Article archive for category "India"

Friday 28 December 2007

• Police kill three during Hindu-Christian clashes in eastern India

Tuesday 25 December 2007

• Mosque siege ends in Kashmir with hostages freed, militants killed

Sunday 23 December 2007

• Hindu party wins polls in India's riot-scarred Gujarat state

Tuesday 18 December 2007

• EADS denies reports that India scrapped Eurocopter tender
• Microfinance firm to empower Kerala women
• Prime Minister holds meeting on rupee, interest rates
• RJD MP Motiur Rahman dies after heart attack
• CBI to reinvestigate Tytler's role in 1984 riots (Lead)
• Sybase to upgrade Chinese railway ticketing
• CBI asked to reinvestigate Tytler's role in 1984 riots
• Bellwether market index sees small gains
• Power defaulters owe Rs.260 mn in Chandigarh

Monday 17 December 2007

• Sikhs no minority in Punjab, rules court
• National policy to boost adventure tourism: Soni
• IT industry lobbies for extended tax holiday
• India, Sri Lanka to boost Buddhist tourism
• Congress threatens defamation against Bofors investigator
• Robust growth seen for Indian entertainment industry
• Equity firms buy stake in Jai Balaji Industries
• BHEL, NTPC form joint venture for project execution
• Vinod Rai named top auditor of government accounts
• Retail can be a huge success in India: minister
• No decision yet on moving court: Airtel
• Apparel institute in talks for overseas tie-ups
• CBI submits Nandigram status report to court
• Campaigning for Himachal Pradesh polls ends
• Bharti retail in talks with realty majors for land
• Puri locks horns with ISKCON over chariot festival
• Himachal BSP chief resigns ahead of polls
• Manmohan promises to boost Himachal economy
• Mumbai court finds Pravin Mahajan guilty of murder (Third Lead)
• Sabarimala prasadam issue to be resolved soon: Achuthanandan
• Pravin Mahajan found guilty of murdering brother (Second Lead)
• Assam tribal status seekers' strike may hit local polls
• Forward Block unhappy with West Bengal coalition partners
• Stalin glows in Karunanidhi's succession plan
• Pravin Mahajan found guilty of murder (Lead)
• Pravin Mahajan found guilty of murder
• US offering India advanced Hawkeye-2D spy plane
• India to gets its first automobile museum
• Himachal poll loses shine for Shanta Kumar

Sunday 16 December 2007

• Modi will scrape through in Gujarat, surveys predict
• Meena minister resigns in Rajasthan
• Pranab meets Jyoti Basu
• Bitter Gujarat battle ends amid varying victory claims (Roundup)
• BJP promises corruption free government in Himachal Pradesh
• PM to hold two poll rallies in Himachal Pradesh
• Final round polling ends in Gujarat (Third Lead)
• Buddhadeb woos farmers, harps on industry
• Chandigarh to have weeklong New Year festival
• India and Sri Lanka to discuss trade
• BJP will win in Gujarat, Himachal: Rudy
• Rajasthan beefs up security ahead of report on Gujjars
• Achuthanandan calls officials' meet to end 'prasadam' row
• Long queues in Gujarat as BJP, Congress claim victory (Second Lead)
• EC pulls up Gujarat education minister
• BJP-Congress ad war rages in Gujarat (Gujarat poll dairy)
• Modi votes in Sarkhej constituency of Gujarat
• Modi claims victory as Gujarat votes in second phase (Lead)
• Madhya Pradesh to host meet to promote heritage tourism
• Hong Kong's JB Group to invest Rs.15 bn in India
• Advani votes in Gujarat
• In Gujarat polls, these tribals have already won
• Polling for the second phase begins in Gujarat
• India awaits early elections (Year-ender)
• Bizarre child-dropping ritual faces ban in Karnataka
• Government planning ways to tackle mounting plastic waste
• Growth of notebook PC sales surging in India
• Polling for the second phase begins in Gujarat
• In Gujarat polls, these tribals have already won

