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SRI LANKA: Too Early to Call Talks a Success, Indian Analysts Say
Although the talks between Colombo and the Tamil Tigers, are being widely hailed as historic and path-breaking, experts in India, Sri Lanka's 'big brother', are reserving judgement until they have heard pronouncements from reclusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Democracy Wins in Kashmir Elections
Whatever the final outcome of the ongoing state assembly elections in Indian Kashmir, the ownership of which is hotly contested by neighbouring Pakistan, the first phase of polling Monday has shown up its real winner -- democracy.TECHNOLOGY: India Offers Cheaper Taxi Rides into Space
In the burgeoning world market for satellite launches and space services, India offers the cheapest taxi rides on its rockets./CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS-INDIA: Kashmir Attacks Leave Minister, 15 Others Dead
As the world remembered the Sep. 11 tragedy Wednesday, militant attacks in Kashmir left a key state official and 15 other people dead in violence aimed at disrupting the state assembly election that begins in the disturbed territory next Monday.POLITICS-INDIA: Kashmir Attacks Leaves Minister, 15 Others Dead
As the world remembered the Sep. 11 tragedy Wednesday, militant attacks in Kashmir left a key state official and 15 other people dead in violence aimed at disrupting the state assembly election that begins in the disturbed territory next Monday.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Train Mishap Runs into Old Safety Issues
As the toll in Monday night's train mishap in India's eastern Bihar state crossed a hundred dead, fingers are again being pointed at the low priority the government accords to safety issues in the rail network that moves 15 million people everyday.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Train Mishap Runs into Old Safety Issues
As the toll in Monday night's train mishap in India's eastern Bihar state crossed a hundred dead, fingers are again being pointed at the low priority the government accords to safety issues in the rail network that moves 15 million people everyday.POLITICS: Painful History Makes India Sit Out Lanka Peace Talks
When separatist Tamil Tigers rebels sit down to talk peace with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand next week, there will be no Indian representative around - a reflection of the country's studied aloofness to the 19-year-old ethnic conflict on the island nation off its southern tip./CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS: Painful History Makes India Sit Out Lanka Peace Talks
When separatist Tamil Tigers rebels sit down to talk peace with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand next week, there will be no Indian representative around - a reflection of the country's studied aloofness to the 19-year-old ethnic conflict on the island nation off its southern tip.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Farmers Want Compensation after Ruined GM Crops
Farmers in India's cotton-growing central and western regions, who were anxious to get genetically engineered cotton seed not so long ago, are now even more anxious about getting compensation from the government for a disastrous failure of this year's crops.POLITICS: Debate Rages as India’s Robin Hood Strikes Again
Two years after he created a storm by kidnapping for ransom, a popular film star often called India's Robin Hood has struck again, boldly carrying off a prominent politician into his forest hideout and triggering a new round of finger-pointing about how to capture the elusive brigand.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Green Cover Safely Left to Providence
To say that it has been left to providence to protect India's fast dwindling green cover is more than a metaphor - the ancient concept of 'sacred forests' is proving to be the best deterrent yet for the buzz saw.RIGHTS-INDIA: Bhopal Victims Score a Court Victory
A court in Bhopal city, site of the world's worst industrial disaster in 1984, dismissed Wednesday a plea by India's central government to dilute to negligence the culpable homicide charges against the chairman of the company whose plant spewed deadly gases 18 years ago.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Failure of Major ‘Green’ Movements Stands Out
As the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) gets underway in South Africa, India, a country of over a billion people, can report little but the gross failure of its best-known environment movements.POLITICS-SOUTH-ASIA: India Denies Pakistani Aerial Attack
India found itself denying reports of an aerial attack on Pakistan across the Line of Control (LoC) in disputed Kashmir on Friday, as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrived here to resume talks aimed at de-escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.INDIA: Pro-Hindu Party Revives Plan for Controversial Chariot Ride
Thwarted by India's Election Commission from holding snap polls in western Gujarat, the state's pro-Hindu chief minister Narendra Modi has revived plans for a symbolic chariot ride through it, one that many fear could aggravate communal tensions there.POLITICS: India Rules out Talks with Separatists in Kashmir
In a sudden toughening of India's policy on Kashmir, Interior Minister Lal Krishna Advani on Monday ruled out talks with leaders of the main alliance of separatist groups in the disputed territory, ahead of the assembly elections there in September and October.POLITICS: India Rules out Talks with Separatists in Kashmir
In a sudden toughening of India's policy on Kashmir, Interior Minister Lal Krishna Advani on Monday ruled out talks with leaders of the main alliance of separatist groups in the disputed territory, ahead of the assembly elections there in September and October.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Kashmir ‘Wound’ Festers for 55th Year
Fifty five years after Pakistan was carved out of India as a homeland for the sub-continent's Muslims, the hauntingly beautiful valley of Kashmir remains the raw wound of the traumatic partition that preceded independence from British rule in August 1947.ENVIRONMENT: Brown Haze Smokescreen for Greenhouse Gas Emitters
Rich industrialised nations that are accused of generating more greenhouse gases than they are entitled to may now hit back with accusations that the 'Asian Brown Haze', produced largely by countless wood-burning stoves, is equally culpable in global climate change.HEALTH: India Comes up with Easier Cure for TB
Indian scientists have come up with a short regimen against tuberculosis (TB) that halves the six months needed under the directly observed treatment short course or DOTS, approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO).« Previous Page — Next Page »
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