India
Rising Indian influence in Afghanistan worries US and Pakistan
By Ajay Prakash, November 19, 2009
In a sign of the escalating conflicts across the region, the top US military commander in Afghanistan has warned that India’s growing influence in Afghanistan could “exacerbate regional tensions...
India: Union calls off militant Rico strike
By Deepal Jayasekera, November 14, 2009
A militant strike by more than 3,000 workers at a Rico plant in India’s principal auto parts producing center came to an end last week, only hours before tens of thousands of workers were to walk of...
Indian auto dispute sparks mass protest, shuts Ford Canada plant
By Kranti Kumara, October 30, 2009
Last week more than 100,000 workers from some 70 plants in the Gurgaon-Manesar area walked off the job to show support for the Rico workers’ struggle and protest the murder of a Rico striker by comp...
Tensions between India and China flare again
By John Chan, October 23, 2009
The immediate spark was a visit by the Indian prime minister to the northern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The trip provoked a protest from Beijing, which disputes Indian control of the area, resulting ...
India: Official corruption and negligence tied to 34 deaths in firecracker explosion
By K. Sundaram and Sasi Kumar and Arun Kumar, October 22, 2009
Thirty-four people perished last Friday in a massive explosion and fire at an unlicensed firecracker store and warehouse in Pallipattu, Tamil Nadu. The WSWS interviewed family members of some of the v...
Indian government to launch major military offensive against Maoist insurgents
By Arun Kumar, October 17, 2009
India’s government has let it be known that it is about to launch an unprecedented, multi-state offensive against Maoist guerrillas, including using for the first time Indian Air Force helicopters a...
India: Chhattisgarh government to call probe into industrial accident
By Kranti Kumara, October 13, 2009
The Chhattisgarh government has been forced to call a judicial probe into a horrific industrial accident that killed 45 workers at a Bharat Aluminum Co. (BALCO) construction site in Korba last month.
Indian drought exacerbates social crisis
By Deepal Jayasekera, October 5, 2009
The ongoing drought in India, whose immediate cause is an abysmal monsoon, has dealt a cruel blow to hundreds of millions of desperately poor agricultural labourers, small farmers, and their families.
China-India border talks highlight rising tensions
By John Chan, August 15, 2009
This month’s border talks between China and India became a focus of mounting tensions between the two countries.
India’s government rushes to address business criticisms of budget
By Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones, July 10, 2009
India’s Congress Party-led government has rushed to address big business criticism of the 2009-10 national budget. But concerns remain about the government’s increasingly perilous fiscal situation...
India’s Lalgarh “uprising”
Rival Stalinist camps abet reaction
By Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones, July 1, 2009
The Indian bourgeoisie has seized on recent developments in West Bengal—a popular challenge to government authority in an impoverished tribal area involving Maoist insurgents—to push politics in t...
India bans CPI (Maoist) under draconian “anti-terror” law
By Keith Jones, June 26, 2009
India’s Congress Party-led central government has declared the Communist Party of India (Maoist) a “terrorist” organization under the draconian “anti-terrorist” legislation that it rushed th...
