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.
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.
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.
Initially, the cultivating communities of north India and then the Dalits, once ostracised as "untouchables", broke away.
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 passage to India of North American software development that began in the mid-1990s shows no sign of losing steam.
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.
"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.
Maoist rebels are fighting for a Maoist state for tribal people and the rural poor in the north, east and centre of India.
The greatest challenge in India came in the desperately poor, crowded regions of the north, where health care, hygiene, and education are all very poor.
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.
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.
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.
Schools of Islam that emerged in India as a reaction to the British raj are now vying for influence in the north of England.
In a sea change, some of the service work that was outsourced to places like India and the Philippines is starting to return to North America.
This time Mr Thant's travels take him to Myanmar's hill country, near the Chinese border, to the other side of the frontier, in Yunnan province, and to Assam and Manipur in north-east India, on Myanmar's other flank.
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The Bnei Menashe represent only a tiny fraction of India's north-eastern Christian community.
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And none of the hassle and aggression that tourists frequently suffer in North India.
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India is home to plenty of other insurgents (nationalists in the north-east, for example, and Maoists in the middle) who have the motive and, maybe, the means.
The breakdowns in the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids affected 20 of India's 28 states.
We must increase our efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons and missiles, from North Korea to India and Pakistan.
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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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.
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The north-east has 16 such areas, more than the rest of India.
Police in north-west England flew quickly to India this week to talk to the parents of Anuj Bidve, a student killed in Salford on December 26th.
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The north refers to six Hindi-speaking states that make up over a third of India's nearly 950 million people.
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