Word: monsoon
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...pictures of Asia's monsoon...
...Waits song. The album continues its slow crescendo, building up the intensity through the driving rhythm of “Heartbroken, In Disrepair,” the moodier, organ-driven “Real Desire,” and the raspy, Creedence Clearwater Revival-sounding “Mean Monsoon,” before hitting the album’s drum-dominated peak, “The Prowl.” “The Prowl” is at once extremely similar to and strikingly different from the typical Black Keys song. While much of “Keep...
...dubious family and residency ties to his district. "A voter card is the most valuable thing in this area," he says. It makes sure that holders get at least a share of what they're entitled to: not just a vote but also access to rural employment schemes, monsoon relief, health clinics...
...fencing on the islands, too. On Masalabari, the most stable of the char islands, huge concrete cylinders that will form the base of a 53/4-mile (9.3 km) length of fence are lined up on the sand. The Central Public Works Department carried them out by boat during the summer monsoon, when water levels were high enough to transport heavy equipment, and they will eventually support the fencing that will separate the Indian side of the island from Bangladesh...
...been subsumed into India's larger struggle against terrorism. In a speech in Guwahati last September, L.K. Advani, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, connected the dots. "Assam as a whole is today fighting for survival," he told the crowd, who gathered as the season's monsoon floods were subsiding. "And the threat to its survival has come from a flood of another kind - the flood of illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. Now, India is facing not only the threat of infiltration, but also of terrorism from Bangladesh ... India is facing a new form of cross-border terrorism...