Stephanie March is the India Correspondent for ABC's Australia Network. She is based in Delhi. Since joining the ABC in 2007 she has reported from Australia, India, East Timor and Bangladesh. You can follow her on twitter @steph_march.
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Near freezing temperatures in the Indian capital are making life almost impossible for people living on the streets, but helping the city’s homeless isn’t a straight forward task.
Topics: homelessness, india, asia
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A new record has been set at a chilli-eating competition by an Indian who ate 18.5 chillies in 20 seconds.
Topics: food-and-cooking, india, asia
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Australia's agreement to sell uranium to India could include weaker monitoring safeguards than the nuclear deals Australia has with other countries.
Topics: nuclear-issues, nuclear-energy, world-politics, india, australia
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As India's Sachin Tendulkar returns to Mumbai, the city where it all began, for his 200th and final Test, his fans and friends share stories of the 'Little Master'.
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Sachin Tendulkar is set for an emotional farewell when he plays his 200th and final Test at home in Mumbai.
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A war is brewing in India between the nation's coffee and tea industries over which drink should be declared the national beverage.
While coffee's popularity is rising among the nation's growing middle class, tea has history on its side.
Topics: tea-coffee, human-interest, india, asia
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Anti-tobacco campaigners in India are calling for the country to follow Australia's lead on plain packaging for cigarettes.
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Melbourne woman Pallavi Sharda will become a household name in tens of millions of homes when the Bollywood production Besharam is released.
Topics: film, taylors-lakes-3038, melbourne-3000, india
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India's higher education sector is one of the largest in the world, but there are growing concerns the quality of higher education isn't keeping up with demand.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, india, asia
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In the world's largest democracy, internet penetration is growing, and with it a desire from young people to get involved with the political process.
Topics: information-and-communication, social-media, science-and-technology, mobile-phones, government-and-politics, youth, india, asia
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Police in India have issued an arrest warrant for the principal of the school where 23 children died after eating meals containing a toxic pesticide.
Tests on the cooking oil used to prepare the meals found it contained high levels of a toxic pesticide.
Investigators say the school's principal, Meena Devi, may have forced the cook to use the contaminated oil despite her protesting that it smelled bad.
Topics: food-poisoning, law-crime-and-justice, india
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Police in India have confirmed the school meals that killed 23 children last week were poisoned with a pesticide that is not widely available
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, food-poisoning, india
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Hundreds protest after free meals kill 22 primary school children in India.
Topics: food-poisoning, poverty, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, india
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For cricketers in India's poor rural communities the dream of playing for their country is often out of reach - but Australian Bruce Adams is on a mission to change that.
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A group of World War II veterans who fought in East Timor have returned to the to the site of their wartime service to mark the 70th anniversary of Australia's engagement in the nation.
Topics: world-war-2, east-timor
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Administrators of failed trucking company 1st Fleet say unsecured creditors are not likely to get any of the money recovered by selling off the company's vehicles and machinery.
Topics: industry, road-transport, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000
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Victoria Police will form a new taskforce to target gang crime in Melbourne's CBD.
Topics: crime, police, melbourne-3000
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The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says the State Government's troubled IT agency will slash almost one third of its workforce.
Topics: parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, information-technology, unions, melbourne-3000
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The number of ambulance calls in Victoria for people taking crystal methamphetamine has more than doubled over the past two financial years.
Topics: drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, emergency-incidents, research, melbourne-3000, vic
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The Australian Workers Union is optimistic hundreds of jobs could be retained at the Alcoa smelter at Point Henry, near Geelong.
Cesar Melham is confident the smelter can survive with an investment in technology.
Topics: unions, manufacturing, industry, geelong-3220
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The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) has recommended the evidence from a rape allegation against St Kilda footballer Stephen Milne be re-examined.
Topics: sexual-offences, crime, police, australian-football-league, st-kilda-3182
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Victorian police have charged a 35-year old man following a siege in Seaford in Melbourne's south on Wednesday.
Topics: police-sieges, police, law-crime-and-justice, seaford-3198
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Victoria's Auditor-General is considering an investigation into the effectiveness of the building industry's consumer protection measures.
Topics: building-and-construction, law-crime-and-justice, brookfield-3338
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The Communication Workers Union is concerned more jobs will be lost as Telstra moves operations overseas.
Topics: unemployment, work, industrial-relations, vic
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The ABC has obtained a copy of what is understood to be the latest position from hospital management which shows an apparent toughened stance towards Victoria's ongoing nurses dispute.
Under the plan, hospital management would be able to disregard nurse to patient ratios if they can not afford to maintain them.
Topics: unions, industrial-relations, health-administration, doctors-and-medical-professionals, vic
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