Good times Indian. Are you craving some good Indian food? If you are, try this dahl recipe. It is certain to be solid and good times to show off your worldly side. Ingredients: 1 cup small red lentils 1 medium onion 1 small hot pepper 2 cloves garlic (or more if you like garlic) vegetable [...]

Amnesty International has described the Indian government’s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests today rejected the mine project proposed by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources and the state-owned Orissa Mining Corporation, after [...]

NEW YORK: Animal rights advocates have called on the Malaysian government to halt an Indian biotech company’s plans to establish a laboratory that would test on dogs and primates. The advocates argue the testing would do unnecessary harm and cause mass suffering. Malaysia currently has no regulations on animal research, which has caused a number [...]

CAIRO: Egyptian Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ismail Serageldin has won the M.S. Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection 2010. He was awarded the honor on Saturday for his “outstanding contribution to the cause of environment protection.” The award, given by the Rotary Club of India’s Madras East in cooperation with Cavinkare Private Limited, was presented in [...]

CAIRO: Trade between India and Egypt has reached $3 billion, the Indian Embassy in Cairo reported. Despite the global financial crisis, the two budding economies said growth remained strong and trade ties improved during the past few years. Indian Ambassador to Egypt R Swaminatan said at a press briefing to mark Indian independence day that [...]

A cycle of violence has erupted again in India’s troubled Kashmir valley since 11th June 2010 with the shooting to death of a schoolboy by Indian troops. Until 29th June 2010, eleven Kashmiri youths have been killed by the heavily armed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The Indian authorities have imposed a curfew and deployed [...]

CAIRO: Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said in a report issued last week that around 517,000 thousand metric quintals of Egyptian cotton valued at 7.315 million pounds have been exported from December 2009 to February 2010 compared to 61,000 metric quintals and a value of 1.43 million pounds for the same [...]

CAIRO: The farmer and the farmed. The cow and culture. These are all ideas being tackled in a new photography exhibition in downtown Cairo. Dutch photographer Ellen Gerlings will take viewers on a journey from India to Mexico to Egypt to Norway in an attempt to educate the public on the relationship between animals and [...]