KATHMANDU – At least a third of the ice in the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush will thaw this century as temperatures rise, disrupting river flows vital for growing crops from China to India, scientists said on Monday. Vast glaciers make the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region – […]
MUMBAI – India’s cane farmers are owed 200 billion rupees ($2.8 billion) by sugar mills in the world’s second-biggest producer of the sweetener as refined sugar prices have fallen below the cost of production, a leading trade body said on Monday. Farmers in key cane-growing states are protesting […]
KOLKATA, India – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led a sit-in on Monday in a standoff with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over a corruption investigation she condemned as a vendetta, as political tension rises ahead of a general election. Banerjee began the protest overnight in the […]
NEW DELHI – P.C. Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for the Indian government. But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that […]
Colombo, Feb 4: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday said he is opposed to forming a national government only to expand the Cabinet of ministers, indicating that his rift with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was far from over. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe-led government on Friday sought the consent of […]
Mumbai, Feb 4: Anil Kapoor became a part of history when the Indian cast-led “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Oscars in 2009 but the actor remembers the eve of the ceremony for being scolded by his wife. Directed by Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” received 10 nominations at the 81st Academy […]
Kolkata, Feb 4: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of having snatched farmers’ sleep and while referring to the sops announced in the interim Budget on Friday claimed that the peasants were being cheated before the general elections. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress […]
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TEHRAN : — Forty years after he defected from the shah’s Imperial Guard to join the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Reza Tajik, like many Iranians from that time, looks back wistfully at the youthful excitement they felt and the losses they suffered since then. Working in his woodshop in […]
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