In remote India, guarding land of ancestors tops lure of oil
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WOKHA, India -- The Nagas of northeastern India, warriors for centuries, launched the country's oldest insurgency nearly five decades ago -- a few years before their last tribe gave up headhunting. They have been poor for much longer, but they are in no hurry to tap the oil riches lying roughly a mile beneath their feet. Protecting the land their ...
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The perceived risk of relying on foreign oil and the desire to create fuel from domestic sources guarantees that biofuels will become competitive with crude oil. In Autopia.
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As once insular Indian companies prowl the planet for acquisitions, Indian-born executives are taking charge at some of the world?s top multinationals
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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Petroleum spas are making an unlikely return in a country so awash in oil these days that people are swimming in it.
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Scouring remote regions for plants, oils and extracts can yield cures â and big profits â for pharmaceutical companies and indigenous tribes.
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Rescuers have reached some of the last of India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar villages, areas largely untouched by the modern world, where survivors have lived off coconuts since Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu healing method, has seen a resurgence as India vies for a share of the lucrative Asian medical tourism market by offering traditional massages and beauty treatments to wealthy tourists.
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War-zone waste from places like Iraq has made India a dangerous dumping ground
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KHEWRA, Pakistan -- At Asia's oldest salt mine, the march of technology stopped generations ago. Bare-chested laborers use hand drills and gunpowder to blast away the pink and orange rock crystal, lucky if they earn a couple of dollars a day.
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An attack on foreign oil workers in one of Algeria's most protected places is a reminder that rebels struggling to reverse a long decline retain the ability to menace Western interests.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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BARA KALA, Afghanistan -- The rickety diesel drill digging a new well at the edge of a parched field represents the sum total of reconstruction so far in this village in eastern Afghanistan.
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It's been 10 years since farmer Bhairu Singh saw water in the well on his rocky patch of land in western India.
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GURGAON, India -- Pushing his cart through the gleaming, air-conditioned aisles of one of India's first supermarkets, Vikrant Mehta was relieved to buy his family's potatoes, mango chutney and hair oil "all under one roof."
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British oil exploration firm Cairn Energy, which has announced a series of oil discoveries in India, said that oil in place in the Mangala field was estimated to reach one billion barrels, with recoverable reserves of 100-320 million barrels.
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Across India&#39;s northeast, in remote mountain villages and heavily forested hills, dozens of ethnic militant groups are waging war.