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  India HISTORY
India and China have been at odds about their Himalayan border since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, leading to clashes between Indian and Chinese troops at a number of locations along the disputed Himalayan border, including remote areas of Ladakh.
India was victorious on the battlefield, and an agreement both nations signed at Tashkent in January 1966, essentially restored the status quo ante.
India again went to war with Pakistan in December 1971, this time to support East Pakistan in its civil war with West Pakistan; Indian forces tipped the balance in favor of the separatists and led to the creation of Bangladesh from the former East Pakistan; in Kashmir, there were minor territorial adjustments.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/India-HISTORY.html   (3807 words)

  
  United Front (India) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The United Front was a coalition of political parties which formed (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India's government between 1996 and 1998.
United Front was chaired by (additional info and facts about Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao) Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.
Another United Front in (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) Indian politics was the coalition that held two governments in (A state in eastern India) West Bengal 1967-1971.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/united_front_(india)1.htm   (166 words)

  
 India - Article about India
India is in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean nations of Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia and Thailand.
India emerged as a modern democratic nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was characterized by the first large-scale use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience as a means of social protest.
India is referred to as the largest democracy in the world, by virtue of the fact that it has the largest electing population among democratic countries.
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 India
India has stated that the Commonwealth is a group of interdependent states that are still reliant on each other.
India has restrained from becoming embroiled in non-regional combats and has pledged support to problems where they deem it is needed.
India’s exports of textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, and chemicals are mostly shipped to the main economic powers in the world with some regional countries as well making up a good size of the nations exports.
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 10 (number)
United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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 Getting To Knw India on CuisineCuisine.com
India is a very colorful country with a very rich history starting from ancient civilizations which date back almost 5000 years.
India shares its political borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan on the west, Bangladesh and Burma in the east, Nepal, China, Tibet and Bhutan in the north.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was sworn in as the 11th President of India by Chief Justice of India on July 25, 2002 in the Central Hall of Parliament.
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 China and India on verge of nuclear deal - The Boston Globe
India and Pakistan had conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998 and refused to join the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty, so the global community, led by the United States, had denied them formal recognition as nuclear power states.
India and China had fought a brief but bitter war in 1962, and New Delhi had pointed to the threat it faced from a nuclear-armed China when it conducted its nuclear tests in 1998.
India is also worried that the deal Bush signed with Singh still needs to be ratified by the US Congress.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/11/20/china_and_india_on_verge_of_nuclear_deal   (953 words)

  
 India
India is the world's second most populous country, and the world's seventh largest country in area.
Americans wishing to visit India are responsible for requesting the correct type of visa from the Indian Embassy or Consulate, as there generally are no provisions for changing one's immigration category (e.g., from tourist to work visa) once admitted.
Engaging in sexual conduct with children or using or disseminating child pornography in India is a crime, and is prosecutable in the United States.
travel.state.gov /travel/india.html   (4958 words)

  
 CNN - India coalition leader named new prime minister - Apr. 20, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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.
Gujral was chosen on Saturday as the new leader of the 15-party United Front coalition to replace caretaker Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda.
Earlier Sunday, a delegation of the United Front coalition had called on Sharma to formally stake claim to form the next government, with Gujral as the new prime minister.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/20/india   (498 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
India seeks their collaboration because it believes that it needs their votes.
The assumption is that India, unless it forms a united front with the other Asian cricket playing countries, cannot secure enough votes to ward off competition.
Thus India is happy to host a world cup in collaboration with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh when India?s status demands that it stands on its own with its held high on the world stage.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060502/asp/opinion/story_6169687.asp   (383 words)

  
 United National Liberation Front, Manipur, India, South Asia Terrorism Portal
The United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the oldest Meitei insurgent group in the State was formed under the leadership of Areambam Samrendra Singh on November 24, 1964 to achieve independence and a socialist society.
December 2: A United National Liberation Front cadre, Kiran alias Dak, was arrested from Patsoi in the Imphal West district.
November 11: A cadre of the United National Liberation Front, 'sergeant major' Y Ratan Singh alias Khamba, was arrested at Khurai Chingabam Leikai in the Imphal West district.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/manipur/terrorist_outfits/Unlf.htm   (10159 words)

  
 Indian Cotton Yield Gains Could Limit Exports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bt cotton hybrids were first approved for cultivation in India in 2002 and, by the 2004/05 crop year, Bt cotton accounted for 17 percent of India’s cotton area—some 1.5 million hectares.
Rising incomes in India and increased exports of cotton-based textiles associated with the end—in January 2005—of developed-country import quotas under the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) are now boosting growth in India’s demand for domestic and imported cotton.
India is among several developing, textile-producing countries expected to increase their shares of global textile trade in the post-MFA environment.
www.ers.usda.gov /AmberWaves/November05/Findings/IndianCotton.htm   (459 words)