Saturday 15 December 2007

• Gujjar panel to submit report Monday
• IIT Delhi rejects Dow Chemicals' sponsorship offer
• India, Oman consider joint investments
• Trade mark pomp and show as DMK conference begins
• Tripura announces new industrial policy
• Temple demolition triggers tension in Kolkata
• How about Russia-India-China pipeline, suggests official (Lead)
• Rahul Gandhi to do poll road shows in Himachal Pradesh
• Congress claims victory on eve of Gujarat final round polling
• India tests nuclear-capable missile for a third successive day
• Weather thaws, poll campaign heats up in Himachal Pradesh
• Energy leaders discuss Russia-India-China pipeline
• Deep space network to track India's lunar mission (Lead)
• Task of bridging rural-urban divide Himalayan: PM
• Congress defeats BJP in Madhya Pradesh by-poll
• BJP is a fascist party: Sonia
• Opening of Reliance outlets triggers protest in Kerala
• 'Rs.100,000 car' a threat to environment: Pachauri
• OneRoof Service to expand cyber cafe chain
• Four Kerala Haj pilgrims die in Saudi accident
• Agra shoe manufacturers seek Rahul's help
• NTPC signs power purchase agreement for Mauda project
• Corruption alleged in Jharkhand road construction
• Parryware Roca to expand sanitary range
• Jharkhand clears Rs.8 bn package for ailing PSU (Lead)
• Jharkhand waives Rs.8 bn for Heavy Engineering
• Deliberate attempt to impair ties with UPA: Karat
• Congress wins Poonch assembly by-poll
• Modi vs. Patel in Gujarat's battle royale
• Strong rupee a plus point for India (Commentary)
• Decoding bets
• Final round of crucial Gujarat polls Sunday
• Missing from Gujarat action: hardline Hindutva campaigners
• CM or PM: Modi's slip of tongue (Gujarat election diary)
• Where is Lalu?

Friday 14 December 2007

• Mauritius president, wife in Amritsar on private visit
• Clouds, fog hide meteor shower view in Delhi
• Karnataka governor to review hike in milk prices
• Maoist posters at Bengal secretariat, cops suspended (Lead)
• Telecom minister urges industry to improve R&D, exports
• CPI to ask government to scrap n-deal
• At least 18 killed as bus rams into train in India
• Poll staff, material to be airlifted to snowbound areas
• Congress cries foul over Vajpayee's Gujarat ads
• Maharashtra to bring industry-friendly single window act
• Cold weather dampens Himachal poll campaign
• President honours industries for conserving energy
• Kerala to host global NRI meet
• Finance majors acquire stake in commodity exchange
• Oldest employee initiates 5-star hotel's expansion
• Geelani barred from speaking in Jammu
• Sonia Gandhi to address election rally in Shimla
• Jaipur to host international tourism bazaar in April
• Poll campaign in Gujarat comes to an end
• 'Modi turning Gujarat into high-debt state'
• Surface-to-air nuclear capable missile test fired
• UAE business delegation to invest in Kerala
• Ambika Soni promises Rs.500 million for Agra
• Separated conjoined twin girl to be discharged Saturday
• Maoist posters at Bengal secretariat triggers alarm
• Commemorative stamp on ex-Maharashtra chief minister minister
• Spencer's opens first Hyper store in Kerala
• 839 centurions eligible to vote in Himachal
• Modi dragging president's office in elections: Chidambaram
• Wipro wins award for best software testing tool
• Reliance Communications moves Delhi High Court
• Bihar to receive international assistance for development
• Karunanidhi set to name son Stalin as successor
• Government may dump n-deal: Advani
• Benchmark market index recovers a little
• BJP leader killed, AGP legislator attacked in Assam
• Modi on strong wicket in round two, Congress hopeful
• Biogas - from your kitchen, in your backyard
• Ayurveda remedies to go online

