Asia Times India, the US and nuclear proliferation
New Delhi has reacted sharply to the US placing sanctions on two Indian nuclear scientists for allegedly transferring technology for weapons of mass destruction and missile secrets to Iran. Although India rejects the charges, it fears there might be more to come, writes SULTAN SHAHIN
Outlook A tempest Of terror
Terror struck with a vengeance in the insurgency-wracked Northeast beginning on October 2, 2004, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 200 others over three consecutive days of serial bombings and gunfire, mostly on unsuspecting civilians. WASBIR HUSSAIN gives an account
India Together Science education on a slippery path
A Shanghai-based university's ranking of world universities has relegated the highly-rated Indian Institute of Science and the IITs to the bottom of its list, shattering the comfortable assumptions of Indian academics who pride themselves on their achievements. SUMMIYA YASMEEN reports
The Hindu Rebel threat in sugar heartland
If you want to see the power of the Indian politician — good and bad — you must come to the vast sugar heartland of Western Maharashtra, writes JAVED ANSARI. The state is going to the polls
Pioneer Scrap's Midas man
It's no exaggeration that there's gold in scrap dealing. Vipin Rastogi, a scrap dealer from Uttar Pradesh who began his metal trade business in old Delhi in the 1950s, is the owner of a $3 billion empire, Allied Deals, spread over New York, Dubai and Singapore, with headquarters in London, reports VINEET KHARE
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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