) - The village elders hunted the young couple down, dragging them from a bus, strangling the groom and forcing his bride to drink pesticide in an honor killing with roots thousands of years old. But for the first time, India has sentenced the murderers to death for their actions, setting up...

Black Boxes Found in India Crash

Air India won't speculate on cause of crash

(Newser) - Investigators searching for clues as to what caused India's worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder today from the charred remains of an Air India flight. The crash yesterday of the Boeing 737-800, which overshot a hilltop runway in southern...

Facing Bias, Pakistanis Pretend to Be Indian

Times Square bomb scare boosts anti-Pakistani sentiment

(Newser) - Pakistani immigrants are again feeling prejudice after the attempted car bombing in Times Square, and they're resorting to an old tactic to avoid discrimination: pretending they are Indian. After September 11, with anti-Pakistani sentiment in the US peaking, merchants and job seekers learned quickly that identifying with their homeland's archrival...

Mumbai Gunman Sentenced to Death

Crowds celebrate

(Newser) - Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, was sentenced to death today by an Indian court, three days after the Pakistani was found guilty of murder and waging war against India. "Such a person can't be given an opportunity to reform himself,...

Indian Croc Kills US Tourist
 Indian Croc Kills US Tourist 
May 6, 2010 5:14 AM CDT

Indian Croc Kills US Tourist

Family of NJ woman say there should have been warnings

(Newser) - The family of a New Jersey woman killed by a crocodile while snorkeling in India's Andaman Islands say she'd be alive today if tourists had been warned that man-eating crocodiles are a serious danger there. Lauren Failla, 25, was killed by a 12-foot crocodile near a resort where she was...

Indian Man Claims He Ate, Drank Nothing for 70 Years

(Newser) - An 82-year-old man in India claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years. Military scientists have isolated him in a hospital in order to verify his claims; so far he's spent 6 days under observation with no food or water, and no signs of hunger or...

Safest Place to Give Birth? Italy
Safest Place to Give Birth? Italy
Apr 14, 2010 2:04 PM CDT

Safest Place to Give Birth? Italy

Afghanistan is worst, but deaths during childbirth plummet 40% globally

(Newser) - The number of women who die while giving birth has plummeted over the last 30 years, thanks mostly to dramatic improvements in populous rising nations like India, China, Brazil, and Egypt, according to a new study. Globally, 251 mothers died for every 100,000 babies born in 2008, a 40%...

13 International Celebrity Tiffs
 13 International 
 Celebrity Tiffs 
robin williams vs. australia
Apr 9, 2010 10:23 AM CDT

13 International Celebrity Tiffs

The big names who've gotten in hot water overseas

(Newser) - Robin Williams’ comment to David Letterman last week that “Australians are basically English rednecks” set off quite a chain reaction—the Australian prime minister is mad at Williams, and the Alabama governor is mad at the Australian PM for implying Alabamians are the real rednecks. The Daily Beast rounds...

India Peeved as Obama Cools Relations
India Peeved as Obama
Cools Relations
analysis
Apr 7, 2010 3:36 PM CDT

India Peeved as Obama Cools Relations

President in danger of undoing predecessors' successes

(Newser) - Barack Obama is neglecting the US relationship with India and could undo the diplomatic progress made by the previous three administrations between the world's biggest democracies, writes Sumit Ganguly. Indian diplomats are annoyed as the US cozies up to Pakistan and backpedals on a deal to sell nuclear technology, but...

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