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DEVELOPMENT: Indian State Cultivates Riches from Weeds
After reluctantly sharing their picturesque backwaters with the water hyacinths for decades, residents of the Indian southern state of Kerala have decided to put the fast-growing weed to commercial use by converting it into the industrially valuable enzyme, cellulase.EDUCATION-INDIA: Poor Students Make Their Way into Posh Schools
When Anshu began attending the nursery of one of Delhi's 260-odd private schools this month, she became a pioneer of sorts.RIGHTS-INDIA: Double Murder Probe Puts Gays in Bad Light
Homosexuality is illegal in India but public reaction to the sensational murder this month of a gay project officer with an international aid agency has exposed the limited social acceptability in India for alternative sexual preferences.HEALTH-INDIA: Govt Sits on World Bank Funds as AIDS Spreads
Critics of India's World Bank-funded National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) are finding a powerful ally in the country's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which has taken the organisation to task for poor utilisation of millions of dollars worth of funds meant for containing the HIV epidemic.HEALTH-INDIA: Govt Sits on World Bank Funds as AIDS Spreads
Critics of India's World Bank-funded National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) are finding a powerful ally in the country's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which has taken the organisation to task for poor utilisation of millions of dollars worth of funds meant for containing the HIV epidemic.RIGHTS-INDIA: Women Press for End to Draconian Army Powers
Credit must go to women if the insurgency-hit north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, bordering Burma, finally gets rid of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA, imposed a quarter of a century ago.RIGHTS-INDIA: Days May Be Numbered For Hangman’s Noose
While Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged on the weekend for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, the storm of protests and public debates generated by his case might see the end of capital punishment in India.INDIA: WHO Hurting Cheap AIDS Drugs Industry – Experts
Indian medical experts see the hand of powerful Western drug manufacturers in the World Health Organisation's withdrawals of its recommendations, this month and earlier in May, for some of India's cheap and popular combination drugs against HIV/AIDS using generic 'copycats.'SOUTH ASIA: Regional Approach Needed to Manage Rivers
The recent spate of life-threatening floods, which has affected hundreds of millions in South Asia, once again points to the need for a regional approach to managing the Himalayan rivers that flow through India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.SOUTH ASIA: Regional Approach Needed to Manage Rivers
The recent spate of life-threatening floods, which has affected hundreds of millions in South Asia, once again points to the need for a regional approach to managing the Himalayan rivers that flow through India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.SOUTH ASIA: Regional Approach Needed to Manage Rivers
The recent spate of life-threatening floods, which has affected hundreds of millions in South Asia, once again points to the need for a regional approach to managing the Himalayan rivers that flow through India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.SOUTH ASIA: Regional Approach Needed to Manage Rivers
The recent spate of life-threatening floods, which has affected hundreds of millions in South Asia, once again points to the need for a regional approach to managing the Himalayan rivers that flow through India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.RIGHTS-INDIA: Supreme Court Backs Victims of Gujarat Pogrom
India's Supreme Court has indicated its determination to ensure that victims of rape and murder in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in western Gujarat state ruled by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) get justice.INDIA: Polio Eradication Flounders Over False Rumours, Beliefs
Global plans to eradicate the polio virus continue to flounder in a handful of districts in India's Uttar Pradesh state that adjoin the national capital.INDIA: Arrest of Ex-Minister Highlights Plight of Tribals
The arrest this week of Shibu Soren, a tribal leader and till recently union minister for coal and mines, is only the latest episode in a saga stretching back to the last century in which the indigenous people of east and central India have been steadily dispossessed of their mineral-rich lands.TRADE: Indian Farmers Have Little to Cheer For in WTO Deal
Agriculture and trade experts in India - a country with 650 million farmers - are not sharing the euphoria of the government at having, supposedly, pulled off a favourable farm deal at the just concluded World Trade Organisation (WTO) framework negotiations in Geneva.HEALTH-INDIA: HIV Positive Children Face Severe Discrimination
Growing up in India can be hard for most children. But for those afflicted with the HIV virus, it can prove to be doubly damning.INDIA: Droughts and Floods Revive Discredited River Plan
Severe droughts in the western half of the Indian sub-continent coupled with devastating floods that have claimed close to a thousand lives in the eastern region, including Bangladesh, seem to have given new life to India's discredited river- linking project.HEALTH-INDIA: Ancient System of Medicine Survives Despite Odds
Reviving 'Siddha', the world's oldest known system of medicine, is not easy especially when many of its prescriptions smack of alchemy and depend heavily on concoctions prepared from toxic metals such as lead and mercury.HEALTH-INDIA: Free ARVs, a Ploy by Drug Firms to Pressure Govt?
Kaushalya is convinced her unborn baby would be alive today if she was not compelled to abort it by the so- called ''HIV/AIDS mafia.''INDIA: Alleged Assassination Plot Saves Chief Minister His Job
It is grim irony that if Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat responsible for the anti-Muslim pogrom there in 2002, gets to keep his job, it will be because four Muslims were gunned down this month by police on suspicion of planning to assassinate him.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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