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- Starbucks is starstruck
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Starbucks is trying to stop an entrepreneur from opening a rival chain called Starstruck in India, effectively beating the coffee company to the punch. The entrepreneur says her concept is totally different from the Starbucks offer. The name is just coincidental, of course.
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- Offshoring accountants
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The trend to offshore accountants continues. Now the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain is exporting two thirds of its accounting and finance functions to India. Other government agencies in other countries will do the same.
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- Offshoring accountants: engaging India
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The shortage of accountants is hitting home, Offshoring accounting work to India is taking off with new figures showing that 1.6 million US tax returns will be prepared from India by 2011.
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- AIDS in India
  Posted by Justonehumbletruthseeker from Reuters UK
  Did you know that families in India "often disown their HIV-positive family members"? Or that children with AIDS could be kicked out of schools and/or orphanages? Or that people may be denied housing by landlords if they have AIDS?
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- Pakistan spy agency behind Mumbai bombings
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  The Indian government accused Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, of planning the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 209 people. "We have solved this case," Indian Police Commisioner A.N. Roy said at a news conference Saturday. Roy said the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a banned terrorist group from Pakistan, and the Students Islamic Movement of India were part of the planning and carried out the attacks. "The entire episode was done on behalf of ISI," he said.
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- Girl Shortage Could Cause Rise in Crime
  Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine
  In a recent review paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of British and Chinese researchers argue that sex selection in countries like China and India may have already set the stage for national crises by creating a surplus of men and a shortage of women. "Both sociological/criminological literature and historical literature demonstrate the link to increased vice, violence, crime, use of arms, riots, etc. in the presence of substantial numbers of mateless young adult men in society," said an email from Valerie Hudson, a political scientist at Brigham Young University whose work on the effects of increased sex ratios was cited in the new study. "It is hard to see positive consequences for women, in contrast to what economists would have us believe about scarcity inevitably leading to a better situation for women," Therese Hesketh, an author of the paper and researcher in child health at University College London, said. "That has never happened, ever."
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- Crowds throng Hindu temples across northern India to see statues drink
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  "I put a milk-filled spoon to Ganesha's mouth and he drank it,'' exclaimed Akhilesh Shukla, a trader in Lucknow, capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state. He was among the countless devotees who carried milk in glasses and pitchers to northern Indian temples where Hindus worship Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of good fortune and wisdom; Shiva, the destroyer, and Durga, the goddess of strength. "It is a miracle,'' said Sudhir Mishra, a priest at a Shiva temple in Lucknow. He said that at least 10 liters of milk had been offered at his temple on Monday. "Look at the floor it is fairly dry. Where's the milk gone? It should be visible on floor. Can you see that.''
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