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New Delhi on lockdown after violent gang-rape riots
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm on Monday after a weekend of riots left large swaths of New Delhi on police lockdown and all public transportation at a standstill. According to the Wall Street Journal, men and women filled the streets on Saturday and Sunday calling for harsher…
India rocked by deadly protests over sex attacks
Police shot dead a journalist Sunday during a protest over a sex assault on an actress in northeast India as security forces in New Delhi fired tear gas at new demonstrations over a student’s gang-rape. After the victim of last Sunday’s gang-rape in Delhi began recounting her ordeal to police,…
Watch: Gang rape protests in India escalate as cops fire water cannons
Indian police on Saturday tear-gassed, baton-charged and fired water cannon at demonstrators in the sixth and most violent day of protests against the brutal gang-rape of a student last weekend. Thousands of protesters, most of them college students, rallied at the India Gate monument in the heart of the Indian…
Rape outcry shines light on India’s ‘misogyny’
Despite an outpouring of anger at a student’s gang-rape, observers say misogyny remains widespread in India where sex assaults are often dismissed as “teasing” and victims find themselves blamed for attacks. The Sunday night assault on a bus in New Delhi, which left the 23-year-old victim fighting for her life,…
New law to ban India’s ‘untouchable’ toilet cleaners
With both hands holding the basket of human excrement on her head, widowed grandmother Kela walks through a stream of sewage, up a mound of waste and then dumps the filth while cursing. “Nobody even pays us a decent wage!” she spits as she rakes mud and rubbish over her…
India’s public health system has collapsed: minister
India’s rural development minister said Friday the country’s public health system had “collapsed” in a blunt assessment of his government’s failure to extend a social safety net for the poor. Jairam Ramesh, known as a maverick with often outspoken views, stressed that 70 percent of spending on health was out…
40 whales die in mass stranding on west coast of India
About 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India’s remote North Andaman island in the Bay of Bengal, wildlife officials said on Thursday. “The short-finned pilot whales were found by fishermen who alerted us and investigations show it was a case of mass stranding,” said…
Starbucks launches first storefront in India
Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, launched its first Indian outlet Friday in an upscale part of Mumbai, becoming the latest global firm to tap the urban youth’s growing taste for caffeine. The Seattle-based firm has finally entered the vast Indian market in a joint venture with the country’s giant…
World ministers meet for crunch biodiversity talks
More than 70 environment ministers meet in India on Wednesday for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth’s natural resources, under pressure to put up money to match their political pledges. The high-level gathering comes two years after UN countries agreed at a conference in Japan to reverse by…
Starbucks to open first outpost in tea-loving India
Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, said Friday it will open its first outlet in India next month as it seeks to tap the beverage’s growing popularity in a country famed for its love of tea. Seattle-based Starbucks, which has eyed the Indian market for years, has chosen to launch…
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