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...attacking non-U.S. coalition forces, the insurgents may also be trying to discourage others from entering Iraq. India, for example, has been sharply divided on whether to send troops: While some in the government are keen to ingratiate New Delhi with the U.S. by going in, others warn that it's a no-win commitment that will imperil India's standing in the Arab world...
...industries as diverse as the construction business in Kashmir, the cotton houses of Bombay and the farms of Punjab. Census takers say a third of Champaran's population has taken part in the exodus. Long before his own kidnapping, Salahuddin sent all three of his sons to New Delhi to study and work. "Our society is on the edge," he says. "The entire social system is falling apart. Nobody believes anything can be achieved honestly any more...
...With law and order strictly a state affair and Bihar under the control of an opposition party, the national government in New Delhi has little authority or motive to intervene. But without some outside help, there is almost no hope of anything dislodging kidnapping as the state's most popular career choice. Though Bihar is India's third-largest state, it has attracted no investment or industry to speak of, and unemployment is chronic. Meanwhile, those Biharis who still have jobs are often paralyzed by insecurity: across the state, fear of kidnapping has emptied schools of teachers, fields of laborers...
...There are other companies in the region that will bail you out for a price. Meera Rescue is one. Based in Delhi, the company has airlifted injured trekkers from Himalayan slopes and evacuated executives stabbed in the West Indian jungles. It charges $1,530 an hour for a helicopter and $2,500 for a jet. The accompanying doctor will set you back $500 a day, and paramedics $200 each...
...hour, tooth-loosening drive west of Gangtok, Sikkim's capital, the monastery is at the center of a divisive and sometimes violent battle within Tibetan Buddhism's Kagyupa (Black Hat) sect: Who is the rightful 17th Karmapa? Is it the New Delhi Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje? Or is it the Tibetan Karmapa-Ugyen Trinley Dorje-endorsed by the Dalai Lama...