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India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine

India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine

Ravi Nessman · May 14, 2013 1:21 pm

Dalai Lama lashes Myanmar, Lanka Buddhist violence

Dalai Lama lashes Myanmar, Lanka Buddhist violence

Ravi Nessman · May 8, 2013 9:53 am

In this April 5, 2013 photo, wearing new donated shoes, impoverished children walk towards a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

For India’s poor, a school under a railway bridge

Ravi Nessman · May 5, 2013 4:00 am

2 Italian marines return to India to face trial

2 Italian marines return to India to face trial

Ravi Nessman · March 22, 2013 4:58 pm

Indians stand in a queue to enter the District Court complex where a new fast-track court was inaugurated Wednesday to deal specifically with crimes against women, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Indian police were preparing Thursday to file rape and murder charges against a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old university student for hours on a moving bus in New Delhi. The Dec. 16 attack on the woman, who later died of her injuries, has caused outrage across India, sparking protests and demands for tough new rape laws, better police protection for women and a sustained campaign to change society's views about women. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

5 men charged with murder in New Delhi gang rape

Ashok Sharma, Ravi Nessman · January 3, 2013 5:00 am

Indian schoolgirls form numbers representing the year 2013 during a prayer ceremony in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The gang-rape and killing of a New Delhi student has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. The country remained in mourning Monday, two days after the 23-year-old physiotherapy student died from her internal wounds in a Singapore hospital. Floral writing at the center reads "Condolence to Damini," a symbolic name given to the victim. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India rape sets off debate over women’s rights

Ravi Nessman · December 31, 2012 3:27 pm

Kashmiri Sikh students protesting against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a bus last week in New Delhi, shout slogans in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to take action to protect the nation's women while the young victim of a gang rape on a New Delhi bus was flown to Singapore for treatment of severe internal injuries. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India rape victim in Singapore; PM pledges action

Ravi Nessman · December 27, 2012 2:16 pm

In this Dec. 5, 2012 photo, Gangarangamma, 65, walks through the land she and her husband farmed for decades which the records show is registered to the government, a sign the land remained in dispute, in village Karadigere Kaval, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Bangalore, India. For years, Karnataka's land records were a quagmire of disputed, forged documents maintained by thousands of tyrannical bureaucrats who demanded bribes to do their jobs. In 2002, there were hopes that this was about to change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Indian land program shows tech’s limits

Ravi Nessman · December 25, 2012 5:16 am

Activist of the All India Democratic Womenâs Association and Young Womenâs Christian Association (YWCA) students shout slogans as they take part in a protest march from the Presidential Palace to India Gate in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The gang-rape and beating of a 23-year-old student by six men on a bus in New Delhi may have sparked days of protests and demands for authorities to take tougher action, but for women in India it is just an extreme example of what they have to live with. (AP Photo)

Delhi police say they will protect women on buses

Ravi Nessman · December 21, 2012 12:51 pm

Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies

Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies

Ravi Nessman · December 12, 2012 4:35 am

India wages hi-tech war on ancient TB scourge

India wages hi-tech war on ancient TB scourge

Ravi Nessman · November 10, 2012 5:03 am

Indian Cabinet approves new economic reforms

Indian Cabinet approves new economic reforms

Ravi Nessman · October 5, 2012 12:47 am