Word: punjab
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Beginning in the mid-'80s, however, the momentum of the green revolution slowed dramatically, especially in parts of India, China and Pakistan. In India's Punjab state, yields of rice and wheat have begun to flatten despite increasing reliance on fertilizers and better use of water. Elsewhere in Asia, rice researchers have failed to raise yields significantly for more than two decades. Hidden costs of the green revolution have begun to surface all around the world: the amount of irrigated land, which produces 35% of the food supply, has been declining in per capita terms. One reason is that fields...
...broaden its appeal, the B.J.P. in recent months has de-emphasized religion. Instead, it has promoted the party as the disciplined, ultra- nationalist remedy for the mounting ailments afflicting India, in particular the secessionist movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam and mounting sectarian and political violence. Since Rajiv Gandhi's assassination last month, the B.J.P. has appropriated the Congress slogan of "Stability" and argued that Gandhi's party, without a Nehru scion at the top, has become too shaky to lead India. Said Advani last week: "The B.J.P. appears to the common voter as the only oasis of stability...
...consolation to supporters of the family that the deaths of both mother and son may have originated in policies of their own devising. Indira had covertly helped promote the rise of Sikh extremism in Punjab in an effort to thwart a more moderate rival party in the troubled northwestern state. In his turn, Rajiv had gone along for a while with arming the Tamil Tigers and furnishing them with sanctuary and training camps in southern India. But he had abandoned that effort by mid-1987, and the image that survives him is mostly favorable...
...latest row culminates an ongoing feud between the two men. Among other things, Gandhi has objected to Chandrashekhar's efforts to open talks with insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, his fiscal-austerity proposals and his decision to let U.S. warplanes bound for the Persian Gulf refuel in India...
...strike began in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, then spread throughout most of the country, shutting down public transportation for a week. The drivers were griping not about low wages but about a new law that imposed severe punishment for fatal accidents. Following an interpretation of Shariat, a code of Islamic laws, the guilty driver would be forced to pay a fine of $8,000 to the family of the deceased and serve up to 10 years in jail...