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Folk dancers
pose as pilgrims during a procession at Shravanabelagola, about
158 kilometers (99 miles) west of Bangalore, India, Sunday, Feb.
5, 2006. Hundreds of thousands of Jain devotees will attend the
head anointing ceremony on Feb. 8 of 1,800-year-old statue Jain
sage Gomateswara (Lord Bahubali) at Shravanabelagola, which is held
once in 12 years. Jainism originated in India and today, nearly
4 million followers live there. (AP Photo
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A
tourist skis down a slope in Gulmarg, 55 km (34 miles) north of
Srinagar, Feb. 4, 2006. Gulmarg, which means "meadow of flowers,"
was transformed into a resort by the British nearly a century ago.
Located at 2,745 meters (9,000 feet) above sea level, it gets one
to one-and-a-half meters (yards) of snow in the winter. (AP Photo
Australian tourist Ruth
Mckinslay watches her friends ski down a slope in Gulmarg, 55 km
(34 miles) north of Srinagar, Feb. 4, 2006. Gulmarg, which means
"meadow of flowers," was transformed into a resort by the British
nearly a century ago. Located at 2,745 meters (9,000 feet) above
sea level, it gets one to one-and-a-half meters (yards) of snow
in the winter. (AP Photo
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India's
Virender Sehwag, second from right, prepares to play a shot as his
team members watch during a practice session a day before the first
one day international cricket match against Pakistan in Peshawar,
Pakistan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006. (AP Photo
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this handout photo released by the Malacanang palace, Indian President
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, left greets a farmer at the International Rice
Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna province, south of Manila,
Philippines on Sunday Feb. 5, 2006. Kalam visited the research facility
which is experimenting with rice genes from India. (AP Photo |
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| Communist
Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat, right, talks
to the media as All-India Trade Union Congress general secretary Gurudas
Dasgupta, left, and Communist Party of India leader AB Bardhan, second
left, look on at a press conference in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Feb.
5, 2006. Communist parties in India's coalition government on Sunday
criticized the government vote against Iran's nuclear program at Vienna,
but didn't issue any threat to pull down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
government. (AP Photo |
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