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/UPDATE/SOUTH ASIA: India Pulls Troops Back from Pakistan Border
Following the successful completion of state assembly elections in disputed Kashmir earlier this month, India announced Wednesday gradual the withdrawal of the 700,000 troops it has deployed since December along the 3,000-kilometre frontier with Pakistan.POLITICS-INDIA: Kashmir Awaits New Govt after Unclear Poll Verdict
Kashmiris are waiting for two political parties, both victorious in the just concluded state assembly elections, to decide which of them would get to lead the next government in the state torn by a 12-years of violent secessionism.POLITICS-INDIA: Kashmir Awaits New Govt after Unclear Poll Verdict
Kashmiris are waiting for two political parties, both victorious in the just concluded state assembly elections, to decide which of them would get to lead the next government in the state torn by a 12-years of violent secessionism.INDIA: Independent Nuclear Energy Strategy Goes Full Steam Ahead
Banking on large natural deposits of radioactive thorium and indigenously developed reactors to harness them, India is determined to use nuclear power to bridge yawning energy needs - dismissing international concerns for the programme's safety and proliferation issues.INDIA: Independent Nuclear Energy Strategy Goes Full Steam Ahead
Banking on large natural deposits of radioactive thorium and indigenously developed reactors to harness them, India is determined to use nuclear power to bridge yawning energy needs -- dismissing international concerns for the programme's safety and proliferation issues.ELECTIONS-KASHMIR: Pro-India Ruling Party Routed in Polls
The pro-India political party that rules Indian Kashmir has been routed in a vote to elect a new assembly, one that is expected to play a key role in any negotiated settlement to end violent separatist actions in the disputed state.POLITICS: Pro-India Ruling Party Routed in Kashmir Polls
The pro-India political party that rules Indian Kashmir has been routed in an election to elect a new assembly, one that is expected to play a key role in any negotiated settlement to end violent separatism in the disputed state.POLITICS: Pro-India Ruling Party Routed in Kashmir Polls
The pro-India political party that rules Indian Kashmir has been routed in an election to elect a new assembly, one that is expected to play a key role in any negotiated settlement to end violent separatism in the disputed state.INDIA: Kashmir Polls Close with High Turnout, Despite Violence
Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir have reason to congratulate themselves for completing polling for a new assembly in the disputed territory on Tuesday, in the face of repeated attacks by 'jihadist' militant groups to disrupt the three-week voting process.INDIA: Kashmir Polls Close with High Turnout, Despite Violence
Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir have reason to congratulate themselves for completing polling for a new assembly in the disputed territory on Tuesday, in the face of repeated attacks by 'jihadist' militant groups to disrupt the three-week voting process.ECONOMY-INDIA: Liberalisation Runs into Rough Political Weather
A decade after socialist India began economic liberalisation under pressure form the World Bank, this ambitious process has run into a wall because of resistance from ultra-nationalist groups that support the right-wing party of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.ECONOMY-INDIA: Liberalisation Runs into Rough Political Weather
A decade after socialist India began economic liberalisation under pressure form the World Bank, this ambitious process has run into a wall because of resistance from ultra-nationalist groups that support the right-wing party of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.SOUTH ASIA: China Behind Pakistan’s Missile Tests, Says India
Pakistan's test Friday of its nuclear-capable and medium-range ballistic missile, the 'Shaheen', has once again prompted India to level accusations of missile technology proliferation to that country by China.SOUTH ASIA: China Behind Pakistan’s Missile Tests, Says India
Pakistan's test Friday of its nuclear-capable and medium-range ballistic missile, the 'Shaheen', has once again prompted India to level accusations of missile technology proliferation to that country by China.POLITICS: Violence Increases in Kashmir as Elections Near End
Violence increased dramatically in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Wednesday with militants making a last-bid attempt to disrupt the final phase of a staggered four-part elections ending on Oct. 8.POLITICS: Violence Increases in Kashmir as Elections Near End
Violence increased dramatically in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Wednesday with militants making a last-bid attempt to disrupt the final phase of a staggered four-part elections ending on Oct. 8.INDIA: Activists Expose Sneaky Use of Injectable Contraceptives
Armed with reports of 50 women who were injected with contraceptives at a government hospital, women's rights activists have renewed calls to ensure that the controversial drugs are not sneaked into the country's coercive population control programme.ENVIRONMENT: Despite Warnings, India Bent on Pursuing GM Crops
Dire warnings by food security experts and crop failures have not deterred India from going ahead with plans to allow farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) food crops that are developed indigenously, as well as from seeds supplied by transnational firms./UPDATE/INDIA: Temple Attack Shows Vulnerability to Suicide Attacks
India's vulnerability to suicide attacks has again been exposed by a 12-hour siege of a Hindu temple that ended Wednesday in western Gujarat state, carried out by a two-man 'jihadist' squad armed with automatic weapons.INDIA: Temple Attack Shows Vulnerability to Suicide Attacks
India's vulnerability to suicide attacks has again been exposed by a 12-hour siege of a Hindu temple that ended Wednesday in western Gujarat state, carried out by a two-man 'jihadist' squad armed with automatic weapons./ARTS WEEKLY/INDIA: Book Gives Elegy for Kashmir’s Paradise Lost
Sudha Koul's book 'The Tiger Ladies' is more than a simple 'memoir of Kashmir' as she calls it in the subtitle -- it is the literary encapsulation of the tragedy of a hauntingly beautiful territory high in the Himalayas, whose Muslim and Hindu inhabitants have been torn asunder by the greed of others.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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