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	Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		India was the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2005–06.
		India's public expenditure is classified as development expenditure, comprising of central plan expenditure and central assistance and non-development expenditures, comprising of capital expenditure and revenue expenditure.
		India, with a population of 1.027 billion people, is the second most populous country in the world, accounting for nearly 17% of the world's population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_India (5821 words)

	Country Profile - India
		India believes that environmentally harmful processes should be stopped and that over-exploitation of non-renewable resources should be controlled, but the solution lies not in unilaterally banning trade, but rather in transferring technology and offering prices to developing countries for such commodities, which would not then necessitate their overexploitation or jeopardise their development priorities.
		India is of the view that countries should share the burden of abatement in a way that fairly reflects their contribution to the problems as well as their capabilities to help solve it.
		India acceded to the Vienna Convention in 1991, and to the Montreal Protocol in 1992.
	www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/india-cp.htm (15017 words)

	1997 in India -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		September 9 - 49 senior Hindu politicians and religious figures are charged with conspiracy and incitement to riot for their alleged role in the sacking of the (additional info and facts about Babri mosque) Babri mosque at (additional info and facts about Ayodhya) Ayodhya in 1992.
		October 21 - Violence erupts in the (A state in northern India) Uttar Pradesh state assembly during a vote of confidence on the Hindu nationalist state government.
		Deputies trade blows on the floor of the assembly in the state capital of (The British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)) Lucknow and hurl chairs and microphones at each other.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1997_in_india.htm (679 words)

	Anti-Slavery - Submissions 1997 - India
		The authors of India's Constitution recognised the existence of slavery and debt servitude under which a person is forced to work in repayment of a loan advanced by the employer.
		Article 23 of India's Constitution was translated into legislation in the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, which was intended to free all bonded labourers, cancel their debts, establish economic rehabilitation measures, and punish (through fines and imprisonment) those who employ bonded labourers or place their relatives in bondage.
		D. Call on the Government of India to ensure that representatives of non-governmental organisations with a reliable track record of concern for bonded labourers be included in every level of the oversight process of implementation of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976.
	www.antislavery.org /archive/submission/submission1997-08India.htm (2268 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: India: Chemical Overview
		India is the 13th largest exporter of pesticides and disinfectants in the world, and in terms of volume, is the 12th largest producer of chemicals.
		India signed the CWC in 1993 and on 2 September 1996, it became the sixty-second country to ratify the convention.
		However, it was not until 26 June 1997, that India amended its previous statement of non-possession and declared that it, indeed, had a chemical weapons stockpile.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Chemical (1173 words)

	812 INDIA Sept 24 1997 Wednesday night
		India flexes nuclear muscle 3 underground tests raise tensions with Pakistan and China, stir fears of Asian arms race India's new Hindu-nationalist-led government stunned the world yesterday with nuclear tests that threaten to throw much of Asia into an arms race.
		Remember that India's history is largely one of religious tolerance before the end of the Raj.
		September 23, 1997 Mortgage rates drop five-year rate falls from 7 per cent to 6.85 per cent, while the new seven-year rate is 7.25 per cent, down from 7.5 per cent.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Wed812-India.htm (1730 words)

	University of Minnesota Template Page
		The Committee considered the third periodic report of India (CCPR/C/76/Add.6) at its 1603rd to 1606th meetings on 24 and 25 July 1997 and subsequently adopted, at its 1612th meeting (sixtieth session), held on 30 July 1997, the following observations.
		The Committee welcomes the third periodic report of India, although it regrets the delay in submitting it to the Committee.
		The Committee is concerned that women in India have not been accorded equality in the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms in accordance with articles 2, paragraph 1, 3 and 26 of the Covenant.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/hrcommittee/india1997.html (2784 words)

	India
		India took an unusual route to salsa stardom: after she married her childhood sweetheart "Little" Louie Vega, he rose to stardom producing hits for Latin hip hop acts.
		Next, India came up with a straightforward NY Sound salsa disc, which brought her tremendous sales and made her reputation as the foremost young salsa diva.
		India's own compositions "Dejate Amar" and "No Me Conviene" are clever and moving, while a cover of "I Just Want To Hang Around You" isn't much more than an excuse for her to sing in English.
	www.warr.org /india.html (1273 words)

	India Tries to Strengthen Ties with ASEAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		India is closer to fulfilling one of its top priorities - forging stronger economic ties with the Association of Southeast Asian nations.
		India and the 10-member ASEAN group will sign deals for a plan of action and to promote "shared prosperity" at the annual summit on November 29 and 30.
		India's need to build links with developing economies now is pressing as developed nations erect more trade barriers despite preaching liberalization.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/hl/2004-11-22-voa32.html (592 words)

