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International Women’s Day: Innovations lifting women out of poverty

International Women's Day (March 8) celebrates women's achievements. Innovative ideas and programs, such as the 12 below, are helping women better care for themselves and their families.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers

'Pure, astonishing reportage’ of makeshift life in an Indian slum.
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Wind power: Clean energy, dirty business?

In the developing world, where land-intensive wind turbines are being rapidly constructed, wind power has often turned clean energy into dirty business.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo's story of residents in a Mumbai slum is meticulously researched and told with unblinking honesty.
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Five innovations working to empower women

Women produce more than half of the world's food but face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping them – and strengthening the world's food system.
Anna Hazare: India's anticorruption activist wins right to fast in public

Anna Hazare defied an initial ruling restricting him to a three-day protest and is now allowed 15 days. But critics argue he and his supporters should press their demands through the ballot box.
In India, communists ousted in 2 of 4 state elections

The elections in four Indian states were read as something of a 'midterm' referendum, highlighting mounting concerns over corruption and lagging development.
India's telecoms minister resigns amid anticorruption drive

India's telecommunications minister resigned Sunday amid a major corruption scandal. His is one of a string of resignations as India's anticorruption drive gets under way.
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Commonwealth Games closing ceremony includes a game of tag – and lots of security

The closing ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Games began Thursday in spectacular fashion at the Indian capital's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium.
Why India embraces Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa in first postwar visit

Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa signed several deals with India during his visit this week, his first since quashing the Tamil Tiger rebels. He also faced protests from India’s sizable Tamil community over the wartime death of civilians.
Megacities of the world: a glimpse of how we'll live tomorrow

By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in megacities, offering the benefits of concentrated living but also some of the biggest public-works challenges in human history.
Beyond Kasab guilty verdict, Mumbai attacks reshape Indian law

The guilty verdict announced Monday for Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab closed one chapter of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. But the impact on counterterrorism policy is still slowly unfolding.
Annular solar eclipse: In India, a chanting temple goes silent

The annular solar eclipse passed over India Friday, creating a 'ring of fire' that brought the world's largest and noisiest religious festival to silence.
The fate of Sri Lanka's Tamils after the Tigers

The LTTE rebels may be gone, but what about their fight for a homeland for the ethnic Tamil minority?
Some Tamils wary of Sri Lankan leader's outreach

The president promised the ethnic minority 'equal rights' during a victory speech Tuesday.
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Sri Lankan war roils Indian politics

Tamil parties threaten to withdraw from India's Parliament, but some see this as an attempt to wrest more seats in upcoming elections.
Terrorism & Security
Sri Lanka bombings follow government strikes

Tamil Tiger attacked a police station on Monday. Civilians are an increasing target in the conflict.
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India: discontent, poverty fueling Naxalite rebels

A government-appointed committee says violence by the Maoist insurgency is growing and urges the government to talk with rebels.
In India, new rat trap boosts low-caste tribe

The new device has enabled the Irula people to quadruple their daily catch. Once ridiculed, they're now called 'saviors' by farmers.
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Sri Lankan government minister killed amid an upsurge in violence

Following Colombo's withdrawal from a 2002 truce with Tamil rebels, nation-building chief DM Dassanayake was fatally wounded in a roadside bombing.