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...problems including cancer and mental retardation. A June 2005 study by the new Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment found residues of between 6 and 13 pesticides in blood samples of villagers from Mahi Nangal, Jajjal and Balloh villages in Bhatinda district. Recent research by Punjabi University at Patiala established evidence of DNA damage among agricultural workers exposed to pesticides; damaged genes can give rise to a range of cancers as well as neurological and reproductive disorders. Bala, a 24-year-old day laborer, worked for two months in the fields during the spraying season four years...
...soldiers of UNIFIL's Indian contingent may be just the chaps for the job. At home, they are known as the 15th Punjab Infantry Battalion-the oldest, most decorated and, according to them, the most admired unit in the Indian army. Founded in 1705 by the Mahraja of Patiala, they earned their stripes fighting wherever the British Empire needed them, including the Middle East. During World War I, they fought in Gallipoli, Sinai, Gaza, and Jerusalem, and formed a major part of the British force occupying Iraq during the 1920s. Since India's independence from Britain, they have seen action...
...seem imperative. Cables flashed. Excited Rajas and Maharajas grabbed every de luxe suite on liners that could get them to England by May 6. Shoals of them were surging in last week, headed by the pearl-turbaned Chairman of the Indian Chamber of Princes. H. H. the Maharaja of Patiala...
...spirit them abroad. Panicked and alleging an elaborate conspiracy by the police to extort money from him, Mehndi hid out for six weeks in friends' houses and his own New Delhi villa. When he finally showed up for questioning at a police station in the Punjabi city of Patiala, a mob threw paint at his Mercedes. "It was very scary," says Mehndi. "Like a film story, and Daler Mehndi was Saddam or Osama, moving all the time, always between midnight and 4 a.m. ... People hated...
...CHARGED. DALER MEHNDI, 36, superstar of Indian bhangra music, with fraud for allegedly planning to smuggle migrants abroad by disguising them as musicians and dancers in his troupe; in Patiala, India. Mehndi, a former cab driver who rose to the top of the Punjabi-pop genre, denied the charges and said his brother, who was also charged, misused his name...