Thursday 13 December 2007

• Orissa expedites Posco site survey despite opposition
• Rajdhani derailment disrupts train services
• Abdullah asks moderate Hurriyat to contest polls
• Manager shoots sugar mill president
• Telecom operators split over regulator's order
• Ministers' meeting on fuel price hike deferred
• Focus now on tourism at World Heritage Sites: minister
• War of words widens PMK-DMK schism
• Key market index slips on profit booking
• Vajpayee had already appealed to Gujarat voters: BJP
• Spice launches mobile TV, to show ICL live
• India open to private players developing city rail
• Parliament attack victim's widow alleges apathy (Lead)
• MRO-TEK wins Rs.30-million deal
• Bad weather may hit Himachal polling: poll panel
• BJP has no right to talk about terrorism: Sonia
• 'Indian industry best partner for Army's modernisation'
• India launches auction for oil and gas exploration
• Urban consumers apathetic to retail prices: survey
• Hindustan Zinc starts production in new smelter
• Five killed in bomb attack on train in India
• 11 women try to enter Kerala temple dressed as men
• ITC Infotech deploys customer software for Finnair
• Mumbai port to have new berths for cargo ships
• Gas flows from India's first coalbed methane block (Lead)
• Parliament attack victim's widow demands land
• Tributes paid to parliament attack victims
• Gas flows from India's first coalbed methane block
• Key index hits record on market opening
• Red Fort Capital to float domestic realty fund
• Maoist threats halt road projects in rural Bihar
• Weakening dollar worries Kerala's textile industry
• Former Bihar MP on death row goes on hunger strike
• Rahul keen to end 'nomination era' in Congress
• 100 percent FDI to be allowed in industrial parks
• Modi launches frontal attack on Congress leadership
• Kerala set for high industrial growth: minister
• Apex court notice to CBI on Nandigram firing
• Modi's Hindutva eclipses Sangh Parivar hardliners
• Watch it! Longines to tap second rung Indian cities
• Government considering South African energy major proposal
• Bangladesh blamed for cholera deaths in Orissa
• Anti-incumbency the decider in Himachal politics

Wednesday 12 December 2007

• Madhya Pradesh by-elections peaceful
• Sound economy key to internal security, says official
• Prakash-led rebel group quits JD-S in Karnataka
• Charges against Amarinder, son in real estate scam
• Tata Steel bags sustainability award
• Reliance Communications to receive start-up spectrum (Lead)
• Congress has conceded defeat in Gujarat: Advani
• Naming Advani for top post shows BJP panic: Congress
• New Citigroup CEO has a strong religious streak
• Kingfisher to fly between Agra and Delhi
• Ashiana to build retirement resort in Jaipur
• HP launches new ink-jet printers
• Unesco honours IIT-Bombay as 'knowledge heritage centre'

Saturday 01 December 2007

• India's greening industries lead in world carbon credit game

Tuesday 06 November 2007

• Muslims face a property crunch in Mumbai

Wednesday 24 October 2007

• The Indian capital grapples with its simian invasion
• Why India courts Myanmar's military junta?

Thursday 18 October 2007

• Bollywood's Bengalis live it up during Durga Puja

Sunday 14 October 2007

• Angry Kashmiris master the art of stone-pelting
• Cholera stalks Orissa villages

Friday 12 October 2007

• A world of colours beyond leprosy's sting

Thursday 11 October 2007

• 'Look East' policy a distant dream

Wednesday 26 September 2007

• Twenty20 final a night to remember for small town heroes

Sunday 23 September 2007

• The cholera warriors of Orissa
• The story of India's footprints in South Asia
• Tribal women trade in iodised salt for health

Thursday 20 September 2007

• India may have to quit Tajik military 'base'

Tuesday 18 September 2007

• Awards galore for British NRIs
• Orissa artists on a mission to save tribal art

Monday 10 September 2007

• Colombo somersault marks India's Sri Lanka dilemma

Sunday 09 September 2007

• They never build a ship: they craft it in Kerala

Thursday 06 September 2007

• India's nuclear deal better than China's: Mansingh (Interview)

Wednesday 05 September 2007

• A quest to connect Guyana ancestors' India links

Tuesday 28 August 2007

• Three generations of disagreement in Kashmir

Saturday 25 August 2007

• Foot soldiers of Sundarbans arm against global warming

Tuesday 21 August 2007

• Nuclear deal with US poses threat to Indian government

Wednesday 15 August 2007

• Raising a toast to the Indian diaspora on independence anniversary
• With glimmer in their eyes, they tell tales of valour

