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...ACQUITTED. RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK, 58, and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI, 55, of the 1985 Air India plane bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadian Hindus; by a Supreme Court judge in Vancouver. The terrorist bombing, of a New Delhi-bound flight from Toronto, was believed to have been carried out by Sikh separatists in retaliation for the Indian Army's 1984 storming of a Sikh holy shrine in Amritsar. Prosecutors were hampered by a lack of physical evidence and credible living witnesses. Only one person has ever been convicted in the bombing...
...enraptured by cricket. But this is not a case of new political revolutions, but rather the rediscovery of old cultural bonds that have overcome postcolonial boundaries. Similarly, China and India are beginning to renew old ties. China's Premier Wen Jiabao has said that his forthcoming visit to New Delhi will be the most important trip of the year. As the political divide between the two countries melts, they will rediscover their ancient connections...
...garnered big headlines and huge photos by saying and doing perfectly ordinary things. She schmoozed election workers in Kabul, did the normal round of interviews on local TV and flung herself into a bear hug with Hawaiian-born sumo superstar Konishiki in Tokyo. Reporters from Washington to New Delhi pressed her on whether she would run for President in 2008. Her reply: a not-quite-Shermanesque no. "She brings the spotlight with her wherever she goes," an aide says...
...gone? Of course not. But for now, the nonstop dissonance of the first term has subsided, replaced by something new: a single voice who speaks confidently for the boss. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Sayed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Jeff Israely/Rome, Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Alex Perry/New Delhi, Matt Rees/Jerusalem, and Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Indian governments have ignored the poor in the past. Indeed, for decades, governments with a socialist ideology threw money at poverty?only to find that much of it was wasted through corruption and mismanagement. The sharpest reductions in Indian poverty seem to have come not when New Delhi had spent the most, but when the economy had grown the fastest. After India began dismantling its socialist economy in 1991, the percentage of the population living in poverty fell from...