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CT Nilesh

  • Bimaru: the poorest states in India awaken

    Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, once called "the sick states" have increased their development up to 11%. Orissa also has a good development (8.74%). But corruption, terrorism and Maoism is also growing because the wealth of these states is not distributed equitably, leaving very poor groups in the population.

  • Delhi launches "Love Pakistan" campaign

    A year after the terrorist attack in Mumbai and after 62 years of wars and tensions, two newspapers in India and Pakistan are asking their readers to go beyond the cliché: "People across the border are men and women like us." Series of cultural, economic, fraternal initiatives.

  • Rent-a-womb, a thriving business but a moral and legal conundrum

    Surrogate children are unable to get a nationality. Surrogate motherhood is becoming a profitable business. Women who rent out their womb get a house, medical care, food for themselves and their family as well as a mobile phone for nine months. Now the in-vitro fertilisation business is getting competitive as more than one company are involved, offering conception-to-birth services.

  • How Christian is Sonia Gandhi?

    Hindu extremists accuse her of being a “Vatican spy,” but the chairperson of the ruling UPA party coalition is very reserved about her religion. Unlike other women who were widowed by terrorism, she has rejected vengeance against those who killed her husband Rajiv; like Gladys Staines who forgave Dara Singh, the extremist responsible for burning her husband and two children to death.

  • Telangana, a new Indian state, is given go ahead

    It comprises 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh. The decision arrived at yesterday at midnight, while the leader KC Rao, champion of the cause, lay dying. Telangana Irredentism has lasted 50 years. Telangana is the poorest area. Concerns about possible divisions of other states of Indian Union.

  • The bloody network of Indian Maoists

    Continuous attacks by the Nassaliti rebels in the Indian states of so-called "red corridor". The exploitation of the claims of tribals and peasants, confrontation with the Marxist Communist Party that governs West Bengal, links with the rebels in Nepal. Indian Maoists continue their standoff with New Delhi and will not let go of 13 of the 28 states where they are present.

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