India and China: Commence 'cold peace'
NEW DELHI, India — The deal George W. Bush offered the world at the beginning of the Iraq war sounded tough. But the choice Beijing has offered New Delhi is even tougher: You're either against us or...
View ArticleIndia to spend $17 billion on nuclear projects
India plans to spend some $17 billion in revamping and building new nuclear power plants over the next five years, even as protests continue to plague ongoing projects.According to the Indian Express,...
View ArticleDams threaten pristine corner of India
PASIGHAT, Arunachal Pradesh — From the middle of a hanging bamboo bridge over the Siang River, the distant village of Pongging is barely visible. A light rain has been falling all morning, shrouding...
View ArticleIndia: Drugs ravage Punjab, nation's breadbasket state
NEW DELHI, India — India's elections are notorious for bribery. But this year's state elections in Punjab drew attention to what locals say is an even more insidious problem. Instead of the usual...
View ArticleDollars flee from India to Southeast Asia
As Indian stock markets and the value of the rupee continue to fall, where has all the money gone? Southeast Asia is getting most of the money pulled out by foreign institutional investors, says...
View ArticleIndia: Google notes increase in censorship requests
Google said censorship requests from India rose 49 percent over the last six months of 2011, compared with January-June, as a debate rages over how to constrain hate speech and copyright violations...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan spar over terror suspect's claims
Does anybody still believe there's anything to be gained through publicly announcing added evidence that Pakistan's spy agency and perhaps other state forces allegedly played a role in the planning and...
View ArticleIndia: Food rots as people starve
NEW DELHI, India — Never mind that a fifth of India's population remains undernourished and some 3,000 children die each day from hunger-related causes. By all appearances, India, or at least the...
View ArticleIndia: Delhi's exorbitant public transport failure
After a new report debunked its claims that the hopelessly flawed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor has speeded up bus travel and reduced accidents in the city, the Delhi government has pleaded that the...
View ArticleIndia: Outsourcing goes rural, with a few hiccups
India's business process and IT services outsourcing companies are beginning to look to small towns and villages for their next wave of expansion, according to a new report from the Wall Street...
View ArticleAnti-US protests spread to India
NEW DELHI, India – Dozens of anti-US protests shook Indian-administered Kashmir Friday, as thousands took to the streets to express their anger – marking what could be the largest demonstrations in...
View ArticleIndia: Poor choose cash transfers over food subsidy
Over the past year or so, Indian experts have been wrangling over whether or not to scrap the so-called “public distribution system” that provides food to the poor at subsidized rates in favor of...
View ArticleIndia's secret shame: Owl sacrifice mars Hinduism's biggest holiday
NEW DELHI, India — As the rest of India celebrates Hinduism's festival of lights on Tuesday, unscrupulous witch doctors known as “tantriks” will sneak into the country's dark corners to kill some of...
View ArticleIndia: Did I say 7%? I meant 5.7%. My bad.
India lowered its economic growth forecast for fiscal 2013 to 5.7-5.9 percent from an earlier estimate of 7.6 percent, in an apparent pitch for the central bank to slash interest rates.The Mid-Year...
View ArticleIndia: War on whistleblowers
NEW DELHI, India — In India, the truth might set you free. Or it might land you behind bars. Or even dead.Take the case of Naveen Sorinjee, a TV reporter jailed in Karnataka for exposing an assault on...
View ArticleIndia: 'Love Commandos' fight back against honor killings
NEW DELHI, India — Forbidden love is blooming in India. But so is war. And the“Love Commandos” are fighting on the front lines.“Today, on our heads there is a bounty of around 20 lakh rupees [$40,000]...
View ArticleIndia's 'Beach King'
MANGALORE, India — As the sun sinks into the Arabian Sea off Mangalore, 200 miles west of Bangalore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, India's "Beach King" levers the cap off a beer and surveys...
View ArticleIndia's young Hindu radicals
MANGALORE, India — Inside the Mangalore city jail, Subhash Padil, a 29-year-old foot soldier in a far right Hindu organization, leaned in to make himself heard through the wire mesh of the visitor's...
View ArticleBangladesh: Islamist leader AKM Yusuf arrested on war crimes
NEW DELHI, India — Bangladesh police have arrested the leader of Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in the capital of Dhaka Sunday on charges of war crimes, police said.AKM Yusuf was charged with 15 crimes...
View ArticleMt. Everest: Why you hatin' on Sherpas?
KHUMJUN, Nepal — In the shadow of a sparkling white stupa, Sherpas dressed as yaks prance and spin. Wind-battered men in charcoal-colored robes and white Stetsons, the formal dress of the Sherpa clan,...
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