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SOUTH ASIA: Jinx Continues on Regional Summit
When India backed out of Sunday's summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) citing 'developments' in Nepal and the host country Bangladesh, the future of the seven-nation grouping looked bleaker than ever before in its chequered 20 year-old history.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Nepal Plays the China Card
Prithvi Narayan Shah, the 18th century founder of modern Nepal famously described his fortified kingdom in the Himalayas as a yam between the two boulders of India and China.RIGHTS-NEPAL: Democracy Gets Royal Flush Down the Drain
King Gyanendra's dismissal of Nepal's elected government on Tuesday and assumption of direct power for the next three years is being seen here as a clear snub to India and Western powers that have been urging him to strengthen democracy in his Himalayan kingdom, sandwiched between Asian giants India and China.RIGHTS-NEPAL: Democracy Gets Royal Flush Down the Drain
King Gyanendra's dismissal of Nepal's elected government on Tuesday and assumption of direct power for the next three years is being seen here as a clear snub to India and Western powers that have been urging him to strengthen democracy in his Himalayan kingdom, sandwiched between Asian giants India and China.SOUTH ASIA: India-Pakistan Nuclear Hell in the Making – Experts
Not only are the year-old peace talks between India and Pakistan floundering but the South Asian neighbours are also steadily increasing their nuclear arsenals, warn leading physicists on both sides of the common border.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: IT Powerhouse Strikes Back
Anyone who doubts the power of Linux needs only to get hold of a nifty, hand-held device that the Indian army plans to issue to soldiers in its million strong army.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: India’s Dalits Create Space for Themselves
To the casual visitor, Gaurav Apartments on the eastern edge of India's national capital looks like any other block of middle-class residential flats, set into a genteel neighbourhood patronised by doctors, engineers and other professionals.INDIA-PAKISTAN: Peace Deal Flounders Over Water-Sharing Dispute
One year after India and Pakistan initiated peace talks, dialogue between the nuclear-armed rivals appears to be floundering over the sharing of waters of the Indus River that runs through the disputed territory of Kashmir.INDIA-BURMA: Gas Deal Wins Kudos, But Activists Warn of Rights Abuses
While a new trilateral deal for Burma to export natural gas to India through Bangladesh augurs well economically for New Delhi, activists warned that the Burmese military regime could implement the project using forced labour.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Corruption Threatens Quality of Indian Mercy
India is a country notorious for middlemen who specialise in siphoning away development funds; and voluntary agencies are struggling to ensure that the deluge of monetary aid pouring in for the survivors of the Asian tsunami actually reach the ones most in need.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Corruption Threatens Quality of Indian Mercy
India is a country notorious for middlemen who specialise in siphoning away development funds. And voluntary agencies are struggling to ensure that the deluge of monetary aid pouring in for the survivors of the Asian tsunami actually reach the ones most in need.TSUNAMI-IMPACT: Natural Disasters May Yet Flush Out Caste Feelings
India's rigid social divisions based on caste may have taken a knock as a result of intervention by voluntary agencies involved in relief work in areas hit by the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami which left over 10,000 dead and at least 600,000 either homeless or destitute on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Andaman Tribes Have Lessons to Teach Survivors
Stone age tribes living on India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands not only survived the devastating Dec. 26 tsunami - triggered by an undersea quake whose epicenter was closest to their homelands - but may actually have a few lessons in reading natural early warning systems for their less perceptive Asian neighbours, say scientists.POLITICS: Demise of Ace Diplomat Jolts India’s Foreign Ministry
It was not for nothing that Jyotindra Nath Dixit, who passed away on Monday, was called 'The Viceroy' - affectionately by his colleagues and somewhat resentfully in the capitals of India's smaller neighbours where he served most of his life as top diplomat.ASIA: World Is One, Warns Tsunami
It has taken a devastating tsunami that claimed more than 150,000 lives in a dozen countries scattered across the vast Indian Ocean to remind passengers on the fragile spaceship, Earth, of their interdependence and common destiny.ASIA: Tsunami a Reminder of Risks that Plague Coastal Nuke Plants
Tsunamis and other natural disasters are posing a bigger challenge than pesky green activists to India's secretive nuclear power and research facilities on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state.ASIA: Tsunami a Reminder of Risks that Plague Coastal Nuke Plants
Tsunamis and other natural disasters are posing a bigger challenge than pesky green activists to India's secretive nuclear power and research facilities on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state, which accounted for 5,000 of the more than 50,000 deaths from this week's quakes and killer waves in Asia.ASIA: Region Braces for Aftershocks, Tsunami Deaths Cross 15,000
Fresh tremors Monday prompted scientists to warn people living around the Bay of Bengal to stay inland from the coasts devastated by Sunday’s tsunamis, which have killed more than 15,000 people in South and South-east Asia.POLITICS-INDIA: In Death, Father of Economic Reforms Gets Credit
It is an irony of public life that only death could give former Indian prime minister P V Narasimha Rao - who died of heart failure on Thursday aged 83 - any credit for the momentous economic reforms that he began in the early nineties and continues to transform this large and populous country today.CHALLENGES 2004-2005: India to Be the New Big Kid in China’s Block
There is now little doubt that in 2005 the phlegmatic elephant, that is India, will be ready to confront the fiery Chinese dragon in Beijing's own South-east Asian stomping grounds.POPULATION: India Moves to Give Women Equal Inheritance Rights
India, where extreme patriarchal attitudes prevail, is about to make a giant step towards gender equality by introducing a bill that would give women an equal share in family property.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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