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Enviro chief challenges India on green development
Dec 13, 2010 00:00 EST
India's maverick environment minister puts green agenda at center of development debate. India's environment minister has blocked the construction of mines, power plants and dams. He's held up a new airport and describes diesel cars as criminal. He's even taken Harry Potter to task for promoting threatened owls as pets.
Enviro chief challenges India on green development
Dec 12, 2010 09:30 EST
India's maverick environment minister puts green agenda at center of development debate. India's environment minister has blocked the construction of mines, power plants and dams. He's held up a new airport and describes diesel cars as criminal. He's even taken Harry Potter to task for promoting threatened owls as pets.
Back to school for India's communist leaders
Dec 09, 2010 02:47 EST
India's communist party leaders are to be sent back to school to brush up on their Marxist ideology, a party spokesman told AFP Thursday, as the revolutionary movement struggles to retain popular support.
Indian premier's 'Mr Clean' image takes a battering
Nov 25, 2010 01:02 EST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, known as India's "Mr Clean," is battling to save his image after becoming enmeshed in a damaging telecom scandal in the twilight years of his distinguished career.
Reformist leader sweeps poll in India's Bihar state
Nov 24, 2010 09:15 EST
The reformist chief minister of Bihar, India's poorest state, swept back to power on Wednesday after trouncing his rivals in polls that punished the scandal-hit national ruling party.
Indian PM wins backing over telecoms scandal
Nov 24, 2010 09:03 EST
India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday staunchly defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against accusations he failed to act over a massive telecom corruption scandal.
Sonia Gandhi irked by criticism of Indian PM
Nov 24, 2010 06:28 EST
Sonia Gandhi chides opposition for attacks on Indian premier over telecoms scandal. The leader of India's ruling Congress Party accused the opposition of unfairly targeting the prime minister in a telecoms scandal that cost the country billions and has paralyzed Parliament.
India's Sonia Gandhi defends PM, parliament deadlocked
Nov 24, 2010 05:52 EST
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday over an alleged corruption scandal that has paralyzed parliament, quashing speculation that Singh could be forced to resign.
Corruption woes mount for India's govt
Nov 22, 2010 07:16 EST
India's ruling party struggled on Monday to defuse a giant telecom corruption scandal that has embroiled the government, stalled parliament and further tarnished the country's political class.
India PM rejects court corruption probe criticism
Nov 20, 2010 06:56 EST
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, weakened by a corruption scandal involving his sacked telecoms minister, told the Supreme Court on Saturday he had done nothing wrong and had followed correct procedures.
Indian PM under pressure over 40-billion-dollar scam
Nov 19, 2010 13:16 EST
India's parliament adjourned in uproar Friday over a massive corruption scandal that has ensnared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose popularity partly resides in his "Mr Clean" image.
Top Indian politicians resign amid corruption probes
Nov 09, 2010 08:06 EST
Ashok Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra, home to financial capital Mumbai, resigned Tuesday over his alleged role in a housing scam involving apartments reserved for widows that were sold to politicians and military officers.
Top India state minister resigns over scam
Nov 09, 2010 03:20 EST
Ashok Chavan, who only three days ago had been the first person to shake Barack Obama's hand when the US president landed in India, was directed to tender his resignation to the governor of Maharashtra.
Obama wraps up Mumbai visit, heads to Delhi
Nov 06, 2010 17:14 EDT
Obama is due to have dinner with Manmohan Singh, the former finance minister who helped open up India's economy in the 1990s and who as premier has overseen sustained growth that has become the envy of nations affected by the global slowdown.
Indian politicians get homes meant for war widows
Nov 01, 2010 10:55 EDT
India's ruling party rocked by scandal after politicians get prime flats meant for war widows. The apartments in the upscale Colaba neighborhood of Mumbai were for the noblest of causes: giving shelter to wounded Indian war veterans and the widows of those slain in battle.
India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
Oct 30, 2010 15:50 EDT
Welcome to India, Mr. Obama, land of many cell phones and not enough toilets. The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.
India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
Oct 30, 2010 15:40 EDT
Welcome to India, Mr. Obama, land of many cell phones and not enough toilets. The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.
Indian media sing praises of finished Games
Oct 15, 2010 01:41 EDT
India's newspapers lavished praise on the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Friday as they focused on a dazzling closing ceremony and India's record medals haul.
India and England neck-and-neck as end approaches
Oct 13, 2010 13:03 EDT
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and England slugged it out in the ring for the honor of being second best to Australia on Wednesday as Delhi prepared for another security lockdown to usher in the end of the Commonwealth Games.
India braces for Ayodhya mosque verdict
Sep 30, 2010 06:27 EDT
India braced for a court ruling Thursday on a bitter Hindu-Muslim dispute over a holy site that will test the secular country's often tense religious relations.
