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Maharashtra gives taxi and tuk-tuk drivers a year to learn Marathi language (opens the original)
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An Indian state has given taxi and tuk-tuk drivers one more year to learn the local language after a new rule making it mandatory sparked protests. Transport officials in the western state of Maharashtra had begun testing drivers' ability to conduct basic conversations in Marathi, the state's official language, on 20 August. Those who failed were given a month to learn the language, after which they risked having their licences suspended or cancelled. The government said the requirement was mean
Maharashtra: India's Ganesh idol makers count cost of devastating floods (opens the original)
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Standing among the broken remains of hundreds of clay idols in his workshop in India's Raigad district, sculptor Dilip Mhatre struggles to hold back his emotions. Just weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the country's biggest religious festivals honouring the Hindu deity Ganesha, floods have destroyed six months of his work. The 40-year-old had completed about 500 clay idols of the elephant-headed god, worth around 800,000 rupees ($8,300; £6,200), which were due to be delivered across the west
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