The subprime mortgage crisis and its potential impact on US economic growth has raised concerns whether growth in India — which averaged over 9% in the last three years — will be adversely affected. The Indian economy showed signs of overheating in...

The UN Security Council has urged Burma to ensure fundamental political freedoms are respected in the 10 May referendum on a constitution. Its statement also called on the military government to allow all political actors to participate in a free, fair...

“Dalits are seen to pollute higher caste people if they come in touch with them, hence the ‘untouchables,’” the group says on its Web site. “If a higher caste Hindu is touched by, or even had a Dalit’s shadow fall...

Every so often, a grand thesis captures the world’s imagination, at least until it is swept away by events or by a newer, more plausible thesis. The latest one to do so, in policy think tanks, universities, foreign ministries, corporate boardrooms,...

With a nuclear energy deal with the United States snagged over its domestic politics, energy-hungry India hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a brief but highly symbolic visit Tuesday evening, keeping alive its prospects of securing natural...

By 2010, India will carry 60 percent of the world’s heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of the global population, according to a study released Friday. Adding to the burden is a higher incidence of the types of heart...

Nepal’s embattled King Gyanendra on Monday angrily denied speculation he will be heading into exile following a victory by former Maoist rebels in landmark elections. A statement from the royal palace rejected what it said were “malicious...

India has taken extra security measures to guarantee the success of the Olympic torch relay here, the country’s Home Ministry said on Thursday. Some 15,000 security guards were deployed along the relay route at noon and they will stay till the...

VIPUL KANT Upadhyay, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of merinews.com, began his keynote address, on the second day (Thursday, March 27) of AMIC Conference, at Brisbane, Australia, sharing his experience about Citizen Journalism. He said that his was almost a...

Mississippi could change Mumbai. If it doesn’t, expect more instances of Indian workers dumped in inhuman working and living conditions by unscrupulous recruiting agents and their clients. Mumbai is at the heart of India’s manpower export –...