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INDIA

COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2015
What can Modi learn from Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent political stumbles with regard to reform, including his failure to get a key land-acquisition bill through Parliament, are a reminder of the unruliness of India's democracy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Mar 25, 2015
Indian doctors find success in tackling hidden burden of TB
When Indian street-food seller Kumar Pal first began treatment for multidrug resistant tuberculosis two years ago, he quickly spiralled into depression and gave up hope of living.
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2015
India warns Uber, Ola over resuming taxi services
Authorities in New Delhi asked Uber Technologies Inc. and its Indian rival, Ola, on Tuesday to cease operations, saying that otherwise their applications for radio-taxi licences would not be processed, letters seen by Reuters show.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 18, 2015
Altercation, death threats at Indian school before aging nun was raped
In the days before the rape of an elderly nun in an armed assault that has shaken India, death threats and extortion attempts had already shattered the peace at her Convent of Jesus and Mary school, police and school officials say.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2015
India's growing crisis of democracy
An ambitious political experiment engineered by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party in the border state of Jammu and Kashmir — the only Muslim-majority state in India — threatens to implode within just a few days of its start.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2015
Modi's Indian Ocean tour aimed at muscling out China
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to begin a tour of three Indian Ocean countries Tuesday as he seeks to prevent China from establishing a military foothold in a region his nation has dominated for decades.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2015
Finance minister calls for public investment that enables India to meet growth ambitions
As the Indian Parliament opens opens the budget session, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls for increased public investment that enables India to meet its growth ambitions.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 4, 2015
India bans documentary about 2012 Delhi gang rape
A documentary film about the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 has been banned in India over concerns that derogatory comments made by one of the rapists could create an atmosphere of fear and tension, a police official said.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 3, 2015
Deforestation could shift monsoons, leaving India high and dry, research finds
Large-scale deforestation could cause monsoon rains to shift south, cutting rainfall in India by nearly a fifth, scientists say.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 2, 2015
Sri Lanka concerned by China loans, rules out submarine visits
Sri Lanka is concerned with the roughly $5 billion in Chinese loans it has and will send its finance minister to Beijing to discuss the issue, the foreign minister said on Saturday, as he also ruled out future Chinese submarine visits to the country.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 26, 2015
Resistant strain of swine flu feared; virus killing thousands in India
A surge in swine flu infections has killed more than 800 people in India and is challenging health workers, who say the virus is harder to treat than the type that caused a global pandemic in 2009.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 26, 2015
Europol disrupts cybercrime ring that infected millions of PCs
A cybercrime operation that stole banking information by hacking more than 3 million computers in Indonesia, India and other countries has been disrupted by European police with assistance from three technology companies, officials said on Wednesday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 22, 2015
Despite modernization drive, Indian Air Force faces humiliation
The Indian Air Force risks a major capability gap opening up with China and Pakistan without new Western warplanes or if local defense contractors cannot produce what the military needs in a timely manner.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2015
Modi bets on GM crops to feed India
On a fenced plot not far from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home, a field of mustard is in full yellow bloom, representing his government's reversal of an effective ban on field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 21, 2015
Modi's suit beats Marilyn Monroe's pink dress with $690,000 sale
Not even Marilyn Monroe's pink dress could match Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's suit.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2015
Upstart Indian party slows Modi juggernaut
Delhi voters appear ready to give the Aam Aadmi Party another chance after recent state elections. It testifies to the hard work that members of this anti-corruption upstart have done the past few months to reinstate confidence in their ability to deliver on commitments. They managed to cast the party of new Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 'establishment.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2015
Obama's lovefest with Modi
There are questions about how deep the relationship is between India and the U.S., as opposed to that between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2015
The U.S.-India nuclear breakthrough that wasn't
Nuclear power faces an uncertain future, with few new reactors under construction in the West. Yet India has continued to place the nuclear deal at the hub of its relationship with America.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2015
Indian voters allow for an upstart
Perhaps a sense of the increasing lopsidedness of political power in India explains why so many voters around the country are so keenly interested in the results of last weekend's elections in the city-state of New Delhi, involving the fledgling Aam Aadmi Party.

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