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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).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).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).POLITICS: In India, Life and Art Imitate Each Other
India's most wanted fugitive from justice at the moment holds the exalted rank of inspector general of prisons in northern Haryana state, which adjoins the national capital of Delhi.POLITICS-INDIA: Naga Political Settlement Faces Opposition
After decades in exile, the Bangkok-based leaders of the half-a-century old rebel movement in north-eastern Nagaland state are set to arrive in India for a political settlement in response to an invitation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.POLITICS-INDIA: Calls for Revenge Rise after New Kashmir Attack
The ruling pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for stern action by the Indian government against Tuesday's grenade and firearms attack by militants on pilgrims trekking to the remote cave shrine of Amarnath in disputed Kashmir./ARTS WEEKLY/INDIA: Film Bends It for the Box Office
If the British blockbuster 'Bend it Like Beckham' is also running to packed houses in India, no one is surprised. It has all the romantic ingredients of a standard, crowd-pulling 'Mumbai Masala' production that makes the Indian cinema industry the world's biggest, though not the best.RIGHTS-INDIA: Muslim Women Emerge From Veiled Existences
India's 65 million Muslim women, often called a minority within a minority for their double handicap of gender and faith, are challenging religious medieval laws that have keep them in their place for centuries -- and for a change some 'mullahs' (high clergy) are listening.INDIA: Mix of Droughts, Floods Linked to Climate Change
India may be in the throes of its worst drought in a dozen years, but its snow-fed rivers and lakes are overflowing. The reason? Climate change caused by global warming, say environmental experts.SOUTH ASIA: India’s Kashmir Policy under Strain after Powell Visit
India's government, led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, came under heavy flak in Parliament Tuesday for an overtly pro-U.S tilt that has failed to stop the steady internationalisation of the Kashmir issue.DEVELOPMENT: India’s Presidents Show that Social Mobility Works
When the son of a boatman who once sold newspapers at a railway station was installed as India's president last week, it was yet another sign that social mobility does work in this democracy of billion-plus people.DEVELOPMENT: Failed Monsoon May Hit India’s Rain-fed Economy
These days Deepak Khanna peers at the skies through the thick plate glass of his swanky showroom of electronic appliances, with the same anxiety that millions of farmers have as India faces its worst drought in a decade.HEALTH-INDIA: Ayurveda Defies Biopiracy, Patenting
Set amidst verdant, gently undulating hills, 25 km from the capital of southern Kerala state, is the Santhigiri Ashram, a not-for-profit spiritual and health retreat where the idea of patenting herbal medicines is considered laughable.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Xerox Duplicity Shows Deep Roots of Corruption
The confessions by the global copier maker Xerox of duplicitous deals with the Indian government come as no surprise in this country, where economic liberalisation has brought newer opportunities for politicians and bureaucrats to make money.DEVELOPMENT: Xerox Duplicity Shows Deep Roots of Corruption
The confessions by the global copier maker Xerox of duplicitous deals with the Indian government come as no surprise in this country, where economic liberalisation has brought newer opportunities for politicians and bureaucrats to make money.POLITICS-INDIA: Straw’s Peace Mission Includes Fighter Deal on the Side
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, on his third visit to India this year amid tensions on the sub-continent, is expected to finally clinch a 15-year-old proposal worth three billion U.S. dollars to sell this country a fleet of Hawk trainer jets.POLITICS: India Deports Suspected Maoists to Nepal
India on Friday delivered on a promise it made recently to its northern neighbour Nepal to help counter a Maoist insurgency there, by deporting four nationals of the Himalayan kingdom believed to have links with it.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Power Privatisation Hit By Sabotage
Ten days after power supply in India's capital was handed over to private companies - in the hope of tackling the serious problem of theft -- it is becoming apparent that this attempt at privatisation is going to be no cake-walk.POLITICS-INDIA: Lawmakers Balk at Accountability Rules
India's lawmakers ganged up Monday to shoot down a move by the country's Election Commission to make it compulsory for candidates contesting elections at the state and central legislatures to disclose their incomes, bank accounts, personal profiles and any criminal history.INDIA: Return of Award Puts Limelight on ‘Barefoot Architects’
It is strange that a voluntary organisation working in a remote village in India's desertified western Rajasthan state would return a prestigious award for architecture from the legendary Aga Khan.TECHNOLOGY: India’s Digital Library Aids Biopirates – Activists
Far from protecting biodiversity and traditional knowledge, India's new Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) may be just the thing that biopirates have been looking for in navigating through the country's vast ocean of ancient literature on indigenous herbs and their uses, critics say.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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