India

LENIN'S TOMB: Mumbai

Posted by Workingwriter

Who are these people who have attacked hotels, restaurants and other tourist haunts in Mumbai, India? Official sources want to point fingers at Pakistan or Al Qaeda. Others want to point to domestic Muslim radicals. There's some evidence pointing in both directions.

Lenin's Tomb offers some genuinely penetrating analysis of the crisis, by someone who clearly knows something. Can't vouch for the analysis completely, but it's certainly thought-provoking.

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Gunmen kill at least 78 in rampage across Mumbai

Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility.

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Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste

Posted by ap101

November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust litter the ground.

This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers, who make a living by tearing apart the toxic remains of old home computers, cell phones and printer cartridges from the United States and other countries. India imported about 50,000 tons of e-waste last year, and e-waste employs about 25,000 people in Delhi.

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Advocacy Project - Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination

Posted by ap101

Wastepickers scour through open trash bins for recyclable paper, metals, glass and plastics, which they then sell. According to Chintan, they account for almost 1 percent of Delhi's population and handle about 20 percent of the city's waste. They earn, on average, one or two dollars a day.

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Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on Licence Fee (in India, not Washington)

Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot

The company, which sells its software in India through a circuitous route involving several group companies, had maintained that its deal with the customers is a sale and no royalty payment is involved. It is this position that has now been rejected. What nailed the issue, however, was an expression in the end-user agreement that says "the product is licensed, not sold". Tax authorities cited this and said if the software is licensed, there has to be a royalty involved.

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Indian police halt Tibetan march

Posted by Jeff from BBC News

Police in India have detained more than 100 Tibetan refugees who were trying to march to the Chinese border in protest against China hosting the Olympics.

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India to spend $13 million to protect tigers

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

The Indian government plans to spend more than $13 million establishing a special ranger force to protect the country's endangered tigers, following pressure from international conservationists to save the wild cats.

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