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HEALTH-INDIA: Legal Ban Fails to Check Kidney ‘Exports’
India's gruesome 'export' of human kidneys is continuing despite a legal ban and stiff penalties for trading in human body organs.POLITICS-INDIA: Mosque Demolition Issue Strains Ruling Coalition
While regional allies bailed three key members of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet out of a censure motion in Parliament for their implication in the 1992 demolition of a medieval mosque, it has strained the multi-party ruling coalition to its limits.HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT: World Bank’s Cures Hurting Nations – Critics
The World Bank and its market- driven health policies are getting the ire of health activists and experts here, who say the Bank's cures are harming the developing- country patients they seek to help./REPEAT/HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT: Time to Put U.N. Back on Track, Activists Say
The United Nations system has stumbled off the track of equitable development and now needs to be put back on that path, activists at an international health meeting here said Tuesday.HEALTH-INDIA: Drug Companies Profit, But Medicines out of Reach of Poor
Visitors to India are delighted to discover that they can buy medicines like 'Ranitidine' used to treat blood pressure, at a fraction of the cost it would cost them at home.POLITICS-INDIA: Army Holds Fire in Kashmir, But Peace Still Far
Indian troops battling Kashmiri militants have put aside their guns as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Ramzan truce offer to the secessionists came into force Tuesday.RIGHTS-INDIA: Social Approval for Family Violence Against Women
Not too many Indians were surprised when a survey commissioned by the government, found that three out of every five women in the country believe that there are times when a man can rightly beat up his wife.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Jobless Workers Question Green Concerns
Three days of rioting by thousands of workers, which crippled life in the the Indian capital this week, has pitted the political rulers of Delhi state against the country's apex court.DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL: Villagers Want Right Over Forests Back
Cutting down a luxuriant stand of 200 trees was a sad occasion for the inhabitants of this verdant mountain hamlet 35 km east of Nepal's capital Kathmandu.POLITICS-INDIA: Not Much Expected from Govt.’s Kashmir Cease-fire Offer
The Indian government has made another peace bid in Kashmir by ordering its troops not to pursue Kashmiri militants during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan beginning late November, but not much is expected out of this.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Foreign Funding for NGOs Under Review
Having won a prolonged judicial battle against the anti-Narmada dam campaign, the Indian government is getting tough with people's groups, which it accuses of acting on behalf of 'foreign interests'.POLITICS-INDIA: A Bush Administration Expected to Ease Anti-Nuke Sanctions
Officially, India has been careful not to be seen favouring either candidate for the U.S presidency, but political analysts say that a George W. Bush-led U.S. administration suits New Delhi better.HEALTH-INDIA: Govt. AIDS Agency’s Figures Questioned
If India's official AIDS control agency is to be believed, its efforts have dramatically lowered the incidence of HIV in what was known to be the area most vulnerable to the dreaded disease./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-INDIA: Indo-Anglian Writing Rediscovers the ‘Untouchable’
When Mulk Raj Anand, the famous Indian author writing in English, penned his classic 'Untouchable', it articulated the hope of deliverance from social oppression, given to India's low castes by the conquering Englishman.HEALTH-INDIA: Medical Experts Want Ban on Non-Iodised Salt Back
The Indian government's decision to lift a ban on the sale of non-iodised salt has alarmed public health experts who warn this could lead to a large-scale recurrence of physical and mental deformities caused by iodine deficiency.POLITICS-INDIA: Aspiring Lawmakers’ Criminal Past to be ‘Exposed’ to Public
As Indian lawmakers continue to shirk from enacting a law that aims to break the growing links between criminals and politicians, the country's judiciary is stepping in to clean up public life.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: We’re no Foreign Agents – Anti-Dam Activists
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has compared the defeat of anti-Narmada dam activists after a six-year court battle to the country's May 1998 nuclear tests and the eviction of Pakistani intruders from Kashmir last year.POLITICS-INDIA: New State Has To Do Much for Majority Tribal People
The birth early Wednesday of India's newest federal province, carved out of the country's biggest state, may not be of much help to its mainly tribal residents who are not likely to get a fair share of the region's rich mineral wealth, say their supporters.POLITICS-INDIA: Sonia Gandhi Expected to Shake Off Challenger
Once again, the Italian-born chief of India's main opposition party finds her leadership under challenge, but few see any threat to her 'dynastic' control of the 115-year-old organisation.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Anti-Narmada Dam Campaigners Begin Final Battle
A week after India's Supreme Court rejected their case against the Narmada dam, activists opposing the scheme have begun what may well be the final battle by the country's best known people's movement.POLITICS-INDIA: Tough Job Awaits Rulers of New Hill State
The 'addition' of a new province to India on Nov. 1, to be carved out of the central Himalayan foothills in northern Uttar Pradesh state, will satisfy a decades-old demand of the hill folk in that region.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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