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SearchPolice arrest 2 suspects in Indian bakery blast08:27 AM, Sep 09, 2010stern India that killed 10 people earlier this year, an officer said Wednesday. One of the two Indians arrested this week has suspected links to a banned Pakistan-based Islamist rebel group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior police officer Rakesh Maria told reporters. The arrests are the first in the Feb. 13 bakery bombing. Two people posing as customers left a backpack containing the bomb in the German Bakery in Pune, 125 miles (200 kilometers)... Silicon Valley expats spur innovation in India06:43 PM, Sep 06, 2010anmen massacre; for others, it represented economic opportunity at a time of economic stagnation. Indians left for similar reasons, though less political: India's economy offered little future for the talented and ambitious, while opportunities abroad promised a better life. Seeking jobs and education, many of the best and brightest came to Silicon Valley. Powerful push-pull dynamics made California a draw. Its universities offered world-... Malaysia Muslim TV ad scrapped amid Christmas link04:13 PM, Sep 06, 2010nt Monday. Religion is a sensitive subject in this multiethnic country, where ethnic Chinese and Indians who mainly practice Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism are the largest minorities. The government has struggled in recent years to improve relations among the races following a series of grievances over racial and religious rights. Minorities say that efforts to bolster Islam have undermined their freedom to practice their faiths ami... Delhi's games preparations still face problems02:33 PM, Sep 03, 2010except for some farcical test events that were devoid of good competition. Kalmadi was confident Indians would do well as "the camps were going on well, even though at distant cities." Commonwealth Games chief Mike Fennell said on a recent visit to New Delhi that he was satisfied with security assurances, but traffic snarls posed a threat. "I hope something is done about the traffic. It needs to be systematized so that things run smoothly... Singapore PM: We'll slow inflow of foreign workers08:46 AM, Aug 30, 2010nt of Singapore's population are ethnic Chinese but there are significant minorities of Malays and Indians, and the government enforces strict public speech laws regarding race and religion to avoid conflict among groups. "Immigrants have to get along with the different communities here, different races," Lee said. "The immigrant Chinese and immigrant Indians may not be used to this. They should make the effort." Lee said the government w... India’s growing eWaste04:39 AM, Aug 30, 2010not being used every year, in addition to the millions of mobile phones being bought every year. Indians bought 930 lakh ($2m) worth of mobile phones in 2007-08. India produces 1,040 tonnes of e-Waste daily, of which an abysmal 10 tonnes is treated. If this wasn’t enough it ‘imports’ waste from richer countries. Most of these imports are not legal and usually imported as scrap. A possible 1.9 million tonnes of e-Waste is se... Taking out the trash: four questions on the spot-fixing scandal and its ramifications04:11 PM, Aug 29, 2010o partake). The Aussies punished Shane Warne and Mark Waugh for disclosing weather information. The Indians banned Azharuddin and Jadeja. What did we do? We swept everything under the carpet. Only Salim Malik was banned, and really, his career was over anyway. Everyone else involved, including guys like Wasim Akram, were given light punishments, mere slaps on the wrist, despite overwhelming evidence against them (Ata-ur-Rehman wrote a sworn affid... Japan overtakes Indonesia as biggest Twitter user in Asia11:00 AM, Aug 23, 2010ionally, much of India's growth may come from increased internet penetration which is allowing more Indians access to the Internet, therefore increasing the audience exposure, and potential userbase, of social media sites like Twitter. Note The data from comScore is by no means official or de facto for the same reasons I explained when revealing Indonesia to be the wold's biggest Twitter addict: But... It is important to consider a number of ... US denies pressuring India on Bhopal tragedy05:34 PM, Aug 21, 2010mail exchange between a U.S. official and top Indian bureaucrat reflects growing doubts among many Indians — both in the government and outside it — about the human and environmental costs of India's rapid economic growth, analysts say. The push back against big business has forced the government to strengthen safeguards in a bill to limit liability for nuclear companies in India — a crucial prerequisite for U.S. companie... Weeks out, India's Commonweath Games in crisis06:19 PM, Aug 20, 2010the allegations would be investigated after the closing ceremony. In the meantime, she called on Indians to unite behind the Games, the biggest sporting event to be held here since the 1982 Asian Games. "The prestige of the nation is involved," she said. But the event has turned into an embarrassment for a country that should be focusing instead on fixing its medical and education system and dealing with the hundreds of millions mired in... Australia refutes Comm Games boycott call09:06 AM, Aug 20, 2010nces on security, given all the delays and missed deadlines when it came to building venues. "The Indians are telling us that security will be right," Fraser said. "But they've also been telling us for months that their stadiums are ready to go too and quite obviously they're not. "I know Australia has never boycotted a Commonwealth or Olympic Games, but we're simply being told too many lies. There are now too many question marks for our ... A media trial for Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju?07:01 PM, Aug 19, 2010for too long. In most other functioning democracies, he would have been released sooner. Of course, Indians courts are loath to do so and have good reason for it. People like Raju are extremely powerful in our hierarchical, and sometimes feudal, society. They can easily tamper with the evidence and coerce witnesses. But how long is sufficiently long to hold a man and when does it become a simple human rights violation?We, even the so-called liber... Zaid Hamid blames floods on India and Afghanistan (not a joke, promise)01:25 PM, Aug 17, 2010for the heavy monsoon rains. There is every likelihood that what we are seeing today is that the Indians and the US-backed regime in Kabul are using water as a weapon for the first time to deluge Pakistan. There is no doubt about it. From an initial look at the data, it seems that a natural spill of heavy rain was exploited by releasing water reservoirs in Indian-occupied Kashmir and on river Kabul. Let’s remember that the Met O... India prime minister appeals to Kashmir protesters08:47 AM, Aug 16, 2010ing growing attacks by Maoist rebels and the need to speed up development programs for millions of Indians still mired in poverty. Singh also appealed to Maoist rebels, saying they should work with the government to speed up lagging economic development of rural areas, the main cause of the rebels' discontent. Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, the rebels have tapped into the rural poor's growing anger at being left out ... 2 Muslims jailed 5 years for Malaysia church arson03:32 PM, Aug 13, 2010who account for nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million people, and minority ethnic Chinese and Indians who mainly practice Buddhism, Christianity or Hinduism. Tensions initially rose after The Herald, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia, challenged a government ban on the use of "Allah" in its Malay-language publication. A Dec. 31 court ruling granted the paper the right to use the word. Some Muslims insist that usi... |
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