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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Greenpeace study finds oil companies may be doomed

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

The Guardian - By David Teather - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - Environmental activist network argues that the oil industry might be approaching a tipping point from fall in the price, advances in technology and policies on climate change A long-term decline in the demand for oil could undermine the huge investments in Canadian tar sands, which have been heavily opposed by environmentalists, according to a report published today. The report, by Greenpeace, will make uncomfortable reading for the companies that are investing tens of billions of pounds to exploit the hard-to-extract oil in the belief that demand and the price would climb inexorably as countries such as China and India industrialise.

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Islamabad Tells of Plot by Lashkar

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

Wall Street Journal - By Zahid Hussain - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Pakistani investigators told India they have found substantial, incriminating evidence that directly connects Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba to November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

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Terror Ties Run Deep in Pakistan, Mumbai Attack Case Shows

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jane Perlez - Jul. 27 (News Report) - In a high-security jail here, five men — all members of the Islamic militant group described by the United States and India as the organizers of the terrorist rampage in Mumbai last year — were brought before a makeshift court in Pakistan’s first steps to bring them to justice.

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Three Marriott attack terrorists arrested

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Munawer Azeem - Jul. 27 (News Report) - Security agencies arrested on Sunday three terrorists believed to be of the Qari Saifullah group for their alleged involvement in last year’s blast in Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel.

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India launches the Arihant, its first homegrown nuclear submarine

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Jeremy Page - Jul. 27 (News Report) - Pakistan warned today of a new nuclear arms race after India launched its first homegrown nuclear submarine, joining only five other countries that have developed such vessels.

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Pakistan's 'mock war' on Taliban

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Australian - By Amanda Hodge - Jul. 27 (News Report) - A coalition partner in the Pakistan government has accused the military of staging a "mock war" in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan while continuing to aid the export of militants over the border into Afghanistan.

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India Sets Goal to Harness Renewable Energy

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 19 (News Report) - In the new India, villagers in far-flung areas might have cellphones but live in darkness because they have no access to electricity. The cellphone network towers in the villages run on diesel-powered, smoke-spewing, portable generators. Indians say this is a clear example of how the country's woefully inadequate power supply lags behind an expanding consumer market.

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Pakistan likely to figure high in Clinton's first India visit

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Mian Ridge - Jul. 17 (News Report) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in India for a five-day visit Friday, keen to shore up relations between the United States and this fast emerging economic power. The trip comes after a much anticipated meeting between India and Pakistan's prime ministers Thursday.

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India prays for rain as water wars break out

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Abdul Latif Sahak - Jul. 12 (News) - It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After days without a drop of water, the Malviya family were the first to reach the hole they had drilled in the pipe, filling what containers they had as quickly as they could. Within minutes, three of them were dead, hacked to death by angry neighbours who accused them of stealing water.

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Pakistan to try Mumbai suspects

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 11 (News Report) - Pakistan says the trial of five men suspected of involvement in the attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai is likely to start next week.

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Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Heather Timmons, Hari Kumar - Jul. 03 (News Report) - In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality. “The inclusiveness that Indian society traditionally displayed, literally in every aspect of life, is manifest in recognizing a role in society for everyone,” judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision, India’s first to directly address rights for gay men and lesbians. “Those perceived by the majority as ‘deviants’ or ‘different’ are not on that score excluded or ostracized,” the decision said.

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The Last Straw

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Stephan Faris - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - .. it sometimes seems as if Pakistan can’t get any more terrifying. But forget about the Taliban: The country's troubles today pale compared with what it might face 25 years from now. When it comes to the stability of one of the world's most volatile regions, it's the fate of the Himalayan glaciers that should be keeping us awake at night.

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