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...March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China and Malaysia. In fact, the Indian manufacturing sector expanded 9% last year, a key reason why the country posted economic growth of 8.4%. A 2004 report...
...Delhi. Another Indian intelligence officer who spoke to TIME linked Tuesday's bombings to amateurish attacks late last year in the tech towns of Hyderabad and Bangalore, and possibly the Delhi blasts too. In Hyderabad last October, a suicide bomber blew himself up 200 yards from the Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister's office, killing only himself. And in Bangalore in December, a man ran into a conference at the Indian Institute of Technology and hurled several grenades which failed to explode, before firing a AK-47, killing a professor. "Some say it's all the same cell," said...
...poorer north are accused of covering it up. Last year India surpassed South Africa as the country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS population, with 5.127 million people infected. And yet by April last year, two of India's most populous states, Bihar (population 88 million) and Uttar Pradesh (population 166 million), were claiming respectively to have just 155 and 1,383 cases of HIV or AIDS. Experts say the figures simply aren't epidemiologically possible. The World Bank calls India's AIDS statistics "unreliable," and Richard Feachem, executive director of the Globan Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...
Bodh Gaya has benefited the most, but the pilgrim business, like a magic wand, is transforming places all along the Buddhist circuit. Kushinagar, in Uttar Pradesh, appears at first glance to be another no-hope town: many of the sugar mills that employed the townspeople have recently closed, and unemployment is rampant. Yet the town is seeing a real estate boom, roads are markedly better than anywhere around and children go to well-maintained schools. Kushinagar is where the Buddha died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well...
...charge that it impugns their ancestor's character, and they're seeking nominal damages from the director, screenwriter, producer and two co-stars. The lawsuit came after the film had already been blasted by critics and academics, as well as by indignant politicians from Pandey's home state, Uttar Pradesh. In fact, so many people have attacked the film, and for so many different reasons, that it's become an intriguing piece of history itself...