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...Despite this tacit backing, activists worked in a legal gray area. Section 377 of the Indian penal code, a law passed by the British colonial administration in 1860, criminalized sodomy and was still in effect, leaving gays vulnerable to the whims of local law enforcement. Police in Lucknow, a city in north India, arrested four HIV outreach workers in 2001 under Section 377 on charges including "conspiring to commit sodomy." The incident was alarming - but ultimately it served as the catalyst for a historic gay-rights ruling. The Naz Foundation filed a public-interest lawsuit on the arrested activists' behalf...
...terror strikes. Countries should work together in the spirit of global human brotherhood to dialogue with each other, share and spread a message of peace in schools and through the media. We have to fight terrorism from within and without, as individuals and as humanity united. Savi Mull, Lucknow, India...
...purported injustices and atrocities against the country's Muslim minority. In addition to the Ahmedabad and Bangalore blasts, Indian Mujahideen has claimed to have been behind blasts in the northwestern city of Jaipur in May, as well as serial blasts in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November...
...Indian Mujahideen has claimed credit for two previous attacks: blasts in the tourist hub of Jaipur in May, which killed 63 people; and bombings in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow last November, which killed 16. Their attacks follow a similar pattern: numerous crude bombs timed to go off in sequence in bus stations, temples and markets. The latest attacks used explosives delivered in the most mundane possible ways - on bicycles left casually near a fruit stand, or in a stainless-steel tiffin carrier, the ubiquitous lunchbox of Indian commuters, left under the seat...
...grievances against India's Hindu majority and hinted at more attacks to come. The same group had claimed responsibility for blasts that killed 63 people in the northwestern city of Jaipur in May this year, as well as for serial blasts in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow, in which 13 people were killed in November...