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INDIA: Opposition to Cow Slaughter Bill Undercuts Pro-Hindu Agenda
The failure by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to muster support from its allies for a controversial bill aimed at a nationwide ban on the slaughter of cows is a sign of these supporters' larger opposition to the government's pro-Hindu policies.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Cola Controversy Revives Pesticides Issue
A high-profile spat between a top Indian environment group and the world's best-known brand names, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, over the allegedly toxic contents of their softdrink products, has revived the serious but dormant issue of pesticide use in this largely farming country.HEALTH-INDIA: Death Penalty Prescribed for Makers of Fake Medicine
The death penalty again hangs over the denizens of Bhagirath Palace, a sprawling mediaeval structure in the old quarter of the Indian capital, once infamous for political intrigue and now home to the buccaneers who run a sizeable chunk of the world's industry for spurious pharmaceutical drugs.INDIA: Cola Firms’ Entry Reflects Liberalisation Process
Once banned from India by socialist governments, cola companies from the United States entered this country with a vengeance during the economic liberalisation of the 90s and have been at the forefront of the process since.POLITICS-INDIA: Law to Clean up Election Spending Impresses Few
While India's Parliament made legal this week the funding of political parties by private corporations and individuals, few believe that this would make a dent on the country's vast parallel economy that survives on political patronage.HEALTH: Indian Coke, Pepsi Laced with Pesticides, Says NGO
One of India's leading voluntary agencies, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said Tuesday that softdrinks manufactured in India, including those carrying the Pepsi and Coca- Cola brand names, contained unacceptably high levels of pesticide residues. .RIGHTS-INDIA: Religious Leaders Wary of Unified Personal Law
India’s pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the pious intention of introducing uniform marriage, divorce and succession laws for this country of one billion people with different religions, but has done little to win the confidence of minority Muslims and Christians or even large sections of the majority Hindus.ECONOMY-INDIA: Experts Allay Worries over Climbing Rupee
India's exporters are worried by a phenomenon not seen in decades - the steady appreciation of the rupee over the dollar and foreign exchange reserves hovering above the 80 billion U.S. dollar mark.RIGHTS: Burmese Caught between Poverty in India, Oppression at Home
'Burma Town' at the far west end of India's sprawling national capital holds no ethnic exotica beyond a few hundred, sarong-clad men and women huddled into hopelessly cramped, one-room tenements that have sprung up in the urban village of Budhela.RIGHTS: Burmese Caught between Poverty in India, Oppression at Home
'Burma Town' at the far west end of India's sprawling national capital holds no ethnic exotica beyond a few hundred, sarong-clad men and women huddled into hopelessly cramped, one-room tenements that have sprung up in the urban village of Budhela.SOUTH ASIA: Peace Moves Tested by New Attacks in Kashmir
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's determination to see through his latest peace initiative with neighbouring Pakistan has been sorely tested this week by a series of suicide attacks in disputed Kashmir.CULTURE-INDIA: Taj Mahal Tries to Fend off Real Estate Developers
After surviving three and half centuries of wars, vandalism and the vagaries of nature, India's most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, is beset by a new threat - real estate developers.INDIA: Political Parties Gear up for World’s Biggest Poll
India, the world's biggest democracy, is not due to hold general elections until next year, but its two main political parties are already in election mode.POLITICS: Girl with Heart Problem Has Healing Touch for South Asia
She is all of two and a half years and has two holes in her heart, but bright-eyed Noor Fatima is perhaps the best ambassador of peace that Pakistan may ever have sent across the border to India.POLITICS-INDIA: From the Start, Sending Troops to Iraq Unacceptable
Now that India has rejected a request from its newfound friend, the United States, to send a division of its troops to Iraq, it is beginning to dawn on many that the whole idea was unpalatable from the start.POLITICS-INDIA: Public Pressure Rises on Sending Troops to Iraq
Faced with mounting public pressure, India's right-wing government may have to abandon plans to accede to a U.S. government demand for it to send troops to post-war Iraq.POPULATION-INDIA: Bride Shortage Fails to Stop Female Foeticides
A profusion of shops selling firearms marks this dusty town, 100 kilometres north-west of New Delhi, as one that is no place for women. Popular in these parts, the practice of female foeticide is ensuring that there are not too many members of the female sex around.POLITICS: India-China Warmth May Have Sealed Tibetan Cause
India and China vaulted over decades of mutual suspicion and hostility through their historic joint declarations signed in Beijing recently, but may have in the process sealed the cause of Tibetan independence forever.ENVIRONMENT: Relief Sets in as Monsoon Keeps Date with India
Defying dire predictions of a wayward monsoon made by the meteorological department, India's life-giving annual rainy season seems well on track, bringing cheer to farmers and traders alike.POLITICS: India-China Ties Hinge on Trade across Mountain Pass
Relations between the world's two most populous countries, India and China, hinge on the newly reopened cross-border trade across this snow-swept 4,545-metre high mountain pass, which provides a window into the once forbidden land of Tibet.POLITICS: India, China to Solve Thorny Border Issues through Trade
The world's two most populous countries, India and China, plan to resolve long-standing disputes over their 3,500-kilometre long border by reviving a centuries-old trade that was halted abruptly by a brief but bloody war in 1962.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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