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POLITICS: U.S. Defence Boss Tries to Allay India’s Security Fears
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sought Monday to allay fears in India that the current military campaign against terrorism would be confined to Afghanistan.HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT: Anthrax Scare Highlights Drug Patent Problems
It took the anthrax scare in the United States and an offer of cheap drugs from India to highlight a problem familiar to people in developing countries -û the denial of access to affordable drugs because of tough patent laws.POLITICS-INDIA: Premier under Pressure from Hindu Fundamentalists
û Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, often called the moderate face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that leads the country's ruling 20-party coalition, has come under severe criticism from hawks within his pro-Hindu party.RIGHTS-INDIA: Govt Revives Anti-Terrorist Law after U.S. Attacks
The Sep. 11 attacks against the United States have prompted India's right-wing government to resurrect, this week, anti-terrorist legislation rejected by Parliament six years ago as being restrictive of civil liberties./REPEAT/SOUTH ASIA: Cold War Rivalries Return to Sub-continent
Shades of the Cold War returned to the sub-continent Tuesday as India deepened defence ties with Moscow, even as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held consultations in Islamabad on a post-Taliban dispensation in Afghanistan.
UniversSOUTH ASIA: Cold War Rivalries Return to the Sub-continent
Shades of the cold war returned to the sub-continent Tuesday as India deepened defence ties with Moscow even as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held consultations in Islamabad on a post-Taliban dispensation in Afghanistan.
ENVIRONMENT: India Turns Major Destination for anti-Ozone Chemicals
Environmental investigators say transit facilities provided to landlocked Nepal are being misused to smuggle vast quantities of ozone-unfriendly chemicals into neighbouring India, undermining a phase-out programme mandated under the Montreal Protocol.TRADE: India To Seek Changes in WTO Draft in Singapore
India will rally like-minded developing countries to press for changes in the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s draft declaration readied for next month's ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.SOUTH ASIA: Concern Rises over Post-Taliban Set-up in Afghanistan
Starting war in an Afghanistan riven by fundamentalism and tribalism may have been the easy part for the United States, say experts who lament that Washington actually has little clue on a viable post-Taliban dispensation.POLITICS: Energy a Major Factor in Looming Afghan Conflict
Just as the Gulf war in 1991 was all about oil, the new conflict in South and Central Asia is no less about access to the region's abundant petroleum resources, say analysts here.POLITICS: India Demands U.S. Action on Kashmiri ‘Jehadist’ Group
India is demanding that the United States act swiftly against a 'jehadist' group that has claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide attacks in Srinagar city, which devastated the Kashmir state assembly building and left 39 people dead./ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-INDIA: Rare Collection of Jewellery Draws Crowds
For a stone that once served as a paperweight it has remarkable sparkle. But the last ruler of the former princely state of Hyderabad saw no better use for the fabulous Jacob diamond.POLITICS-INDIA: Ban on ‘Jehadist’ Group Biased, Says Opposition
Indian opposition parties have joined hands with Muslim leaders in condemning as discriminatory a federal ban on the radical Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a group that officials claim is linked to the Al Qaeda group of the Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Villagers Displaced by Dam Get Reprieve
Villagers displaced by the mammoth Sardar Sarovar dam being constructed in India's western Gujarat have won the support of the government in adjoining Maharashtra state in their struggle for resettlement and rehabilitation.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Taliban Funds Itself On Opium Farming – Experts
If U.S. President George W Bush is serious about choking off funds to the Taliban he would have to look closer at poppy cultivation, heroin processing and cash transactions in the 'Golden Crescent,' say observers here.POLITICS-INDIA: Court Unseats Popular Minister
Despite her conviction for corruption, Jayaraman Jayalalithaa still holds millions of impoverished people in India's southern Tamil Nadu state spellbound.SOUTH ASIA: Stinger Missiles Await U.S. Planes over Afghanistan
One worry for U.S. forces considering any aerial assault on terrorist-suspect Osama bin Laden, after last week's terror attacks in the United States, is the arsenal of deadly Stinger missiles provided by Washington during the Afghan war in the eighties.POLITICS: India Says Will Support U.S. Strikes vs bin Laden
India has pledged unconditional support for a possible retaliatory strike by the United States against the Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden for the terrorist strikes in New York and Washington.HEALTH-INDIA: Plan to Make HIV/AIDS Notifiable Runs into Flak
A plan by India's Ministry of Health to make HIV/AIDS cases compulsorily notifiable may help government get a better picture of how many people are affected, but health activists warn this could result in driving the disease underground in this taboo- ridden country.RIGHTS-INDIA: Blood Scarce but Prisoners Cannot Donate
Rights groups are dismayed by an order of India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) banning prisoners from donating blood on the grounds that they formed a high-risk group.INDIA: Amid Economic Pressure, Premier to Step into Energy Row
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's announcement Friday of plans to intervene in a giant U.S. firm's vexed dispute with western Maharashtra state is another sign of his government's desire to revive a flagging economy through foreign investments.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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