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- Indian TV crews "aided" suicide to get footage-police
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  A group of Indian television journalists gave a man matches and diesel to help him commit suicide in order to get dramatic footage which was later broadcast on the news, police said on Thursday. The man died from severe burns to his body in hospital in Gaya town in the eastern state of Bihar on August 15, India's Independence Day.
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- Sell the Tiger to Save It
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Free marketeer recommends endangered tiger farming to reduce pressure of poaching in the wild. So many ways to be creeped out by this - but the underlying pragmatism has some allure.
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- Indian floods worsen, 4.5 million people homeless
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  India's annual monsoon rains -- vital for the country's agriculture-driven economy -- have triggered floods across at least five states since the weekend, killing at least 311 people, submerging villages and causing widespread damage to crops.
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- Indian doctors accused in 'arms-for-alms' scandal
  Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK
  A television sting claimed to expose a thriving "arms-for-alms" trade in India yesterday when journalists apparently caught doctors on screen agreeing to amputate the limbs of beggars for as little as 10,000 rupees ($213).
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- Bombers had Pakistani help
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  The bombers who targeted Bombay's rail system had support from inside Pakistan, India's prime minister said, warning that the nuclear-armed rivals' peace process could be derailed unless Islamabad reins in terrorists. Initial fallout came quickly, with high-level India-Pakistan talks planned for July 20 canceled,
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- India said may be facing Islamic militants
  Posted by Billbar from Oregon Live
  Bombs ripped through a market thronged with holiday shoppers in India's capital. Then a packed temple in Hinduism's holiest city. Then overflowing commuter trains in the country's financial and entertainment hub. Experts and Indian officials say the pattern bears the mark of Islamic militant groups who have fought for 17 years from bases in mostly Muslim Pakistan to wrest away part of divided Kashmir, a predominantly Islamic Himalayan territory, from Hindu-majority India. It also may reflect a troubling new reality: the crystallization of these groups into regional networks inspired — some say aided — by al-Qaida, in an attempt to export jihad across South Asia.
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- India detains Mumbai suspects
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  India pointed the finger at Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba on Thursday as the prime suspect for coordinated bombings in the country's largest city, as police said they had detained about 20 people.
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