India
International financial crisis exposes vulnerability of Indian economy
By K. Ratnayake, October 13, 2008
The global financial crisis and looming recession have quickly exposed the weakness of the Indian economy and shattered illusions in the country's so-called economic miracle. In the course of last wee...
India: Tata Motors announces pullout from West Bengal
By Ajay Prakash and Keith Jones, October 11, 2008
Angered by continuing popular opposition to the West Bengal state government’s land expropriation program, Tata Motors has pulled its Nano car project from a nearly-completed $350 million factor...
India: Hindu communalists target Christian minority in Orissa and other states
Karnataka and Kerala
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, October 7, 2008
The struggle against communalism requires the independent political mobilization of the working class on a program of socialist and democratic demands that address the burning problems of all India's ...
Indian CEO killed after negotiations with group of dismissed workers go awry
By Parwini Zora and Kranti Kumara, September 29, 2008
In the course of heated negotiations between a group of laid-off contract workers and the management of Graziano Transmission India, the company’s chief executive, Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, was k...
West Bengal: Standoff continues over Stalinists’ land seizure for Tata Motors
Maoists promote Bannerjee
By Ajay Prakash and Keith Jones, September 24, 2008
The political situation in West Bengal remains highly charged, with the Left Front state government desperately seeking to put an end to peasant agitation against the seizure of prime agricultural lan...
Nuclear Supplier Group gives India unique “waiver,” but only after row between Delhi and Beijing
China’s opposition
By Kranti Kumara and Deepal Jayasekera, September 17, 2008
In the face of immense political pressure from the United States and a frantic Indian lobbying campaign, the 45-nation Nuclear Supplier Group agreed on September 6 to grant India a unique “waive...
Bomb blasts kill 30 in Indian capital
By Deepal Jayasekera, September 16, 2008
A series of blasts in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Saturday evening has killed at least 20 people and injured nearly 100. Five bombs went off in quick succession over less than 45 minutes, start...
Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project
By Kranti Kumara, September 5, 2008
A 13-day-long peasant agitation for the return of land seized by the West Bengal Left Front government on behalf of the Tata Group is threatening to derail the Indian transnational company’s hig...
Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal
Official neglect
By W.A. Sunil, September 4, 2008
Severe flooding in India and Nepal over the past fortnight has affected millions of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, with little in the way of assistance from government authorities.
Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir
By Kranti Kumara, September 2, 2008
India’s Congress Party-led Union government has launched a brutal crackdown in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in an effort to stamp out widespread, open defiance of India&rsqu...
Indian government resorts to armed repression in Kashmir, killing 21 and wounding hundreds
By Kranti Kumara, August 19, 2008
Indian government security forces have shot dead at least 21 unarmed civilians and wounded hundreds of others over the past week in an attempt to repress widespread protests in the northern Indian Sta...
Indian parliament gives green light to Indo-US nuclear treaty
By Keith Jones, July 23, 2008
After an acrimonious debate punctuated by opposition charges of intimidation and vote buying, India’s parliament reaffirmed its confidence in the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (...
