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India’s Supreme Court rebuked federal investigators for allowing the government to vet the findings of a probe into alleged corruption in the award of coal blocks, setting off parliament protests and demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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India’s government and opposition resolved differences over legislative changes to century-old laws on buying land for industry and roads, paving the way for parliamentary approval in the session which resumes next week.
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Indian anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare began a three-day public fast in Mumbai as parliament debated legislation to curb graft that his group of activists and opposition parties have dismissed as too weak.
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India’s government said it will create the country’s first bank exclusively for women, and set up a fund to boost female empowerment in honor of the victim of a brutal gang rape that reverberated around the world.
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Twenty-six holograms of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi strode onto stages across the Indian state last month as he sought re-election, a sample of the savvy that makes him a contender for national leader.
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Police in New Delhi used water cannons and tear gas to disperse a protesting crowd demanding tougher rape laws in India as a 23-year old woman battled for life after she was brutalized in a moving bus on Dec. 16.
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Police set up checkpoints in central New Delhi and shut several metro stations after two days of violent clashes with protesters angered by the gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a city bus.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to a parliamentary probe into the sale of mobile-phone licenses, surrendering to three months of opposition demands that had derailed legislation and eroded investor confidence.
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- India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party rallied supporters through the streets of New Delhi today to demand the government move to ease prices it says are hurting the poor.
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India will curtail its imports of Iranian oil by 20 percent, officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in New Delhi to enlist India’s help with sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran over its nuclear program.
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