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VIDEO: India's middle class redefining caste
2013-06-24 03:17:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
India's swelling middle class is reshaping the country's social categories.
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India's 'climate refugees' flee monsoon flooding
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Le Monde: In 2012, out of the millions of people displaced by natural disasters around the world, over a quarter were from northeast India. Almost nine million inhabitants were forced to flee the region's devastating monsoon. These forced displacements are a common occurrence. Floods have become so routine in Assam, a state located at the foothills of the Himalayas, irrigated by one of the world's mightiest river -- the Brahmaputra -- that a special administrative post was created to deal with natural disasters....
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Global warming may increase daily variability of India's monsoon rainfall: study
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The findings have been revealed at a time when floods have killed more than 550 people and destroyed unaccounted properties in North India. Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany used a comprehensive set of 20 state-of-the-art climate models to predict the extent of weather changes in the wake of global warming. The models consistently show that future global warming might increase the daily variability of Indian monsoon rainfall. According to Anders...
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VIDEO: What future for India's caste system?
2013-06-22 12:25:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
India's economy grew rapidly over the first decade of the 21st century, and one much talked about trend has been the rise of the country's middle class.
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Cheap foreign loans spur India's outbound M&A march
2013-06-17 14:23:57| IT Services - Topix.net
Foreign banks are fuelling India's recent burst of overseas takeover bids, offering cheap U.S. dollar loans to corporates hungry to expand beyond their home state.
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