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POLITICS: India’s Burma Policy Tempered by Pragmatism
Burma's military junta may be anathema to supporters of democracy but India believes that the generals hold the key to development of its troubled north-east and ties with the South-east Asian country could augur well for bilateral trade.ENERGY: Fossil Fuel Lobby Behind India’s Spat With U.S.?
India is irked over allegations by Washington that its scientists have passed on nuclear technology to Iran and leaders, as well as experts here, are inclined to believe that the charges are a ploy to restrict plans to develop genuine nuclear power programmes that could reduce the country's dependency on oil imports.ECONOMY-INDIA: Spiralling Oil Prices Compel New Look at Bio-fuels
Spiralling petroleum prices are compelling India, a major importer of crude oil, to dust out plans for alternate fuels especially in the transport sector.INDIA: King Poacher Hunted Down But Killing Raises Questions
India's most notorious bandit and king elephant poacher, Koose Muniswamy Veerapan, might be history after he was shot dead by police on Monday. But conservationists still remain sceptical on whether the illegal ivory trade can be stemmed in the country, while a leading human rights group has called for an inquiry into his killing.INDIA: Congress Win in Maharashtra Seen as Triumph for Secularism
The resounding electoral victory of Congress and its secular allies in the provincial elections in western Maharashtra state is being seen as an endorsement of the party's brand of politics that champions the poor - one that saw it return to national power in May after an eight-year hiatus.CONSERVATION: Win Some Lose Some for Threatened Species
The great white shark, Irrawaddy dolphin, minke whale and the ramin tree were among the big winners at the endangered species sweepstakes of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as its 13th Conference of the Parties drew to a close in the Thai capital on Thursday.DIPLOMACY: Iran’s Gas Pipeline May Turn South Asia’s Peace Pipe
Of the many initiatives undertaken to forge lasting peace between South Asia's squabbling neighbours, none can challenge the promise of Iran's proposed natural gas pipeline to India traversing through Pakistan.CONSERVATION: Whales, Elephants Saved From Commercial Killers
The world's 'flagship species' on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand's capital.CONSERVATION: Intense Japanese Lobbying Worries Whale Protectors
Sustained Japanese lobbying to get a ban on the hunting of minke whales lifted at a major conservation conference in the Thai capital is worrying activists trying to conserve the endangered species of sea mammal.CONSERVATION: Dark Days Ahead for the Black Rhino
Aphrodisiacal qualities attributed to the horn of the rhinoceros have rammed a hole through protective international laws designed to conserve the animal.DEVELOPMENT: Double Standards over Dual Technology
U.S. embargos on 'dual use' technology are stifling knowledge vital for development, scientists say.POLITICS: India’s Security Council Bid a Long Haul – Analysts
While India has thrown its hat into the United Nations Security Council ring, the process of actually gaining a permanent seat on the body - which has the power to introduce sanctions and authorise the use of force in conflicts - may prove to be a long drawn-out affair, according to experts.INDIA: Tempers Rise Over Report of Massive Grain Diversions
Food security experts and people working among India's poor are aghast at newly available parliamentary reports indicating massive diversion of subsidised food grains by unscrupulous traders allegedly in collusion with officials and politicians.ECONOMY-INDIA: Communists Wave Red Flag at Speedy Reforms
Plans by the pro-reform Congress party-led coalition government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to incorporate representatives of the World Bank and foreign consultants in the country's hallowed Planning Commission have been stymied by vigorous opposition from key communist allies.RIGHTS-INDIA: Patriot Law Found Guilty of Misuse and Repealed
After snaring thousands of teenagers, politicians, journalists, members of minority communities but few terrorists, India repealed its 'patriot' law introduced in response to the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.RIGHTS-INDIA: Patriot Law Found Guilty of Misuse and Repealed
After snaring thousands of teenagers, politicians, journalists, members of minority communities but few terrorists, India, this week, repealed its 'patriot' law introduced in response to the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.INDIA: Activists Continue Fight to Decriminalise Homosexuality
While the Delhi High Court dismissed this month public interest litigation seeking to quash laws dating back to colonial times that make homosexuality a punishable offence, human rights activists have sworn to continue seek legal avenues to decriminalise gay sex between consenting adults.INDIA: Census Error on Muslims Turns Grist for Communal Mill
Misleading census data showing a 33 percent rise in India's Muslim population for the decade ending 2001 but corrected afterwards, has become grist in the mill of pro-Hindu political parties defeated in the recent elections.INDIA-PAKISTAN: Peace Hinges on Civil Society Contacts
It is becoming increasingly evident, after the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan failed to make significant progress in just concluded peace talks, that inroads to normalising ties between both countries could only be made by improving people-to- people contacts.INDIA: Gandhi Idealism and Hindu Fundamentalism Still At Odds
It is an irony of history that Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British colonial rule in 1947, is now in a popularity contest with Veer Savarkar, arrested for the assassination of the 'Apostle of Peace' but acquitted for lack of corroborative evidence.HEALTH-INDIA: Serious Question of Accuracy in AIDS Statistics
India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) claims to have halted the growth of new HIV infections in its tracks but newly released studies suggest that its figures may be unreliable and that worse could be in store if business continues as usual.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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