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  • India's Maoist Insurgency Grinds On

    An inflexible guerrilla group's endless carnage.

  • Indian Communist Insurgents Assert Resilience With Ambush

    An ambush of political leaders in central India that killed 27 people underscored the resilience of the nation’s left-wing guerrilla movement four years into a government offensive to stamp out the insurgency.

  • Police Fire on Farmers Protesting Land Acquisition for Posco Steel Project

    Posco ’s plan to set up a $12 billion steel plant in India received a setback after police opened fire on local farmers protesting the government’s move to acquire agricultural land for the project.

  • Coal Strike Looms as Workers Protest Stake Sale: Corporate India

    Coal India Ltd.’s employees plan to go on an indefinite strike should the government proceed with a plan to raise 200 billion rupees ($3.7 billion) selling shares in the world’s biggest producer of the fuel.

  • India's Maoist Menace

    Armed rebels hold the Red Corridor, a region the size of Portugal, in their grip. The nation’s mineral wealth and 8.5 percent annual growth are at stake.

  • Maoists in India Blow Up Pipelines, Putting $78 Billion at Risk

    At the heart of the Bailadila Hills in central India lie 1.1 billion tons of raw ore so pure and plentiful that half a century after miners first hacked at it with pickaxes, it remains the richest, and one of the largest, iron deposits on the planet.

  • Government Paranoia Leads to Jailing for Cartoon in India

    States are granted the power to arrest or detain citizens. It follows that governments, which represent the state but are congregations of human actors, should exercise extreme self-restraint in depriving human beings of their liberty, and in particular never use the state's power to settle personal scores.

  • India Is Said to Get Query on Wal-Mart Investments

    An Indian lawmaker has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office, questioning whether Wal- Mart Stores Inc. violated rules while making Indian investments, according to a commerce ministry official in New Delhi, who asked not to be identified because he isn’t authorized to speak on the subject.

  • Singh Push to Revive Wal-Mart Entry Plan Hit by Fresh Opposition

    The ruling party of India’s most populous state and communist groups advised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against reviving plans to allow overseas companies to open supermarkets, a move already opposed by a key government ally. Shares of local retailers fell.

  • India Gets Another Chance to Succeed

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to the country on television last week, amid national protests over unexpectedly bold economic reforms his government had just announced. A coalition partner has defected, leaving Singh without a majority in Parliament, so the prospects for his proposals aren’t good.

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