Tag: India

Designs for Power

Paula Deitz · June 23, 2014 4:00 am

Top NY prosecutor confronts criticism from India

Larry Neumeister · June 22, 2014 3:43 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 file photo, a Greenpeace activist jumps to catch a thread tied to balloons during a protest against the imprisonment of the group's activists and freelance journalists in New Delhi, India. India is cracking down on foreign-funded charities after receiving an internal report alleging they are costing the country up to 3 percent of its GDP by rallying communities against polluting industries. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India cracking down on foreign-funded charities

Katy Daigle · June 19, 2014 12:38 pm

In this June 4, 2014 photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left in front, interacts with bureaucrats before their meeting in New Delhi, India. The top civil servants in in India's labyrinthine bureaucracy these days, are spending their evenings paging through dictionaries, frantically looking up words. The dictionary searches stem from an order by new Prime Minister Modi: All official work must now be done in Hindi, the language spoken by about 45 percent of India's 1.2 billion people. In a country with as many as 22 official languages many question Hindi's dominance. (AP Photo)

Indian bureaucrats scramble for Hindi dictionaries

Nirmala George · June 19, 2014 7:30 am

FILE - In this May 17, 2014 file photo, then-India's next Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India. Police in southern India arrested seven people, including four students, and charged them with defaming the country's new Prime Minister Modi in a college magazine, officials said Friday, June 13, 2014. The arrests came after an annual student magazine at the Government Polytechnic College in Kerala state included a photo of Modi in a collage of what it called "Negative faces." (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

7 charged with defaming India’s new prime minister

Nirmala George · June 13, 2014 12:15 pm

Indian IT outsourcer Infosys names new CEO

Indian IT outsourcer Infosys names new CEO

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 11:47 am

FILE - In this Monday, June 9, 2014 file photo, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, sits with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right during their meeting in New Delhi, India. Amid fierce disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, China is reaching out in a friendly way to India in a warming trend that could help ramp up economic exchanges and dissipate decades of distrust between the two giant neighbors. (AP Photo, File)

China cultivates India amid tension with neighbors

Christopher Bodeen · June 11, 2014 12:28 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 file photo, head of Sahara India conglomerate Subrata Roy speaks to the media as he arrives at the Supreme Court for a hearing in New Delhi, India. India's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Indian tycoon accused of a multibillion dollar fraud to be released from jail and allowed house arrest. Roy has been jailed since the end of February on charges that his company failed to return billions of dollars to investors. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Top court rejects bail plea of Indian tycoon

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 11:25 am

‘Improving U.S.-India Trade Relations’

‘Improving U.S.-India Trade Relations’

Daniel Halper · June 4, 2014 10:30 am

A Hindustan Motors Ambassador is parked with other vehicles in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, May 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Ambassador and the post office

Thomas Sowell · June 3, 2014 2:42 pm

Members of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Police arrested a third suspect and hunted for two others Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in Katra village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a case that has prompted national outrage. The placard reads 'Arrest all accused in the gang rape." (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian gang rape case highlights lack of toilets

Biswajeet Banerjee · June 3, 2014 11:19 am

Women activists of Bharatiya Janata Party, flag seen top, face police water cannons as they demonstrate outside the office of Uttar Pradesh state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding that he crack down on an increasing number of rape and other attacks on women and girls, in Lucknow, India, Monday, June 2, 2014. Police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women who were protesting Monday against a rise in violence against women in the northern Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped last week and later found hanging from a tree. (AP Photo)

Gang rape reflects India’s immense cultural divide

Tim Sullivan · June 2, 2014 4:38 pm