Tuesday 14 August 2007

• Post-Independence, India's Olympic performance dismal
• 'Dear NRI Son', writes Mother India, aged 60
• Hope floats in Kolkata's heritage zones

Monday 13 August 2007

• That blissful dawn, those ringing headlines
• Revolutionary who kept death at bay till Aug 15, 1947
• A midnight's child wishes empowerment for rural women

Sunday 12 August 2007

• At Wagah border, a sea change in 60 years
• On air, and talking about HIV/AIDS

Saturday 11 August 2007

• Sixty years and a life of empowerment

Friday 10 August 2007

• I have never come face to face with death like this: Taslima (Interview)

Thursday 09 August 2007

• Terror run in Assam by militants, Hindi-speakers fresh targets
• Indian women still have miles to go

Wednesday 08 August 2007

• 60 years after partition, 'home' still beckons

Tuesday 07 August 2007

• English expands its empire in India

Monday 06 August 2007

• In 60 years, Bhagat Singh's village is modern and completely NRI

Wednesday 01 August 2007

• India should take seismic protection more seriously

Sunday 29 July 2007

• Justice for Blueline victims: Does anyone pay?
• 'Why no memorial for the IPKF in India?'
• Do women have say in deciding Kashmir's future?

Saturday 28 July 2007

• I'm yet to find identity in Bollywood: Abhijeet Sawant
• The historic accord that few remember today

Friday 27 July 2007

• Haneef - the latest victim of error in age of terror
• India must act to end Sri Lanka conflict: moderate Tamils

Thursday 26 July 2007

• Widows of Kashmir militants fight unending social battle

Tuesday 24 July 2007

• Depressing three weeks of July for India's IT capital

Saturday 21 July 2007

• Pratibha Patil, India's first woman president
• A date at dawn with Harry Potter

Friday 20 July 2007

• Fate of tribals unchanged since independence: Mahasweta Devi

Tuesday 17 July 2007

• India to elect first female president after bitter campaign
• Finding a father: A real life detective story

Monday 16 July 2007

• That special tribe of NRIs from East Africa

Saturday 14 July 2007

• The problem of girl education in rural Uttar Pradesh

Friday 13 July 2007

• Ridiculous to compare grandma and me: Raima Sen (Interview)
• Did police goof-up cost Ram his life?
• Will Bangalore Police please speak up?

Thursday 12 July 2007

• Replacing Delhi's killer Blueline buses not the answer(Commentary)

Friday 06 July 2007

• For mother-daughter duo, sky is not the limit
• Woman auto driver bends gender rules

Monday 02 July 2007

• Unicef rekindles hope in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Sunday 01 July 2007

• IAF to buy all 126 aircraft from one vendor
• Do we have a new energy Cold War?
• Awake, it's no Satan, it's just Salman
• Japanese Odissi dancer bridges the cultural divide

Friday 29 June 2007

• Good old Indian folk tales need a magic genie

Thursday 28 June 2007

• After sahibs, commoners are Assam's new tea growers
• Even non-Bengalis will connect with my film: Anjan Dutt

Wednesday 27 June 2007

• Bamboo seed: Viagra and food for Mizos

Monday 25 June 2007

• Rickshaw ban: a bane or boon?
• 'Walk of shame' triggers toilet consciousness

Sunday 24 June 2007

• Kashmir in a death trap of landmines

Friday 22 June 2007

• Hindu monks exhibit mystical powers at Kamakhya
• A tribal community that shuns modern life

Sunday 17 June 2007

• European Union report reflects Kashmiri aspirations

Wednesday 13 June 2007

• Ramachandra Gandhi: the quintessential argumentative Indian
• Whatever happened to spring and autumn?

