Word: tripura
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...home. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected in India later this week to ink the agreement with Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. In India, news channels interspersed images from the deal being passed with footage of Oct. 2 bomb blasts in the northeastern state of Tripura. Neither of the governments that led these historic efforts will benefit from it today. But for both, the deal will be a significant and unprecedented legacy...
...fuel, was left unchanged, but the other increases will push up India's inflation rate, which at 8.24% is already at a four-year high. Public anger is growing. India's leftist parties called for a week of protests after Singh's TV announcement. The states of West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala saw general strikes that emptied the streets. Slogan-shouting housewives marched through New Delhi, while in Mumbai protestors rode bullock carts to show that cars are now out of reach of the common man (never mind that less than 10% of the adult population owns a car). Says...
...least one case of ritual killing a month. In January, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a 24-year-old woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared in their dreams promising hidden treasures. Karmakar killed Manju in Atapur village in Jharkhand state in April. The following month, police dug up the remains of two sisters, aged 18 and 13, in Bihar, dismembered with a ceremonial sword...