• Deadly bombs strike shopping area in India's Hyderabad

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    Indian officials collect evidence at one of the two bomb blast sites in Hyderabad, India, early Feb. 22, after a pair of bombs exploded the previous evening.

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    Sujatha is overcome after seeing her husband Venkateshwarulu's body at a mortuary in Hyderabad, India, on Feb. 21. Her husband was killed in a pair of blasts in a crowded shopping area.

    The AP reports: A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 50 more in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said.

    The blasts occurred about two minutes apart outside a movie theater and a bus station, police said. Storefronts were shattered and television footage showed the wounded being rushed to hospitals. Read full story

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    An injured man is carried to hospital from the site of a bomb blast in Hyderabad.

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    A member of the bomb squad with a sniffer dog arrives at the spot after a bomb blast in Hyderabad on Feb. 21.

    Two bombs explode in a shopping are of Hyderabad, India, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens more in what officials are calling the worst bombing in India in more than a year. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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  • Indians celebrate Bonalu festival in Hyderabad

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    Indian artists dressed as characters from the movie Avatar perform during the final procession of the eleven day traditional festival of 'Bonalu', a ritual offering to the goddess MahaKali at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad on Monday. The Goddess is honoured mostly by women during Bonalu festival with offerings of food and dancing.

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    A performer blows fire from his mouth as he performs during the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. The word "Bonalu" is derived from the Telugu language word "Bhojanalu", the food offered to Goddess Kali, the Hindu goddess of power. The main ritual in the month-long festival involves offering cooked rice, jaggery, curd, water and other dishes, which are brought by women in earthen pots, to the Goddess Kali. Devotees believe that the offerings ward off evils and epidemics during the monsoon season.

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    Indian artists wait to perform during a procession of "Bonalu" festival in Hyderabad, India. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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    An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Goddess MahaKali performs in the street during the final procession of the eleven day traditional festival of 'Bonalu', a ritual offering to the goddess MahaKali at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad.

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    Indian separatists detained by police

    Indian police detain activists from the youth wing of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata party, during a protest at Osmania University demanding a separate state of Telengana in Hyderabad, India, March 27, 2012. Telengana supporters say the drought-prone northern area is underdeveloped and ignored by powerful politicians from southern Andhra Pradesh. Opposition to the split comes primarily because the proposed Telengana area would include the state capital, Hyderabad.

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    Supporters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh unleash buffaloes on police barricades during a protest in Hyderabad on Thursday, July 7. The government's indecision over whether to create a new state of Telangana risks causing more unrest if other regions demand autonomy, and has further exposed the ruling Congress party as divided and rudderless.

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    The AP reports from HYDERABAD, India:

    Thousands of people seeking relief from asthma gathered in southern India on Wednesday to swallow live sardines smeared with secret herbs that they believe will cure them.

    People travel every June from across India to Hyderabad for the treatment offered free by one family on a day chosen by astrologers. Continue reading.

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    A member of the Goud family inserts herbal medicine into a fish before administering it to a patient in what is believed to be a cure for asthma, in Hyderabad, India on June 8.

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    A child sticks out her tongue to swallow live sardines smeared with secret herbs in Hyderabad on June 8.

     

  • Republic Day rehearsal in Hyderabad, India

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    India will celebrate its 62nd Republic Day on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Full story here.

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    Indian army sodiers participate in the final full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, Jan. 24. India will celebrate its 62nd Republic Day on January 26, 2011.

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    Indian band members are reflected on a musical instrument during a rehearsal for the Republic Day in Hyderabad, India, Jan. 24.