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India onto the Iron Silk Road
Although India did not sign the so-called Trans-Asia Railway Network (TARN) agreement on 10 November, within a few weeks New
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For a morsel of life!; A Dalit Watch report on flood relief camps in Bihar
In September 2008, Dalit Watch published a report on its findings while monitoring 205 relief
Photographs by Edwin Koo
Throngs of homebound Nepalis during this Dasain are forced to cross the Kosi river by boat and ferries, as the Kosi flood has broken theEast-West
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra
Promised Irrigation
Through Eastern Kosi Main Canal 712,000 hectares
Slashed Down Target (1975) 374,000 hectares
Actual Irrigation 2003-04 141,970 ha (19.94%
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