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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

Race for land hits India’s poor farmers

November 22, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ravi Nessman The Associated Press ROZAJALALPUR, India (AP) — The farmers of Rozajalalpur knew what was coming. They saw others closer to India’s expanding capital city pushed off their land to make way for malls, apartments and offices. They saw billboards rise along nearby potholed roads and tiny sales offices sprout in the grassy […]

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Chetan Bijesure, Congress Party, Dalchand Sharma, Formula One, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, India, Leisure Park, Mumbai, National Advisory Council, New Delhi, Noida Extension, Panscheel Greens, ROZAJALALPUR, Ravi Garg, Reliance Power, Rupesh Verma, Subhash Nagar, Supreme Court, Uttar Pradesh

High food costs force Indians to do more with much less

May 6, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Food inflation that has been in the double digits for a year has had a deep impact on school lunches, family meals, and holy offerings. Anger with high prices erupted into protests

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Associated Press, Congress Party, Deepa Sinha, Eurasia Group, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Harsh Mander, India, Machimal Nagar, Mumbai, Pradip Hazra, Seema Desai, Seema Valmiki, Supreme Court, Tirupati Balaji, Uday Ghosh, Vol 29 No 19 | May 8 - May 14, West Bengal

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