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HEALTH-INDIA: Iodisation Campaign Taken With a Pinch of Salt
An international campaign to get the Indian government to re-introduce a ban on non-iodised salt is going nowhere, thanks mainly to stiff opposition from groups that say the compulsory iodisation of salt benefits large-scale manufacturers of packaged salt and can actually be harmful for some people. .RIGHTS-INDIA: A Year Later, Anti-terrorist Laws Backfiring
One year after India passed a tough anti-terrorism act, government officials and critics are scratching their heads over a law that has put in jail an unlikely assortment of people - from politicians allied to the ruling party to people aged from 12 to 83 years old.INDIA: Warnings of Religious War Underscore Communal Politics
With flowing white locks, beards and the saffron robes that mark them as Hindu holy men, they marched to Parliament in the Indian capital Monday to demand legislation that would enable them to finally possess the land on which they claim their warrior god Ram was born 10,000 years ago.POLITICS: India Serious about Deporting Bangladeshi Immigrants
The seriousness with which India regards the issue of 15 million Bangladeshis it claims are residing illegally in this country was reflected in an address to Parliament made Monday by President A P J Abdul Kalam.RELIGION-INDIA: Hindu Fundamentalists Threaten More Mosques
A Hindu fundamentalist group close to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and responsible for the demolition 10 years ago of a 16th century mosque, warned Wednesday that it would lay claim to mosques across India built over demolished Hindu temples by past Muslim invaders.RIGHTS-INDIA: Autonomy for Tribal Folk A Step for Peace
India's creation Monday of an autonomous council for the Bodo tribals is expected go a long way in meeting their aspirations and bringing peace to a fertile, trouble-torn area sandwiched by the Bhutanese border and the Brahmaputra river in north-eastern Assam state.INDIA-PAKISTAN: Expulsion of Top Envoys Sends Ties to New Low
Diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan hit a new low Saturday after the two neighbours, in dispute since 1947 over possession of the former princely state of Kashmir, expelled each other's top envoys.INDIA-PAKISTAN: Expulsion of Top Envoys Sends Ties to New Low
Diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan hit a new low Saturday after the two neighbours, in dispute since 1947 over possession of the former princely state of Kashmir, expelled each other's top envoys.HEALTH-INDIA: Top Bottled Water Brands Loaded With Pesticides
For years, Indians and visitors to this country who fear water-borne pathogens have put their faith in bottled water, paying as much per litre - 20 U.S. cents - as they would for the same amount of skimmed milk.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Snake Charmers Snared in Indo-Bangladesh Row
The immediate fate of a group of 213 stranded snake charmers may determine the future of India's new policy of deporting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, who cross the border in large numbers to seek jobs in this relatively more prosperous country.HEALTH-INDIA: Kidney Trade Live and Well Despite Stringent Laws
When India's human rights commission stepped in last week to order the state government in Punjab to produce a report on a flourishing trade in live human kidneys, it was a sign that laws concerning the organ trade were not working as they should.POLITICS-INDIA: Opposition Grows against Unilateral War on Iraq
Opposition is slowly but steadily building up in India against possible unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq.RELIGION-INDIA: Attack on Evangelist Bad Omen for Secularism
The tourism brochures bill India's southern Kerala as 'God's Own Country.' So when a Christian evangelist was brutalised in this state, earlier this month, it left people wondering if violent Hindu fundamentalism sweeping across India has finally hit these shores.DEVELOPMENT: Anti-Globalisation Rally Caps Asian Social Forum
? A mammoth, 40,000-strong anti-globalisation rally on Tuesday, marking the end of the Asian Social Forum (ASF) here, steered clear of an international investment summit in this southern Indian city that had drawn their ire.DEVELOPMENT: Asia’s Marginalised Dread Globalisation
It is bad enough being discriminated against as a descendant of a ‘burakumin' or outcast in feudal Japan, but globalisation is now also taking away an occupation traditionally assigned to this ‘impure' group of people.DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: Globalisation Spells Recolonisation – Critics
Globalisation is nothing but a grand strategy for the recolonisation of Asia with the support of local elites, warn academics at the ongoing Asian Social Forum (ASF) in this southern Indian city.POLITICS: Indo-Pakistan Rivalry Mars Asian Social Forum
Subcontinental rivalries have spilled into the ongoing Asian Social Forum (ASF) in this southern Indian city, where key peace and human rights activists from Pakistan were denied visas to attend the meeting that has drawn some 10,000 people.POLITICS: Indo-Pakistan Rivalry Mars Asian Social Forum
Subcontinental rivalries have spilled into the ongoing Asian Social Forum (ASF) in this southern Indian city, where key peace and human rights activists from Pakistan were denied visas to attend the meeting that has drawn some 10,000 people.DEVELOPMENT: Asian Social Forum to Focus on Peace, Security
Peace and security as factors to counter neo-liberal globalisation will dominate the Asian Social Forum to be held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad next week, as a prelude to the World Social Forum (WSF) at Porto Alegre, Brazil later in January.DEVELOPMENT: Asian Social Forum to Focus on Peace, Security
Peace and security as factors to counter neo-liberal globalisation will dominate the Asian Social Forum to be held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad next week, as a prelude to the World Social Forum (WSF) at Porto Alegre, Brazil later in January.INDIA: Critics Dispute Success of Genetically Engineered Cotton
Claims made by India's ministry for environment and forests that the first officially-approved crop of genetically modified cotton has been a success are being challenged by independent scientists and farmers' groups.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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