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Bush raises rice issues – anger among Indian parties

	May 05, 2008

US President George Bush has drawn fire from Indian parties cutting across the country’s political spectrum by his latest statement blaming, among other factors, the rising prosperity in India resulting in people’s “better nutrition” for the prevailing international food crisis and spiralling global food prices. President Bush’s remarks came close on the heels of his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s statement that “apparent improvement” in the diets of people in India and China ...