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Following an attack on home-grown tourists in Indian-held Kashmir in which over 20 people died, India has been making more threats than usual against Pakistan, and vice versa. Exclusive: Pakistan defence minister says military incursion by India is imminent -...

A horrendous derailment and collision took place Friday on Indian Railways, near Balasore in Odisha state, with the death toll near 300. Involved was the Coromandel Superfast Express, one of Indian Railways' top passenger trains. The train runs daily along India's east coast between Shalimar in...

Here's an interesting new lecture by Sanal Edamaruku about the Indian guru scene: http://youtu.be/wN0vDisLUgU wN0vDisLUgU The lecture was arranged by Skepsis ry, the Finnish association of skeptics: http://www.skepsis.fi/Yhdistys/MikaSkepsisOn/SkepsisinEnglish

This seems to be a different kind of faith healing case from India. I find it hard to believe. He says he has the photographs w/ negatives of the white light entering his body which rose from the holy sikh scripture book during a sikh prayer session which has cured his cancer during his visit...

Just came across this article in Bloomberg. It struck me as too diabolical to be true, but that's just a gut reaction. Does this seem plausible? Kashmir Is Killing India’s Military and Democracy Any thoughts?

Looking for an objective and skeptical take on this story: Whilst travelling along a beach in North India with a friend I had met (whilst travelling, not a friend from home), we were accosted by an Indian man who looked to be around 40 years of age who took an interest in my friend and wanted...

I have a somewhat strange request. Bear with me along the long intro. In my travels, and choices of work, I ended up in West-Bengal India somewhere end of 2008. Being a gung-ho kind of person I have lived in slums, mountain huts, rural villages etc. I could not resist playing McGyver at each...

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article24609.ece The Indian govt is going crazy w homepathy. Their website offers free online treatment. Let's see how it deals with, say, flu-like symptons, rashes, herpes genitalis and migraines. :p...

A BBC article this morning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8256692.stm reports on the increasing influence of Maoist rebels in the central provinces of India, and on how an ongoing campaign to suppress them has been essentially unsuccessful. Apparently, these people have been causing...

The Indian government is requiring manufacturers of homoeopathic medicines to adhere to manufacturing norms. As it appears that the vast majority of them are currently unable to do this the authorities in West bengal have given them an extension until the 31st of March. If they are unable to...

India's lunar probe lands on the moon, sends images Am I the only one who thinks this is incredible and wonders why so little attention is being paid to the #2 guys here in Moon landings? Ho hum, been there, did that?

If this is true, it's going to be a very explosive situation. Heck, even if it's not true, the report itself is going to raise tensions.

The administration continues to rack up embarassing incidents of being suckered by Muslim nations .... the Taliban (=Afghanistan) and now Pakistan. When will they learn? Why doesn't Pakistan's rich Muslim friends in Saudi Arabia prop them up? Why should they when they can convince Bush to let...

Link Well, I sure hope it was worth it. I wonder if the moron got the patient's consent before pulling this stunt.

This actually happened a bit over a week ago it seems. After a bit of google searches I found a lot of links for buildings collapsing, many of which had excuses (explosions, weather, airplanes). But this one actually fell over, without any apparent urging. I could understand if there was...

This story is reporting that three people may have been killed by a meterorite: I can't find any more updates on the story. If this story were accurate, wouldn't this be the first recorded case of a person being killed by a meterorite?

OK. Here goes. TAM was an incredible conference and it's really wonderful that they had more attendees than ever this year. We have more younger attendees, more women and it's all really inspiring. I was, however, one of maybe 10 or 15 non-white attendees and that got me thinking. I...

I found this film on my cable On Demand service. I plan to watch it later tonight, or tomorrow. I've only seen the preview, but it's very compelling, and I wanted to tell you about it, and what I've been reading about it. Water This is what concerns me, as it does others, about the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_as/india_train_explosions My heartfelt condolences to the people of India.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/2c21c0f98d07b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still...

That didn't take long. This morning I hear about Bush normalising relations with India, despite the threats to use nukes over recent years. Isn't that nice I thought, we can all be pals after all. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/bush.india.fri/index.html Next up, now that the US...

India: the next science superpower? THE first sign that something was up came about eight years back. Stories began to appear in the international media suggesting that India was "stealing" jobs from wealthy nations - not industrial jobs, like those that had migrated to south-east Asia, but the...

Sorry if this is a repost: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-06a-05.asp ... I see ...

I wonder if American clergy is up in arms over the prospect of losing job security to foreign labor. Maybe they should organize and strike. Reg. may be required.

Has anyone heard anything other than the following about this story from an Indian newspaper? KA Badarinath and Prerna K Mishra Hindustan Times -New Delhi, May 16 http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=239

Click here for the article. Sigh. Read the end of the article, where it lists the many accomplishments of Dr. Raj Baldev. So funny, yet so sad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3492610.stm ...full article Is all this gloom and doom a real threat or is it just environmental blowhards doing what they do best: fear mongering?

Republicans Outsource Fund Rasing To India Way to go repubs! On the cutting edge... This totally tops the Britney Madonna kiss.