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TRADE-INDIA: Kerala Angered Over FTA With ASEAN
Southern Kerala state is known for the lush expanses of cardamom, pepper, tea and rubber that grow on its misty hills, and the bountiful catches of fish on a coastline punctuated by lagoons and backwaters. But a cloud hovers over this picture of plenty - a free trade deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc.INDIA: With Nuke Submarine Launch, India Displays its Growing Military Prowess
With the launch of an indigenously made nuclear-powered submarine, India has caused an international uproar. But back home, observers played it down as nothing more than a long-term naval enhancement in a peninsula country with a long coastline.CLIMATE CHANGE-INDIA: Tackling Transfer of ‘Green’ Technology
As Indian and United States negotiators wrangled this week over contributions to mitigating climate change, it became clear that the main hitch remains technology flow in a highly competitive trade environment.INDIA-U.S.: Hurdles Aplenty Before Nuclear Deal Goes Commercial
As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began talks with Indian officials in New Delhi on Monday to take a forward a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, signed by the previous Bush administration, it was apparent that there were many roadblocks to be cleared before deals worth an estimated 10 billion dollars are signed.INDIA/PAKISTAN: A Fresh Approach to Peace
If the leaders of India and Pakistan were looking for out-of-the-box solutions to their long-standing dispute over Kashmir and the related issue of cross-border terrorism, they could hardly have done better than the joint statement they released this week after their meeting at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.POLITICS-INDIA: Waiting to Hear Clinton on AfPak, China
It is hard to say whether U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will find herself being quizzed more on Washington's 'AfPak' strategy to contain global terror or her appeasement of a financially muscular China, when she lands in India mid-July.CLIMATE CHANGE: Opportunity For Biopirates?
Genetically modified (GM) crops that can withstand environmental stress may be one answer to climate change but a powerful lobby is building up against the patenting of technologies involved, especially when they are derivatives of traditional farmers’ innovations.CLIMATE CHANGE: India’s Monsoon Predictions More Uncertain
Predicting the monsoons - a risky proposition despite the deployment of satellites and supercomputers - appears to have become iffier thanks to climate change.INDIA: Opposition to ‘Nuclearism’ Builds Up
As India follows up on the historic civilian nuclear agreement it signed last year with the United States by drawing up hard commercial deals, opposition to ‘nuclearism’ is building up among activist groups.
INDIA: US Congressmen Tell Dow to Clean Up Bhopal
A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site.POLITICS: India Takes Security Concerns to Shanghai Summit
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit at Yekaterinburg Tuesday appears to have been motivated chiefly by the security environment in the region shaping up around Washington’s ‘AfPak’ policy.POLITICS-INDIA: Hindu Fundamentalism in Retreat
As the leaders of the pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blame each other for the massive debacle that the party suffered in the April/May elections it is clear that its fundamentalist agenda has few takers in a rapidly modernising India.RIGHTS-INDIA: Shades of Abu Ghraib in College Ragging Rituals
As the annual scrimmage for coveted seats in India’s engineering and medical colleges gets underway, what many students dread is the sadistic ritual of ragging - or hazing - that they expect to undergo at the hands of their seniors.INDIA-AUSTRALIA: ‘Curry Bashing’ in Oz Sours Bilateral Ties
A series of bloody attacks on Indian students in Australia, that many are convinced have racial undertones, threaten to undermine efforts to build relations between the two Asia Pacific countries.
POLITICS-INDIA: Woman Bags Speaker’s Job
India’s list of top women politicians grew Wednesday after the country’s Parliament elected Meira Kumar as the speaker of its powerful lower house.INDIA-US: Thorny Times Ahead Despite Nuclear Deal
Although Manmohan Singh, the man who steered through the landmark Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal, has been voted back to power, there is little sign that his second term as prime minister will see the same geniality between the world’s two major democracies.
HEALTH-INDIA: On the Rag Amidst Riches
For millions of Indian women the colloquial phrase 'going on the rag' can literally mean that, or using just about anything available to stay dry during menstrual periods for lack of access to modern sanitary pads.POLITICS-INDIA: New Govt to Go Easy on Reforms
While the centrist Congress party may have decimated political opponents to the left and right in the just concluded elections here it is likely to go easy on deepening reforms begun five years ago.POLITICS-INDIA: Poll Results Vindicate Congress Party Policies
By winning convincingly in India’s month-long general election, the ruling Congress party’s policy of reforms combined with a commitment to India’s rural masses and secularism seems to have paid off.INDIA: Women Hold Key to Hung Poll Verdict
As exit polls predict a hung verdict to India's month-long general elections, results for which are expected late Saturday, the only certainty is that a handful of top female politicians firmly hold the keys to the formation of the next government.POLITICS: Indo-US Nuclear Deal May Cost Congress Party Election
As the ruling Congress party casts about for allies, faced as it is with the distinct possibility of a splintered electoral verdict, its bosses may well be regretting the day it fell out with India’s communists over the contentious Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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