Monday 11 June 2007

• Where children lead the sanitation drive

Sunday 10 June 2007

• A Hindu yearns for the Kashmir he once knew
• Village health centres to the rescue of infants

Sunday 03 June 2007

• Heritage and history sparkle at Kashmir golf course

Wednesday 30 May 2007

• Orissa's green woman fights environmental blues - from thatched hut
• The once grand Yamuna riverfront is now a wasteland

Monday 28 May 2007

• When the magic takes over: the Qawwals of Nizamuddin
• Delivering the green message in children
• NRI saga goes back over 2,500 years

Sunday 27 May 2007

• A simple Kashmir marriage the rich would envy

Friday 25 May 2007

• They have stars in their eyes, compassion in heart
• Priests preferred to doctors for cure in Arunachal

Saturday 19 May 2007

• Ensuring village hygiene in god's name

Tuesday 15 May 2007

• Marriage of inconvenience for Kashmir's ruling coalition

Monday 14 May 2007

• NRIs can gift cars online, no extra charge for blessings!

Sunday 13 May 2007

• On an Indian medical genius, now almost forgotten
• Little journalists wield pen, seek social change
• When the sturdy Canberra saved its crew despite a missile hit
• Three factors that influenced Uttar Pradesh elections

Saturday 12 May 2007

• From anti-ULFA to anti-army protests in Assam

Thursday 10 May 2007

• On wheelchairs they rallied - to recreate history

Wednesday 09 May 2007

• Outside View: Gen. Jacob, don't twist the reality of Bangladesh
• Running a library solely for villagers

Thursday 03 May 2007

• When the school comes calling to these street children
• AIDS initiative takes root at transgender festival
• I am inviting Chhattisgarh Maoists for talks: Raman Singh

Sunday 22 April 2007

• Is judiciary serious about checking female foeticide?

Friday 20 April 2007

• Finally, Delhi's notorious motorists bow to law
• It pays to be a beggar in India's financial capital

Wednesday 18 April 2007

• Behind facade, Bangladesh treading on Pakistan's path

Sunday 15 April 2007

• NRI marriages through Bollywood lens

Thursday 12 April 2007

• Differing from West, India expands ties with Myanmar

Tuesday 10 April 2007

• Hand pump promises brides for unmarried villagers

Monday 09 April 2007

• BCCI: Indian cricket's Rip Van Winkle wakes up to realities, but how

Sunday 08 April 2007

• Children robbed of childhood in zari units
• Maharashtra: A case study for flood management
• Tribal woman rises to conquer in Karnataka village

Saturday 07 April 2007

• A 'new beginning' in India-Bangladesh ties?

Thursday 05 April 2007

• Prayer spot on a treacherous highway

Wednesday 04 April 2007

• A 'swayamvar' to help search for a life partner
• Child workers sing the song of freedom
• Migratory birds bidding farewell to Kashmir

Tuesday 03 April 2007

• Efforts underway to fight alcoholism among tribals
• The race to avoid Australia in the semis

Sunday 01 April 2007

• A banyan clan that spawns joint family for generations

Saturday 31 March 2007

• Youth fight for gender justice
• For peace, Sri Lanka has to change: Canadian leader

Friday 30 March 2007

• ULFA's human bomb threat portends danger for Assam

Wednesday 28 March 2007

• Amid tsunami havoc, a military base copes with the future

Tuesday 27 March 2007

• Orissa village turns tide against drought

Monday 26 March 2007

• Muslim girls in Kolkata slums strive for education

Sunday 25 March 2007

• Eco-toilets catch Karnataka town's fancy

Tuesday 20 March 2007

• Winds of change in a Bihar hamlet

Sunday 11 March 2007

• NRI uses new information law to beat corruption
• Useless rag to you could mean dignity for a woman
• Colours of India on foreign canvases and hearts

Tuesday 06 March 2007

• ULFA silence could be the lull before the storm

Sunday 04 March 2007

• Muslims keep alive marble work of the Taj era
• Disaster prone villages learn to help themselves
• Snake charmers on a melodious path of revival

Monday 19 February 2007

• Background: India-Pakistan peace train attacked for first time

Sunday 18 February 2007

• The global dimension of India's anti-terror fight

Tuesday 13 February 2007

• Undermining education in Orissa's mining heartland

Sunday 11 February 2007

• Hospitals turning into tombs in rural India

Friday 09 February 2007

• The price of patriotism - crippled for life

Tuesday 23 January 2007

• Teen minstrel makes music - from Shillong to Switzerland
• Party is over, NRIs flying back

Monday 22 January 2007

• Grief, helplessness for victims of Assam's terror strikes

Sunday 21 January 2007

• Journeying into dark lives of India's street kids
• How real are reality TV shows?

