The 92-page report is an attempt to sell the Congress-led coalition before next year’s election. The opposition isn’t buying it
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Chinese Premier Li’s New Delhi Visit Puts Sino-Indian Ties in the Spotlight
New Delhi commuters are not among those likely to be won over by China’s new Premier during his three-day visit to the Indian capital this week. On Monday morning, rush-hour traffic ground to a sweltering halt on one of the …
After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean
In mid-April, a platoon of Chinese soldiers trooped some 20 km into territory considered India’s and pitched tents and unfurled banners. When detected by Indian forces, the Chinese refused to leave, triggering a tense three-week …
Report: There Are 3,000 Child Soldiers in India
Last year, suspected insurgents in northeast India’s Manipur state abducted three teenage boys. Despite a missing-persons complaint and a police search, they were never found. In Manipur, as well as several other Indian states, …
No Answers in Sight for India’s Diabetes Crisis
The Big B in ‘The Great Gatsby’: TIME’s Q&A with Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is India’s biggest and most-enduring movie star, with hit films ranging from Sholay in 1975 to Paa in 2009. He also hosted five seasons of the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Bachchan has a …
India: Protesters Decry Verdict on 1984 Sikh Massacre
The Rakab Ganj Sahib Sikh temple in central New Delhi stands white and gleaming against the punishing May sun. Inside its spacious guesthouse is Jagdish Kaur, a stout 76-year-old woman, who has been waging battle for the past few …
Indian Prisoner’s Death in Pakistani Jail Stirs Nationalist Furies
Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner on death row in a Pakistani jail since 1991, died on Thursday morning following severe head injuries inflicted by six fellow inmates at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail. Singh, 49, convicted for …
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India Remembers the Judge Who Helped Toughen Up Rape Laws
It is rare that a person’s legacy feels as immediately relevant as the one left behind this week by India’s former chief justice J.S. Verma
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Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions
Dozens of news vans are again camped in front of a major hospital in New Delhi, jockeying for space behind the yellow police barricades so ubiquitous in the Indian capital in recent months. Inside, the 5-year-old victim of …
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Chile’s ex-president Michelle Bachelet will run for re-election, Indian activists try to fight fake godmen and the brother of Britain’s opposition leader has announced his retirement from politics
