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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Bill Gates Points Hurdles to ‘IT Superpower’ Status
The world's richest man was even more impressed with what he saw on his second visit to India, but computer software tycoon Bill Gates also noted hurdles to this country becoming an "IT (information technology) superpower."DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Worry Over Exodus of IT Experts
The large crowds before the U.S. embassy here, no longer wave anti-imperialist placards. Instead, they anxiously clutch proof of being information technology (IT) experts, seeking work in that country.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Women Leaders Complain of Neglect
Though leading several of India's notable social and economic rights movements, women continue to be denied due recognition, complained some of these women leaders at a meeting here.POLITICS-INDIA: Govt. ‘Soft’ with Film Star’s Abductor – Critics
The over month-long abduction of a highly popular Indian film star by the country's most wanted outlaw has once again revived charges that the Indian state is going 'soft'.RIGHTS-INDIA: Bhopal Activists Vow to Nail Union Carbide
The dismissal by a U.S. court of their complaint against Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) for causing the world's worst industrial disaster in the central Indian city of Bhopal, has dismayed rights activists here who vow not to give up.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Globalisation Snatching Jobs From Low Castes
Aided by job quotas in government employment for decades, India's socially discriminated low caste people are worried that these will be snatched away by the forces of globalisation.POLITICS-INDIA: Vajpayee to Avoid Pak Military Ruler at U.N.
A weak knee is just what the doctor ordered for Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to avoid meeting Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf at the United Nations this week./REPEATING. SUNDAY STORY/DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Rich-Poor State Divide Sharpens
Already a land of stark disparities, India now faces a new divide between its richer, faster liberalising coastal states and the backward, over-populated ones in the land-locked north.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Droughts, Floods Test Disaster Warning System
Devastating droughts and floods in succession in the country, have brought into question the efficacy of India's sophisticated disaster warning system, say independent experts.POLITICS-INDIA: Ruling BJP Tries Hard to Woo Muslims
Worried about losing its traditional Hindu middle class support, India's main ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shed a radical stance to woo Muslims whom it had antagonised on the road to power.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Japan Dangles Aid Carrot for CTBT Signature
The one constant refrain through Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's South Asia tour, which ended Friday, was his urging nuclear rivals Pakistan and India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Partnering Japan to Bridge Digital Divide
Teaching the Japanese language to 1,000 Indian computer software engineers is one of the ways, Japan will try to spread out more evenly, the gains of the information technology (IT) revolution.POLITICS-FIJI: Chaudhry Visits ‘Home’, But India Can Do Little
Ousted Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhry got a hero's welcome in the land of his forefathers, but analysts here say there is not much India can do to help him.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Furore over 1971 India-Pak War Probe
Events leading to the painful birth of Bangladesh have resurfaced three decades later, this time in the Indian media, causing a furore in Pakistan.RIGHTS-INDIA: German Govt. Report Backs Anti-dam Activists
A German government report on a central Indian multi-purpose river scheme has backed the stand of anti-dam activists that the project seriously violates human rights.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Independence Day War of Words over Kashmir
The war of words over Kashmir between the South Asian nuclear rivals peaked Tuesday with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee warning Pakistan not to use force to "redraw" their borders.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: India Keeps Kashmir Peace Talk Door Open
Despite failed Kashmir peace talks and renewed terror strikes, New Delhi is keeping the door open for a dialogue with militants to end the decade-old secessionist violence in India's troubled province.ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH ASIA: Flood-taming Brings Another Season of Misery
Once again, the big Himalayan rivers are overflowing their banks in the plains of north and eastern India, and Bangladesh, uprooting the lives of millions of people.POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Kashmir Cease-fire Ends, But Talks Hope Alive
A key Kashmiri militant group has called off its cease-fire with Indian troops, but political analysts say the way has been opened for further peace talks with the separatists.HEALTH-INDIA: Government Upset by UNAIDS Figures
The Indian government has again joined issue with international AIDS agencies, disputing what it says are "exaggerated" figures of HIV-infected people in the country.INDIA: Legendary Bandit Kicks up Political Storm
A blindfolded negotiator being led deep into a dark forest to buy freedom for a top film star whose abduction sparks ethnic violence in south India even as the man behind it all, dreams of becoming an even bigger popular hero.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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