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Stop interfering in Nepal, Maoist Chief tells India

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman has asked India on Tuesday to stop interfering in the country’s internal affairs. He also threatened to launch an indefinite strike from January 24 to restore `civilian supremacy’, reports the Hindustan Times.
Addressing a rally to mark the end of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal [...]

Electricity generation = 40 % Carbon Dioxide emissions

By Julio Godoy* – IPS/TerraViva

BERLIN, Dec 7 (IPS) – Electricity is indispensable to modern life, but its generation is responsible for 40 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming and climate change.While wind and solar energy are carbon free, they are heavily dependent on weather conditions. No wind blowing or [...]

Bina Rai ‘Anarkali’ dead

Legendary actress Bina Rai, who charmed Indian audiences with her performances in Anarkali and Taj Mahal and won a Filmfare award for Ghunghat, died of a heart attack in her Mumbai home on Sunday, reports IANS. She was 78.
Bina was married to actor Prem Nath, who was well-known filmmaker Raj Kapoor’s brother-in-law. She is survived [...]

A year after Mumbai

By J. Sri Raman
On November 26, 2009, India marks the anniversary of a nightmare. Around 9.30 p.m. this day last year began the terrorist strike in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a tragedy watched on the television by the rest of the country and etched in its memory ever since. We can look back upon the event [...]

Big support for jailed Iranian journalist

Roxana Saberi
BERKELEY, California, Apr 20 (IPS) – Since Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in prison last week on the charge of spying for foreign governments, human rights and press freedom groups have become increasingly critical of the political nature of her case and the harsh and unprecedented penalty.
In a [...]

Indian Election Results on May 16, 2009

Click www.southasiatimes.com.au for counting reports and results on May 16 direct from India
By Rajiv Sharma in New Delhi.
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DMK dumps LTTE

The DMK supported the LTTE for many years. But with LTTE’s fortunes declining in Sri Lanka, in an about turn it has dumped the LTTE. Ground realities and changing political equations in India and Sri Lanka seem to have made the DMK change policy on the issue. Here is a related news item from the [...]

Indo-Pak civil society mounts peace offensive

By Rita Manchanda
NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (IPS) – A visit to India by a delegation of civil society activists from Pakistan as part of a ‘peace offensive’ is expected to help keep the two South Asian neighbours from going to war over the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on Mumbai city.
The Jan. [...]

Analysis: Cleaning up after the Satyam scam

By Praful Bidwai

The Satyam scandal has been wrongly called “India’s Enron”, after the gigantic fraud at the US energy-trading company, which came to light in 2001 and became a metaphor for corporate crime. In fact, the Satyam scam is much bigger in absolute magnitude and likely impact. The amount stolen from Enron was Rs 2,866 [...]

First death anniversary of Benazir assassination: Mystery of her killing remains

By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: As millions of PPP supporters across the country mark the first death anniversary of their leader Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, mystery still surrounds the manner in which she was killed, the motive for the assassination and the identity of the mastermind of the attack that rocked the country.

Except that [...]