Asia Sentinel

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Survey of plants in Uttar Pradesh tells a dark tale of neglect

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A Tale of Two Countries

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The campaign to end tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

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Manmohan Singh goes looking for friends

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Li Keqiang's visit raises lots of questions

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Gone to graveyards, one by one

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Does it control us or we control it?

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A long list of attacks on women in several countries says be careful

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Uphill fight to stop tragedy

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Big projects hit a wall

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Combating protectionism

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Exports of commercial services grows only 2 percent in 2012, UNCTAD says

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Studies show high percentage of effectivity with correct usage

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Incredible India can't lure women in the wake of horrific rape cases

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Former HRD minister Kapil Sibal behind Aakash fiasco

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Former "raggedy-ass people" now an American favorite

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Drone commissioned to make surveillance on Assam forest reserve

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Misguided policies boost short-term output, yet may transform India into a food importer

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No Roman Holiday

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The party's over for India's low-cost budget airlines

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Space race picks up even as economy flags

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Unsafe air in the home is responsible for poor women's plight

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Childhood TB remains a major cause for illness and death, but it is preventable, treatable and curable

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Congress-led coalition, paralyzed with corruption and inefficiency, remains a roadblock for change

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Billions lost and an industry nearly destroyed by ill-advised policy decisions

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Helicopter bribe allegations could slow massive defense plans

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The woes of Vidarbha

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Working for the entitlements of the traditionally excluded

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A feckless Rahul Gandhi brought off the bench, might be too late

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Can the world get through a year without a major disaster?

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An angry Indian woman's story

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An entire system is to blame

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Tea plantation workers go berserk

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Big shock for a military trying to catch up with the Chinese

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...and hopefully the glimmers of change

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A culture of impunity protects rapists

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Navy chief's threat to send forces if need be complicates an already tense situation

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Massive new study says bad diet, lack of exercise, smoking take their toll

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"One Billon Rising" sounds a global challenge

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A gamble that could backfire if the banks can't handle it

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Cops use statute to go after the youth

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He leaves a solid legacy and, rarely for Indian companies, a peaceful transition

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Unless we breathe well, we cannot live

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Kaziranga disaster for the one-horned rhino

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Patient rights group wins reversal of a Roche patent on Hepatitis C

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Anti-graft party outs senior politicians on TV

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Tobacco interest answer with an advertising campaign saying it’s safer than cigarettes

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In a country starved for energy, coal policy rewards vested interests

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Intelligence officials charge India bankrolls ISI terrorist activities

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Those impressive numbers of engineering grads belie the fact that too many of them aren't very good

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Delhi needs oil from Iran, military goods from Israel

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Will they have more than a symbolic effect?

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Authorities look on without taking action

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Multinational drugmakers square off against the Indian government

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No single tool works. It takes a broad range of approaches

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Nonetheless, it's still a cloud

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Supposedly-neutral states meet in Tehran

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Despite a lagging economy, India's movie industry is on a roll

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As more people migrate into cities, experts try to find ways to define their condition

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High inflation, deficient monsoon, political infighting all get in the way for new finance minister

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Low pay, incompetent leaders, other problems, lead to fragging, suicides

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Lackluster performance handicaps a Gandhi scion

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For the first time, there is a 'proof of concept' for an effective cure

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Turning The Tide of TB-HIV Co-infection In Children

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Politics, poor economy drive growing protectionism

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Prime minister's dual role as finance minister is a hopeful sign

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Another tool in the long fight to rid the world of a scourge

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Crucial rains needed to save crops

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Democracy suffers in Maldives in the face of rising fundamentalism

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India's hoteliers, flush with cash and frustrated at home, look for properties abroad

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Changes could handicap rural aspirants

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Gurus forsake asceticism to become corporate captains

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India's Maharashtra government says time to shoot to kill poachers

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Threat of radical violence to pop star continues to reverberate

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Health Policies Decided By Tobacco Companies

