Environment, Health and Education

• Smoking Ban in Bollywood Movies
  After months of debate and indecision, the Health and the Information and Broadcasting Ministries seemed to have decided that smoking in movies is definitely bad for India and have proposed a series of measures.<More>

• Are there Tigers in Manipur?
  Days after the Government promised better forest management, media reports from Manipur talk about wanton poaching of fully grown tigers to sell their bones and skins in the international market but the Government claims that there are no Tigers in Manipur. < More >

• Naxal Blast Kills CRPF Men
  In a suspected reprisal attack, Naxal terrorists blasted a landmine killing several Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel deployed in the Naxal-infested Chhattisgarh.<More>

• Major Attack on RSS Foiled
  Better intelligence data helped security forces stopped a potentially horrendous terrorist attempt by suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists to attack the {Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)} headquarters at Nagpur. <More>

Neighbors

• US Wants UN Action on Myanmar
  Angered by the extension of the house arrest of Opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Myanmar, the US is planning to raise a resolution in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding the immediate release of incarcerated opposition leaders. <More>

• EPDP Cadre Killed Timing Boucher Visit
  As US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher arrived in Colombo, two Eelam People’s Democratic Part (EPDF) cadres were gunned down while a bomb blast at their office in Batticaloa wounded 4 people.<More>

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