Asia Times Muslims grapple with winds of change
Muslims in India are struggling to keep pace with orthodoxy on one side and modernity on the other, writes AMULYA GANGULI
Times of India France on edge
A wave of anger swept across France in the second week of July when a 23 year old French woman narrated her harrowing experience on the platform of an underground station in Paris. DILEEP PADGAONKAR reports
Business Standard Chasing Manhattan
Why is StanChart investing so much in Manhattan? A look at how the credit card industry has been shaping up in India will explain why. From six million cards in 2002, the industry has grown to touch 10 million this year. By 2010, the Indian market will have 35 million credit cards, writes PRASAD SANGAMESHWARAn
Asia Times Populist shock for India's power utilities
Politicians in India have decided farmers need free power. Many states have introduced the scheme, but won't compensate their power utilities for the losses, pushing them deeper into the red. None of this augurs well for the country's much-touted power reforms, KUNAL KUMAR KUNDU
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
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