An internal debt crisis has prompted Zoroastrians in Mumbai to allow advertising billboards into an ancient funeral groundâsparking a split in the community. Zoroastrian dissdients say the signsâexhorting motorists to “Rev up your night life” by buying a popular model… Read moreIndia: debt crisis sparks Zoroastrian split
Leave it to Bollywood. Someone actually went and did it. At least “Springtime for Hitler” was satire. This wasn’t, I don’t think. Yesterday I was eating lunch at one of the fast-food curry joints in Little India (Lexington Ave. in… Read moreAuschwitz: The Musical
A Sri Lankan probe into rights abuses blamed on both security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels fails to meet international standards, foreign observers say. Experts appointed by the international community to observe the presidential commission’s investigation charge the most serious… Read moreSri Lanka: abuse probe inadequate
Police in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar have found a propaganda CD by a group claiming to be “al-Qaida fil Hind” (al-Qaeda in India), with the aim of launching a jihad beyond the borders of Kashmir into all of India…. Read moreAl-Qaeda in India?
Five people, including a local militia jawan (infantryman), were killed May 31 in India’s eastern state of Manipur in fighting with the Kuki Revolutionary Army. The so-called “ultra” ethnic guerilla group apparently attacked a patrol of the 7th Manipur Rifles… Read moreIndia: ethnic violence in east, west
New Delhi has rushed additional paramilitary forces to Assam following a bombing in Guwahati which left seven dead and 30 injuredâapparently the work of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Days earlier, the ULFA warned that it would… Read moreIndia: paramilitary troops to Assam after ULFA terror
Security forces are on high alert in India’s Punjab state as Sikh religious leaders called a bundh (general strike) to protest what they say is blasphemy by a breakaway sect. Schools, markets, businesses and transportation were paralysed across Punjab May… Read morePunjab paralyzed by Sikh strike over sacrilege
India’s intelligence agencies are examining a telephone card and cellphone supposedly recovered from a deactivated exlposive found at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, scene of the deadly May 18 bombing. The card was reportedly purchased by one Shahed Bilal, said to… Read moreMuslim militants behind Hyderabad mosque bombing?
A bomb exploded in a historic mosque in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. At least nine people have been killed and fifteen injured in the Mecca Mosque, where over one thousand people had gathered for Friday prayers [May 18]…. Read moreIndia: historic mosque bombed in Hyderabad
The Maldives coastguard opened fire on a vessel suspected of carrying members of the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka [May 17], after a 12-hour stand-off. The boat was sunk and five people on board detained. [Maldivian authorites say the vessel… Read moreTamil Tigers in naval battle with Maldives?
From the Times of India, May 16: NEW DELHI â The government on Tuesday informed Parliament that naxalites were working in close coordination with some terrorist outfits operating in J&K and were also in touch with the Liberation Tigers of… Read moreIndia: Naxalite-Tamil Tiger convergence?
Two people were killed [May 14] in bomb blast in a marketplace [at Guwahati] in the restive northeastern state of Assam, where separatists continue to mount a violent insurgency. [AFP, May 14] Elsewhere in Assam, protests staged over the killing… Read moreIndia: more terror in Assam
