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protests in New Delhi Dauphine Island In an editorial in the Times mourning the gruesome circumstances of the death of the 23-year old Delhi woman in a Singapore hospital where she had been taken for treatment, they called it an “unspeakable crime,” which seemed the perfect phrase for so much of what we are living [...] protest against foreign retail gaints in India earlier this year Quito Though I could find no information in the US-based press, the stalemate in the Parliament in India was finally broken yesterday after a week long stalemate centered on the parliamentarians’ opposition to the Government’s action to unilaterally modify foreign direct investment restrictions in multi-brand [...] India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh New Orleans Desperate to hold onto power with national elections coming in 2013 and beset by crises over coal, telecom, and slowing growth, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced modifications in foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, potentially paving the way for Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro, and other multi-national companies [...] rooftop picture of slum in Dharavi, Mumbai Mumbai Registering slums and settlements is very important business in India. Being a registered slum gives both immediate benefits and potentially some future entitlements. Immediately there are things like water, not just the tanks making the delivery, but a commitment from the city that ends in standpipes and [...] ITO shelter today Bengaluru The Commonwealth Games are the old British Empire’s continued footprint in the former colonies every several years as athletes’ troop in between the Olympics, and when India hosted the games for the first time in Delhi in the fall of 2010, this was to be a star turn for the city on [...] |
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