Topic: South Asia
Indian farmers are injecting a hormone sometimes given to women during childbirth into vegetables and fruits to make the produce ripen sooner and gain weight, an Indian minister has warned.In a letter to health ministry officials seen by AFP, junior health minister ...
Tourists in the Indian resort state of Goa are to be screened for swine flu during the new holiday season, officials said, as the state registered its first suspected death from the virus.State health minister Vishwajeet Rane said confirmed cases of swine ...
India's health minister has joined criticism of the country's " pub culture" following an attack on a upmarket bar in which women were attacked by Hindu radicals, a report said Saturday. "We definitely condemn the incident where women were attacked but the ...
Quotes from the Democrats' debate Thursday night in Las Vegas.___HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON_On what she meant by calling her presidential rivals an "all-boys club": "Well, it is clear, I think, from women's experiences that from time to time, there may be some impediments. ...