India lights up ahead of Diwali festival (Photo: Piyal Adhikary / EPA) Buildings decorated with electric lights on the eve of Diwali, the Festival of Light in Calcutta, India, on Nov. 12. During Diwali the entire house is cleaned and new clothes are purchased for the whole family. This is followed by lighting oil lamps around the house and setting off firecrackers. See more photos. 
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India lights up ahead of Diwali festival

(Photo: Piyal Adhikary / EPA)

Buildings decorated with electric lights on the eve of Diwali, the Festival of Light in Calcutta, India, on Nov. 12. During Diwali the entire house is cleaned and new clothes are purchased for the whole family. This is followed by lighting oil lamps around the house and setting off firecrackers.

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Reports: India ‘Hitler’ store owner to change shop name (Photo: Ajit Solanki / AP) The owner of a clothing store in western India who sparked a row for naming his shop “Hitler” has decided to change its name, according to reports. Rajesh Shah, whose store opened last month in Ahmedabad city in the western state of Gujarat, had claimed he only recently learned why the name would offend people.  Read the complete story.
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Reports: India ‘Hitler’ store owner to change shop name

(Photo: Ajit Solanki / AP)

The owner of a clothing store in western India who sparked a row for naming his shop “Hitler” has decided to change its name, according to reports.

Rajesh Shah, whose store opened last month in Ahmedabad city in the western state of Gujarat, had claimed he only recently learned why the name would offend people. 

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Half of India - 600 million - without power as grid fails for second day Heavy traffic clogged the street of New Delhi, India, on Tuesday following power outages and rain. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP) Half of India’s 1.2 billion people were without power Tuesday as the grids covering 19 states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days. Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan, the power cut was the worst to hit India in more than a decade.  Read the complete story.
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Half of India - 600 million - without power as grid fails for second day

Heavy traffic clogged the street of New Delhi, India, on Tuesday following power outages and rain. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

Half of India’s 1.2 billion people were without power Tuesday as the grids covering 19 states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days.

Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan, the power cut was the worst to hit India in more than a decade. 

Read the complete story.

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Frogs receive traditional Hindu wedding ceremony The wedding of two frogs, arranged by farmers seeking rainfall, is performed in Nagpur on June 29, in order to please the Rain Gods and in the hope that their region would soon receive monsoon showers. People blew trumpets and sang songs, as the priest solemnized the marriage with the usual Hindu marriage rituals to the chanting of Hindu hymns and by putting streaks of vermilion on the female frog’s head.  Read the complete story.
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Frogs receive traditional Hindu wedding ceremony

The wedding of two frogs, arranged by farmers seeking rainfall, is performed in Nagpur on June 29, in order to please the Rain Gods and in the hope that their region would soon receive monsoon showers. People blew trumpets and sang songs, as the priest solemnized the marriage with the usual Hindu marriage rituals to the chanting of Hindu hymns and by putting streaks of vermilion on the female frog’s head. 

Read the complete story.

Source: MSN

Real-life ‘Slumdog Millionaire:’ A poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India has become the first person ever to win $1 million on an Indian game show. Sushil Kumar’s staggering win on the popular Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” has transformed him into a role model for millions of aspiring youth yearning to escape from lives of poverty and find a role in India’s burgeoning economy.
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Real-life ‘Slumdog Millionaire:’ A poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India has become the first person ever to win $1 million on an Indian game show.

Sushil Kumar’s staggering win on the popular Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” has transformed him into a role model for millions of aspiring youth yearning to escape from lives of poverty and find a role in India’s burgeoning economy.

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