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...wishes, and using them in foreigners desperate for transplants. Police who busted the ring last week say doctors paid as little as $1000 for the kidneys and then sold them for as much as $37,500. The racket, based in Gurgaon, a business center close to the capital, New Delhi, drew victims from as many as eight Indian states and lasted for almost a decade. Police say the black market doctors may have illegally transplanted as many as 500 kidneys. The ring, according to the police, was run by two Indian brothers, neither of whom had any medical training...
...China, who both have cast their eye over the Himalayan nation as a buffer against the other. Any unrest in Nepal - hostilities have been suspended, not buried - could spill across into its restive borderlands, particularly Chinese Tibet and the troubled Indian state of Bihar - developments that Beijing and New Delhi would view with alarm. Nepal's Maoists, moreover, are still on the U.S. State Department's list of terror groups. They have traded their guerrilla hideouts for plush offices in the capital, but had a fearsome reputation for committing violence when the armed struggle raged...
...politicians need to steel themselves for the thorny task of drafting a constitution that reconciles its feuding factions and enfranchises all its kaleidoscope of ethnic groups. "This is a crisis hundreds of years in the making," says S.D. Muni, a Nepal scholar formerly at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "Whole groups have never been in the political structure. You have to in effect create a new Nepal...
...French leader was enraged that Société Générale executives had waited at least three days before telling him that they'd uncovered the giant fraud. Sarkozy had good reason for unhappiness. When the scandal broke late on Wednesday night he was in New Delhi signing business deals with Indian officials, and trumpeting France as a dynamic country open to foreign investment. "The President was not very happy and he has let it be known at the Bank of France," one unnamed official told the British Daily Telegraph...
...With reporting by Ling Woo Liu/ Hong Kong, Madhur Singh/ Delhi...