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Deadly Labor Wars Hinder India's Rise

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Peter Wonacott - Nov. 20 (News Report) - A homicide case playing out in an auto-parts factory is raising concerns about whether the Indian industrial miracle is hitting a wall of industrial unrest.

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Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Rosenthal - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The price of a climate agreement will be $100 billion a year by 2020, many economists estimate; some put the cost at closer to $1 trillion.

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Pakistan: The Kerry Lugar Bill

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Faisal Kapadia - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - The Kerry Luger bill is essentially a non military aid package granted to Pakistan by the U.S in view of its precarious economic condition due to its indulgence in the war on terror as a front line allied state. This bill grants Pakistan $1.5 billion annually for five years and comes along with stringent conditions on how to distribute and invest this money.

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Can Obama Save the Global Economy (and Globalization) at the G-20?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Esquire - By Thomas P.M. Barnett - Sep. 25 (Opinion) - What does this "rebalancing" play from Washington amount to? In a nutshell, a near-term future in which America consumes less and China consumes a helluva lot more. But Obama's "framework" also promises diplomatic cover for all sides in this rebalancing process by empowering the International Monetary Fund to monitor G-20 member pledges and flag them for consultations if voluntary targets aren't being met. Since sanctions never work (even if Dmitri Medvedev and the West Wing think they're inevitable), this transparent approach is considered ideal — in effect, a multilateral version of the shaming technique historically employed by the IMF (and by the U.S. against mercantilist Japan in years past).

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G-20 is set to replace Group of 8, U.S. says

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Don Lee, Jim Tankersley - Sep. 25 (News Report) - r the Group of 20 summit have agreed that the organization will replace the Group of Eight as a permanent body for international economic cooperation, the White House announced late Thursday. The change reflects the world's shifting economic powers and a need for the U.S. and the traditional European powers to secure the cooperation of fast-growing economies such as China, India and Brazil to make progress on pressing issues.

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Delhi doesn't want to pay for climate change, but it's already bearing the costs

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Stephanie Nolen - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - “But this year, the tree flowered in December. Even people who are 80 or 90 years old in my village say they have never known this to happen. And everyone is scared.” There is more to be afraid of than just one wonky flowering tree and its gods: Their environment has gone crazy altogether.

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India Battles the Flu and Recession, Too

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Sandip Roy - Sep. 06 (Special Report) - In India, the media are struggling to find new angles to cover the H1N1 virus, which is quickly becoming a chronic front-page story. The Times of India published the photographs of random Indians and their ideas of fail-safe swine flu prevention tactics. One involved praying. Another involved raw partridge. Spritzing with anti-bacterial liquids is epidemic. NAM editor Sandip Roy reports from Bengaluru.

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Drought Puts Focus on a Side of India Left Out of Progress

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Yardley - Sep. 05 (Special Report) - The crisis has underscored the problems facing Indian agriculture as the population expands at the same time that water resources come under greater pressure.

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Interview: Jaswant Singh

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Sep. 02 (Interview) - "Theocentricism", where society is centred on Islam - this is in line whether Pakistan, India or Bangladesh, where faith is of paramount importance. Pakistan is not theocratic in the sense it is not the Mullah that is governing Pakistan ... but Pakistan society is governed by Islam.

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Indian children crippled by uranium

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Gethin Chamberlain - Aug. 30 (News Report) - Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country?s borders. Some sit mutely, staring into space, lost in a world of their own; others cry out, rocking backwards and forwards. Few have any real control over their own bodies. Their anxious parents fret over them, murmuring soft words of encouragement, hoping for some sort of miracle that ...

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Bangladesh: Mourning Senator Edward Kennedy

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Rezwan - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009), the second most senior member of the US Senate, died of cancer last Tuesday. Bloggers recall him as a true friend of Bangladesh and explain why Bangladeshis will remember him forever.

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Powers line up to stir Afghanistan's pot

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Asia Times - By M K Bhadrakumar - Aug. 19 (News Analysis) - If Afghan President Hamid Karzai secures a clear-cut victory in the first round on Thursday, he will bring into power a coalition that the United States will find extremely hard to control. As such, regional capitals are concerned the US might now engineer a post-election "Iran-like situation" to muddy the waters and install a surrogate power structure in Kabul.

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India Detains North Korea Ship, Citing U.N. Resolution - NYTimes.com

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Lydia Polgreen - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Authorities detained a North Korean vessel in the first time a ship has been seized and boarded under sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council.

