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Ford apologizes for ads featuring women bound and gagged in car driven by Silvio Berlusconi
Ford India has apologised for a series of advertisements featuring caricatures of bound and gagged women in the boot of a Figo car driven by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The advertisements for the best-selling hatchback, created by the Indian unit of global advertising giant JWT, appeared on the…
Six men to appear in India court over gang-rape of Swiss tourist
Six men were due to appear in court on Monday over the gang-rape and robbery of a Swiss cyclist holidaying in India, an assault which has raised alarm about the safety of tourists. “We have detained all the six persons and they will be produced before the magistrate after lunch…
India to give small plots of land to homeless rural poor
India’s government is drawing up a major new welfare reform which would hand small plots of land to millions of homeless poor in the countryside, reports said on Thursday. The proposed entitlement programme, which comes as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s administration is struggling to rein in the public spending deficit,…
India is Asia’s unlikely powerbroker in papal vote
India’s Catholics may account for less than two percent of the country’s population but they will be Asia’s most powerful voice in the election to choose a new pope. Five of the nine Asian cardinals who have the right to vote at the upcoming papal enclave hail from India, an…
Scientists discover traces of lost mini-continent in the Indian Ocean
Scientists said Sunday they had found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around 61-83 million years ago after Madagascar split from India, but eventually broke up and became smothered by thick lava deposits, they said. In a…
The children who work in India’s rat-hole coal mines for $4 a day
Thirteen-year-old Sanjay Chhetri has a recurring fear: that one day, the dark, dank mine where he works will cave in and bury him alive. Like thousands of children in India’s remote northeast, Chhetri begins work in the middle of the night, ready to dig pits, squat through narrow tunnels and…
Global demand for gold drops for the first time since 2009
Global demand for gold fell last year in its first tumble since 2009 as demand in leading market India slid, narrowing the gap with second-biggest buyer China, the World Gold Council said Thursday. Demand for the precious metal was 4,405.5 tonnes for the full year, down 3.85 percent from 4,582.3…
Protests erupt after India hangs Kashmiri separatist convicted of attacking parliament
A Kashmiri separatist convicted of involvement in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament was executed on Saturday in New Delhi — triggering protests on both sides of the border in disputed Kashmir. Hundreds of demonstrators rallied near the family home of Mohammed Afzal Guru in northern Indian Kashmir…
Fake tuberculosis drugs manufactured by both legitimate companies and fraudsters are rampant: survey
Africa, India and other developing countries are awash in fake or sub-standard drugs for tuberculosis, fuelling the rise of treatment-resistant strains of TB, according to a survey published on Tuesday. Investigators in the United States asked local people in 19 cities in 17 countries to purchase isoniazid and rifampicin, the…
Rising incomes fuel India’s growing appetite for meat
With German sausages, French duck breasts and homegrown chicken, Francis Menezes is cashing in on the growing appetite for meat among Indians — even in one of Mumbai’s most strictly vegetarian areas. In the upmarket neighbourhood of Malabar Hill, numerous shops, restaurants and even some apartment blocks remain meat-free. But…
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