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India blocks more than 800 sites in web porn crackdown

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Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a ‘social nuisance’ is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom.
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Nepal: Buried alive by poverty

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Prime minister Sushil Koirala has said earthquake fatalities could more than double to 10 000, another blow to one of Asia's poorest countries.
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More terror attacks inevitable in volatile region

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News analysis: US interest in the Afghanistan region is now waning, but various extremist factions will remain.
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Outmoded: The Gandhi dwindling

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Election surveys show the supremacy of India's greatest political dynasty is at an end.
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Britain and India talk business

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Ten years after massacre, influential Indian politician meets with British high commissioner
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Deep economic reform is needed

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India's rapid progress may be halted if high public expenditure is not brought into check, writes Jason Burke.
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Will ‘Midnight’s Children’ see the light of day in India?

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A new film adaptation of 'Midnight's Children', Salman Rushdie's novel about India after independence, might not be shown in his native land.
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India: The dark reality

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The path to prosperity in India is not as straight and smooth as many would like to believe.
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Toulouse murders a wake-up call

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French security has been sanguine about the Muslim fundamentalist threat but last week's shooting may change things.
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No hard evidence that al-Qaeda is funding militant Islamist group

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In the fast-changing world of violent Sunni Muslim activism, it is reassuring to find that some things remain the same.
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Satanic versus free speech

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Salman Rushdie has damned politicians for giving in to the "false" leaders of India's Muslims after he was threatened with violence.
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Pakistan on the edge

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The increasingly strained relations between the army and civilian leadership could lead to a coup.
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Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a ‘social nuisance’ is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom.

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