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Obama meets Dalai Lama

President Barack Obama held low-key talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday after warnings from Beijing that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would "seriously damage" ties with Washington. od-300
The private meeting lasted about an hour, although the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was not seen by White House photographers as he entered or exited the complex. The White House sidestepped questions about whether it was worried Obama's meeting - his third with the Dalai Lama - would upset its relat...

WB probes Tata project over worker abuse in India

The World Bank (WB) said on Thursday it was investigating allegations that Indian tea plantation workers at a project it is jointly financing with tea giant Tata Global Beverages were being subjected to labour and human rights abuses. TataThe International Finance Corporation (IFC) – a member of the World Bank Group – said its accountability office decided to probe the project run by Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL) in the northeastern state of Assam after charities had alleged that tea pic...

Misusing SAFTA Indian importers get China bicycles via Bangladesh

Chinese bicycles influx goes unhindered despite “heavy” import duty as the Importers importers are bringing such China-made products via countries such as Sri Lanka and Bangladesh by paying “lower” custom charges. SAARCDubbing this practice as “escape route”, industry insiders say that some bicycle importers are importing cheap Chinese bicycles via other countries by “circumventing” the law, resulted into a blow to the domestic bicycle makers, reports PTI. “Some of the importers have now found a new way to import Chinese bicycles via Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ...

Malala nominated for ‘Children’s Nobel’

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, was nominated for the World Children's Prize in Sweden on Wednesday for championing education rights for girls. M_Id_401357_Malala_Yousafzai
"She is a child herself and she stands up for girls' rights to education in Pakistan, but also in the world as a whole," Liv Kjellberg, 15, a member of the international prize jury told AFP. Malala was nominated last year for the Nobel Peace Prize and won the European U...

Regionalism virus threatens India’s integrity

A virus called ‘regionalism’ periodically strikes parts of India. It afflicts locals with an urge to wreak vengeance towards “outsiders”, who have flocked there for livelihood, education, job or business. Shiv Sena, and later MNS, had mastered the science of calibrated release of the virus in Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai. Politicians, lacking in vision about the advantages in strengthening the country’s integrity, look to create a niche for themselves in the political arena by strategically spreading viruses of regionalism, ethnic distrust, linguistic division and communal fundamentalism. They know that the inevitable violent reactions would deflect people’s attention from pressing development issues, reports TNN.

India downgraded in aviation safety, joins Bangladesh, Indonesia

India has joined countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh that have a Category 2 rating in aviation safety. US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authority has downgraded India's aviation safety rating, citing a lack of safety oversight, meaning the country's carriers cannot increase flights to the world's biggest aviation market and face extra checks for existing ones. As of November 22, FAA kept 81 of the 96 countries reviewed in Category 1. India had been in Category 1 since 1997, the FAA said in a statement. air India
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