Tuesday 16 January 2007

• Maoist challenge a growing worry for government
• Madhya Pradesh has India's most malnourished kids

Wednesday 03 January 2007

• PM's speech at 94th Indian Science Congress

Tuesday 02 January 2007

• From despair to hope: the snake catchers of Tamil Nadu

Monday 01 January 2007

• New Year is a bundle of 'bidi' and stray dog for warmth
• A Mizo village of one man, 50 wives, over 100 kids
• 2006, a watershed year for Sanjay Dutt

Sunday 31 December 2006

• Amid hope and despair, Kashmiris learn art of survival
• Master Plan 2021: A New Year gift no one wants
• Bangalore beckons West for its social movements as well
• What the fashion gurus predict for 2007

Saturday 30 December 2006

• Tripura ends 2006 on optimistic note
• British Indian twins make their mark in fiction

Friday 29 December 2006

• 2006 Review: India gets nuclear icing on its global cake
• Bearing the brunt of law - for a bear

Thursday 28 December 2006

• 2006 Review: New age terror came to stay in 2006

Wednesday 27 December 2006

• A potluck year in print
• 2006 indeed the year of Indian diaspora

Tuesday 26 December 2006

• Tsunami survivors still at nature's mercy

Monday 25 December 2006

• 2006 Review: From hope to despair - Assam continues to bleed

Sunday 24 December 2006

• 2006 Review: Mary Kom, Talukdar and Bindra shone in 2006

Wednesday 06 December 2006

• Hope freezes as winter nears for Kashmir's 'quake children'

Tuesday 05 December 2006

• Musharraf's Kashmir idea - shift from ideology to pragmatism?
• Musharraf's latest - shift from ideology to pragmatism?

Sunday 03 December 2006

• Pelicans return as 'Gandhigiri' restores mammoth lake

Saturday 02 December 2006

• NRIs entering the vast Indian market

Sunday 26 November 2006

• Taking a bath the Tibetan way
• India Calls. Will you come for Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2007?

Thursday 23 November 2006

• Gradual, not dramatic rise in Sino-Indian defence ties

Wednesday 22 November 2006

• India starts to cope with ageing millions

Tuesday 21 November 2006

• Outside View: Anant kidnapping: more to it than meets the eye

Friday 17 November 2006

• Can India trust China? Old fears strike again

Tuesday 14 November 2006

• The cab killers of Bhora-Kalan

Monday 13 November 2006

• Changing colours of chinar heralds winter in Kashmir

Sunday 12 November 2006

• Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS
• Outside View: Wail not for the veil, but education

Thursday 09 November 2006

• A Bangladeshi terror shadow over Mumbai

Wednesday 08 November 2006

• Democrats' poll win bad news for India-US nuclear deal?

Monday 06 November 2006

• Naga talks in limbo, peace eludes Nagaland

Wednesday 01 November 2006

• No passport or visa, but I stepped into China
• Corruption, officer shortage dent military's image

Sunday 29 October 2006

• Sri Lanka row over merger poses new challenge for India

Wednesday 25 October 2006

• How did Jaswinder Singh die?

Tuesday 10 October 2006

• India: atomic power despite condemnation of tests

Sunday 08 October 2006

• One year on, quake survivors homeless in Kashmir

Sunday 01 October 2006

• Ruth Manorama to strive to empower women

Friday 29 September 2006

• Trained in architecture, excelling in jewellery designing

Tuesday 26 September 2006

• Hurry, NRI gifting season is here
• For Muslims, Ramadan sacrifice is for greater things

Monday 25 September 2006

• Girls dare to dream with Madhya Pradesh bridge course