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'Lost Tribe' of India Jews Return to Israel

Bnei Menashe say they were banished in 8th century BC

(Newser) - Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a lost biblical Jewish tribe have emigrated to Israel from their village in northeastern India. The Bnei Menashe say they are descended from Jews banished from ancient Israel to India in the eighth century BC. An Israeli chief rabbi recognized...

New Delhi on Lockdown in Face of Rape Protests

Police shut roads, public transportation

(Newser) - The situation continues to be a tense one in New Delhi, where police today closed off roads leading to the India Gate and ceased public transportation in an effort to stamp out the protests that have rocked the city following the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman . India's Prime Minister...

India Gang Rape Protesters, Cops Clash

Days of protests after violent assault

(Newser) - Police in India's capital used tear gas and water cannons for a second day today in a high-security zone to break up protests by thousands of people demonstrating against the gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus. Police chased angry protesters with batons as they...

More Arrests in Brutal Delhi Gang Rape

Angry protestors march on presidential residence

(Newser) - A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with Sunday's gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, reports the BBC . Police aren't revealing much information about the suspect as they are still trying to determine whether he is a minor. But the Times of ...

Gang Rapes Trigger Outrage in India

Women say police ignore sexual violence

(Newser) - The hours-long gang rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country today as Indians demanded action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against women. In the streets and in Parliament, calls rose for...

Indian Village Bans Cell Phones for Women

Council elders worry about elopements

(Newser) - A village in north India has outlawed the use of cell phones in public by women because the (male) council elders say they're leading to elopements, reports Reuters . "It always gives us a lot of embarrassment when someone asks who has eloped this time," explains the head...

War on TB Has Backfired: Experts

WHO slow to tackle drug-resistant TB

(Newser) - For years, the World Health Organization has pushed countries to battle tuberculosis by treating those patients who could be most easily cured. The strategy has a major flaw: It's allowed drug-resistant forms of the disease to flourish, experts say. Now the WHO is reworking its strategy—but much damage...

Taliban to India: Return Gunman's Body or Face 'Revenge'

Spokesman: We'll continue Mumbai attacker's 'mission'

(Newser) - The Taliban threatened revenge today unless India returns the body of a Pakistani man executed for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. A Pakistani Taliban spokesman demanded that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab's body be given back to his family or handed over to the Taliban....

India Hangs Sole Surviving Mumbai Attacker

Pakistani citizen executed for deadly 2008 terrorist assault

(Newser) - The only attacker to be captured alive after the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai was executed this morning. Pakistan citizen Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of 10 gunmen whose brazen attack killed 164 people, was hanged in a jail outside the city, the Washington Post reports. His execution, only the third...

A Year Later, Little Change for Real-Life Slumdog Millionaire

Sushil Kumar still wearing same clothes, living with family

(Newser) - In October 2011, Sushil Kumar, a poor government clerk, became a real-life Slumdog Millionaire when he won $1 million on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Today, not much has changed for Kumar—he bought a generator and a scooter, and he quit his $100 per...

World's Oldest Dad: 96-Year-Old Indian

Ramajit Raghav had first kid at age 94

(Newser) - An Indian man is being called the oldest father in the world after fathering a second child at age 96—two years after having his first son, the Telegraph reports. "We had planned for another baby after my first son was born in 2010," says Ramajit Raghav. "...

Pope: Importing Arms to Syria Is 'Grave Sin'

He arrives in Lebanon to call for peace even as protests erupt there

(Newser) - With protests raging not far away, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon today, calling for peace and "moderation" amid conflicts in Syria and across the region. "Instead of importing arms, which is a grave sin, one should import ideas of peace, creativity, find solutions for accepting everyone in...

Judge to Battered Wife: Stop Whining

Justice Bhaktavatsala stripped of all family cases

(Newser) - A high court judge in India has received a slap on the wrist for telling an allegedly battered wife to keep quiet, go home, and take care of her husband, The Hindu reports. Last month, Justice Bhaktavatsala ruled on a domestic violence case involving a 28-year-old woman who claimed she...

Next for McDonald&#39;s: Vegetarian-Only Restaurant
Next for McDonald's: Vegetarian-Only Restaurant
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Next for McDonald's: Vegetarian-Only Restaurant

But you'll have to go to Amritsar, India, to dine there

(Newser) - In what some Big Mac lovers could see as a sign of the apocalypse, McDonald's plans to open a vegetarian-only restaurant next year ... and then another one. The Big Mac-free spots won't be taking over the US, however: The first is planned for Amritsar in northern India, where...

Fearful Texts Help Spread Ethnic Chaos in India

Hundreds of thousands are on the move amid threats of violence

(Newser) - India is in the midst of ethnic unrest so volatile that it's challenging the nation's very "ideals of tolerance and diversity," in the words of the New York Times . The prime minister agrees: “What is at stake is the unity and integrity of our country,...

India: We'll Launch a Mars Mission Next Year

$82M plan will send spacecraft to orbit planet

(Newser) - Look out, Curiosity : India is right behind you. The country is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, its prime minister announced today. "This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in the area of science and technology," Manmohan Singh said...

Indian Women Told: Cover Up or Face Acid Attack

Pro-al-Qaeda group posts warnings in Kashmir

(Newser) - A radical Islamic group in India has promised to kill or maim women who go unveiled or use cell phones in the open, the Telegraph reports. A note posted on mosques in the state of Kashmir warned that "if we spot any woman without purdah [head and face covering]...

Millions of Stray Dogs Terrorize India

They bite millions of people each year

(Newser) - The New York Times today looks at India's problem with stray dogs, which the paper describes as a "menace" in its headline. That's putting it mildly. The details are enough to horrify: Tens of millions of strays occupy the country, and they bite millions of people each...

What the Massive Blackout Says About India

Embarrassing questions raised for country with big ambitions

(Newser) - India's power outage —among the biggest in the history of the world—is over, with the situation returning to what the power minister called "normal" by last night. But the questions are just beginning, note the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times . The blackout,...

Indian Village Vanishing Beneath the Earth

Coal fires slowly eating away at Jharia

(Newser) - Situated atop coal fields that have been burning for decades, sagging houses in India's Jharia village are swallowed whole by the earth, sometimes along with their residents, the Los Angeles Times reports. There's no formal count on how many people have succumbed to the dangerous flames or the...

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