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SOUTH ASIA: India, Pakistan May Fight Millennium’s First Water War
Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan may get to fight the millennium's first war over water, if New Delhi abrogates the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as part of punitive diplomatic and economic measures in response to continued suicide strikes allegedly carried out with Islamabad's blessing.TECHNOLOGY: India’s Digital Divide is an Ever-Widening Chasm
India's digital divide is an ever-widening chasm that separates a narrow upper crust of band-width hungry urbanites from the vast majority of their malnourished, illiterate countrymen, who may have to walk days just to get to the nearest working telephone.SOUTH ASIA: Again, War Clouds Thicken after Kashmir Attack
India on Wednesday ratcheted up its war rhetoric against neighbouring Pakistan in response to Tuesday's suicide attack on an army encampment in disputed Kashmir state, which left 34 army personnel and their family members dead.SOUTH ASIA: Again, War Clouds Thicken after Kashmir Attack
India on Wednesday ratcheted up its war rhetoric against neighbouring Pakistan in response to Tuesday's suicide attack on an army encampment in disputed Kashmir state, which left 34 army personnel and their family members dead.POLITICS: India, U.S. Move from Cold War to War Games
With troops from her country engaged in war games with the Indian army for the first time ever, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca can be certain of a warm reception during her visit here./CORRECTED REPEAT/ECONOMY-INDIA: Traders Make a Killing, as People Starve
In India's continuing paradox of overflowing granaries and starving populations, the only smiling faces these days are of those of traders.ECONOMY-INDIA: Traders Make a Killing, as People Starve
In India's continuing paradox of overflowing granaries and starving populations, the only smiling faces these days are of those of traders.POLITICS-INDIA: Caste Equations Upset in Hindu Heartland
Many think that there must be divine retribution in India's western Uttar Pradesh state, the heartland of conservative Hinduism that is ruled by a woman member of an untouchable caste.POLITICS-INDIA: Lawbreakers Can’t be Lawmakers, Says Court
India's Supreme Court has ruled that candidates contesting provincial and parliamentary polls must now disclose their wealth and police records, but the debate over how best to keep criminals out of public office continues.POLITICS-INDIA: After Crash, ‘Flying Coffins’ Grounded for Now
After a MiG 21 fighter plane ploughed into a bank building Friday, the Indian Air Force had no choice but to partially ground its fleet of what has come to be known as the "flying coffin" due to its abnormally high attrition rate.ECONOMY-INDIA: Gov’t Feels Wrath of Overburdened Taxpayers
When Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha sought to impose further burdens on the two percent of India's one billion people who actually pay income tax, it proved to be the last straw on the proverbial camel's back.INDIA: While Politicians Wrangle, Gujarat Survivors Await Help
As India's politicians wrangle for political mileage from a pogrom against Muslims in western Gujarat state two months ago, scorching summer temperatures and disease stalk some 150,000 people who fled their homes, say volunteer groups.INDIA: While Politicians Wrangle, Gujarat Survivors Await Help
As India's politicians wrangle for political mileage from a pogrom against Muslims in western Gujarat state two months ago, scorching summer temperatures and disease stalk some 150,000 people who fled their homes, say volunteer groups.RIGHTS-INDIA: Domestic Violence Bill No Comfort to Battered Women
For years, Susheela slaved and saved as domestic help to build the house of her dreams - a two-room shanty on the outskirts of the Indian capital for her family of three children and her petty tradesman husband./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/INDIA: Railways Unify Fractious Subcontinent
Exactly a century and a half after British colonials brought the steam engine and the railways to the subcontinent, few can deny its overwhelming role in the lives of the people on a subcontinent that is incurably riven by caste and religious prejudice.INDIA: Pro-Hindu Party Runs out of Places to Hide on Gujarat
After the deputy speaker of India's lawmaking lower house said Tuesday that the future of violence-torn, western Gujarat state be discussed in Parliament and voted upon this month, the ruling pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun to run out of places to hide.RIGHTS-INDIA: Women Targeted in Gujarat Pogrom – Investigators
Sheba George broke down and had to be comforted by other members of a Women's Panel when it presented its report Wednesday on the sexual brutalisation of women, the highlight of a pogrom unleashed on Muslims in western Gujarat state to avenge the February fire-bombing of a train carrying Hindu devotees.POLITICS-INDIA: Showdown over Gujarat Builds up in Parliament
Indian politics appeared headed for uncertainty Monday, with secular parties preparing to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for not only refusing to sack its chief minister in riot-torn Gujarat state, but endorsing his blatantly pro-Hindu policies.INDIA: Pro-Hindu Party Refuses to Sack Leader of Riot-hit State
As Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began a three-day conclave Friday, it came under intense pressure to sack the fundamentalist chief minister of riot-torn western Gujarat state, Narendra Modi./UPDATE/POLITICS: India Won’t Interfere in Sri Lanka Peace Talks
Having burnt its fingers trying to broker an aborted peace accord in Sri Lanka in 1987, India is not likely to accept Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's appeal for New Delhi's involvement in the current peace initiative between him and Colombo.POLITICS: India Unlikely to Take Tamil Tigers’ Bait
Having burnt its fingers trying to broker an aborted peace accord in Sri Lanka in 1987, India is not likely to accept Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's appeal for New Delhi's involvement in the current peace initiative between him and Colombo.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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