Nuclear-Armed India and Pakistan Face Off in Renewed Escalation

02-26-2019 • https://www.bloombergquint.com by Iain Marlow

It's the biggest escalation between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals in decades and with a bitterly contested national election in India just weeks away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was quick to exploit his military's air strikes on a terrori

Lockheed Martin Unveils "Made In India" F-21 Fighter Jet

02-22-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-21/lockheed

Lockheed Martin offered India on Wednesday a new multi-role fighter jet, the F-21, in an attempt to secure a large defense order worth $15 billion, reported Reuters. The American defense company said the new plane will be specifically designed and ma

Satellite Images Reveal China Is Building Secret War Bunkers Near Indian Border

01-22-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has constructed a new, underground facility (UGF) about 31 miles from the India-China border, and 37 miles from the Indian Army's forward posts at Demchok in Ladakh.

Now India Tries Universal Basic Income For 600K Citizens

01-18-2019 • https://www.technocracy.news, BY: NIHA MASIH

High in the Himalayas, Sikkim is one of the tiniest states in India. But it is about to embark on an experiment of global interest.

India: Crypto-users have found a hack to keep their bank accounts from getting shut

01-16-2019 • https://ambcrypto.com

The Indian banks are shutting accounts found to be involved in crypto trading and there has been an increase in such cases. However, the crypto users in the country have found a way to avoid the shut down of their account and still trade in crypto, r

A Workers' Struggle in India to 'Make the Land Proud' as Global Unrest Spreads

01-15-2019 • Vijay Prashad

Over two days-Jan. 8 and 9-more than 160 million workers went on strike in India. This has been one of the largest general strikes in the world. The workers, exhausted by almost three decades of neoliberal policies and by the attack on their righ

Search Delhi Police cop's son 'assaults' Safdarjung hospital staff, services affect

01-13-2019 • Hindustan Times

Emergency services at the Safdarjung Hospital were hit after resident doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital went on strike on Sunday following an assault on a doctor by a patient who happens to be son of a Delhi Police head constable. Police have reg

Neither reservations nor agitation dispel gloom among workers in Delhi's industrial areas

01-11-2019 • Anumeha Yadav

At 9 am on Tuesday, instead of starting work at the assembly line, men stood in huddles outside several factories in Delhi's Okhla industrial area. It was the first day of a two-day general strike called by 10 central trade unions, planned just mon

Trade unions claim success in two-day all-India strike

01-09-2010 • ET Bureau

Trade unions claimed their two-day nationwide strike call was a success with 20 crore workers, from both the organised and the unorganised sectors across banking, insurance, roads, railways, postal and medical services participated in the 'Bharat B

Sabarimala temple: Indian women form '620km human chain' for equality

01-02-2019 • https://www.bbc.com

Women in the southern Indian state of Kerala have formed a 620km (385-mile) human chain "in support of gender equality", amid a row over access to a prominent Hindu temple.

India tries to build a world-class city from scratch, and looks to Singapore for help

12-21-2018 • www.heraldmailmedia.com, By Shashank Bengali

AMARAVATI, India -- On a wide stretch of land bisected by India's Krishna River, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, guavas and commercial flowers once sprung from dark soil that people described as a farmer's paradise.

India to Pay for Russian S-400 Air Defense System in Rubles

11-01-2018 • https://russia-insider.com,

Transaction worth $5.4 billion

Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age

11-01-2018 • arclein

Even some left-leaning writers have recently argued that Gandhi must fall. In "The South African Gandhi" (2015), Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed depict him as a pro-British lawyer, who worked within the country's white-supremacist politics to pro

Multi-Polar Political Project Pushed Forward by Putin In India

10-12-2018 • LewRockwell.Com - Thomas Luongo

I have to wonder when Russian President Vladimir Putin sleeps. He's busier than any other leader, traveling the globe while consistently changing the board state geopolitically.

India quietly seals missile deal with Russia despite U.S. warning

10-05-2018 • Vladimir Soldatkin, Sanjeev Miglani

India agreed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 surface to air missile systems on Friday, the two sides said, as New Delhi disregarded U.S. warnings that such a purchase could trigger sanctions under U.S. law.

Snap: India's Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional

10-01-2018 • https://www.technocracy.news, BY: NICHOLAS WEST

As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached.

Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation

10-01-2018 • https://www.bbc.com

The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India's western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur re

491,000 Children Paralyzed Over 17 Years, Indian Polio Vaccine Program Study Suggests

09-17-2018 • http://www.greenmedinfo.com, Jefferey Jaxen

The WHO declared India "polio free" in May 2014, so why are close to half a million young Indians experiencing polio-like paralysis?

India Diversifying Reserves Away From Dollar, Buying up Gold

09-12-2018 • https://russia-insider.com, RT

As US threatens sanctions over S-400 purchase India's dollar holdings decline even as total reserves grow

Landmark India ruling ends gay sex ban

09-06-2018 • https://www.france24.com

India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on gay sex after a decades-old campaign against a colonial-era law used to hold back LGBT rights.

India Accepts Oil From Iranian Tankers: First Major Crack in Trump Sanctions

09-04-2018 • https://moneymaven.io

India puts the first major crack in Trump's Iranian sanction play. What's next? Reuters reports India allows state refiners to use Iran tankers, insurance for oil imports.

India revolting against colonization by Technology Giants

09-03-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

India internet is dominated by American technology giants.

China, USA and India will compete for Asia Region Dominance in 2030s and beyond

09-01-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

The Lowy Institute looks at economic, cultural, military and other factors of power in Asia.

Indian Women More Bullish On Crypto than Men, Invest Twice As Much

06-29-2018 • https://news.bitcoin.com

Despite being a minority among crypto investors, just like anywhere else, women in India actually spend on cryptocurrency twice more than men do. A newly released survey also found that the majority of Indian crypto users live in big cities like Delh

India and World's economic problem of people with IQ below 83

06-21-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, By brian wang

Jordan Peterson described how the US military determined that people with an IQ below 83 (1 in 10 people in the USA) could not be trained for anything at any level of the organization that was not counter-productive.

India and China Announce The "Oil Buyers Club"

06-18-2018 • https://www.corbettreport.com

I've been looking at some of the globalist summits around the world lately but here's one that slipped under the radar: the International Energy Forum. The IEF's 16th bienniel energy ministers meeting took place in New Delhi this past April and

US expert caution Beijing "India Has One Of The Most Powerful Militaries In The World"

06-13-2018 • arclein

The second problem is that India would immediately seize Tibet. This puts any real fighting far to the north out in the deserts. Again India would retain short supply lines been quickly upgraded while China would be operating at a long distance acr

Indian Government Considering 18% Retroactive Tax on Crypto Trading, Mining

05-24-2018 • https://news.bitcoin.com

The government of India is reportedly considering levying a type of consumption tax on cryptocurrency trading and even mining. The most grievous part of this proposal is that it may also be a retroactive measure, demanding payments for past actions.