	India (11/04)
		India's domestic politics also took new shape, as the nationalist appeal of the Congress Party gave way to traditional alignments by caste, creed, and ethnicity leading to the founding of a plethora of small, regionally based political parties.
		India is continuing to move forward with market-oriented economic reforms that began in 1991.
		India maintains that the entire former princely state is an integral part of the Indian union, while Pakistan insists that UN resolutions calling for self-determination of the people of the state must be taken into account.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm (6281 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: India: Chemical Chronology
		India requests that information regarding inspections on its territories be excluded from OPCW reports to the First Conference of the States Parties.
		India reiterates that it is free to review its stance on the Chemical Weapons Convention because key signatories have yet to ratify it.
		India is growing increasingly concerned because the United States, China, and Pakistan have yet to ratify the treaty, which is scheduled to go into effect on 29 April 1997.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Chemical/2324_2697.html (2299 words)

	Western Europe: India's foreign policy
		India's relations with the countries of Western Europe have continued to be close and productive.
		He informed the participating corporate leaders and others of the economic reforms initiated in India and called upon the captains of industry and finance to play a valuable and mutually beneficial role in the economy to accelerate economic growth.
		During his visit to India from 17-19 February 1997, the Foreign Minister of Denmark briefed the Minister of External Affairs on NATO expansion and the ASEM Foreign Minister meeting in Singapore where he was returning from.
	www.indianembassy.org /policy/Foreign_Policy/weuro.htm (1018 words)

	AI REPORT 1997: India (the Republic of)
		Refugees arriving in India from Afghanistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka were detained under the Foreigners Act, which regulates the entry of aliens into India but makes no provision for refugees.
		The nhrc proposed changes to the India Prisons Act, reporting that some prisoners were kept in shackles for long periods.
		In July and August, Amnesty International delegates were granted access to India to conduct research for the second time in 16 years and held talks with government officials, members of the nhrc and numerous human rights activists.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar97/ASA20.htm (2168 words)

	Energy scenario in South Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In India, the total installed capacity in 1997/98 was 89 GW, which increased to 91 GW in 1998/99, of which 73% is thermal, 24% hydel, and 3% nuclear-based.
		Peaking capability has been calculated by multiplying the installed capacity by the peaking capability factor, which is taken as 72% for thermal, 75% for nuclear, 86.5% for hydro in the case of new capacity and 60.3% for thermal and nuclear and 91.55% for hydro in the case of existing capacity.
		In 1997, India emitted 250 kg of carbon per person, which was approximately one-quarter of the world average and less than 0.05% of that in the US.
	www.teriin.org /opet/articles/art1.htm (2102 words)

	India 1997 - Part one - Delhi, Varanasi and Agra - A Travelogue by Doug Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This moment, more than any other, characterizes India for me. Like most tourists, I had come to see India's great monuments: the Taj Mahal, the holy city of Varanasi and the forts and palaces of Rajhastan, but it was this kind of unexpected encounter that I'll cherish most.
		Especially in India where life is so different, a guide will take you places you would never think to go, explain what you are seeing and introduce you to people you might never meet.
		India, after all, is people and the Taj Mahal grounds are large enough for all.
	www.traveldoug.com /97india1.htm (5210 words)

	CNN - India to hold national elections 3 years early - December 4, 1997
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Voters in the world's largest democracy will be called to the polls for the second time in less than two years, following the dissolution of India's lower house of Parliament by President K.R. Narayanan on Thursday.
		None of India's political parties was able to cobble together enough support to propose a replacement government, leaving the president no option other than to start from scratch.
		Gujral was the third prime minister to resign since India's 600 million voters elected a government in mid-1996.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/04/india.parliament (556 words)

	India Special Weapons
		India and Pakistan PROLIFERATION: THREAT AND RESPONSE - 1997
		India and Pakistan PROLIFERATION: THREAT AND RESPONSE - 1996
		INDIA'S NUCLEAR BOMB George Perkovich [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999] 673p.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/india (209 words)

	SD : People : Asia's women in agriculture, environment and rural production : INDIA
		India is a country of extreme diversities in language, religion, caste and socio-economic class.
		India is among the top ten fish producing countries in the world contributing about 3% to the world marine fish catch.
		In India, rural poverty was 39% whereas urban poverty was 30% in 1994 (UNDP, 1997).
	www.fao.org /sd/WPdirect/WPre0108.htm (2947 words)

	SCI-BYTES: Science in India, 1997-2001
		India's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database.
		In materials, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of papers from India was 37% below the world average in the field (1.24 cites per paper for India, versus a world baseline of 1.97 cites).
		Although India has not yet equaled the world average in any of the subject fields shown, there were fields, in addition to materials science, that proved to be areas of relative strength, including physics, mathematics, and computer science.
	www.in-cites.com /research/2002/october_21_2002-2.html (287 words)

