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...only homeless but stranded, and 55 have been killed as the floods washed out the roads and railroad lines that connected residents to the rest of the country. "We can't reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts. "They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years. "It is concentrated...
...opposition parties trying to unseat Singh, produced some eyebrow-raising compromises, the details of which were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw the support of its five MPs behind the Congress Party after its leader was promised a top post in at least one ministry. Congress Party members characterized some of the bargains made to lock in votes as routine political log-rolling...
...event’s organizers. “This conference is an opportunity to have some of the most prominent business leaders in the Indian-American community and global leaders that have a vested interest in India come together and educate the Harvard community.” Mukti V. Khaire, assistant professor of business administration at the Business School, will be moderating a panel on entrepreneurship entitled “Beyond IT: Exploring Opportunities in Indian Entrepreneurship.” “We want to focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in India that are beyond the more traditional opportunities...
From the moment of its independence, Bangladesh has lived on the edge of anarchy. Thousands of leftist Mukti Bahini guerrillas who had fought for independence from Pakistan retained their arms after the fighting ended. The 35,000-man army simmered with discontent, and rivalries between volatile factions were held in check mainly by the prestige of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, whom Bengalis revered as Bangaban-dhu (friend of Bengal). But last August Mujib and his family were massacred by the "seven majors," a group of young officers who staged a brutal lightning coup against Mujib's increasingly corrupt and autocratic...
During the nine months of struggle in Bangladesh, the real freedom fighters, the Mukti Bahini, battled as best they could with little outside aid. The Mukti resent the fact that the government has given them few jobs and little patronage, and they have retained most of their firearms. Ranging from ardent patriots to outright thugs, the Mukti are among the most resentful critics of the ineffectual Dacca government, which has been accused of consolidating the position of Sheik Mujibur Rahman's Awami League instead of concentrating on reconstruction...