May 10 (Bloomberg) As every leading candidate has proudly noted, tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in Pakistan will mark the first civilian transfer of power in that country’s 66-year history. To ensure it’s not the last, the winner should turn to an unlikely ally: India. Read more »
By Unni Krishnan
April 13 (Bloomberg News) — Commercial University Ltd. in New Delhi offers degrees in commerce, one of hundreds of private colleges trying to fill an education gap as India’s growth creates a middle class eager for its children to succeed. Read more »
April 5 (Bloomberg) — An Indian security guard, cradling a Kalashnikov assault rifle, shadowed two Indian engineers as they inspected the concrete shell of the parliament building they are constructing — in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Read more »
By Bhashyam Kasturi
Any study that seeks to understand the dynamics of India’s “presence” in Afghanistan with the application of soft power must realise that it is a carefully crafted piece of diplomacy—one that is riding high in the presence of the U.S. and the NATO forces in the region. Read more »
A growing rivalry between India, Pakistan and China over the region’s great
rivers may be threatening South Asia’s peace
Nov 19th 2011 | DELHI, DHAKA, ISLAMABAD AND SRINAGAR |
from the Economist
SONAULLAH PHAPHO has spent half a century picking a living from Wular lake high in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Today he is lucky if he scoops a fish or two out of the soupy mess. Read more »
Pakistani security officials escort American CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis, center, to a local court in Lahore. Mr. Davis’ detention soured U.S. – Pak relations, and the fallout of the episode has affected subsequent American strategy in West Asia. File photo Read more »
Nitin Nohria is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard Business School (HBS). He is the first foreign-born dean of Harvard Business School. Nitin was born in Nohar, Rajasthan, India. He graduated from St. Columba’s School in New Delhi, Read more »
Srinagar, Sep 10, 2010: Violence flared up in the old city after Friday prayers today when government forces targeted a separatist procession with tear gas, while the southern township of Tral shut down after the police and the paramilitary personnel came down violently upon marchers, even as hectic Eid-eve activity was witnessed in Kashmir elsewhere. Read more »
Wall Street Journal
April 5, 2010
A feud over water between India and Pakistan is threatening to derail peace talks between the two neighbors
March 21, 2010
India’s possible interrogation of 26/11 conspirator David Coleman Headley will be nothing but a mere question-answer session, a senior investigator in the case has said. Read more »
The finance minister Mr. Mukherjee said the economy is in a much better position now than it was a year ago, and added that growth may exceed the advance estimate of 7.2% for this fiscal year through March.
He said also that the government’s total expenditure will be 11.09 trillion rupees ($239 billion) in the next fiscal year, and that the fiscal deficit is likely to narrow to 5.5%–or 3.8 trillion rupees–from this year’s estimated 6.9% of gross domestic product. India plans to allocate 1.47 trillion rupees ($31.71 billion) for the defense sector for the next fiscal year. The government had earmarked 1.42 trillion rupees spending on defense for the current fiscal through March 2010, up from 1.06 trillion rupees in the previous year. India is upgrading its armed forces and plans to buy new vehicles, arms and fighter jets as part of the modernization exercise. Read more »
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Pritam Singh, who farms 30 acres in Punjab, says the more desperate farmers become, the more urea they use. Overuse is stunting yields.
SOHIAN, India—India’s Green Revolution is withering.
In the 1970s, India dramatically increased food production, finally allowing this giant country to feed itself. But government efforts to continue that miracle by encouraging farmers to use fertilizers have backfired, forcing the country to expand its reliance on imported food. Read more »
By Abhay Singh
March 30 (Bloomberg) — As Narendra Modi, chief minister of the state of Gujarat, walks into a cavernous tent filled with 20,000 investors and business leaders in western India, he’s greeted like a Bollywood movie star. Conference goers surround the politician to shake hands, snap photos and touch his shoes — a show of reverence in India.
After the January conference gets under way in the city of Ahmedabad, billionaire Anil Ambani, whose empire ranges from telecommunications to financial services, steps to the lectern. He praises Modi, 58, for turning Gujarat into India’s top destination for investors before paying the Hindu nationalist the ultimate compliment: He should be prime minister. Read more »
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NEW DELHI: India on Friday conveyed to Iran that it was deeply disappointed by the way the country had reacted to the Mumbai terror attacks. Read more » |
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Azam Amir Kasab, the face of the Mumbai attacks. Photograph: Reuters
We’ve forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching “India’s 9/11″. Like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we’re expected to play our parts and say our lines, even though we know it’s all been said and done before. Read more »
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Creating an “Arc of Crisis”: The Destabilization of the Middle East and Central Asia The Mumbai Attacks and the “Strategy of Tension” Centre for Research on Globalization, Canada By Andrew G. Marshall |
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Introduction The recent attacks in Mumbai, while largely blamed on Pakistan’s state-sponsored militant groups, represent the latest phase in a far more complex and long-term “strategy of tension” in the region; being employed by the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis to ultimately divide and conquer the Middle East and Central Asia. The aim is destabilization of the region, subversion and acquiescence of the region’s countries, and control of its economies, all in the name of preserving the West’s hegemony over the “Arc of Crisis.” Read more » |
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Ajai Sahni, executive director of the New Delhi–based Institute for Conflict Management, says there is no real evidence “of any operational linkages between al-Qaeda and these groups.” Read more »
Nov. 29, 2008
By Eric S Margolis
WASHINGTON: The horrifying attacks in Mumbai this week that killed over 150 and injured some 300 people are the most recent sign that the ongoing conflicts in
“Muslims have occasionally been subject to hideous communal slaughter. More than 2,000 died in a pogrom in the state of Gujarat in 2002, for which the perpetrators have never been brought to justice.“
The Economist
Nov 27th 2008
From The Economist print edition
TERROR has stalked Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, all too many times before. In 1993 more than 250 people died in a series of bomb attacks, seen as reprisals for the demolition by Hindu fanatics of the mosque at Ayodhya. In 2003, more than 50 people were killed by two car bombs, including one just outside the Taj Mahal hotel, next to the monumental tourist attraction, the “Gateway of India”. And in 2006 over 180 people were killed in seven separate explosions at railway stations and on commuter trains. But the latest atrocity—or rather co-ordinated series of atrocities (see article)—is something new to the city. It has alarming implications not just for India, but for the entire international fight against terrorism. Read more »
