Word: rao
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...CANDIDATES] P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...
...India retreating into its old xenophobia? In this century British rule bred proud anticolonial traditions that combined with go-it-alone socialist policies to turn India into a black hole for foreign investors. Just four years ago, however, the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao began to scrap decades-old barriers to foreign capital, including restrictions on ownership and the repatriation of profits. Suddenly financial gurus touted India as the next hot spot for investment. Also reformed have been laws that made it impossible for foreigners to own a majority of an Indian company and forced them...
...Rao's free-market policy triggered an antiforeign backlash that could slow the flow of sorely needed money into the country. Overseas firms spent more than $1 billion to build new factories and facilities in India last year. While that was a big increase from $620 million the previous year, it remained meager compared with the $34 billion that China attracted in direct foreign investments...
...three vehicles, broke windows in nearby buildings, and ripped Singh and his guards' bodies. The murders are ironic: "Singh and his police chief were widely credited with ending years of violence in Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, Singh's election in 1992 was a blow to separatist Sikhs...
Militant Kashmiri separatists claim two of five hostages they're holding were wounded in crossfire during a gun fight with Indian forces, though who was injured and how badly was not mentioned in the rebel statement. A New Delhi official, Ramamohan Rao, called the account "baseless." At least 12 search parties of federal agents, police and nomads have been combing northern India for two Britons, a German, a Norwegian, and an American since they were kidnapped on July 4. As worsening weather raised fears for the hostages' health, the separatist Al-Faran group reissued its threat to kill the hostages...