"There is very little understanding of mental health disorders, especially in the rural north of India, " said Balazs, who has been traveling to document the region almost every year since 1994.
In June this year, the Mittal Steel Company, which began life as a small family-run company in the north of India, successfully took over Luxembourg-based rival Arcelor to create the world's biggest steel manufacturer.
Then she told us this story: In ancient times, when much of North India was divided into small principalities, our ancestors were the rulers of a kingdom called Kukraj, somewhere near Jaipur, in Rajasthan.
Initially, the cultivating communities of north India and then the Dalits, once ostracised as "untouchables", broke away.
Water is already an object of contention, given that several of the big rivers of north India, including the Brahmaputra, on which millions depend, rise in Tibet.
This country-house hotel, near the beautiful city of Bath, holds one-day courses in Indian street food or the food of North or South India, taught by head chef Hrishikesh Desai.
Optimists are hoping for a flourishing cross-border trade that might help to develop the whole of India's restless and impoverished north-east, cut off as it is from the rest of the country by India's partition in 1947.
In almost all parts of rural India- north, south, east and west- wise villagers have been making use of this type of bio-gas for cooking for centuries.
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They point out that an unconditional amnesty has never been granted to any fugitive in India and say that, even in the case of the dreaded bandits of Chambal Valley in north India, the brigands had to undergo imprisonment before they were rehabilitated.
The passage to India of North American software development that began in the mid-1990s shows no sign of losing steam.
Maoist rebels are fighting for a Maoist state for tribal people and the rural poor in the north, east and centre of India.
The summer of 2010 was the deadliest for Russia, and the hottest ever for India, with temperatures in some parts of the country reaching 122 degrees in north India.
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The breakdowns in the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids affected 20 of India's 28 states.
The Bnei Menashe represent only a tiny fraction of India's north-eastern Christian community.
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It is reckoned that a total of 520, 000 Tamil refugees have left the country since the start of the war, 60, 000 of them to India and most of the rest to Europe, North America or Australia.
Illegal Bangladeshi migrants are already sparking conflict in India's north-eastern state of Assam.
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Police in India's north-eastern state of Tripura say at least 14 people have been killed in a separatist attack.
Some 60m acres, mostly in north India, are liable to flooding, of which only 23m have so far been protected by dams and embankments.
An Indian man was arrested along with five foreigners in north India in February with sketches and maps of Mumbai locations that included several of those attacked last month.
Born in part, it appears, of an excessive CIA confidence in the effectiveness of various arms control regimes, George Tenet's agency had shown itself to have missed evidence of WMD-related developments in North Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran and the PRC.
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Nepal's Maoists have formed links with India's own Maoist insurgents, who go by the local name of Naxalites, and, says India, with some of the vicious groups fighting secessionist wars in its north-east.
It has an own-store program in key markets like India and China, and of course North America.
Chambers of commerce from Europe, North America, Australia and India are complaining bitterly about trips aborted and business lost.
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We must increase our efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons and missiles, from North Korea to India and Pakistan.
And none of the hassle and aggression that tourists frequently suffer in North India.
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The north-east has 16 such areas, more than the rest of India.
The draft resolution also calls for all states that are not members of the NPT - Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea - to join the NPT as non-nuclear powers.
Does anyone really believe that disarming the United States will actually "devalue" nuclear weapons and lead nations like India and Pakistan -- to say nothing of North Korea, China or Russia -- to give theirs up?
But Mr. Jain says that his primary influence is North India, with a secondary contribution from the jazz and pop of his youth.
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India accuses Bangladesh of harbouring secessionist groups from its restive North-East.
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