India urges developed nations to return to the negotiating table to work out a new global trade deal — but only if they are willing to give.
The Ambani brothers are battling again — this time over a deal being negotiated by the younger sibling Anil to create a telecoms behemoth.
India’s top cellular company, Bharti Airtel, on Saturday called off merger talks with MTN, branding the ownership structure proposed by the flagship South African mobile firm ”completely unacceptable”. The merger would have created the world’s sixth-largest mobile company with a network of 130-million subscribers.
India paid homage with full pomp and honour on Friday to the ”martyrs” who battled British rule 150 years ago in the country’s ”first war of independence”. Thousands of flag-waving marchers shouting ”Jai Hind”, or ”Long live India”, converged on the Mughal-built Red Fort in Old Delhi after retracing the route of rebellious soldiers.
It was a jail sentence long overdue in the battle to save India’s ”missing girls,” say women’s rights activists. Twelve years after the country enacted laws to curb the killing of female feotuses, an Indian judge handed out the first prison terms against two medical practitioners this week.
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/ 27 December 2005
Fisheries inspector Muntasir Rah beams proudly as he struggles to hold steady a net full of thrashing trout at a hatchery in insurgency-racked Indian Kashmir. And when peace finally returns to the revolt-hit Himalayan region, he hopes anglers from around the world will take the bait and come back to fish for what he calls his "brown beauties".
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/ 19 December 2004
India’s textile and garment makers are cranking up capacity ahead of the lifting of global import quotas at the end of this year as they seek to cash in on a market in which the sky will be the limit. India is expected to be one of the winners of the phasing out of three-decade-old rules that have curbed exports of textiles and clothing from poor nations.
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/ 26 October 2004
Modern-day Indian English or ”Hinglish”, as the variety of English spoken in India is called, has a distinct time-capsule flavour — harking back to the days of the British Raj. Phrases that are dying out elsewhere remain in common parlance on the subcontinent, where ”sleuths nab” their man, ”miscreants abscond,” youths engage in ”tomfoolery” and politicians say their opponents speak ”balderdash”.