Often Parched, India Struggles to Tap the Monsoon
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A puzzle is crucial to securing IndiaÂs future: how to harness and hold on to its rich but capricious rains.
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.
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India&#39;s fear of a downstream deluge in the Sutlej River in the northwestern state of Himachal Pradesh, should a blockage on the Peerechu river in Tibet burst, highlights the
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistani rescue workers struggled on Wednesday to reach villagers stranded by a cyclone that hit the coast, while in India, snakes and scorpions hampered efforts to help victims of severe weather there.
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Indian automakers are plagued by a shortage of skilled workers, inferior product quality and deficient highway infrastructure, among other challenges, according to a new study.
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A revival of monsoon rains in India after a patchy start should ensure a good harvest and help the farm-dependent nation achieve its seven to eight percent economic growth target, officials said.
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The pace of change in India is supercharged because the country is catching up to, and in some cases leapfrogging, developments that took decades to play out elsewhere.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
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India's monsoon is expected to be 12 to 14 percent below normal in the June-September season, mainly because of an El Nino-like weather condition, a senior Indian weather official said on Tuesday.
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PATNA, India  - Millions across South Asia are struggling to rebuild their homes, and their lives, as receding flood waters reveal the massive devastation caused by the worst-ever monsoon flooding in the region.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern Indian archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian aid, survivors and officials said yesterday.
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India and Pakistan hit a roadblock Wednesday in their months-long effort to open a bus route that both governments agree would be an important step toward bringing peace to the divided territory of Kashmir.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Reeking corpses rotted in the tropical sun from India to Indonesia on Wednesday and many who escaped death from one of the worst tsunamis in history fought for survival against thirst and disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Corpses rotted in the  tropical sun from India to Indonesia on Wednesday and many who  escaped death from one of the worst tsunamis in history fought  for survival against thirst and disease.
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As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road.
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Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing.
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HAVING crossed India&#39;s last frontier and plucked the hapless Kiwis, a bigger challenge for Australia now lies in the path of a hurtling Rawalpindi Express.