India
Roots of witch hunting in India lie in an exploitative social system
Annually, 156 women get killed in witch hunts in India's backward tribal districts, says Umar Manzoor Shah in www.ucanews.com
How East Asian car makers have changed Chennai’s taste for food
Thanks to the presence of 10,000 Korean and Japanese expats, over 50 East Asian speciality restaurants are challenging the dominance of Dosai, Idli and vadai in Chennai. By Simrit Mahli/BBC Capital Chennai, February 12:: A decade before America discovered sushi, a restaurant in a small southern India coastal city, served sashimi from local whole tuna. This small Japanese oasis, called...
Indian envoy urges Lankan entrepreneurs to partner India’s phenomenal growth
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that by 2030, India would be the third largest economy in the world.
India should shed its reserve about engaging the Taliban
New Delhi has been seeking an “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled” peace process and settlement. But India has to participate in theprocess to shape it to its needs.
Modi’s electoral prospects dim as grandiose promises remain unfulfilled
With his achievements falling woefully short of the grandiose promises he made, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing the prospect of a hung parliament or even a defeat in the May 2019 elections, a far cry from 2014.
Rajapaksa’s recipe for better Indo-Lanka relations
Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament and a former Sri Lankan President, spelt out a list of do’s and dont’s for improving relations between Sri Lanka and India at The Hindu conclave in Bengaluru.
Indian historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam shares US$ 1 million Dan David prize
UCLA Professor Subrahmanyam’s scholarship focuses on the encounters between Asians, Europeans and indigenous and colonial Americans from 1400 through 1800.
Rajapaksa urges revival of war-time Troika to manage India-Lanka relations
The Troika system under which three key officials each from India and Sri Lanka kept in touch with each other to sort out war-time issues should be revived to manage the broader relationship, Rajapaksa told The Hindu's conclave in Bengaluru.
Fate of Maldives-China FTA uncertain as Male loosens ties with Beijing
"What we suspect in all the deals made by the Yameen regime is a high level of corruption. The sovereign guarantees given to some of the big-ticket projects were two to three times the cost of the projects," a ruling party member said.
The unforgettable 1999 India-Pakistan Test match in Chennai
Delirious Pakistan players went down on their knees for the sajda. For Indian fans, Pakistan had completed a heist in full view of the ubiquitous cops. For the thousands who remained, the music had died.
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