While China and India are touted as the new global economic super powers who would give the mighty Americans a run for their money but in reality, China and India are poles apart. The Foreign Direct Investments flowing into China is far greater than...
Arvind Adiga is a 34 year old journalist, who has traveled extensively in India and abroad. In his widely acclaimed book The White Tiger, he attempts to get behind the shining India. He is intrigued with the emerging class difference in India, thanks to..
Even as Bush’s remarks about the Indian middle class invite scathing comments our by politicians, the debate rages on their interpretation. If so and how much the burgeoning population of the middle income group in India is responsible for the...
The rights of Muslim Women in India are not on par with their Hindu sisters. This discrimination in Indian women’s right is not based on religious prejudices but the lack of a Uniform Civil Code in India is a method of protecting the secular...
India is increasing its defense capabilities by adding new powerful ballistic missiles in its arsenal. The latest to be added in the arsenal of the Indian army is the 3,500-km range Agni III missile that was successfully test fired last week. DRDO is...
The Mahdi army in Iraq has added a new and simple yet lethal weapon to its armoury. It is the Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions, or IRAMs. The US army has termed it the 'flying IEDs.' It is a low-tech weapon that has a propane tank with...
According to the Indian intelligence sources, bombing in Jaipur on Tuesday that killed 80 and injured 216 has been orchestrated by a Bangladesh-based terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. The slums around the walled city of Jaipur are believed to..
India’s ambivalent attitude towards Tibet stems from the Sino-Indian Treaty of 1954 where our former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru recognized Tibet as a part of China, but later gave asylum to Tibetans due to Chinese threats, in respect to border...
The attack on the iron ore processing plant owned by Essar Steel in Chhattisgarh, on the night of April 24th, by a mob of 300 armed men with bows, arrows and sickles is just the tip of the iceberg. Once inside the compound, they torched the heavy...
All President Bush said was that India should be proud of itself that increasing spending power of its citizens is one of the reasons for the present global food shortage. It is a fact. But all hell broke loose in India.
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