• Postal Act May Kill Courier
  The Indian Government created a new draft law that would essentially ban courier companies from carrying letter mail lighter than 300 grams —Industry sources castigated this move saying that it is “against the spirit of liberalization and globalization.”<More>

• SC Admonishes Islamic Courts
  The Supreme Court (SC) took serious exception to an “Islamic court” that issued a fatwa seeking the divorce of a couple in Orissa because the intoxicated husband uttered “talak” word thrice in his sleep.<More>

• Cauvery Tribunal Order Expert Committee
  The Cauvery Tribunal, charged with ensuring equitable sharing of water across riparian states, called for an expert committee to verify, validate, and confirm extremist and differing perceptions of the water usage, sharing, and needs.<More>

• Countries Urge Norway to Stop Whale Hunting
  With Norway’s plan to hunt the highest number of whales in two decades this year, a dozen countries joined together and called on it stop this reprehensible practice of hunting whales for profit.<More>

• King Calls for PM Candidate
  Sustained public demonstrations, non-nonsense statements from India, and blunt speaking from the US caused Nepal King Gnanendra to relent and call for a Prime Ministerial candidate from the 7-party alliance of political parties.<More>

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• US-Sino Relations & India
  The Chinese President Hu Jintao’s meeting with who-is-who of the US business world even before his planned meeting with President George Bush demonstrates the focus of China in its relationship with the US.<More>

• Malaysia Destroys 100 Year Old Hindu Temple
  Even as Hindus, treated as 3rd class citizens in their own nation, were worshipping Malaysia destroyed a 100-year-old temple with a single day’s notice and without a clear indication of why it is taking this extreme step.<More>