Stories written by Ranjit Devraj
Regional editor Ranjit Devraj, based in Delhi, takes care of the journalistic production from the Asia and Pacific region. He handles a group of influential writers based in places like Bangkok, Rangoon, Tehran, Dubai, Karachi, Colombo, Melbourne, Beijing and Tokyo, among many others. He coordinates with the editor in chief and forms part of the IPS editorial team. Ranjit Devraj has been an IPS correspondent in India since 1997. Prior to that he was a special correspondent with the United News of India news agency. Assignments for UNI included development of the agency’s overseas operations, particularly in the Gulf region. Devraj counts two years in the trenches (1989-1990) covering the violent Gorkha autonomy movement in the Darjeeling Hills as most valuable in a career of varied journalistic experience.

HEALTH: India Looks Askance at Bill Gates’ HIV/AIDS Grant

By Ranjit Devraj
A 100-million-dollar grant to fight HIV/AIDS in India, announced by the world's richest man Bill Gates soon after he landed in the national capital Monday, is mired in controversy as policy makers suspected a hidden U.S. agenda behind the largesse.

HEALTH: India Looks Askance at Bill Gates’ HIV/AIDS Grant

By Ranjit Devraj
A 100 million U.S. dollar grant to fight HIV/AIDS in India, announced by the world's richest man Bill Gates soon after he landed in the national capital Monday, has been mired by controversy after policy makers suspected a hidden U.S. agenda behind the largesse.

HEALTH: India Looks Askance at Bill Gates’ HIV/AIDS Grant

By Ranjit Devraj
A 100 million U.S. dollar grant to fight HIV/AIDS in India, announced by the world's richest man Bill Gates soon after he landed in the national capital Monday, has been mired by controversy after policy makers suspected a hidden U.S. agenda behind the largesse.
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The Kyoto Protocol and Its Deserters

By Ranjit Devraj and - -
The multilateral treaty for controlling climate change is looking increasingly weak in the wake of the latest global meeting on the issue, held in India. The appeal issued in the final declaration for more ratifications of the treaty was not enough to compensate for the profound disagreements between governments.

POLITICS-INDIA: Opposition Party Readies for Return to Power

By Ranjit Devraj
The bosses of India's main opposition Congress party began on Friday preparations that could well see it wresting power from the pro-Hindu coalition government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

/CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS-INDIA: Opposition Party Readies for Return to Power

By Ranjit Devraj
The bosses of India's main opposition Congress party began on Friday preparations that could well see it wresting power from the pro-Hindu coalition government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

POLITICS-INDIA: Opposition Party Readies for Return to Power

By Ranjit Devraj
The party bosses of India's main opposition Congress party began on Friday preparations that could well see it wresting power from the coalition government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, led by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party.

POLITICS-INDIA: Activists Say Pakistanis Killed in Fake Encounter

By Ranjit Devraj
India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered protection for an eyewitness who claimed that a shootout, in which police killed two supposed Pakistani militants in a busy shopping mall here Sunday, had been stage-managed.

/REPEAT/POLITICS-INDIA: Activists Say Pakistanis Killed in Fake Encounter

By Ranjit Devraj
India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered protection for an eyewitness who claimed that a shootout, in which police killed two supposed Pakistani militants in a busy shopping mall here Sunday, had been stage-managed.

POLITICS-INDIA: Activists Say Pakistanis Killed in Fake Encounter

By Ranjit Devraj
India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered protection for an eyewitness who claimed that a shootout, in which police killed two supposed Pakistani militants in a busy shopping mall here Sunday, had been stage-managed.

ENVIRONMENT: Revival of Ivory Carving Bad News for Elephants

By Ranjit Devraj
The international trade in elephant tusks and their products is so ancient that the Old Testament mentions Malabar, now India's southern state of Kerala, as the source for the ivory imported by Solomon (970-931 BC), king of the Jews.

HEALTH-INDIA: Bill Gates May Face Flak over HIV/AIDS Vaccine

By Ranjit Devraj
India may be the ideal place to source anti-virus software, but an anti-HIV vaccine may prove to be a different kettle of fish - as Bill Gates himself is about to discover when he arrives in the country next week.

ENVIRONMENT: Revival of Ivory Carving Bad News for Elephants

By Ranjit Devraj
The international trade in elephant tusks and their products is so ancient that the Old Testament mentions Malabar, now India's southern state of Kerala, as the source for the ivory imported by Solomon (970-931 BC), king of the Jews.

HEALTH-INDIA: Bill Gates May Face Flak over HIV/AIDS Vaccine

By Ranjit Devraj
India may be the ideal place to source anti-virus software, but an anti-HIV vaccine may prove to be a different kettle of fish -- as Bill Gates himself is about to discover when he arrives in the country next week.
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Revival of Ivory Carving in India Bad News for Elephants

By Ranjit Devraj and - -
In spite of its sacred status, the Asian elephant is not safe, warn ecologists as the international conference on endangered animals gets under way in Chile, where delegates will hear proposals to lift restrictions on international trade in the elephant's prized tusks, the source of ivory.

ENVIRONMENT: Kyoto Pact Back on Agenda

By Ranjit Devraj
Ten days of wrangling between rich and poor countries over who should take on the burden of controlling climate change ended Friday with one tangible result: the retention of the centrality of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which binds industrialised countries to curbing greenhouse gases.

ENVIRONMENT: Kyoto Pact Back on Agenda after Key U.N. Meet

By Ranjit Devraj
Ten days of wrangling between rich and poor countries over who should take on the burden of controlling climate change ended Friday with one tangible result: the retention of the centrality of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which binds industrialised countries to curbing greenhouse gases.

ENVIRONMENT: Kyoto Pact Back on Agenda after Key U.N. Meet

By Ranjit Devraj
Ten days of wrangling between rich and poor countries over who should take on the burden of controlling climate change ended Friday with one tangible result: the retention of the centrality of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which binds industrialised countries to curbing greenhouse gases.

ENVIRONMENT: Don’t Blame Poor Nations for Global Warming – India

By Ranjit Devraj
India, host to an ongoing U.N. conference on climate change, set the tone Wednesday for the final stretch of negotiations by saying that developing countries should not be expected to cut emissions when they needed to take care of their impoverished, hungry people first.

ENVIRONMENT: Don’t Blame Poor Nations for Global Warming – India

By Ranjit Devraj
India, host to an ongoing U.N. conference on climate change, set the tone Wednesday for the final stretch of negotiations by saying that developing countries should not be expected to cut emissions when they needed to take care of their impoverished, hungry people first.

ENVIRONMENT: U.N. Climate Negotiations Back on Track

By Ranjit Devraj
Concerted efforts by the European Union, China and the Group of 77 bloc of developing countries appear to be getting the landmark 1997 Kyoto Protocol back into the 'Delhi Declaration', expected to be issued at the close of a 10-day U. N. conference on climate change here on Friday.
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