NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Authorities were carrying out raids at medical stores in India's western Gujarat state for bogus drugs and recycled syringes after a hepatitis B outbreak left 32 people dead, officials said Saturday. Hepatitis-B patient Mahir Husain, center, is comforted at The Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, Wednesday. Five medical practitioners were also arrested for violations, said Malayappan Thennarasan, the top administrator of the state's Sabarkantha district. One of those arrested is being held for allegedly reusing injection syringes, Thennarasan said. Health authorities have recorded 111 cases of hepatitis B infection in the district over the past two weeks, he added. "Of them, 32 have died," he said. Health officials have launched an awareness campaign in the district, Thennarasan said this week. Hepatitis B is a contagious liver disease resulting from infection with the hepatitis B virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It usually spreads through blood, semen, or other bodily fluids, often through sexual contact or sharing needles or syringes with an infected person, the CDC says. The disease can range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, chronic illness resulting in long-term health problems or death, according to the CDC.

what Officials record 111 cases of the disease?

where The victims died in the state of Gujarat in western?

Answer: bogus drugs

Answer: 32

Answer: Health authorities

Answer: The Civil Hospital,

Answer: Health authorities have recorded 111

Summary:
An outbreak of contagious liver disease hepatitis B kills 32 people in India .
The victims died in the state of Gujarat in western India in the past two weeks .
Officials record 111 cases of the disease in the Sabarkantha district .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Doctors say an encephalitis outbreak has killed 130 people -- mostly children -- in northern India since January. The outbreak of acute encephalitis -- an inflammation of brain tissue -- is mostly concentrated in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh, said V.S. Nigam, the state's nodal officer for tackling the disease. He told CNN that 640 patients had tested positive for the infection, including 30 with Japanese encephalitis, which is spread by mosquitoes. Acute encephalitis can be spread in various ways, including a bacterial or viral infection; the ingesting of toxic substances; and complications of a disease. The disease has mostly struck children up to 15 years old, Nigam added.

What is an inflammation of brain tissue called?

What parts of Uttar Pradesh was the outbreak concentrated in?

Answer: Acute encephalitis

Answer: northern India

Answer: 130

Answer: in northern India

Answer: an encephalitis

Answer: eastern

Answer: mosquitoes.

Summary:
Encephalitis outbreak has killed 130 people in northern India since January .
Outbreak is mostly concentrated in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh .
Encephalitis, an inflammation of brain tissue, mostly affecting children under 15 .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Expanded testing across India in the past three years shows a 2,000 percent jump in the number of HIV cases among children, the country's health minister announced Wednesday. An HIV-positive Indian child at a government treatment center. More than 14,000 children get free care. In November 2006, health authorities counted 2,253 children in India with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Ghulam Nabi Azad told parliament. The number went up to a "cumulative total" of 52,973 in May this year, he said. The huge increase in the number of confirmed cases may be due to the expanded testing for the virus. India, home to more than a billion people, currently has 217 facilities for HIV/AIDS treatment and 5,155 counseling and testing centers. The minister insisted that overall, HIV prevalence had decreased in India from 0.45 percent in 2002 to 0.34 percent in 2007. At present, 758,698 HIV-positive patients are being treated under the country's AIDS control program, Azad said. More than 232,908 AIDS patients, including 14,474 children, are receiving free treatment at the designated facilities, he added. Authorities say mother-to-child transmission is a major source of infection among children. Last year, 19,986 pregnant women among more than 4 million tested were found to be HIV-positive, said Azad. Of them, 10,179 received treatment to prevent transmission to their babies.

In which country has there been this increase?

What is a possible reason for the increase in confirmed cases?

What group has had a 2000% increase in HIV?

Answer: India

Answer: expanded testing for the virus.

Answer: expanded testing

Answer: children in India

Answer: across India

Answer: HIV cases among children,

Summary:
Expanded testing across India shows 2,000 percent jump in child HIV cases .
Increase in confirmed cases may be due to the expanded testing .
Number up from 2,253 in 2006 to 52,973, according to statistics .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Facing intense government pressure, Indian oil workers agreed to call off a three-day strike and go back to work, the Oil and Petroleum Ministry announced.

Long queues at gas stations have become a common sight across India in recent days.

The workers ended the strike Friday, after the government threatened to suspend, fire or arrest workers who did not return to their jobs.

The impact of the strike had been felt across all major cities in India, including Mumbai and New Delhi, where motorists waited in long lines to purchase fuel. Police had been called in to maintain order at many stations.

