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...enquiry, having had its mandate extended 48 times. Judge Liberhan explained the reason for the delay was the reluctance of witnesses to testify. Even as politicians debate its findings, two court cases surrounding the Babri demolition drag through Uttar Pradesh's courts. In Rae Bareli court, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has presented eight of its 49 witnesses, with the next hearing set for Dec. 19. Although Liberhan was only a fact-finding commission whose findings and suggestions carry no legal weight, they may give new impetus to the cases currently pending. But concern to avoid creating martyrs...
...mutual funds say) is no guarantee of future returns. Just because India's progress was for years strangled by red tape and corruption, there is no reason to think it always will be. Just because India's political system is noisy and disaggregated, with power dispersed between the central government and states, does not mean that it can't deliver. "I don't regard dissent and different views as a sign of dysfunctionality," Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the influential deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, told...
...Those of us for whom the central issue is health—not politics—have been left in the lurch,” he wrote...
...year since the Mumbai attacks, the Indian government has taken several steps to tighten security. It has improved co-ordination between the state and central intelligence agencies, devoted more men and equipment to security services and put intense diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to crack down on LeT and other jihadist groups. But there has been little discussion of how pervasive, low-level corruption can compromise national security. The various brokers and middlemen who helped Sabahuddin never knew he was involved with a jihadist group; he appeared to be simply another young man living in the gray margins of Indian society...
...prone to accept even small bribes. By late 2006, after the July 2006 Mumbai train blasts and an October 2006 attack in Kashmir, security on the Indian border had become very strict. But Sabahuddin, in his statement, says that Rs. 10,000 ($222) was enough to get past the Central Reserve Police Force. "They asked me to give my address and I gave them a fake address in Kolkata," he says. "To verify me, they called my friend... [and] they got confirmed that I am an Indian and allowed me to travel." (See TIME's video "Mumbai Voices...