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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY: Riches Out from Under India’s Orissa Tribals
While corporate India eagerly counts foreign direct investment in mining projects, tribal peoples sitting on some of the world's richest deposits of iron ore, bauxite and copper in eastern Orissa state are watching, with trepidation, the sudden burst of alien activity on their ancient lands.RIGHTS: Japanese Investors Learn Indian Labour Laws the Hard Way
Japanese investors in India took a few hard lessons in India's tough labour laws when the automobile giant Honda Motors tamely resumed production at its plant outside the national capital, ending three months of labour disputes.RIGHTS: Japanese Investors Learn Indian Labour Laws the Hard Way
-Japanese investors in India took a few hard lessons in India's tough labour laws when the automobile giant Honda Motors tamely resumed production at its plant outside the national capital this week, ending three months of labour disputes, including pitched battles between police and agitated workers.POLITICS: Joint-Defence against Terrorism Tops Indian PM’s Agenda in US
In the wake of the July bomb blasts in London, it is inevitable that terrorism will figure prominently in the agenda of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the United States; yet the discussions have raised concerns on the sub-continent.
POLITICS: Joint-Defence against Terrorism Tops Indian PM’s Agenda in US
Coming as it does in the wake of the July bomb blasts in London, it is inevitable that containing terrorism will figure prominently in the agenda of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's state visit to the United States.
INDIA: Attack on Religious Site Helps Both Gov’t, Opposition
A suicide attempt to storm one of the world's most disputed religious sites, Ayodhya in northern Uttar Pradesh state, may be just what the doctor ordered for both India's secular, Congress party-led ruling coalition as well as the fractious, right-wing, Opposition groups led by the pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Chinese Lake Threat Recedes, Leaves Flood of Questions
Threats of China's Parechu Lake bursting and deluging populations in India's northern Himachal Pradesh state this week were declared over, but the episode has left behind a flood of unanswered questions - starting with those about a regional approach to managing Himalayan water resources.RIGHTS-INDIA: Mumbai’s Bar Show Goes On – For Now
Hundreds of thousands of women who sing and dance in the bars of the western Indian state of Maharashtra are likely celebrating the survival of their means of livelihood. On Thursday the governor returned unsigned an ordinance intended to ban the dance bars.INDIA: Delhi Water Disputes Come to a Boil
Delayed monsoon rains and scorching summer temperatures have triggered water disputes in the Indian capital vicious enough to remind administrators that they urgently need to do a better job of managing existing resources of the wet stuff.HEALTH: Falling IQs Lead India to Ban Non-iodised Salt
India has decided to reinstate a ban on the sale of non-iodised salt after the rate of iodine deficiency diseases (IDD) including lowered intelligence quotient (IQ) among children, appeared to have increased since the restriction was lifted six years ago.INDIA: Fugitive Heroes Highlight Need for Police Reforms
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi is a true blue nawab (prince), former captain of India's cricket team and the husband and father of movie stars. For the last two weeks he has also evaded arrest by police on charges of slaughtering endangered wildlife.HEALTH-INDIA: Ayurveda Under Attack from Modern Medicine
As ayurveda, India's ancient herbal system of longevity and health revives in popularity it is coming under fire from the practitioners of modern allopathic medicine who accuse it of quackery and its preparations of being loaded with toxic metals and even steroids.POLITICS: Hawk or Dove, Advani Leads India’s Political Pack
The teeming crowds outside Lal Krishna Advani's bungalow on Thursday and the impassioned entreaties that he withdraw his resignation as party president say it all: India's powerful pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has no taller political leader than this 78-year-old man who now swears by secularism./UPDATE*/CULTURE: Book That Changed Indo-Pakistan Relations
If a single book can ever lay claim to having positively changed the tortuous course of Indo-Pakistan relations it would be the tome 'Jinnah - A Corrective Reading of Indian History' by Prof Asiananda (who uses one name only).ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Calls to Ban GM Crops Intensify After Rats Suffer
Environmentalists and food security activists in India have renewed calls for a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods and crops after rats reportedly secretly tested with GM corn diets by the U.S. agribusiness and biotech giant Monsanto developed blood and organ abnormalities./UPDATE*/ENVIRONMENT DAY: Channel Project Evokes Concerns in India, Sri Lanka
Protests by environmental activists are building up on either side of the Palk Straits against a shipping channel that India will begin dredging this month along its international maritime border with Sri Lanka.HEALTH-INDIA: Claim of Plummeting HIV Cases Dismays NGOs
Claims by India's Health Ministry that the number of new HIV infections in the country have dropped by more than 90 percent have dismayed voluntary agencies and those who insist the government is in "denial mode" concerning sexually transmittable diseases.HEALTH-INDIA: Claim of Plummeting HIV Cases Dismays NGOs
Claims by India's Health Ministry that the number of new HIV infections in the country have dropped by more than 90 percent have dismayed voluntary agencies and those who insist the government is in "denial mode" concerning sexually transmittable diseases.HEALTH-INDIA: Claim of Plummeting HIV Cases Dismays NGOs
Claims by India's Health Ministry that the number of new HIV infections in the country have dropped by more than 90 percent have dismayed voluntary agencies and those who insist the government is in "denial mode" concerning sexually transmittable diseases.SOUTH ASIA: Maoist Overture to Enter Nepal’s Mainstream Politics?
While India denies that its security agencies helped arrange meetings between a top Nepali Maoist leader and its political establishment, analysts welcome dialogue with the rebels as a key to ending a seemingly intractable crisis in the neighbouring Himalayan kingdom.SOUTH-ASIA: Ceasefire to Hold on World’s Highest Battlefield
The good news, as two days of talks ended on Friday between India and Pakistan's top defence officials, is that an 18-month ceasefire on Siachen glacier - the world's highest and perhaps costliest battlefield in the disputed territory of Kashmir - will hold.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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