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More than 19,000 people were still trapped in the rubble of Sichuan’s second city today as Chinese troops battled through the disaster zone to devastated towns and villages cut off by yesterday’s earthquake
As the official death toll...
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India can take lessons from the global food crisis. From being world’s third largest producer of wheat, India now may become the world’s largest importer.
India is slowly shifting its priorities from growing staple foods to vegetables and...
Runners carried the Olympic flame through Hong Kong in a steady drizzle Friday, as large groups of flag-waving torch supporters shouted insults at pro-Tibet and human rights protesters, forcing them to seek refuge in police vans.
One angry mob...
South Korea’s new president, Lee Myung-bak, is asking tough questions about human rights abuses in North Korea — questions that were all but ignored by his predecessors Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun.
But he is learning that high-minded...
Economists are divided on whether India’s central bank will raise interest rates to slow inflation after it ordered lenders to set aside more money two weeks ago to check prices.
The Reserve Bank of India may leave its benchmark repurchase rate...
After Jawaharlal Nehru assumed power as India’s first prime minister it was expected that he would build it up as a welfare state. But when it came to writing the Constitution, even the word socialism did not figure in the 395-Article document....
Rice prices in Thailand, the world’s top exporter, surged to $1,000 a tonne on Thursday, feeding concerns about food security as far as the United States after export curbs by governments worldwide.
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BSP worker Mitthu Lal is one of the 300 Dalits of UP’s Ghisauli village who accompanied Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to the commissioner’s office in Jhansi a few days back demanding implementation of the National Rural Employment...
With the clock once again ticking for the execution of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on the death row in Pakistan for the last 17 years, New Delhi on Friday issued a fresh appeal to Islamabad to show clemency in the case.
‘I would appeal to...
Inflation has fallen marginally from 7.15 per cent to 7.41 per cent. The fall, however, could be largely statistical.
Vegetable prices in particular have shot up over 10 percent even though the cost of edible oils has lowered.
Part of the fall is due...
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