  
 Self Determination - Manifesto of Tamil United Liberation Front 1977
In the same manner, the Tamil United Liberation Front views the forthcoming general election as an opportunity to obtain the mandate of the Tamil Nation and on the basis of its right to self-determination, re-establish the independence of the State of Tamil Eelam, the expression of the sovereignty of the Tamil Nation.
The Tamil United Liberation Front regards the general election of 1977 as a means of proclaiming to the Sinhalese Government this resolve of the Tamil Nation.
The Tamil United Liberation Front guarantees that particularly Muslims who form a part of the State of Tamil Eelam will be established in the Regions where they are in a majority as an autonomous province with the right to secede on the basis of the right to self-determination.
www.tamilnation.org /selfdetermination/tamileelam/7707tulfmanifesto.htm   (6328 words)

  
 United Front Practice
Yet, in terms of a political united front, the situation is in a state of flux.
The People’s Front, formed with loud claims of unleashing mass movement against the BJP rule, had proved to be a non-starter and its formal end came at the time of the Presidential election.
United front activities at the present stage should be understood as a multi-layered multi-dimensional area of practice.
www.cpiml.org /pgs/polorgreport/5.htm   (3758 words)

  
 The United Front and the Crisis of Governance in India -- Bedabrata Pain
The investments of the nineties, largely intended to tap India's consumer market, have only further distorted the economy and have literally left close to 700 million people in the margins of the economy, supposedly because they are not part of the 250 million strong "consumer" segment.
The United Front government at this time has risen as a result of this broad resentment of the status-quo, a sentiment similar to that which led up to the events of 1975.
The agenda of the United Front government is to rescue the Indian ruling circles from the crisis, just as National Emergency had done in 1975.
www.columbia.edu /cu/ipsg/eld/eld_bpain.html   (3351 words)

  
 Sleight of Hand — India, Iran, & the United States
Despite all of its ambitions and aspirations, India is still not as powerful as China or Russia and could not have followed their example of refusing to back the U.S. and E.U.-3 policy on Iran.
India’s backing of the resolution did not, however, go well within the country because Iran has emerged as one of the few foreign policy issues where there is domestic consensus.
Nehru felt that the acceptance of the various conditions sought to be imposed on India as a quid pro quo for the US assistance would be detrimental not only to the dignity of India as a proud and independent nation, but also to the future of Indo-US relations.
www.gnn.tv /articles/1801/Sleight_of_Hand_India_Iran_the_United_States   (3573 words)

  
 India
In India, these debts tend to be relatively modest, ranging on average from 500 rupees to 7,500 rupees,5 depending on the industry and the age and skill of the child.
India's international donors should suspend funding for any projects, such as sericulture, that are known to employ bonded child labor unless the project includes specific programs for the elimination of bonded child labor, education and rehabilitation of the affected children, and for improving the social welfare of the children and their families.
India's total exports, valued at twenty-six billion U.S. dollars in 199417 (most of this in consumer goods), are expected to triple by the year 2000, pushing India into fourth place among the world's largest economies.
www.hrw.org /reports/1996/India3.htm   (18759 words)

  
 India BSE 30
The United States has by far the largest economy in the world worth $10,978 billion, followed by China at $6,410 billion, Japan at $3,629 billion and India with $3,062 billion.
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
With its reliance on foreign crude oil growing as stagnant domestic demand begins to pick up, India is keen to foster ties with oil-rich neighbours to the west and import-dependent ones to the east, hoping a united front may counter the political weight of the world's biggest oil user, the United States.
www.investmenttools.com /equities/world/india_bse_30.htm   (1010 words)

  
 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Un'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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 NTI: Country Overviews: India: Missile Import/Export
India signs a contract on 26 November 1987 to procure Sea-Eagle missiles from the United Kingdom.
India reportedly attempting to recruit foreign scientists especially from the former Soviet Union to develop wave image sensors to be used in precision targeting systems for missiles.
India and the United States sign a Master Information Exchange Agreement that will allow the sharing of classified and technical information, including data on US experiments with anti-missile technology.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Missile/1756.html   (1464 words)

