The pomp and ceremony with which President Barack Obama will host India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a White House state dinner on Tuesday won’t alter a perception in India that it has lost ground to China in the new Administration’s Asia policy.
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In India’s villages: No toilet, no bride
Most Indian mothers want their daughters to marry decent men who make a good living.
Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
Bridge collapses on train in Mumbai suburb
A bridge and a water pipeline collapsed on a train passing underneath in western India on Friday, killing at least one and injuring six others, police said.
Deadly train collision in India
At least nine people died and 15 were injured as two major passengers trains collided in northern India on Wednesday, a railway official said.
Shootout erupts, as Indians vote
A shootout erupted between police and Maoists, as voting was under way in a key state in western India on Tuesday, authorities said.
Suspected Maoists launch attacks in India
Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track, a bridge and fired at a bus Monday in eastern India ahead of a planned crackdown by paramilitaries and police.
Air India: Crew grounded after reported mid-air scuffle
Air India took two pilots and two cabin crew off-duty over allegations that they had a fist fight during an international flight with 106 passengers aboard, the state-run airline said Monday. The scuffle allegedly took place on flight from the United Arab Emirates to New Delhi, while the plane flew over Pakistan
The high stakes of melting Himalayan glaciers
The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding quicker than those in other parts of the world and could disappear altogether by 2035 according to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The result of this deglaciation could be conflict as Himalayan glacial runoff has an essential role in the economies, agriculture and even religions of the regions countries.
HR manager beaten to death by angry workers
Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto-parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday.