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India village fears being swallowed by the earth : "It's a criminal waste of nonrenewable resources, crony capitalism at its worst," said Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a journalist who made a documentary film on the area. "It's really the story of India's ugly underbelly." Starting in 1996, the government ... Los Angeles Times

Schedule change creates ticketing snafu for Mongolian fans : LONDON -- Unhappiness with the ticket resale system for the London Games reached the boiling point Monday afternoon after hundreds of Mongolians , some who'd traveled here from Mongolia , learned that a schedule change meant they could not see the ... USA TODAY

Armenia's minimum consumer basket has reduced : YEREVAN. – The minimum consumer basket in Armenia constitutes AMD 53000, in terms of average prices in April-June 2012, the National Statistical Service informs. Also according to the same source, the monthly food basket is AMD 30000. The April-June ...

Advanced drug smuggling methods : In short, drug curtails in Latin America have large sums of money. Their task is to promote drugs on the new markets such as South-East Asia , China, Russia and European countries. In short, they are targeting countries with large populations, where ... The Voice of Russia

Why India Has These Massive Power Blackout Problems : But corruption also largely contributes to India's power shortages. A report from the Herald Net points out that "transmission and distribution losses in some states are as much as 50 percent because of theft and corruption by employees in the power ... Business Insider

Anti-Putin Band Goes to Trial : MOSCOW —Three members of a feminist punk band pleaded not guilty in a trial that has become a nationally watched landmark in the struggle between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and an emboldened protest movement against him. The drawn-out ... Wall Street Journal

India's fight against rebels also hurts activists trying to better lives ... It said police demanded activists serve as informers and those that refused were accused of supporting the Maoists. Sedition laws are used to curtail free speech and concoct criminal cases to lock up critics of the government. The Indian Home Ministry ...

Mott MacDonald supports financing of US$100 million Mongolian wind farm : The US$100 million onshore wind farm is the country's first independently developed power project and is the first project of any type within Mongolia to be financed by international project finance. It will comprise of 31 General Electric 1.6 XLE wind ...

Belarus Officials Fired Over 'Bear Drop' : Some agencies reported earlier this month that on July 4, a private Swedish plane flew over Belarus from neighboring Lithuania and dropped a number of teddy bears on the capital, Minsk, accompanied by texts supporting Belarusian dissidents and the ... RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Rights group: India's Maoist fight hurts activists : p><p>"Local authorities should act on specific evidence of criminal activity, not a blanket assumption that critics of the state are supporting Maoist violence," said Ganguly. "The national government needs to step in and bring an end to ... NEW DELHI ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Armenian opposition bloc may disappear as political factor - Heritage : This is also based on the possible cooperation between the ANC and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), which brings forward dissatisfaction of a group of politicians, involved in the bloc. In response to possible cooperation between the ANC and ...

India needs professional blueprint to combat corruption: Basu : India needs professional blueprint to combat corruption : Basu New Delhi: Amid the ongoing protests by civil society to enact effective Lokpal Bill, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu on Tuesday said the country needs to draw a professional blueprint ...

Diaspora-Armenian university students visit UN : The objective of this internship is to familiarize the Armenian graduate-year students from the universities of a variety of countries with Armenia's priorities in the UN, the Armenian delegations' activities, UN programs in Armenia , and the activities ...

Tibet: Festival To Help Hundreds Of Displaced People : The Tibetan Cultural Society of BC and Tsengdok Monastery announced on Friday, July 27 that proceeds from the third annual Tibet Festival of Vancouver will benefit the Tibetan Canadian Resettlement Project, an unprecedented humanitarian initiative by ... UNPO

Russian opposition leader served with criminal charge : MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators charged opposition blogger and protest leader Alexei Navalny with theft on Tuesday, threatening one of President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken opponents with a 10-year jail sentence. The federal Investigative ...

Tibet to follow India path to freedom : Addressing a press meet here on Monday during his visit to Gurupura Tibetan settlement in Hunsur taluk, he opined that India and Tibet being live examples of freedom struggle, are following Gandhiji's principles, ideologies in their fight for independence. Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

China Dismisses US Religious Freedom Report : China says the self-immolators, many of whom call for the freedom of Tibet , are "splittists" who are inspired by their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. "These incidents were in fact politically motivated, as they were part of the Dalai Lama ...

'India had to enter into pacts with foreign countries for uranium' : When asked to suggest ideas to make India a corruption -free nation, he replied that apart from a strong Lokpal Bill, children could play a vital role. Using love and affection as a tool, children could influence their parents to eliminate corruption ... The Hindu

'Team Toe' duo drive 10000 miles to Mongolia for SOS Children With no support staff, translators or mechanics, the team must rely on their own luck, resources and skills to reach Mongolia in the best time possible. Since the annual Mongol rally began in 2004, over 6000 adventurers have made the arduous journey ...

Ukraine turns to Chinese cash : Although it is likely to take months of talks to agree on the details of the projects to be financed by China, this can be roughly compared in scale to the volume of loans that Ukraine received from international financial institutions in 2008-2010 ...

Pakistan looks for change : Pakistani nation has been victimized by the foreign mercenaries, causing daily bloodbaths of innocent civilian population engulfed with sectarian violence, destroyed businesses and trades and installing corrupt political elite to wage war against their ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

India anti-graft activist begins new hunger strike : Government-proposed legislation to create a corruption ombudsman — which Hazare has called weak and ineffective — passed the lower house of Parliament last year but is now stalled in the upper house. Hazare tapped into public anger over a series of ... CBS News

Bollywood superstar takes on real crusades in TV chat show : MUMBAI (Reuters) - Over the last decade Aamir Khan has saved villagers from an oppressive tax, led a movement against corruption , educated parents about learning disabilities and fought India's flawed education system. But that was all in the movies.

Wage war against corruption from homes, Kalam tells children : Former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has told the children to take up a fight against corruption from their homes itself by striving for transparency in everything they and their other family members do. Speaking after presenting State-level ... The Hindu