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HEALTH-INDIA: Plague-like Disease Kills Four, Causes Panic
After a fourth person died of a mysterious illness that has caused panic in the northern Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, medical experts said the disease could be plague.POLITICS-INDIA: Ruling Fundamentalists Faces Rout in State Polls
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces an electoral rout in its stronghold of northern state of Uttar Pradesh, going by exit poll results following the first phase of a three-part election held on Thursday.POLITICS: Russia, India, China May Yet Form Trilateral Power Axis
With the prospect of extended U.S. military presence in Central Asia now increasingly likely, Russia has revived a three-year-old proposal to rope India and China into a trilateral power axis.DEVELOPMENT: For India, Enron Saga a Lesson against Globalisation
Through Enron Corp.'s troubles in India over its stalled three billion dollar power project, the power giant's suave executives never tired of warning the government that how it handled the project would be a litmus test for this country's decade-old economic liberalisation.ENVIRONMENT: Biotechnology Weapons Worse Than Nukes – Critics
Governments concerned about nuclear proliferation should be more worried by the greater potential for mischief that biotechnology holds in military and criminal minds, say members of an international panel of scientists involved in shaping the Biosafety Protocol.POLITICS: Attack on U.S. Centre Adds to India-Pakistan Tensions
India's powerful interior minister, Lal Krishna Advani, has indicated that he views Tuesday's terrorist attack on the American Centre in the eastern port city of Kolkata as a sign that Pakistan was not serious about reigning in 'jihadism'.SOUTH ASIA: New Chance Rises for Democratic Politics in Kashmir
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on 'jihadist' militancy in his country has started to show results in the disputed northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where they are signs of a revival of political, instead of armed, activitiy./REPEAT/POLITICS: India Eyes Freeze on Line of Control in Kashmir
As international pressure mounts on India to resume dialogue with Pakistan over Kashmir, New Delhi is likely to push for a conversion of the Line of Control (LoC), which now divides the disputed territory, into an international border.POLITICS: India Eyes Freeze on Line of Control in Kashmir
As international pressure mounts on India to resume dialogue with Pakistan over Kashmir, New Delhi is likely to push for a conversion of the Line of Control (LoC), which now divides the disputed territory, into an international border.DEVELOPMENT: Privatisation Will Get More Indians Connected
Simi Joseph calculates that she can save 10 percent of the meagre 300 U.S. dollars she earns every month working as a nurse, thanks to the halving of long distance telephone rates that the Indian government ordered this week.POLITICS: India Hardens Stance Ahead of Powell ‘s Peace Mission
India hardened its warlike stance ahead of the arrival here Thursday of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, on the second leg of a peace mission to defuse a military standoff between this country and neighbouring Pakistan.POLITICS-ASIA: India, China Bury Mistrust Through Trade
Asia's giants China and India are set to bury decades of mistrust as Premier Zhu Rongji completed talks with Indian leaders here and headed Tuesday for the bustling west coast port city of Mumbai, on the third day of his six-day Indian tour.POLITICS: India Ready for Nuclear Exchange, Says Army Chief
India's army chief Gen. Sunderajan Padmnabhan on Friday dared Pakistan's president and military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, to launch a nuclear first strike against his country, stepping up bilateral tensions even further.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Car Fuel Policy Ignores Public Health
Health and environment activists are aghast at a new automobile fuel policy that sets the clock back on a Supreme Court order banning diesel use by buses and taxis plying India's smoggy capital, and replacing it with environment-friendly compressed natural gas.POLITICS: India Cranks up Diplomatic Offensive against Pakistan
India on Monday again ruled out talks with Pakistan to defuse a military standoff along their common border, but began international diplomatic moves aimed at isolating the neighbour it accuses of arming and supporting terrorists in the disputed territory of Kashmir.SOUTH-ASIA: Hopes Recede for Indo-Pakistan Dialogue in Summit
Hopes for an Indo-Pakistan peace breakthrough at this week's South Asian summit receded, after Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared Thursday that he was not satisfied with Islamabad's latest actions against Pakistan-based 'jihadist' militants operating in this country.POLITICS: Indo-Pakistan Cold War Overshadows South Asian Summit
Yet another summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been jeopardized by hostilities between India and Pakistan, the two largest members of the seven-nation regional grouping.ECONOMY: India Unscathed by Recession, But Too Early to Celebrate
While most Asian economies reel under recessionary trends, India has been left unscathed thanks largely to its still largely-isolated economy./UPDATE/POLITICS-INDIA: Talk of War Drowns Out Peace Calls, Say Activists
Peace activists in India are urging the government not to allow an aborted attack on Parliament on Dec. 13, which New Delhi blames on Pakistani 'jihadists', to become cause for a third war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.POLITICS-INDIA: Talk of War Drowns Out Peace Calls, Say Activists
Peace activists in India are urging the government not to allow an aborted attack on Parliament on Dec. 13, which New Delhi blames on Pakistani 'jihadists', to become cause for a third war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.SOUTH ASIA: Tensions between Pakistan-India Climb Higher
Tensions between India and Pakistan continued to climb higher, along with concern over their tit-for-tat accusations in the wake of last week's attack on the Parliament House here, which New Delhi accuses Islamabad of having played a role in.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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