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A Delhi High Court judge has told lawyers for the Indian offices of Facebook and Google that they must regulate "offensive and objectionable" material on their sites.
The judge said that if they failed to do so by the 6th of February, the Indian government should block their websites like China does.
In recent months the Indian gove...
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In many countries, a woman’s family is expected to pay a dowry in exchange for their daughter’s hand in marriage.
That’s still the case in India, where money and gifts are presented ahead of the wedding ceremony. But sometimes the in-laws want more.
And some brides are beaten or even murdered by their husbands over the insufficient dowry.
Now and Indian dating agency is using social media to ...
Download 16-year old Uzma Ayub was allegedly kidnapped from her home in district Karak, in southern Pakistan, held captive for one year and repeatedly raped by several men, including members of the pol...
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Railway staff in Indonesia have started hanging concrete balls above train tracks to try to prevent commuters from riding on carriage roofs.
The first balls were installed just above carriage-h...
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The video that was shown on Indian television last month, shows a group of Indian border guards stripping and then brutally torturing a suspected Bangladeshi cow smuggler.
Eight Indian Border S...
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Burma’s president this week pledged to establish a "healthy democracy". He made the comments during a visit to Singapore where he asked for help to modernise the country's economy.
One area tha...
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During Indonesia’s 24 year occupation of neighboring East Timor the Balide prison was place of horror.
Built in 1963 during the Portugese colonial period it was used by the Indon...
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This year, the Australian Ballet is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
One of its most high profile stars in recent decades was Chinese-Australian Li Cunxin who was immortalised in the film Mao'...
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