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MUMBAI: An overwhelming majority of the 117 million "missing" girls in Asia are from India and China, the United Nations has observed. And it has laid the blame for this phenomenon squarely on the ultrasonography machine, which has been a topic of debate and heartburn in Mumbai. The problem...

EDITORIAL - South Asia Post - September 30, 2011 Distress pushing migration in India ANY keen observer can easily notice that Punjab during the last decade or so has been on the move. We have a large scale migration of workers from across the country, engaged in farms, factories and...

India ready to play its part to meet global challenges: PM . Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:03 IANS - United Nations Calling upon the UN to once again embrace the principles of internationalism to meet global challenges from economic downturn to terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan...

NEW DELHI: Three new judges of the Supreme Court will take oath on Tuesday and one of them, Justice J S Khehar, will go on to become the first Sikh Chief Justice of India in the year 2017. President Pratibha Patil has signed the warrant of appointment for Justice Khehar, chief justice of...

India’s drug ‘lifeline’ under threat Posted by Mari Marcel Thekaekara | <abbr class="comments">2</abbr> Share this: Photo by UK Department for International Development under a CC Licence. I never dreamed I’d ever wave the flag for Indian pharmaceutical companies. But...

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian, August 27, 1947 LAHORE, AUGUST 25 (DELAYED). Master Tara Singh, the village schoolmaster who rose to be one of the chief leaders of the Sikhs, declared in an interview in Amritsar to-day that he hoped there would one day be a return of Sikh...

Pace By Satadru Sen When the team that you support has had an unbelievably bad series, and the angry and serious post-mortems are out there for all to see, the sporting thing to do is to look for the brighter side of the whole affair. The India-vs-England Test series is over: that is a...

India is not as corrupt as China and Russia, a global credit rating agency Fitch has said. The country, however, suffers from excessive regulation and tax laws, which is worrying for foreign investors, Fitch group managing director Richard Hunter said. “We will certainly rank India well...

August 26, 2011 India sees no evil In a country where bribes only get you what's rightfully yours, Anna Hazare's refusal to fold is touching many By Ramesh Thakur, Postmedia News - August 26, 2011 India has an unmatched capacity to look opportunity firmly in the eye, turn around...

As tension grows and time passes Sikhs worldwide are concerned over the recent finding of the Sikh Scriptures that were thrown into a well in Udhampur Nalan village in Ropar district, not only were there five copies of the Guru Granth Sahib found in the well it is alleged that alcohol was also...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/12/bollywood-film-ban-india?CMP=twt_fd Aarakshan, a Bollywood film about India's controversial quota system for disadvantaged groups has been banned in three states, for fear that its discriminatory language may cause protests Protesters tear down a...

Diaspora enriches India by $55 billion WE should be beholden to those over 27 million Indian Diaspora who have added $ 55 billion to nation’s economy. We can expect more this year. These men and women spread across 190 countries have pushed India to number one position as far as foreign...

The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com Norway massacre: Breivik manifesto attempts to woo India's Hindu nationalists Norway massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto invites Jewish groups in Israel, Buddhists in China, and Hindu nationalist groups in India to contain the...

July 25, 2011 Modern day sex-slave trade still exists in India A New-Delhi-based organization is offering safe havens for girls who would otherwise have nowhere to turn By Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger, Special To The Sun - July 25, 2011 When Naina and Jyothi were born in the...

What on earth did the Banga brothers' mother feed them for breakfast? Whatever it was, it worked: Vindi Banga grew up to become a top executive at the food and personal-care giant Unilever, then a partner at the private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. His younger brother Ajay, after...

July 16, 2011 Why My Father Hated India Aatish Taseer, the son of an assassinated Pakistani leader, explains the history and hysteria behind a deadly relationship By AATISH TASEER - July 16, 2011 Ten days before he was assassinated in January, my father, Salman Taseer, sent out a...

July 18, 2011 IM, Taliban join hands to target India? Monday, 18 July 2011 New Delhi, July 18: In what may emerge as a big trouble for India, the Taliban is said to have joined hands with India-based terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM). As per a report, Monday, the nexus was...

LOS FRESNOS, Texas (AP) — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose...

July 15, 2011 How Indias Voters Can Stop Terrorism C. Christine Fair - Policy - July 15, 2011 Terrorists have once again struck India. While we should never be too confident in early assessments, it looks to be the work of the Indian Mujahideen, an Indian Islamist terrorist group...

Anil Gupta, a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, who has led his life seeking out innovators from remote villages through Khoj yatras under his Honey Bee network and NGO Sristi, persuaded the Central government to set up the NIF a decade ago. However, the NIF has...