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You are here: Home / Archives for Sonia Gandhi

Nod to India’s female lawmakers highlights how few there are

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — What was meant as a gesture of respect toward women ended up reminding India that it needed to improve female representation in politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for only female lawmakers to address the Indian parliament on International Women’s Day included silence — because there […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Afghanistan, Associated Press, India, International Women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reservation Bill, Shatabdi Roy, Shiv Sena, Sonia Gandhi, Sreemathi Teacher, Trinamool Congress, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, West Bengal

No release for three of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s top court on Thursday stopped the Tamil Nadu state government from releasing three of the seven prisoners serving life sentences for the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a lawyer said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Congress Party, India, Indira Gandhi, Jayaram Jayalalitha, Mohan Parasaran, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Rakesh Dwivedi, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

Condition of raped 5-year-old Indian girl improves

April 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped, and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days has improved, a doctor said Sunday, April 21 as protests continued over the authorities’ […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Party, India Gate, Meenakshi Ganguly, New Delhi, New York-based Human Rights Watch, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, South Asia, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3

Indian gang rapists charged with murder

January 5, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India — Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus nearly two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Human Rights Watch, India Indian, Indian Embassy, Jantar Mantar, Kevin Loh, Mamta Sharma, Meenakshi Ganguly, Mount Elizabeth, New Delhi, PTI, Paramjit Singh Gill, Sheila Dikshit, Singapore, Sonia Gandhi, South Asia, Vol 32 No 2 | January 5 - January 11

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