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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’,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. CONTACT: 0421 677 082 (Melbourne) or satimes@gmail.com
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...
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....
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...
