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- Rain, blood and sirens
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  On foot and by rickshaw, from train station to hospital, a Mumbai writer surveys the aftermath of the bombings.
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- 1st test-firing of new India missile fails
  Posted by Billbar from Boston Globe
  Although initially reported as a success by officials, the Agni III missile plunged into the Bay of Bengal short of its target, Defense Pranab Mukherjee told reporters late Sunday. Even though the US civilian nuclear deal does not cover missiles, the Hindu newspaper reported Monday that American's top general, Peter Pace, gave Indian officials the green light to conduct the test when he visited India last month.
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- India successfully tests its longest-range missile
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  "We can now reach large parts of northern China making our deterrence capacity stronger. Also, when a country is able to develop a missile which can travel 3,500 km, it is not difficult to make something that can go 5,000 km." Rahul Bedi, India correspondent of Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters.
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- Gay Indian prince out of closet, loses inheritance
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  Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who belongs to one of the country's richest royal families that ruled the former Rajpipla principality in the western state of Gujarat, has been disowned for "activities unacceptable to the society," one disinheritance notice placed by his parents in a newspaper said. Homosexuality is banned in India and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, but gay activists are trying to lift the veil of secrecy over the community in a country where public hugging or kissing even among heterosexuals invites angry stares, lewd comments and even beatings.
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- Crossing the Himalayas: China reopens a passage to India
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  At 15,000ft above sea level, the Silk Road pass is the world's highest - and loneliest - customs post. Now it is back in business in a bid to revive an ancient trade route
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- Himalayan forests quietly vanishing
  Posted by Billbar from Codylyonblogolater.blogspot
  The forests growing on the roof of the world are disappearing, and the rate of deforestation is so rapid that a quarter of animal and plant species native to this biodiversity hotspot, including tigers and leopards, could be gone by the end of the century.
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- Spate of Hindu Killings Precedes Kashmir Meeting
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  The killings were believed to be handiwork of Islamist militants just days before a scheduled meeting between the Indian prime minister and Kashmiri separatists. Even by the standards of blood-soaked Kashmir, it was a particularly grisly pair of incidents and the deadliest violence since peace talks began more than two years ago between India and Pakistan.
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