Word: maharashtra
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...just can't take away these girls' right to work and earn a living." MANJIT SINGH SETHI, president of the Fight For Rights of Bar Owners' Association, after India's Maharashtra state said last week that it would revoke the licenses of bars featuring dancing women...
...Committee. "A lot of the information is strategic, and the less the Democrats know the better." Secret it may be, but Voter Vault caused a stir last month when it emerged that the Republicans had--wait for it--outsourced some of its construction to a bunch of programmers in Maharashtra, India...
...avoided by Professor James W. Laine, the American author of a 2003 book on Shivaji. An Indian edition published last summer inflamed Hindu fanatics, culminating in January in the ransacking of a research institute Laine thanked in the book and the banning of the tome by the state of Maharashtra. Last week the state government pressed criminal charges against the Macalaster College professor, accusing him of "wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot...
...election year: whipping up enmity against alleged Hindu bashers is a tried and true campaign tactic in India. Laine says he hasn't received the summons and although he considers India his second home, "I have no plan to go there in the near future?and certainly not to Maharashtra...
...secretaries of State and Energy to work with India to help that country maximize its domestic oil and natural-gas output. The provision was significant because Enron has a controversial $2.9 billion natural-gas-fired Dabhol power plant in India, but the plant's only customer, the state of Maharashtra, found Enron's prices too high and began buying power elsewhere. Enron was eager to get out of the Dabhol investment or get the facility back on line and had sought Washington's help. Cheney met with Lay on April 17, exactly one month before the final energy proposals were...