Thousands of low-caste Indians convert
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About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday that they said would bring them dignity in a society that considers them "untouchables."
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As companies continue to hire thousands of skilled workers in India at lower levels, signs point to a talent shortage that is becoming acute at the high end.
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CHOTI MADHAIYAN, India -- Savitri Kabirdas, a short, lower-caste woman in a torn pink sari, had just squatted on the mud floor of her kitchen to grind curry spices when a bicyclist came to the door.
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Swami Ramdev has attracted growing numbers of middle-class Indians with his "yoga made easy" approach.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Ever since U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana on Oct. 20, Indian Americans across the country have been debating whether to celebrate or turn up their noses.
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MEMBERS of an Indian tribe once branded by the British as the world's "worst headhunters" have come to Wales with a mission of thanks.
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MADRI, India  - Whenever Lalibati, a poor farmer's  wife in western India, falls sick, she heads for only one  person: the local faith healer.
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Claiming to be descendants of an ancient &quot;lost&quot; tribe, a first batch of some 50 Indian immigrants who converted to Judaism started a new life in Israel amid tears and a warm welcome.
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One was an athletic teenager who had grown into a devout young man, another a soccer-loving convert to Islam. The youngest was 17, the oldest 35. Many were born in Britain and all were reared here.
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Around 1,000 protesters have rallied in Nepal's capital to demand that the Himalayan nation revert to being a Hindu state after the government declared the country secular.
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India's government announces an ambitious plan to provide millions of poor people with social security.
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Last year, an estimated 150,000 foreigners visited India for medical procedures, and the number is increasing at the rate of about 15 percent a year, according to a health care specialist at the Confederation of Indian Industries.
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In a demographic bubble that is transforming India, 54 percent of the country's one billion plus people are now under the age of 25.
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The South Asian tragedy has ripped open centuries-old fault lines of caste in rural India's rigid social hierarchy. In the district of Nagapattinam, where more than 6,000 people died, untouchables from about 10 villages have openly protested what they call discrimination against them in the provision of relief supplies and access to shelters.
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Members of Michigan&#39;s Indian immigrant community stared at television and computer screens and worked the telephone Sunday, anxiously awaiting word from their homeland, which was hit by tidal waves.
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About 1,000 of those positions will be shifted to lower-cost operations in Mexico, China and India.