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Mumbai Explosions Reportedly Hit Busy Markets

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jul. 13 (News) - Three explosions rocked busy locations in India's financial capital Mumbai late Wednesday, killing at least 8 people and injuring 70 in the city that was the scene of a major terrorist attack nearly three years ago. The Press Trust of India and several news channel reported that India's Home Ministry had called the explosions a terror attack.

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Dirty Money Enters Neoliberal Game

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populist.com - By N. Gunasekaran - May. 05 (News Report) - Money laundering is not new to capitalist society. But, in the era of neoliberalism, it spiraled to dizzying heights, robbing nations’ wealth. The neo-liberal structure builds up the unholy nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and corporate executives and this trio creates and enhances the parallel black economy. In Indian politics it has now become an important theme.

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Superbug Gene Found In New Delhi Water

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Maria Cheng - Apr. 07 (News Report) - LONDON — A gene that can turn many types of bacteria into deadly superbugs was found in about a quarter of water samples taken from drinking supplies and puddles on the streets of New Delhi, according to a new study.

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Cohen’s Nonprofit Helps Hospitals Go Green

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Catherine Elton - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - Gary Cohen and his nonprofit, Health Care Without Harm, have persuaded hospitals around the world to close their medical-waste incinerators, dramatically cutting emissions of dioxin and other toxins.

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Cost of Obama's India trip misreported

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

MediaBugs - By Scott Rosenberg - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - On November 3, 2010, Eric Bolling, host of the Fox Business cable TV show Follow The Money, asserted that President Obama's trip to India would "cost 200 million dollars per day." A Truthsquad at NewsTrust.net reviewed this statement and concluded that it's false. The original $200 million a day figure came in a report from the Press Trust of India based on an anonymous Indian government source. The Truthsquad "verdict" summary provides numerous other links to support the conclusion that this figure couldn't possibly be accurate.

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Hundreds of Survivors of Bhopal Disaster Protest Obama India Visit

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 08 (News) - A group of 400 survivors of the Bhopal disaster have been protesting Obama's visit to India. The 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster left an estimated 15,000 people dead. The company, Union Carbide, is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Dow has faced calls to clean up the contaminated site, increase compensation for victims, and fund studies to assess damages to the environment and public health. India has also demanded the extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, who fled India shortly after his arrest in the disaster’s aftermath.

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Big Business & Arms Deals, Not Poverty, Top Obama's Agenda in India

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 08 (News Report) - President Obama rounded off his three-day visit to India today by addressing a special joint session of both houses of India's Parliament. Accompanied by some 250 business executives, the President's visit to India is part of a ten-day tour of Asia to boost U.S. exports. Meanwhile a number of groups are protesting Obama's visit to India, including some left political parties, survivors of the 1984 deadly Bhopal disaster, and the families of cotton farmers who committed suicide, partly as a result of U.S. agricultural subsidies. [includes rush transcript - partial]

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Trip to Mumbai

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By FactCheck.org - Nov. 03 (News) - This highly doubtful claim originated with one Indian news agency quoting an anonymous source in Mumbai. The White House says it is "wildly exaggerated," and there’s no evidence to support such a huge figure.

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Obama in India: A tale of Indian & US agendas

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

com - By Shashank Chouhan - Nov. 01 (Special Report) - he starts his trip from mumbai, india's financial capital... ..it is a clear recognition of india's economic weightage in global affairs that began with president obama's courtship of PM manmohan singh during the g-20 summit last year. obama means business no=doubt, but mostly for u.s. companies.

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Teleprompter to make a debut in Parliament when Obama speaks

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

PTI India - Oct. 22 (News) - As per the tentative programme being worked out, the address by Obama, who once said that "America has its roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi", would not be for more than 20 minutes.

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Foreign-Funded ‘U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Lee Fang - Oct. 05 (Investigative Report) - A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding. And while the Chamber will likely assert it has internal controls, foreign money is fungible, permitting the Chamber to run its unprecedented attack campaign.

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Girl Power Lacking in India

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Alexis Katzelnick-Wise - Oct. 01 (Special Report) - With more than twice the number of girls as boys living at the orphanage, the gender disparity smacked me in the face each morning when I arrived at my post. Girls are simply viewed as too expensive to raise, even (and sometimes, especially) by middle and upper class families. Dowries and weddings are so costly that girls are seen as living liabilities. By contrast, boys grow up to provide for their parents, inherit land, and carry on the family name. It is customary for brides to join their husbands’ families, so parents of girls do not typically receive financial help or caretaking benefits from their daughters in old age. With the growth of ultrasound technology in India, the door to sex selective parenting has been flung open

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USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight.