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On a sticky wicket again

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A way to slow India's appalling female infanticide rate

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Aamir Khan spotlights issues unprecedented on Indian airwaves

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A controversial bill seeks to criminalize sex between consenting minors

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The Bofors scandal is back to roil Indian politics

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The malady is easy to control but often misdiagnosed

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Rapidly warming relations may now allow for cross-border FDI

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Proposed pipeline from Qatar would be an alternative to Iranian gas

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India alleges China funding, arming United Liberation Front of Asom

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Arbitrary tax treatment, retroactive claims cutting into investment enthusiasm

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Whatever Zardari's weakness, analysts see positive signs

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India protesters say no to nuclear power

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A scourge that must be stamped out

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Still wounded by the Bhopal tragedy, New Delhi seeks to push out Union Carbide's parent

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Academic evidence is actually substandard and unconclusive, studies say

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Germany's pharmaceutical giant loses a heart drug monopoly in groundbreaking case

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Undernourished children are particularly at risk

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India, China, need to slow those who want to go to war in the Middle East

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Trade the first step to slowly warming relations

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New Delhi’s highway plan to draw Southeast Asia into its orbit hits snags

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The Heathen Path to Paradise

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World food stocks rise, driven by new production

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Trade and military ties get complicated by India's energy needs 


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US strategy focuses on Asia, notably India, yet neither nation can ignore domestic challenges

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Italian marines guarding oil tanker kill fishermen by mistake

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Unless adult TB is stopped, children will continue to contract the scourge

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Agreement to build powerplant could signal improving relations

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Religion as geopolitics

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A plethora of dams meet local objections.

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Loss of a major combat fighter jet contract stirs anger in Westminster

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Dynastic politics rule the day – across South Asia as well

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Millions die because of inadequate access to skilled medical professionals

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From despair to hope

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Are parties converging in Uttar Pradesh?

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The Buzz About Sunny Leone

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Researchers say they aren’t sure if current strains are resistant to all drugs

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Political as well as natural resource development in the deal

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Politics pollutes a literary festival

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Amazingly rudimentary nutrition, play perform a crucial role

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Naxalites reportedly switching their attack to India’s cities

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Intergenerational peace and conflict

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It's possible

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But anti-nuclear sentiment is growing fast

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The retail mess

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Strangled by red tape and other problems, India’s emerging multinationals buy overseas

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New Delhi risks upsetting Asia’s delicate weapons balance

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Activists are too often killed, ‘disappeared’ or intimidated

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A little. Not much, according to several studies

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But obstacles remain from red tape, protectionism

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Rich western diets threaten increasing millions

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Army to be enlarged, cruise missiles point over the border, fighter jets on order

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Against the odds, a desperate and hungry vegetable seller’s daughter makes national news

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Vietnam and Burma’s opening towards India dovetails with India’s Look East Policy

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Effective vaccines are much-needed shots in the arm of TB control

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Private industry’s dramatic contrast to the government’s Commonwealth Games disaster

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Sniping at anti-corruption crusaders won’t save them

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Low prices, environmental rules, short domestic coal stocks, other problems plague industry

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Country must be polio-free for three years

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Will a US$35 'tablet for the poor' bring computing power to the masses? Not likely

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Army says it’s not their job

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Ananda Krishnan, friend to top politicians, is charged in telecoms mess

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Given its problems with the disease, India must lead in diagnostic innovation

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Companies finally look at a major untapped talent resource

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Sometimes they don’t go hand in hand

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Developing world women increasingly at risk

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Ailing Congress Party head faces a host of dilemmas

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The Delhi government seeks to draft an action plan to do something about it

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Anti-Corruption Proposal has fishhooks for them

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The story of an English toff’s march through Australia and South Asia, leaving wreckage. By Tim Heald, Methuen, 192 pp, hardcover.

