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India is emerging as the world centre of hunger and malnutrition, a report by Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust, says.
The trust says that there are more than 200 million people - or one-in-four Indians - going without enough to eat.
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Almost 150 women living in the Maldives face a public flogging for indulging in extra-marital sex after being convicted by the Muslim country’s conservative courts. Around 50 men also face the punishment.
Earlier this month, an 18-year-old woman...
About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times.
The death toll will add to concerns...
The media write about drought and starvation in Orissa, the channels show a grim picture of agriculture here — and our employers in Gujarat use this to depress our wages,” says Bikala Swain reproachfully. “The malik says: ‘I know you have...
Officials in Indonesia say they hold little hope for the miners still buried underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in West Sumatra.
At least 17 people are now said to have died in the explosion, with 23 others feared dead below ground.
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Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, arrested for allegedly raping his domestic help at his residence, was remanded to police custody till June 18 by a local court.
Ahuja, arrested early this morning, was produced before a magistrate’s court in suburban...
India has agreed to pull its troops out of inhabited areas of Kashmir for the first time in almost 20 years, one of its boldest moves yet to resolve the issue at the core of its dispute with neighbouring Pakistan.
It has also agreed to review a hugely...
UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India
slum-free in five years with President Pratibha Patil
announcing the launch of a special housing scheme for urban poor and slum-dwellers.
Aiming to “create a slum free...
Expressing distress at the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Vienna, government on Monday said it was in touch with Austrian authorities to ensure that those guilty of violence in the gurdwara there were brought to book and asked the people of Punjab to...
India’s ‘Fourth Front’ fell flat on its face in the current Lok Sabha elections.
The combine of Lalu, Paswan and Mulayam, which had boasted that the Congress could not come to power without its support, on May 16 found itself in a shambles,...
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