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POPULATION-INDIA: Traditional Midwives Still Vital for Births
Although she lives within a stone's throw of some of the finest medical facilities in the world, Sumitra preferred to deliver her baby boy, now six months old, in the familiar surroundings of her own modest home at Okhla, an industrial suburb in the Indian capital.POPULATION: Materialism Drowns Out Young Cries for a Free Tibet
Almost half- a- century after following the Dalai Lama over the high Himalayas into exile in India, Tibetan refugees are finding it hard to keep their progeny strictly within the fold of Lamaistic Buddhism and committed to the cause of a free Tibet.INDIA: Warn Consumers of Pesticides, Court Orders Coke and Pepsi
Coke and Pepsi manufacturers may brag that their colas look and taste the same around the world. But that's not the case in India.POLITICS: India, Russia Discard Cold War Sentiment for Business
The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin equally divided his three-day visit to India, that ended Sunday, between political and business leaders speaks much for the changing nature of what was once regarded as a definitively strategic alliance of the cold war era.INDIA: Bhopal Nightmare Lingers On with Few Lessons Learnt
Twenty years after the world's worst industrial disaster at a pesticides plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are in agreement that tragedies of such magnitude teach no lessons in a world driven by corporate profit.INDIA: Bhopal Nightmare Lingers On With Few Lessons Learnt
Twenty years after the world's worst industrial disaster at a pesticides plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are in agreement that tragedies of such magnitude teach no lessons in a world driven by corporate profit.WORLD AIDS DAY: HIV/AIDS Threat Unites Religions in India
Fear of a rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS epidemic in India has resulted in a rare coming together of the country's several religious faiths that are known to have a tremendous influence on their respective flocks.ECONOMICS: India Courts Asia Tigers’ Poorer Cousins
As India embarks on its biggest eastward makeover to strengthen its kinship with Indochina, policy analysts expect New Delhi to concentrate on the poorer cousins of the ten-nation, Association of South-east Asian Countries (ASEAN) rather than the famed tiger economies.HEALTH: Goodbye to Cheap Indian AIDS Drugs?
As India moves to meet a New Year's Day deadline to comply with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) regime of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) the cheap, generic anti-AIDS drugs that this country is famed for could be a thing of the past.HEALTH: Goodbye to Cheap Indian AIDS Drugs?
As India moves to meet a New Year's Day deadline to comply with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) regime of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) the cheap, generic anti-AIDS drugs that this country is famed for could be a thing of the past.INDIA: Temples of the Holy Become Coffers for the Greedy
The recent arrest of a highly influential Hindu cleric - regarded as Hinduism's Pope - on murder charges has exposed the huge wealth amassed by India's temples, religious institutions and shrines.INDIA: Temples of the Holy Become Coffers for the Greedy
The recent arrest of a highly influential Hindu cleric - regarded as Hinduism's Pope - on murder charges has exposed the huge wealth amassed by India's temples, religious institutions and shrines.INDIA: North-east Foray into Asia’s ‘Powerhouses’ Wins Plaudits
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week displayed his determination to forge closer economic ties with South-east Asia as a strategy to uplift India's long-neglected north-eastern states and end decades of insurgency festering in the region.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Road to Peace Is Still Long in Kashmir
When it comes to Kashmir there can be no pleasing of anyone as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must surely have discovered during a two-day visit, this week, to the state troubled by 15 years of separatist insurgency and half-a-century-old territorial claims by neighbouring Pakistan.POLITICS: India Firm on Status Quo in Kashmir
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out Wednesday any change in the status of Kashmir and indicated that he would not agree to a redrawing of India's borders with Pakistan as a solution to the long-disputed territory.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Hope and Hiccups for Peace in Kashmir
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Kashmir beginning Wednesday holds out the promise of a new deal for the territory wracked by Islamic separatists and by a dispute over its possession with adjoining Pakistan for more than half-a-century.POLITICS: Sri Lanka Military Commitment Not in India’s Interests
While India is ready to enter into a 'defence cooperation agreement' with Sri Lanka, it is wary of being drawn into any military involvement in the island nation's two decades-old civil war that has seen violent strife between ethnic Tamils and the Sinhalese majority - leaving over 60,000 dead on both sides.INDIA: Calls for Witness Protection Grow as Pogrom Survivor Turns Hostile
Human rights activists are calling for a better witness protection programme after a key survivor of the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in western Gujarat turned hostile and accused a leading voluntary agency of trying to coerce her into making statements.INDIA: Top Hindu Hawks May Face Trial for Demolition of Mosque
The top leadership of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could stand trial for the December 1992 demolition of the medieval Babri Masjid mosque, which propelled the right wing, pro-Hindu party to national power but deeply polarised the country's two main religious communities - the Hindus and Muslims.U.S. ELECTION: India’s New Generation Relieved at Bush Victory
While many Asians might have been shocked by George W Bush's re-election as U.S. president, what mattered most to ordinary Indians was the fact that one of their kind, the 33-year-old Republican candidate Bobby Jindal, made it to Congress in the just concluded elections.HEALTH-NEPAL: No Sniggers on Condom Day
There were no sniggers at the National Condom Day rally in this Himalayan capital - not even when someone suggested that the 172 year-old Bhimsen tower stretching 50 meters into the clear blue mountain skies was ideal for a giant condom display.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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