  
 Threats - Andhra Pradesh / Naxalite - India Intelligence Agencies
In India today there are many Maoist parties and organizations that either predate the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) or emerged from factions when the CPI-ML split after the death of Charu Majumdar.
The uprising was brutally suppressed by the CPI(M)-led United Front government of West Bengal at the behest of the Congress government at the Center.
Entire state units of CPI(M) in Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir and considerable sections in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh joined this rebellion.
www.fas.org /irp/world/india/threat/naxalite.htm   (396 words)

  
 Gulfnews: Ansari cherishes UAE experience
He was unanimously declared the candidate of India's ruling front United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and Left parties on Friday for the August 10 vice-presidential election.
But India's mainstream newspapers and news agencies have quoted poll managers of the ruling front saying he will have a clear majority with the support of 401 MPs in an electoral college comprising 788 members of both upper and lower houses of parliament.
Ansari was Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, High Commissioner to Australia and Ambassador to the UAE, Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
gulfnews.com /world/India/10141237.html   (587 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
Vishal Jain and R.K. Mritunjoy Gohain were the main scorers for GCCC with 48 and 38 runs respectivly, while Ravi Mazumdar of Coal India scalped three for 20.
Bapi Deb was the highest scorer for Coal India with five runs, as most of their batsmen scored only singles and twos.
Ram Kripal Gupta ripped apart the Coal India innings with the scalp of four for seven.
www.telegraphindia.com /1070306/asp/northeast/story_7474790.asp   (355 words)

  
 India's list of demands may scuttle nuclear deal - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Under the deal, the United States would end a three-decade embargo on selling civilian nuclear technology to India, which never signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and tested its first atomic bomb in 1974.
For the deal to go through, India must reach separate agreements with the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an organization of 46 nations that make advanced nuclear technology and strictly control its export.
Sokolski said India's pursuit of other sensitive technology and its desire for close relations with Iran raise questions about whether it will safeguard the nuclear technology it would get under the deal.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-04-11-india-nuclear-deal_N.htm?csp=34   (752 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : Anti-monarchy front plans rallies
KOLKATA: The recently-formed Anti-Monarchy United Democratic Front, India — a forum of various organisations of the Nepalese in the country — will be holding rallies in four metros on April 9 in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nepal.
Leaders of the Front formally renewed their understanding with the Nepali Maoists on March 18 for taking forward the movement for the "struggle against the monarchy and the setting up of a constitutionally-elected democratic republic in that country," founder-member of the Front, Laksman Pant, told The Hindu on Friday.
The initial 12-point understanding between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and seven parties belonging to that country's political mainstream, including the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), to launch a joint movement against the monarchy in Nepal and in support of a constitutionally-elected democratic government, was signed in November, 2005.
www.hindu.com /2006/04/08/stories/2006040806211200.htm   (430 words)

  
 United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) - Terrorist Group of Assam
United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was formed on April 7, 1979 by Bhimakanta Buragohain, Rajiv Rajkonwar alias Arabinda Rajkhowa, Golap Baruah alias Anup Chetia, Samiran Gogoi alias Pradip Gogoi, Bhadreshwar Gohain and Paresh Baruah at the Rang Ghar in Sibsagar to establish a "sovereign socialist Assam" through an armed struggle.
The Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) and Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA) are the chief suppliers of arms for the ULFA through Bangladesh.
Co-operation between various terrorist organisations in India’s north-east and foreign groups was formalised with the formation of the Indo-Burmese Revolutionary Front (IBRF) in 1989.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/assam/terrorist_outfits/ulfa.htm   (1600 words)

  
 GN Online: 'United' People's Front dissolved
Senior Left Front leaders, while lambasting Yadav for ditching the People's Front, have said that they would announce the name of their candidate within the next couple of days.
This is the second time in the last four years that a front comprising of Marxist and socialist parties has been dissolved, putting a big question mark on any attempt to forge a formidable third front in the national politics.
He is believed to have lambasted an opposition delegation that called on him on Tuesday night to ascertain his views on their offer to make him their candidate before issuing the official statement that he was not in the race to seek another term in the office.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=54224   (665 words)

  
 6. The United Front of Hostile Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The United Front between Islamism and Communism has been in existence and active since the early ‘forties when the Communist Party of India came out openly in support of the demand for Pakistan.
India’s foreign policy became very vocal in espousing Arab causes in an effort to “isolate Pakistan in the comity of Muslim nations”.
It also needs to be stated that this United Front functions under the protective umbrella of Macaulayism which never fails to incorporate the slogans of the Front in its own respectable language.
www.bharatvani.org /books/hsus/ch6.htm   (2607 words)

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