India
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The remarkable tale of Frank Terpil, former intelligence agent, fugitive from US justice and a 53-year jail term, who has died in Havana
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Nudge theory has been used to identify why people smoke or fail to pay taxes on time, can it now be used to fight malnutrition and open defecation?
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Colonial term for porters will be scrapped as part of plan to raise working conditions and modernise the country’s rail system
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After suffering its worst floods for a century, the Indian city of Chennai is consulting cities all over the world – from New Orleans to Jakarta – about the ambitious projects that could reduce their risk of flood devastation
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Ranikumari Khokar is campaigning to end a caste-based practice that condemns women to cleaning human waste by hand
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley increased spending on infrastructure by 22%
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Joint commissioner of police Ashutosh Dumrare says that a local 35-year old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family, outside India’s financial capital of Mumbai, on Saturday
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A police spokesman said the man hanged himself after slitting the throats of family members, including his parents and seven children
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India’s caste system and British private education are hardly alike, but both divide their societies
Ian JackThe percentages of privately educated people in positions of power and prestige in Britain are strikingly similar to those from the upper castes in India – and neither statistic is quick to change
'When you have a museum you count': Inside Mumbai's first exhibition in a slum