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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

Providing more than just hope for rural Indian adolescent girls

November 13, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Poverty restricts options.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, World News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, China, Cooch Behar, Girls Project, James Tabafunda, Land Rights, Melany Grout, Northwest Asian Weekly, Photo Landesa, Poor Indian, Rena Singer, Vol 33 No 47 | November 15 - November 21, West Bengal, poverty

Indian girl trapped in life of cigarette rolling

March 24, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ravi Nessman The Associated Press DHULIYAN, India (AP) — Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Alea Bibi, DHULIYAN, India, Mahmood Ansari, Manu Seikh, Mrutyunjay Sarangi, Ranjan Choudhary, Umesh Parekh, Vol 31 No 13 | March 24 - March 30, West Bengal, poverty

Health officials say India is close to wiping out polio

October 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has not had a case of polio in nine months, raising hopes the country is on the verge of defeating the disease, health officials said Monday, Oct. 24.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Afghanistan, Asia, Australia, Europe, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, India, Nata Menabde, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rod Curtis, UNICEF, Uttar Pradesh, Vol 30 No 44 | October 29 - November 4, WHO, West Bengal, World Health Organization, World Polio Day

Happy New Year (in April)! — A spotlight on Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Cambodia’s new year celebrations

April 21, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Unlike the Gregorian calendars that start the year on Jan. 1, most South Asian countries use lunisolar calendars that start the year at the beginning of spring.

Filed Under: Cultures Tagged With: 2011, Aluth Avurudu, Bangladesh, Bisket Jatra, Cambodia, Chaul Chnam Thmey, Happy New Year, Khmer New Year, Moha Sangkran, Mughal Emperor Akbar, Nepal, Pohela Boishakh, Sakyamuni Satya, Sinhala New Year, South Asian, Sri Lankans, Thailand, Vol 30 No 17 | April 23 - April 29, West Bengal

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

Indian farmers who cashed out struggle with riches

June 25, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sam Dolnick The Associated Press MUNIMPUR, India (AP) — For generations, the men of Munimpur worked in their sun-baked wheat fields, rising before dawn to till the same soil their grandfathers plowed.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Harish Harit, India, MUNIMPUR, Naresh Singh, New Delhi, Reliance Industries, Samunder Singh Sharma, Saurabh Singh, Subhram Gulia, United States, West Bengal, Zile Singh, vol 28 no 27 | June 27 - July 3

India’s Tata Motors to launch $2,000 Nano

March 26, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Kinetz The Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Tata Motors is launching its snub-nosed, $2,000 Nano on Monday — a vehicle meant to put car ownership within reach of millions of the world’s poor.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2011, Angel Broking, Ford Motor Co, Geneva Motor Show, India, Mario Jonsamuel, Mumbai, Nano Europa, Tata Motors, United States, Vaishali Jajoo, West Bengal

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