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James Tapper

India, The World’s Largest Democracy, Is Also Its Worst

India’s month-long election kept the police and corruption investigators working overtime.

15 мая, 2014
James Tapper
15 мая, 2014
От James Tapper

NEW DELHI, India — This may be a socially conservative country, but you wouldn't know that from the election that just ended, which was apparently all about booze, bribes and journalistic lies, all paid for by politicians. In the five weeks that it took this sprawling country to vote, election officials seized 22.5 million liters of illegal

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Indian Hustle: How Fraudsters Prey On Would-Be US Tech Workers

Hundreds of small companies in India and the US claim to be able to arrange an H-1B visa — for the right price.

17 февраля, 2014
James Tapper
17 февраля, 2014
От James Tapper
Employees smile as they react to their colleague during a class at the training center of Infosys Technologies sprawling corporate campus in Mysore, India, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. In the United States and Europe, India may appear to have a bottomless supply of cheap, educated workers just looking for ways to soak up more outsourced Western jobs. But things look far different in India, where industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in a frantic attempt to make sure its profit-making high-tech machine fueled by its immense English-speaking talent pool keeps producing. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

NEW DELHI, India ­— It’s a simple equation: India has millions of tech geeks who would love to work in the US. But they need visas. And the US issues just 65,000 of these per year, under its so-called H-1B program for high-skilled workers. For freelance techies, the temptation is overwhelming. And that, naturally, has opened up a world

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The Olympic Motto Is ‘Peace Through Sport.’ But In South Asia, It’s About War

Pakistan and India have skiers at Sochi thanks to high-altitude conflict.

11 февраля, 2014
James Tapper
11 февраля, 2014
От James Tapper
Shiva Keshavan of India prepares to start his run during a training session for the men's singles luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

NEW DELHI, India — India and Pakistan would be hard-pressed to boast of many benefits from their decades-long conflict. Up to one million people died in Hindu-Muslim clashes when British India was divided to create both countries in 1947. The nuclear arms race that followed would end human civilization, experts say, if even a handful of the

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