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"For the 64th Time: No More Nuclear War"

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat - Aug. 10 (Other) - We speak with nuclear physicist and disarmament activist Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist Frida Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

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India's Groundwater Disappearing at Alarming Rate

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Science - By Richard A. Kerr - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - For the first time, satellite remote sensing of a 2000-kilometer swath running from eastern Pakistan across northern India and into Bangladesh has put a solid number on how quickly the region is depleting its groundwater. The number "is big," says hydrologist James Famiglietti of the University of California, Irvine--big as in 54 cubic kilometers of groundwater lost per year from the world's most intensively irrigated region hosting 600 million people. "I don't think anybody knew how quickly it was being depleted over that large an area."

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A Scrap of Decency

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bharati Chaturvedi - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - From India to Brazil to the Philippines, recyclers are experiencing a precipitous drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers in Minas Gerais State in Brazil, for example, saw a decline of as much as 80 percent in the price of old magazines and 81 percent for newspapers, and a 77 percent drop in the price of cardboard from October 2007 to last December.

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India: Overhaul Abusive, Failing Police System

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

hrw.org - Aug. 05 (Special Report) - "India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue to use their old methods: abuse and threats," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "It's time for the government to stop talking about reform and fix the system."

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Gojra, Quran, Jinnah, CIA and RAW

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

rupeenews.com - By Moin Ansari - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - he enemies of Pakistan are desperately trying to ignite civil unrest in the country. Years ago they used to attack Shia and Sunny places of worship to play havoc in the Pakistani society. The people of Pakistan have now learned and understood the enemy’s tactics. No one now start rioting against the other group after any such attack. Our enemies are using the likes of TTP and BLA to perpetuate bloodshed in Pakistan. But that plan is fast nearing its demise without producing any tangible results for the enemies. It is not unimaginable that the enemies might be trying to open a new front in their dirty war against the Pakistanis. The government should act swiftly to take the responsibles of this heinous crime in Gojra to the task and ensure a quick and maximum possible punishment for the criminals. Justice must be timely and visible to all or else it is the murder of justice itself. It is indeed reassuring that the CM Punjab has visited the affected area and vowed to bring the culprits to justice.

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Asian giants put the West’s targets for solar energy in the shade

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Jeremy Page - Aug. 03 (Special Report) - For years India and China have been cast in the West as the biggest obstacles to international agreement on how to tackle climate change. Now the two emerging economic giants of Asia have challenged the West to match their bold plans to develop solar power.

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Pak Lets Off 26/11 Mastermind Saeed

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

iStream.in - Aug. 03 (News Report) - The case hearing against Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack, adjourned indefinitely by Pakistan's Supreme Court.

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Pakistan turns on its jihadi assets

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Asia Times - By Syed Saleeem Shahzad - Jul. 30 (News Report) - The high-profile jailing of a former member of parliament in connection with the beheading of a Polish engineer is a significant first step in Pakistan's crackdown on the jihadi assets its intelligence services raised in the 1990s for asymmetric warfare against India. There will be a backlash from militants, but Islamabad has made it clear it has taken Washington's desires to heart. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jul 28, '09)

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Engaging Pakistan

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times of India - Jul. 30 (Editorial) - Under attack from his critics in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a spirited defence of his policy of engaging Pakistan. He has revealed a policy shaped perhaps by short-term tactical considerations, but structured within the framework of an overarching strategic vision. Critics may question his commitment to engaging Pakistan as a show of weakness, but in the long run there is, as Singh pointed out, no other option save war. Even to discuss issues of importance to India such as terror emanating from Pakistan, it requires interlocutors in Islamabad.

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Afghan campaign gains from India-Pakistan thaw

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Myra MacDonald - Jul. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan may have just been given a fresh injection it badly needs -- from a parliamentary debate hundreds of miles to the east in New Delhi.

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Shadow diplomacy

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline (India) - By Vijay Prashad - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - Most analysts of U.S. foreign policy in South Asia agree that there is pressure from within Islamabad and New Delhi to reopen the discussions. For Pakistan, the situation is fairly transparent. Instability along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the leakage of jehadi ambitions towards Islamabad have shifted the government’s priorities away from India: no longer the easy thought that it is from New Delhi that all of Pakistan’s problems hail.

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Singh Faces Doubts on Pakistan Strategy

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Ketaki Gokhale, Paul Beckett - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is preparing to explain an agreement to improve relations with Pakistan after facing sustained political flak from his opponents -- and lukewarm support from his own party -- on the issue. Mr. Singh is scheduled to address parliament Wednesday in a speech an official from his party said "will set at rest all questions, apprehensions and speculations relating to the India-Pakistan joint statement." In the joint statement two weeks ago, Mr. Singh and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to decouple discussions about terrorism from broader talks between the two countries on issues such as trade and travel.

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