http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/india/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:42:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051260/posts India has issued a report challenging global warming fears. This is dramatic. The Indian Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change said that India would rather save its people from poverty than global warming, and would not cut growth in order to cut gases. Referring to claimed changes in climate attributed to human activity, the report declares: "No firm link between the documented charges described below and warming due to an anthropogenic climate change has yet been established." The report goes on to state: "It is obvious that India needs to substantially increase its per capita energy consumption to provide a... Engineering News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051260/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051238/posts It is a high ambition of the Rudd Government to greatly deepen Australia's engagement with India. Well, it is about to get the opportunity to do just that. This week, the Indian parliament passed a momentously important vote of confidence in the Government of Manmohan Singh. This vote could be a pivot point in modern history. It was all about India's nuclear co-operation deal with the US. (SNIP) India is not a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is not one of the five accepted nuclear weapons states (the US, Britain, France, Russia and China). But it possesses a... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051238/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051043/posts Just breaking 6 or 7 bombs went off in Banagalore - my home town. A prayer for the city with the liveliest and friendliest of people http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051043/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:03:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050879/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has proposed shifting $226.5 million in U.S. counterterrorism aid to Pakistan to upgrade Pakistani F-16 fighters, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The plan has provoked some opposition in the U.S. Congress, where an influential lawmaker questioned how upgraded F-16s, which are widely seen as aimed at countering any threat from India, would be used against al Qaeda and Taliban forces. U.S. officials have long been frustrated at what they view as Pakistan's failure to do enough to combat militants along its border with Afghanistan, where the United States has some 35,000 troops, many of... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050879/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:14:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050439/posts NEW DELHI: India is hopeful that despite Pakistan's objection the safeguards agreement it plans to sign with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) next week will be done without more countries joining in to resist it. "The overwhelming mood in the IAEA Board of Governors is to support the Indian safeguards agreement," a senior official in the External Affairs Ministry said. The Indian safeguards agreement will come up for discussion and approval by the 35-member Board of Governors of the IAEA on August 1. India and Pakistan are both members of the Board. India needs to get the safeguards agreement... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050439/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:40:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049495/posts NEW DELHI — The Indian government survived a motion of confidence in Parliament Tuesday evening, paving the way for India to seal a landmark nuclear agreement with the United States but leaving the entire parliamentary process tainted by dramatic allegations of bribery made on the floor of the house. In a wider margin of victory than had been predicted by politics watchers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who initiated the confidence motion, won 275 votes, while his opponents secured 256 votes, and 11 members abstained. It came on the heels of two days of acrimonious debate and constant heckling of speakers,... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049495/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:22:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048160/posts New Delhi – Anecdotal reports by health-care workers in Africa and Southeast Asia reveal a worrying new trend: Drugs successfully used for years to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV are failing more and more often. Misdiagnosis of disease, coupled with the (related) misuse and overuse of drugs, likely plays a role, especially in resource-constrained countries where scientific diagnostic tests are unavailable or too expensive to be practical. But many doctors suspect another culprit: counterfeit drugs. Nothing is more dangerous for a poor patient with a potentially fatal disease than taking drugs that do not work. Not only can faulty drugs... feer.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048160/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048112/posts Like a bad dream, the gory images have come back to haunt the land of famished fields and parched valleys veiled in dense layers of dust. Just about when the picture of a woman — covered from head to toe in a blue burqa with a narrow screen in front of her stony eyes — shot in the back of her head was turning grainy, the nightmare revisited Ghazni city last week. Two women, wrapped in blue, were asked to kneel on the ground. And then a few fierce-looking men, with hate dripping from their eyes, nudged the women's bowed... