Members of the indigenous Dongria Kondh tribe dance in India’s Orissa state. In an unprecedented move, India’s Environment Ministry blocked Vedanta Resources’ controversial plan to mine bauxite on the sacred hills of the Dongria Kond.
Photo: Survival International
While assistance is being provided to hundreds of thousands of flood-stricken Pakistanis, the UN says relief supplies are reaching only a fraction of the millions who need help.
Thousands of protesters again filled the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir after security forces killed four people and injured at least eight others for defying a curfew.
Just as weeks of deadly riots subsided in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the territory was hit by disastrous flooding, leaving some 130 dead, many displaced, and rescue efforts ongoing.
Two people were killed as Indian security forces fired on protesters at various places around the Kashmir Valley. Local Muslim leaders have called a campaign of civil disobedience.
Indian troops fired on hundreds of protesters who threw rocks at security forces in Srinagar, Kashmir. One protester was killed and at least five wounded.
Two peasant protesters were injured in a police charge while blocking the entry of survey teams for an industrial project into Nuagaon village in Jagatsinghpur district of India’s Orissa state.
Teams of gunmen and suicide bombers simultaneously attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of worshippers, killing some 80 and wounding dozens in the worst attack ever against the Ahmadi sect.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the cleric accused by India of plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, cannot be imprisoned due to lack of evidence.
The Indian government has offered to hold talks with the Naxalite insurgents following a series of audacious attacks that have hardliners calling for air-strikes on their strongholds.
A long-simmering territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh has been resolved as an uninhabited Bay of Bengal island disappeared beneath the rising seas.
Operation Green Hunt, a coordinated five-state police and paramilitary campaign against India’s Naxalite guerillas, has only led to new and bloodier attacks by the Maoists.
