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Indian workers work on one of the water gates as a part of pre-monsoon maintenance at the Vasana Barrage in Ahmedabad on May 23, 2012. There are contradictory reports from India Metrological Department (IMD) officials - firstly they said that the monsoon in India will be normal and on time, recently again the IMD officials said that El Nino may affect rainfall in many regions of India.

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  • Indian bus falls into Ganges; 26 pilgrims dead

    -- Police say a bus full of Hindu pilgrims plunged into the Ganges River, killing 26 people in northern India .Rescuers worked more than four hours to pull the bodies from the river late Tuesday in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand .Local Tehri district police 2:46 AM Read more »

  • Dharun Ravi gets 30-day jail term in Tyler Clementi spy case

    ending the debate surrounding New Jersey 's tough hate-crimes laws.Judge Glenn Berman said he would not recommend Ravi be deported to India , where he was born and remains a citizen.The case began in September 2010 when Ravi's randomly assigned freshman-year   Read more »

  • Indian rupee hits all-time low against the dollar

    -- The Indian rupee hit a fresh all-time low against the dollar Wednesday, as risk averse global investors wary of India 's twin deficits drowned out central bank efforts to stem the currency's slide.The rupee hit 54.44 against the dollar, breaching its prior   Read more »

  • India's top court refuses entry to Exxon Valdez

    decontaminated.The ship, now known as the "Oriental Nicety," entered Indian waters last week and was headed for the western Indian state of Gujarat , when the Supreme Court gave its order, environmental activist Gopal Krishna said Wednesday.The ship was bought   Read more »

  • US, India call for Pakistani terror crackdown

    if Washington determines it has not done enough under a law aimed at pressuring Iran to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.India's foreign minister, S.M. Krishna , said Iran must live up to its obligations to remain free of nuclear weapons, but said it   Read more »

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About India

India (Hindi: भारत Bhārat; see also other names), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a sovereign nation in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of 7,517 kilometers (4,671 mi). It borders Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Indonesia.

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