cbsnews.com - 10/22/2009
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U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international conference on ...
themoderatevoice.com - 10/22/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
The production of a Hollywood film on the
romance between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and...
Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy of India, has been temporarily halted. The Indian government wants an assurance that the movie, Indian Summer , ...
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Hollywood Movie Interrupted: Nehru-Edwina Romance
techcrunch.com - 10/26/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Editor’s note : This is a guest post
by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He...
is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ ...
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Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
themoderatevoice.com - 10/16/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
In many parts of India you can see
people enjoying bhang/hashish (or cannabis/marijuana) by the roadside without...
attracting a look of surprise or disapproval. It is only when the Western world began to raise hue and cry that people in the urban areas began to smoke/drink it discreetly at the ...
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Cannabis: Young & Old Love To Go To Pot
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India: We’re Not Hurting Our Economy For “Climate Change”
QandO —
... The Copenhagen summit is in December and yesterday UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said he didn’t expect an agreement to come out of the meeting, dashing the hopes of environmental extremists that the nations would agree to binding reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Today India, apparently speaking for, or speaking with the approval of, the world’s developing nations (of which China considers itself one): ...
India Sends A Message To The West: We Will Not Sacrifice Prosperity Over “Climate Change”
Below The Beltway —
The prospects for a climate change treaty coming out of December’s Copenhagen Summit just got slimmer:
(AP) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that the world’s poor nations will not sacrifice their development in negotiations for a new climate change deal.
The issue of how to share the burden of fighting global warming has divided the developing and industrialized worlds as they prepare to negotiate a replacement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol at a December summit in Copenhagen.
“Developing countries cannot and ...
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brusselsjournal.com 9/29/2009 —
I heard the claim from one European reader that “The Arab
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