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China’s power generation producers winning contracts under Indian noses

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New Delhi courts Ulan Bator

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Elderly Russian craft keep killing pilots while the government dithers on modernization

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A vigilant Washington seeks to stop payments for Iranian oil

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Delhi and Seoul make nice

Terrorists thinking outside the box?

Government’s image and top leadership problems remain unsolved

Bollywood's breathless baby bulletins

Clean energy aspirations or no, Big Coal will continue to run industry.

{mosimage}A growing flock of competitors gets into the act

{mosimage}One of the world's most intractable conflicts appears to be moderating

{mosimage}How one of India's biggest companies played state governments off against each other

{mosimage}The world's biggest and most unruly democracy observes election month

{mosimage}An already violent culture area goes after the messengers

{mosimage}India and Pakistan eye each other even more warily

{mosimage}A United Nations report belies the optimistic accounts of India's progress

{mosimage}Global warming melts an India-Pakistan bone of contention

{mosimage}Student harassment is on the rise as more schools go private

{mosimage}India's lawmakers take a physical approach to representation

{mosimage}Women buy weapons to protect themselves

{mosimage}Big cats and villagers find it hard to coexist

{mosimage}Squabbling commissioners could impair election

{mosimage}The global downturn means diamonds aren't forever after all

{mosimage}The Congress-led coalition has its work cut out for it

{mosimage}"Protecting" women could expose them to more exploitation

{mosimage}The Mumbai disaster and a declining economy torpedo the tourism industry

{mosimage}Religious extremism steps in to fill the vacuum on the Subcontinent

{mosimage}Vast armies of security personnel guard officials while the public suffers

{mosimage}Bollywood increasingly looks to the west for acting talent

{mosimage}A falling economy, sliding currency and declining demand put the companies on a roller-coaster

{mosimage}Encroaching human population, fast-moving trains cut pachyderms' numbers

{mosimage}Marriage is likely to involve vast amounts of money, downturn or no

{mosimage}Can a country with vast numbers among the world's poorest afford a space race?

{mosimage}Both Indian domestic politics and Indo-Pakistan relations certain to suffer

{mosimage}The atrocity in Mumbai as a primer for other attackers

{mosimage}Driving a further wedge between India and Pakistan

{mosimage}Once again, the roll of those who died defending freedom of the press is too high

{mosimage}A once-vibrant property market goes into free fall

{mosimage}Suicides soar in a country in which bankruptcy means more than just loss of face

{mosimage}With the nuclear pact out of the way, can New Delhi afford to irk the US by dealing with Iran?

{mosimage}Beaten too often to diminishing oil reserves around the globe, India seeks a new strategy

{mosimage}The global financial crisis means the death of distance isn’t quite here yet

{mosimage}It’s time India revamped its strategy against terrorism

{mosimage}India's film industry is becoming more frugal and socially aware, and the audiences are swarming to the box office

The world’s nuclear industry salivates over the prospects of an open atomic spigot to the subcontinent

A 34 year-old dam threatens to wreck an important estuary

Is India tiring of the cost of its star-crossed paradise?

Agitation in the explosive Kashmir Valley has ominous portents for continuing relations between India and Pakistan

Ominous signs point to a growing militant presence among India’s Muslims

Spare-changing pays off on the streets of Mumbai, Delhi and other cities

With government survival riding on a confidence motion over a nuclear agreement with the US, bookies take the fore

A serious hotel shortage has businessmen wandering the country in search of a bed

A group of poor women in Hyderabad have become solar power engineers

The Indian conglomerate’s purchase of iconic European brands could mean trouble

Tata’s takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover is the latest move to change the landscape of the industrial  world

Now China will predictably crush the latest challenge to its dictatorial rule

The market for on-line matchmaking services is booming for Indians at home and abroad

Labor shortages across a teeming economy force a change in India’s social fabric

The restive northeast region defies New Delhi as protests grow since the Burmese crackdown

Domestic politics may impede India taking a leading role in regional diplomacy

Hopes for increasing trade across South Asia founder as Pakistan puts Kashmir before cooperation

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