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...Steel, the largest steel producer in the world?was "eau de cologne" compared with the "perfume" of Arcelor. But India's forays abroad have so far proved less controversial than those launched from that other emerging economic superpower, China. According to Sanjaya Baru, an adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, that's because major Chinese companies are usually partly or wholly owned by government entities, which can raise doubts about their management's motives. "Private companies in India are private," Baru says. "They are not an extension of the government...
...That message may, at least, have gotten through to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who acknowledged last year that India needed "a more effective strategy for tackling poaching and smuggling." In April 2005 he convened a Tiger Task Force, headed by Sunita Narian, one of India's most-admired environmentalists. The Task Force recommended streamlining government agencies and establishing a well-funded wildlife-crime bureau that would take the burden of protection away from organizations like the Wildlife Protection Society of India. But P.K. Sen, head of the World Wildlife Fund's India Tiger Conservation Program and a former director...
...make India kneel." --MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, after train bombings in Bombay killed about 200 people. No group has claimed responsibility...
...represent al-Qaeda said the group had set up in the disputed Himalayan territory, and it welcomed the bombings. Many analysts dismiss the call as a hoax, but the fear lingers that India may be highly vulnerable to international terrorist attacks, especially now that the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is aligned in a strategic partnership with Washington. "India is now a tool in the U.S. war on terror," says Mahesh Bhatt, a filmmaker and promoter of peace between India and Pakistan. "It is only logical that one day al-Qaeda will want to break that tool...
...Blame Pakistan, for one thing. On Friday, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh linked the bombings to its neighbor, saying, "These terrorist modules are instigated, inspired and supported by elements across the border." Tortuous peace talks between the two countries now seem all the more challenging, with India already announcing that it might postpone a meeting with Pakistan that had been scheduled for this week. Singh said he warned Pakistan's leaders "that if the acts of terrorism are not controlled, it is exceedingly difficult for any government to carry forward what may be called a normalization and peace process...