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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Gujarat Tax Unfair to Taxpayers, Say Critics
A "punitive" income tax surcharge imposed by the Indian government in the name of relief for quake- hit western Gujarat state is an unfair burden on the small fraction of people who pay taxes, critics say.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Poor Distribution Affects Quake Relief
Having welcomed badly-needed foreign help to cope with the aftermath of the country's worst natural disaster, India is now finding it hard to handle the flow of material assistance into the quake-hit western coastal Gujarat state./CORRECTED REPEAT/DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: National Economy Feels Quake Impact
As the world rushes to help India tackle the aftermath of the country's most disastrous earthquake, the government has begun calculating the social and economic costs of the tragedy.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: National Economy Feels Quake Impact
As the world rushes to help India tackle the aftermath of the country's most disastrous earthquake, the government has begun calculating the social and economic costs of the tragedy.INDIA: Quake Triggers Narmada Dam Safety Debate
The devastating earthquake in India's western Gujarat state has revived the debate about links between seismicity and big dams, with anti-dam activists saying this has raised questions about the safety of the Narmada dam.INDIA: Quake Exposes Poor Disaster Preparedness Again
As Indian authorities acknowledge that the Jan. 26 earthquake may have killed at least 20,000 people in western coastal Gujarat state, there is growing realisation that the country is ill-prepared to handle big natural disasters.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: New Crops, Technologies Enrich Peasants*
Roses are doing more for Basavanna than 'ragi', the coarse grain that his peasant family grew for generations in the small hamlet of Devenhalli near this bustling capital city of India's southern Karnataka state.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Protest Against Globalisation
Burdened with a farm glut for which there are few takers, India's small-scale tillers are in distress and accusing the government of neglecting them in their hour of need.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Violence Threatens Kashmir Cease-fire
Hardening positions in the Indian and Pakistani capitals could see the end, this week, of India's Kashmir cease-fire and slow down a parallel bid to restart New Delhi-Islamabad talks on the troubled province./REPEATING/POLITICS-INDIA: Missile Launch to Test Warming Ties with China
India's test launch of the long-range Agni-II missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, has again raised tensions with arch-foe Pakistan and worried the big powers, but New Delhi insists that no one can impose "restraint" on it.TRADE-INDIA: Britain Offers Aid Carrot on WTO
Britain has offered to step up development aid to India if the South Asian nation raises living standards by greater reliance on globalisation, but not many here believe this can be done.ECONOMY-INDIA: Cheaper Govt. Cellphone Triggers Price War
A government telecom company Monday launched cheap cellular telephone services in India, triggering a price war with existing private operators.POLITICS-INDIA: Voters Defy Kashmiri Militant Death Threats
Braving death threats from Kashmiri militants and the bitter morning cold, hundreds of people came out to vote in local polls Monday, held for the first time in more than two decades in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.INDIA-CHINA: Li Peng on Trust-Building Mission
The arrival here Thursday of senior Chinese leader Li Peng on a week-long Indian tour is said to be another chance to mend fences between the mutually suspicious Asian giants.RELIGION-INDIA: Biggest Ever Human Gathering Opens
The biggest human gathering ever began Tuesday as millions of Hindus converged in the north Indian city of Allahabad for a soul-cleansing dip at the meeting point of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers.INDIA: Flies, But Fighter Plane Still to Take Off
India has joined a select group of nations that can make fighter aircraft, but defence analysts are questioning this claim after the early January flight of the first model.INDIA: Fighter Plane Flies, But Yet To Take Off
India has joined a select group of nations that can make fighter aircraft, but defence analysts are questioning this claim after the early January flight of the first model.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Govt. Accused of Shedding ‘Crocodile Tears’ Over Hunger
The Indian government used a prestigious annual science meet here this week to declare it would use modern knowledge to eradicate hunger from the majority poor nation.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Thousands of Jobless Workers Question Green Concerns
For the past month, Mahendra Goyal has been at his wits end, trying to think of ways of supporting his family, which lives in a congested low-income quarter in the Indian capital.POLITICS-INDIA: Caste, Religion Divide Women Over Legislative Quota
India's male-dominated ruling class has again stalled a long-delayed legislation to earmark a third of seats in parliament and state legislatures for women.REVIEW 2000-SOUTH ASIA: World Pressure May Re-start Kashmir Peace Talks Next Year
It was yet another difficult year for peace between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, but bold steps in the second half of 2000 have brightened chances of bilateral talks to sort their half century-old Kashmir dispute.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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