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048112/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047972/posts France offers India partnership to export submarines Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: France has offered India a partnership to export hi-tech submarines to third countries. “Our strategy is not only to be in India for developing products for India but to develop for others because we think that a submarine is a strategic defence system which a lot of navies are interested in developing,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DCNS Jean-Marie Poimbeuf told The Hindu. Submarines are counted as among the most potent defence platforms as they can operate undetected far beyond a country’s shores. The DCNS, 75 per cent... The Hindu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047972/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047568/posts The gentleman who was one of the five live persons (and 199 cadavers, some held for 30 years) Israel traded for the bodies of two of its soldiers is in the news. He vows to continue the struggle. Well, last time he shot a civilian father in front of his 4-year girl, and then crushed her skull with his rifle butt. What a hero! What a blow for the oppressed Palestinians! May we suggest a Nobel Peace Prize for the gentleman? A trifling honor we shall no doubt will have to beg him to accept. So, good buddy good pal,... Orbat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047568/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047277/posts GANDHINAGAR: A 100 billion dollars! That's the valuation CM Narendra Modi declared on Thursday for the natural gas find by Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) in Krishna-Godavari basin. Modi said the valuation was based on the assessment of top experts in the field. Modi said GSPC would now be able to fulfil energy requirements of Gujarat for a long time to come. Modi and his ministers flew on Thursday to the KG-22 well near Kakinada, which has created a lot of excitement as its estimated gas reserve of three trillion cubic feet (TCF) is said to be the highest ever... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047277/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047153/posts LONDON: Two Indians are among five illegal immigrants who allegedly smuggled themselves into a high-security British military base on a convoy of army trucks returning from Kosovo. Police said the Indians were between 24 and 26 years of age. The others included two Afghans between 16 and 18 years of age, and a 15-year-old Iranian. The immigrants’ names have not been goven out as yet. Stunned soldiers had to wrestle two of the stowaways to the ground after discovering them as the vehicles returned from Kosovo on Tuesday, said reports. Another three men leapt from the lorries in a desperate... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047153/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046478/posts BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - At least 24 policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a security vehicle in Orissa on Wednesday, in an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels. The attack, in the remote Malkangiri district, comes a fortnight after the rebels sank a police boat and killed 38 officers of an elite anti-insurgency unit in the same area. "All 24 police personnel are dead," officer Sujeet Naik told Reuters, blaming the strike on rebels who are known to be strong in the forested region. Police said the Maoists had stepped up violence in response to a security campaign... reuters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046478/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045847/posts This 60-storey house is for just one family. India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is planning a palace in the heart of Mumbai with helipad, health club, hanging gardens and six floors of car parking. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045847/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045801/posts CHABUA (Assam): Worried at the increase in Chinese airfields along the border, the Centre is upgrading its infrastructure and fleet strength at all air force stations under the Eastern Air Command. "AFS Chabua is surrounded by 14 airfields on the Chinese side. Not all of them are now being used, but they can be made operational within a week," Commanding Officer of the Chabua airbase, Group Captain M S Venkateswara told a group of visiting newspersons here. Pointing out that the border with China was 170 km north and that with Myanmar 80 km south of Chabua airbase, he said,... The Press Trust of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045801/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:46:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045640/posts Beijing 2008: China invites Sonia, not PM or Prez 14 Jul 2008, 0006 hrs IST,TNN NEW DELHI: Eighty heads of state and government will grace the Beijing Olympics in August but PM Manmohan Singh will not be among them. Not because he is too busy, but because he was not invited. In fact, neither India's head of state nor government have been invited, with the invitation going to its most important politician, Sonia Gandhi. The Congress chief is unlikely to attend, leaving that job to sports minister M S Gill. But even if you are really charitable, it can't be... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045640/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045589/posts FARNBOROUGH 2008: Indian carrierborne MiG handover inches closer Anatoly Belov, designer general of the Russian MiG Aircraft Corporation, says the first MiG-29K and MiG-29KUB aircraft will soon be delivered to the Indian Navy, more than 12 months later than the original scheduled handover. In January 2004, MiG won a contract to supply twelve single-seat MiG-29K aircraft and four MiG-29KUB trainers, as well as simulators and spare parts. Two of the aircraft were originally due to be delivered to the Indian Navy in June 2007 and six more in November 2007, with deliveries to be completed by 2009. But the MiG-29KUB... Flight International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045589/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:53:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045454/posts Afghanistan is once again in the news with the horrific bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul. Violence