My big OE: India changes you

Against a backdrop of sights, smells and sounds you’ve never heard before, nor are likely to hear again, I notice the presence of dust on every possible surface. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]

Some Toronto law firms and in-house lawyers send work to India

When you think of jobs that move offshore to countries with lower labour costs, information technology, call centres and manufacturing come to mind. But legal work? Some Toronto law firms and in-house lawyers are also delegating high volume, repetitive work to lawyers in countries like India and the Philippines. Contract reviews, drafting standard documents, and [...]

Illegal building in India suburb collapses; children dead, dozens hurt or missing

MUMBAI, INDIA—A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India’s financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 50 others, authorities said Friday. The eight-storey building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in Thursday evening, police said. Rescue [...]

36 Hours in Bangalore, India (NY Times)

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China gives India festival a fresh colour

Annual Holi celebrations to mark the start of spring sees locally made paint powder, sprinklers and balloons squeezed out by stiff foreign competition Travel & Leisure company news from the Financial Times Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]

India: Tourist jumps out window to escape possible sex attack

NEW DELHI—A British woman travelling in India jumped out of the third-floor window of her hotel room on Tuesday, telling police she feared a sexual attack after the hotel’s owner tried to force his way into the room by offering her a massage. The woman was not badly hurt, although she suffered some injuries to [...]

Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India

NEW DELHI — A Swiss woman who was touring by bicycle with her husband through the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was gang-raped by a group of eight men, police said Saturday. Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a [...]

Brazil, China, India getting healthier, wealthier while we decline: UN report

Move over, Canada — and France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States. A new United Nations Development Program report, “The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,” says the “global North” is losing the race with its economic competitors in the rising South at a head-spinning rate. “For the first time [...]

Passengers to India (The Australian)

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India Gang Rape: Family insists accused rapist didn’t kill himself in jail

NEW DELHI—Whether he was killed or committed suicide, the jailhouse death Monday of a man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus has triggered shock at the enormous security failure at one of India’s best-known prisons. Authorities said Ram Singh, who was accused of driving [...]