Indians Hit the Road Amid the Occasional Elephant
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As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road.
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They may not make âem like they used to in Hollywood, but sometimes in India they still do.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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Nagpur: India seemed to be on the way for a flying start to their second innings as Sehwag hit Gillespie for four boundaries in an over.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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CAR NICOBAR, India -- Rescuers yesterday reached some of the last of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar villages, areas largely untouched by the modern world, where survivors have lived off coconuts since Sunday's tsunamis.
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A rickshaw passes a picture of King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photo: AP.
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A horse-driven cart loaded with a mountain of vegetables lumbers down a highway in northern India while a factory spews out thick clouds of smoke in the distance.
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Indian fishermen still anxious about returning to the sea after the killer Indian Ocean tsunami have a safer alternative -- hit the road.
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Look who's walking with the Mahatma!
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Indian automakers are plagued by a shortage of skilled workers, inferior product quality and deficient highway infrastructure, among other challenges.
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They give a whole new meaning to things that go bump in the night. Elephants have recently taken to blocking a highway frequently used by produce trucks in Thailand but which also runs through the Ang Lue Nai wildlife reserve.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Three people driving through a Thai national park got too close for comfort to a herd of wild elephants who kicked and damaged their vehicles, authorities said Thursday.    The two men and one woman, driving in two pickup trucks through the Khao Yai National Park Wednesday evening, encountered a herd of more than 10 wild elephants, looking for food on the side of the road, said a national park official, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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By car, it's just a few hours from Bangalore, the buzzing hub of India's technology boom, to some of Asia's densest forests. They are mountainous places at the other end of Indian life: few people, fewer roads and foliage thick enough to swallow a newcomer in minutes.
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Hunters in India's remote northeast are tracking a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths in the region and named after Osama bin Laden by fearful villagers.
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A strike by India&#39;s biggest group of truck owners has moved into its third day, as a row over a new tax continues. About 60% of goods in India are carried by road, so the stoppage has led to fears of goods shortages that could fuel already-high inflation.
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AHMADABAD, India -- Past the leafy Hindu neighborhoods of high-rises, children's amusement parks and glitzy shopping malls sprawls one of Asia's largest Muslim ghettos. It's a maze of half a million people, with rutted, unpaved roads, barefoot children flying kites amid smoldering garbage, and an...