has remained a motif in a country trying hard to build a peaceful civil society. Everyone pays for this continuing violence — men, women and children — not just with their lives but also through the abysmal quality of their lives if and when they do survive. Although some things have improved in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime was removed, much remains difficult to tackle, not least the problems women face. Hamid Karzai’s government has set up a Ministry of Women’s Affairs... The Hindu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045454/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:44:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045406/posts Pakistan behind Indian embassy bombing: Karzai KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday Pakistani agents were behind the Indian embassy bombing last week, the first time he has directly accused Pakistan of involvement in the suicide attack that killed 58 people. Pakistani agents were behind the embassy attack, the beheading of two Afghans in Pakistan last month, the killing of two women in Ghazni province and 24 people in a suicide bomb in Uruzgan on Sunday, Karzai told reporters. Karzai said in an interview broadcast on Monday he favoured good ties with Pakistan, but added there were “elements in... Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045406/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045089/posts NEW DELHI — US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would not seek changes in a controversial nuclear deal with India and hoped it would be finalised by year-end, a magazine reported Saturday. "The existing agreement effectively balanced a range of important issues -- from our strategic relationship with India to our non-proliferation concerns to India's energy needs," Obama was quoted as saying by the weekly Outlook news magazine. "I am therefore reluctant to seek changes," he said in the interview. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W. Bush had in 2005 unveiled the agreement which... AFP via Google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045089/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:52:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045073/posts More than 30 Indian youths have disappeared in New Zealand, where they were in transit to go to Sydney for World Youth Day, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said Monday. Lyndsay Freear told Radio New Zealand that a party of 220 Indian Catholics who arrived in Auckland a week ago were due to fly to Sydney Tuesday, but 32 of them had disappeared. All were billeted with church members in Auckland under a so-called Days in the Diocese programme before going to Australia, where Pope Benedict arrived Sunday for events associated with World Youth Day. Freear said all the... Web India 123 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045073/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:07:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044689/posts Call it a diplomatic fandango. Heavy-duty Chinese bulldozers groan day and night, building motorable roads that will connect towns with cities in Kazakhstan. In the countryside, Russian engineers are busy putting new cables on newly-erected towers to put a fresh spark into the rusty, unreliable electrical grid. On the streets of Tashkent and Dushanbe, Bollywood numbers incite local people to break into impromptu jigs. And in the war-torn dustbowls of Afghanistan, American workers are building schools and hospitals in the middle of non-stop gunfire. The Indians are doing the same, at the risk of their lives. This is the soft... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044689/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044624/posts Lots of “miscreants” in this report. “Mischief at mosques sparks protests,” from Newindpress, July 12: BANGALORE: Violence broke out in two separate areas of the city when miscreants placed severed pig’s heads inside the compounds of two mosques in Jaya Chamarajendra (JC) Nagar and Hebbal on Friday. Four police personnel including a Central Armed Reserve Police Inspector, Dayanand, and a police constable of Regulated Market Committee (RMC) Yard police station, Venkatarama T, sustained injuries while on duty trying to bring the situation under control. Police resorted to lathi-charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse violent mobs who went on... Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044624/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044502/posts Chandigarh, India (LifeNews.com) -- Seema Sood made headlines worldwide when she sought permission from the president of India for a mercy killing. As with almost every nation in the world, India prohibits euthanasia and the request of the former well-educated engineer was declined. Sood tells the Times of India she's glad her petition was rejected. Just two years ago, Sood longed for death as a rheumatoid arthritis made it so the 37-year-old lost movement in all of her limbs for a period of 15 years. Today, Sood is up and walking again, after a knee replacement surgery and she's thankful... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044502/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:55:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044145/posts Federal prosecutors are investigating Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy for allegedly falsifying records that resulted in the production and sale of generic medicines that did not meet federal standards. The government alleges officials at Ranbaxy's northern India plant used raw pharmaceutical chemicals from unapproved sources, fabricated in-house test data to meet FDA standards and attempted to conceal the ruse. The "pattern of systemic fradulent conduct," left an untold portion of the tablets and capsules too weak, too potent or lacking the advertised shelf life, said government papers filed in US District Court, Maryland. NJ.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044145/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:39:47 GMT