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India Court Convicts Legislator in Second Christian Murder Case

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Christian Post - By Vishal Arora - Sep. 10 (News) - A Hindu nationalist legislator was arrested yesterday after a court pronounced him guilty of playing a major role in the murder of a Christian during anti-Christian carnage in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district in August 2008.

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INDIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS NO TO GLOBAL NETWORK SPACE CONFAB

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Space4Peace.com - By Bruce Gagnon - Aug. 02 (News Report) - the U.S. has for several years been pushing India to develop a Space Command and to become a junior partner in the Pentagon's growing Star Wars program. Just a month ago we published our Space Alert! newsletter which had an article by Global Network board member Matt Hoey. The article was called "India Developing Space Weapons" and the opening paragraph read: Indian military officials have set a target date to deploy an ambitious anti-satellite (ASAT) system

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Killings in Kashmir by Indian Forces Spark Protests

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Basharat Peer - Jul. 21 (News Report) - Indian troops and police have killed fifteen people in Kashmir since June, sparking widespread protests. The Indian government has imposed a strict military curfew in the area as well as a media gag order on local journalists. The international community has remained silent on the human rights abuses in Kashmir. We speak with Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir.

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Israel 3rd Worldwide in 'Millionaire Growth' in 2009

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

israelnationalnews.com - By David Lev - Jun. 23 (News) - Israel's economy was one of the better performing ones during the recession that gripped the world during 2009, and a new survey for that year highlights one of the results of that positive performance: Israel was third in the world in creating new

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Population: The Last Taboo

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Julia Whitty - May. 13 (Special Report) - The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it's decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet's resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we've already made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.

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Education: The virtual TA

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Saritha Rai - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - In what might have been inconceivable a few years ago, some cash-strapped American universities and overworked faculty are turning to outsourcing, a tactic fine-tuned by U.S. corporations to cut costs. In distant Kalimpong in northeastern India, army wife Bakshi is a virtual teaching assistant for EduMetry, a company based in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.

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India: Citizens debate government policy and the Maoist response

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Aparna Ray - Apr. 19 (News Analysis) - Dealing a severe blow to the Indian government’s ongoing offensive against the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, 76 policemen were ambushed and killed by Maoist rebels in Dantewada, Chattisgarh on April 6, 2010. Indian bloggers discuss how to tackle the problem.

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Less than normal

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

frontlineonnet.com - By T.K. Rajalakshmi - Apr. 10 (News Report) - In the course of its interviews with functionaries of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), children and mothers, Frontline found that there was a definite connection between the food consumption basket, which itself is a function of the wealth index (a correlation that NFHS-3 also established); the agrarian pattern of development; and irregular employment. With rising prices and changing agricultural patterns of production, there has been a visible decline in the consumption of certain kinds of food that are rich sources of protein, iron and essential nutrients. The main crops now grown are paddy, wheat, cotton and oilseeds.

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Standing At Thermopylae: Greek Economic Situation Worsening Fast

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Simon Johnson - Apr. 08 (News Analysis) - No one in official Washington is seriously worried about Greece. It's far away, relatively small, and - anyway - "we already sent the IMF". Under current circumstances, this is very much like saying 2,500 years ago: We sent 300 Spartans

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Walking With The Comrades

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

outlookindia.com - By Arundati Roy - Mar. 29 (Special Report) - There are many ways to describe Dantewada. It’s an oxymoron. It’s a border town smack in the heart of India. It’s the epicentre of a war. It’s an upside down, inside out town. In Dantewada, the police wear plain clothes and the rebels wear uniforms. The jail superintendent is in jail. The prisoners are free (three hundred of them escaped from the old town jail two years ago). Women who have been raped are in police custody. The rapists give speeches in the bazaar.

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India’s nuclear arms control quandary

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.metapress.com - By Ramamurti Rajaraman - Mar. 16 (News Analysis) - While the international community seems ready to move forward on the CTBT, FMCT, and achieving nuclear zero, New Delhi’s participation likely will be limited until its leaders believe that they possess a nuclear arsenal capable of minimal deterrence.

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Taliban Hit 5 Star Hotel, Indian Hostels in Downtown Kabul; 18 Dead, 32 Wounded; Indians Targeted

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Feb. 26 (News) - The Afghan capital was struck by three suicide bombings early Friday morning, beginning at 6:30 am local time. Radio Azadi reports that there were five attackers, who struck in the area near the entrance of the Hotel Safi Landmark . The first bomb damaged the hotel. Two of these bombings, Aljazeera Arabic says, targeted guest houses for Indian expatriates in Kabul who work for companies or NGOs. The third blast was huge, and the guesthouse was left in rubble, such that there may be bodies still within. As I write, the death toll is estimated at 18, with 32 wounded, and some of the dead are Indians and many of the wounded are. The Aljazeera correspondent says that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told him that the mission had been to hit the ...

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