Topic: Maharashtra
Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Thursday said he took "seriously" a right-wing Hindu party's threat to stop its cricketers playing in an Indian state which hosts lucrative IPL matches. Smith said Australian cricket and foreign ministry officials were discussing the comments from Bal Thackeray, head of Mumbai's influential Shiv Sena, which follow a string of attacks ...
An influential right-wing Hindu party in Mumbai warned Wednesday that it would try and stop Australian cricketers playing in parts of India because of attacks on Indians living Down Under. Bal Thackeray, who heads the radical Shiv Sena party, said activists planned to disrupt matches involving Australians, like they did ahead of a Test match against Pakistan in 1999, when ...
An influential right-wing Hindu party in Mumbai warned Wednesday that it would prevent Australia's cricketers playing in parts of India because of attacks on Indians living Down Under. Bal Thackeray, who heads the radical Shiv Sena party, said the Australians will be barred from playing in Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the state capital. "We will not allow kangaroo ...
A report by UNICEF India in January 2009 found that about a million neonatal deaths occur in the country each year. Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) has the largest population of any state in India and continuing problems with neonatal mortality. In an effort to tackle this problem PATH India with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates ...
