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July 15, 2008
BBC News
   Indian state 'backing vigilantes' -- India should take action against state-backed vigilantes active in the central state of Chhattisgarh, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
 
April 09, 2008
United Press International
   India, Venezuela looking at energy deals -- India may become Venezuela's next energy target as President Hugo Chavez seeks to steer his Latin American nation away from dependence on the United States
 
April 05, 2008
BBC News
    India's 'sensory assault course' -- Peter Day says India's small shops and traditional bazaars are here to stay, despite attempts by huge corporations to organise the chaotic retail scene.
 
April 04, 2008
BBC News
   Food prices drive India inflation -- Inflation in India has hit a three-year high as a result of spiralling food and energy costs, official figures show.
 
March 07, 2008
BBC News
   Rahul Gandhi starts India drive -- Senior Indian Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi has set off from the eastern state of Orissa on a nationwide tour to boost his party's profile.
 
February 29, 2008
BBC News
   India cancels small farmers' debt -- The Indian government is to cancel the entire debt of the country's small farmers in a giant scheme that will cost 600bn rupees ($15bn; £7.6bn).
 
February 26, 2008
BBC News
   Mumbai's slum life poses world problem -- This year, for the first time in human history, there will be more people living in towns and cities than in the countryside. That is the conclusion of a new study from the Population Division of the United Nations.
 
February 07, 2008
VOA News
   India Rejects Binding Committment to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- India is sticking its position that it cannot make any binding commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Anjana Pasricha reports on an international conference on sustainable development being held in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
 
January 22, 2008
BBC News
   West Bengal appeals over bird flu -- Officials in the Indian state of West Bengal have appealed to other states to help cull up to two million chickens suspected of having bird flu.
 
January 21, 2008
BBC News
    Mumbai airport slums face closure -- Twelve-year-old Sunita Biswakarma has been listening to the roar of aeroplanes and watching the big birds coming in to land for as long as she can remember.
 
January 17, 2008
The New York Times
   Education Push Yields Little for India’s Poor -- LAHTORA, India — With the dew just rising from the fields, dozens of children streamed into the two-room school in this small, poor village, tucking used rice sacks under their arms to use as makeshift chairs. So many children streamed in that the newly appointed head teacher, Rashid Hassan, pored through attendance books for the first two hours of class and complained bitterly. He had no idea who belonged in which grade. There was no way he could teach.
 
January 02, 2008
BBC News
   Corporate India's caste consciousness -- In India, it is often said that work is worship and for Haribhau Varman, getting his job as a state bus driver has been little short of a miracle.
 
December 03, 2007
Clean Clothes Campaign
   Indian court issues international arrest warrants for Dutch labour activists -- NGOs, Unions outraged at attempt to imprison human rights defenders.
 
November 27, 2007
BBC World News
   Marxists accused over Bengal 'terror' -- Marxists who have governed the Indian state of West Bengal for three decades are now suffering political isolation after months of clashes over plans to acquire farm land for industry.
 
November 05, 2007
Women's eNews
   Indian Tribunal Pushes for Sexual-Violence Inquiry -- A citizens' report in India highlights the sexual violence suffered last March by villagers in Nandigram and calls for a special trial of local authorities. Despite media coverage of the report the government has not responded.
 
November 01, 2007
BBC World News
   India child garment workers found -- About 70 child workers in India have been discovered working in a Delhi textile factory, officials say.
 
October 28, 2007
BBC News, Delhi
   Delhi marchers calling for change -- They have come from all across this vast country, marching in long lines every day for nearly four weeks - some 25,000 tribal people and landless labourers, bringing their battle to the heart of India's capital.
 
October 13, 2007
The New York Times
   Indian Prime Minister Avoiding Early Elections -- NEW DELHI, Oct. 12 — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, having forcefully staked his legacy on a landmark nuclear agreement with the United States, made it plain on Friday that his government would not confront its Communist allies over their opposition to the deal and invite early elections.
 
October 10, 2007
BBC World News
   Indian children work despite ban -- A year after India banned children under 14 from working as domestic servants or in food stalls, millions continue to be employed, a study says.
 
October 10, 2007
BBC World News
   Indian rupee at fresh dollar high -- The Indian rupee has risen to its highest level against the dollar since 1998 on the back of continuing foreign support for its booming economy.
 
October 10, 2007
BBC World News
   India 'close to Burma port deal' -- India is close to signing an agreement with the Burmese military junta to develop the port of Sittwe, officials in Delhi have said.
 
October 02, 2007
BBC News, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
   India's malnourished tea workers -- It's just after dawn on the Ramjhora estate in northern Bengal. In this remote region, not far from India's border with Bhutan, tea has been the bedrock of the local economy for more than 150 years.
 
September 30, 2007
Women's Enews
   India Paper Taps Marginalized Women as Reporters -- A family newspaper in Gwalior trains women to report their own stories and confront abuse, fraud and corruption. Rupesh Shrivastava started the paper in 2003 and daughter Samanvaya is editor. Third in a series on the changing role of women in India.
 
August 16, 2007
New York Times
   Economic Boom Fails to Generate Optimism in India -- NEW DELHI, Aug. 15 — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautioned Indians against hubris in his annual Independence Day speech on Wednesday and promised a spate of antipoverty measures that hinted at the vulnerabilities facing his government and the nation.
 
August 15, 2007
New York Times
   Politics Is the New Star of India’s Classrooms -- NEW DELHI, Aug. 14 — Quietly, a great upheaval is taking place inside Indian high schools.
 
August 13, 2007
BBC Hindi.com
   Partition memories -- The 60th anniversary of the partition of India in 1947 and the birth of Pakistan was a momentous event in the region.
 
July 28, 2007
The New York Times
   In Its Nuclear Deal With India, Washington Appears to Make More Concessions -- NEW DELHI, July 27 — After a year of negotiations, India and the United States on Friday announced completion of a civilian nuclear accord, which Indian officials hailed as preserving India’s national security interests and as a testament to its emerging strategic importance to the United States.
 
September 25, 2002
BBC World News
   Analysis: Why is Gujarat so violent? -- In the last 40 years, the wheel has turned full circle in Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat.
 


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