South Asia
Climate change exacerbating Kashmir crisis?
Renewed fighting between India and Pakistan across the Line of Control in Kashmir follows devastating floods in the divided region, which have deepend local anger.
Tag: India
South Asia
India PM facing human rights suit in US
Survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms filed a class action lawsuit against India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a US district court under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
South Asia
Coup for Delhi in Sino-Indian space race
India's Mars orbiter arrives at the red planet just days after NASA's latest probe. These missions are less about "science" than geopolitics on Earth—the New Cold War with China.
South Asia
India: Qaeda sees fertile ground for sectarian war
Ayman al-Zawahri's announcement of "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" comes amid growing attacks on Muslims in Northeast India as well as Burma and Bangladesh.
South Asia
India: high court rules coal mining licenses illegal
India's Supreme Court ruled that all coal mining licenses awarded between 1993 and 2010 are illegal, citing corruption in the approval process. Over 200 licenses may be cancelled.
Southern Cone
BRICS nations plan new development bank
Five large non-Western economies are planning a new development bank, but activists say the bank's impact will depend on the ability of the countries' populations to mobilize.
South Asia
India: condemn Maoist assassination of journalist
Outrage is mounting in India against the killing of journalist Sai Reddy—at the hands of Maoist guerillas, even though police had portrayed him as a Maoist sympathizer.
South Asia
India: tribal people expel mining company
In a vote ordered by India's courts, the Dongria Kondh tribe overwhelmingly rejected plans by British mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine on their lands.
South Asia
India: ethnic strife spreads across northeast
Ethnic Naga and Kuki militants in Manipur state are blocking roads to press demands for local autonomy, while Adivasi tribal peoples raised barricades in Assam and Nagaland states.
South Asia
India: Gorkha separatists block tea exports
A general strike called by Gorkha separatists in West Bengal has brought production of the world-famous Darjeeling tea to a halt to demand creation of “Gorkhaland.”
South Asia
Uttarakhand disaster portends ‘Himalayan tsunamis’
The devastating floods in India's Uttarakhand state are being called a "Himalayan tsunami"—and a grim omen for millions living downstream from the world's highest range.
Afghanistan
ISI behind Taliban attack on Indian consulate?
Delhi had apparently warned its ambassador in Kabul of an impending attack plotted in Pakistan—immediately before the assault on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.