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...“Indian country is going to be important for the green economy . . . it is a best practice for a non-native company who wants to do business in Indian country to engage effectively with the tribe,” said...
...Indian authorities are struggling to quell an ethnic conflict in the north-eastern state of Manipur that has killed more than 100 people and displaced more than 50,000, according to activists, as analysts...
..., went to Oklahoma City for the Memorial of what was and remains the largest homegrown domestic terrorist attack in US history, in modern US history. 168 people killed by Timothy McVeigh....
...These included indigenous tribes and Dalits, the erstwhile untouchables of the Hindu caste system....
...Tribal lands, which are managed by the interior department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, have already been exempted from the moratorium....
...From the citadel of Tsaparang the kings of Guge ruled an area stretching from Zanskar in the north-west and around the points of the Himalayan compass, taking in large parts of the modern Indian states of...
...For years, Mr Trump waged his own kind of Indian war in response to a 1988 federal law that paved the way for hundreds of Native American tribes to offer games of chance....
...That suit ensnared Scott Tucker, a Kansas-based businessman who funded a career as a race-car driver through arrangements with the Miami and Modoc tribes of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux of Nebraska....
...Instead, the court ordered authorities in the eastern state of Orissa to organise meetings of local village councils in the Niyamgiri Hills so that members of the Dongria Kondh could decide whether the mine...
...Resources on Thursday, saying that bauxite could not be mined from eastern India’s pristine Niyamgiri Hills without permission from an animist tribe, which worships the hills as the home of their local...
...Detailed accounts of royal weddings and court life in England and on the continent....
...Vedanta blamed the Karnataka mining ban alongside a discontinuation of other iron ore operations in the Indian state of Orissa for the fall in production....
...What’s more, such networks are built on trust, which reduces the need for fair courts and functioning contract law....
...The appropriately named nearby town of Lago Agrio (“Bitter Lake”) has also become the scene for the largest environmental court case in history: an $18bn pollution suit against US oil major Chevron....
...Indian court challenges crushing of protest India’s Supreme Court has weighed into a dispute between the government and one of the country’s most popular yogis, challenging the administration of Manmohan...
...At the weekend the sultan dismissed two cabinet members, the minister of the royal court and minister of the royal office. He also promoted a new secretary-general to the royal court....
...The Supreme Court in February ordered Bangladeshi subsidiary Lafarge Umium Mining to stop mining limestone in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya, while it considered whether the mining required additional...
...The UK-listed Vedanta’s Indian unit, Sterlite Industries, intends to mine the Niyamgiri hills in eastern Orissa state for bauxite to supply an $800m alumina plant....
...Congo has signed for Seattle SuperSonics (the franchise that is moving to Oklahoma City)....
...Vedanta argues that its plan for the Orissa mine will not affect the tribespeople and has been cleared by India’s Supreme Court....
...For her first-born she was promised fishing nets, but they were given to her husband’s family; the second son-in-law was taken to court for not paying the bride price; and for the “third we did not get anything...
...An image of exploitative Indian tribes has leached into popular culture....
...The jurisdiction of the merchant court, established explicitly by concession from the contemporary royal, provided the foundation for the ’free market’, without which it would not be a free market....
...Starting with the origins of the city as the home of the nomadic Parisii tribe and culminating with the riots of disaffected suburban immigrant youth last autumn, it provides a fresh take on the world’s...
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