	Little India April 1997 - Feedback
		The vision of India as static, frozen in space and time, primordial, without a history -- as opposed to the West, which is dynamic and a repository of history and change -- is a common representation of Indian culture in the West.
		This particular representation of India that goes back to the orientalist historiography of the colonial period is repeatedly showcased in the West as the authentic, traditional India.
		It was constructed by the national elite in India to forge an authentic Indian identity for the purposes of nation building.
	www.littleindia.com /archive/Jun97/feedback.htm (1341 words)

	India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Incorporated in India in 1997, Quintiles is the country's first global CRO and has been recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) as a Commercial R and D Company, the only CRO in India to be so recognized.
		We have tapped into India's world renowned IT expertise to assemble a data management team in Bangalore that is extremely well-trained and skilled at offering data management services in Clintrial, Oracle Clinical and various EDC platforms.
		Quintiles India is located amidst a rapidly growing local pharmaceutical market with a well-established corporate infrastructure, government policies favoring RandD, growth in the health insurance sector, and tertiary care and teaching hospitals available for trials.
	www.quintiles.com /Corporate_Info/Regions/south_africa_and_india/India/India.htm (654 words)

	Aerospace In India
		Space technology in India is primarily geared towards improving telecommunications, meteorological forecasting, providing advanced natural disaster warning, distance education and remote sensing for agriculture, soil, mineral and water resources management.
		India's first operational Earth Observation satellite IRS-1A, a 850 kg satellite was launched into a 900 Km polar orbit on 17th March 1988 by a Soviet rocket.
		India's first operational telecommunications satellite was INSAT-1A, which was launched by a NASA Delta rocket on 10th April 1982.
	home.att.net /~s-prasad/aero_india.html (637 words)

	India. In: Amnesty International Report 1997
		India: Call to urgently consider the abolition of the death penalty
		India: EU-India summit: EU should press India to abolish the death penalty
		India: The death penalty in India: briefing for the EU-India Summit, 7 September 2005
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/india/document.do?id=5067D3CDF3438B7980256A0F005BEBA9 (2238 words)

	India
		India Demographic Indicators: 1997 and 2005 1997 2005 Births per 1,000 population....................
		Pakistan Demographic Indicators: 1997 and 2005 1997 2005 Births per 1,000 population....................
		Bangladesh Demographic Indicators: 1997 and 2005 1997 2005 Births per 1,000 population....................
	www.cs.colostate.edu /~malaiya/india.html (493 words)

	CNN - India coalition leader named new prime minister - Apr. 20, 1997
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The leader of India's United Front coalition, Inder Kumar Gujral, said on Sunday that President Shankar Dayal Sharma has named him the new prime minister.
		India's government crisis could end soon - April 14, 1997
		India's Congress demands Gowda resignation - April 10, 1997
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/20/india (498 words)

	BHOJPURI: a language of India
		Extent of dialect variation in India and Nepal not yet determined.
		The extent of dialect variation among speakers in India and Nepal has not been determined.
		Bhojpuri Tharu is a dialect of Bhojpuri spoken by the Tharu caste in Nepal.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Society/Language/Bhojpuri.htm (269 words)

	WHO \| 1997 - Leptospirosis in India
		In 1997 leptospirosis spread to Surat district Gujarat State from Valsad district south of Surat where the diseases has been reported for many years.
		As of 11 September, 281 cases and 34 deaths (case-fatality rate, CFR 12%) had been reported in Valsad district and 132 cases with 14 deaths (CFR 11%) in Surat district.
		However, a high rate of seropositivity detected in persons without any illness or only mild fever in the last 3 months, also in villages considered unaffected during the present outbreak, indicates that the infection is much more extensive and widespread.
	www.who.int /csr/don/1997_10_27/en (208 words)

	1997 India Special Weapons News
		INDIA ON US UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TEST July 1997 - Government has taken note of the "sub-critical" underground nuclear test conducted by the USA on July 2, 1997, and are concerned that this has been justified "as an activity permitted under the CTBT".
		India set for submarine drive April 30, 1997.
		Agni won't be consigned to flames: Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda indicated in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that the government would not give up the development of the intermediate range Agni missile programme.
	fas.org /news/india/1997 (977 words)

	Online NewsHour: Business in India -- August 14, 1997
		Shashi Tharoor, author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium, and executive assistant to the United Nations Secretary General, discusses India's 50th anniversary of independence with David Gergen.
		Now, the idea for that is instead of being able to sell to 1 or 2 or 3 percent of the market, the Indian market, by bringing the price down, and making it available, we feel that 35/40 percent of the Indian market can afford some of these products.
		A lot of people who have money tend to go in for durables, things which are going to improve their visible quality of life.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/india_8-14.html (1262 words)

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