Power plants that rely on gas ran out, causing power cuts, and airlines were forced to delay flights.

Some 45,000 workers walked off the job at the government-controlled oil companies Wednesday after the government refused their demands for higher pay.

India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram had called on workers to end the strike immediately, saying it was "placing an intolerable burden on the people."

He had said the army could be called in if the crisis deepened.

Meanwhile, a separate nationwide strike by truck operators entered its sixth day, with some truck operators saying arrested strikers had to be released before talks could take place, the Press Trust of India reported.

Five All India Motor Transport Congress leaders were arrested Friday on charges of disrupting the supply of commodities, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

"We will not give up our agitation and will not hold any talks with the government until we are released unconditionally," AIMTC Secretary-General S. Venugopal told the news service.

The AIMTC is demanding a reduction in diesel and tire prices, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

On Saturday, the transport minister, Thiru T.R. Baalu, said the government was "ready to discuss" the truck operators' demands, the news service reported.

However, he warned the government could suspend or revoke workers' permits, according to a summary of his remarks released by the government.

-- CNN's Sara Sidner and Bharati Naik contributed to this report.

How many workers walked off the job at govt.-controlled companies Wednesday?

Government had refused their demands for what?

Workers ended strike after govt. threats to what?

Whad government had refused their demands

Answer: 45,000

Answer: higher pay.

Answer: suspend, fire or arrest

Answer: Indian oil workers

Answer: in India,

Answer: India's

Answer: Indian oil

Summary:
Workers ended strike after govt. threats to suspend, fire or arrest workers .
Impact of the strike had been felt across all major cities in India .
45,000 workers walked off the job at govt.-controlled companies Wednesday .
Government had refused their demands for higher pay .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Flashback to 1984: As a child, I am glued to my family's black-and-white television set for our daily dose of evening entertainment and news on India's national broadcaster. India holds its first rocket launch from a fishing village in southern India on November 21, 1963. But this is no ordinary newscast: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is speaking via videolink with astronaut Rakesh Sharma, who is aboard a space station. Indian pride soared as Squadron Leader Sharma, an Indian Air Force pilot, became the first in the nation to explore the celestial realm, part of a joint mission with what was then the Soviet Union. I don't remember what show it was, but it etched India's "astronomical feat" in the minds of those who watched it, including a 10-year-old like me. But the Indian connection to space was much older than that milestone. In the country's space calendar, November 21, 1963, is a key date: It marks the first rocket launch from a fishing village in southern India. Nike-Apache, a two-stage sounding rocket imported from the United States, took off that day from Thumba, a site that eventually became a favorite location for similar experiments by international scientists. So far, there have been some 2,200 sounding-rocket launches from that facility, according to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center. But the South Asian nation's space program has been far more expansive -- the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has more than 60 events that it lists as "milestones" since 1962-63, which includes the successful use of polar and geosynchronous satellite launch vehicles.  See India's space odyssey in photos » Fast forward to 2008: The country launches its first unmanned mission to the Moon in what is being seen as the 21st-Century, Asian version of the space race between the United States and the USSR -- but this time the two nations involved are India and China. In September of that same year, a Chinese astronaut took a spacewalk, his country's first. A month later, India sent Chandrayaan-1 -- Chandrayaan means "moon craft" in Sanskrit -- on a two-year mission to take high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the lunar surface, especially the permanently-shadowed polar regions. The craft, carrying payloads from the United States, the European Union and Bulgaria, will search for evidence of water or ice and attempt to identify the chemical composition of certain lunar rocks. Nonetheless, India maintains competition does not drive its space program. Vikram Sarabhai, seen as the father of India's space program, made this case for government funding of the program in the 1960s: "We do not have the fantasy of competing with the economically-advanced nations in the exploration of the Moon or the planets or manned space-flight," Sarabhai said, according to ISRO's Website. "But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society," said Sarabhai, in what the agency described as a "vision" for India's space endeavors.   Earlier this year, the Indian government increased the federal budget for space research to around $1 billion from some $700 million, ISRO spokesman S. Satish told CNN, as scientists propose to send astronauts into space by 2015 on solely Indian missions. ISRO was also studying the feasibility of sending a manned craft to the Moon by 2020, Satish said, adding that plans for unmanned Mars missions in the coming years have not been finalized. The space agency dropped a TV-sized probe on the Moon last November that it said sent sufficient signals to the mother craft before a crash landing. But the country's space ambitions are not limited to public research endeavors, Satish said. "We have just entered the commercial satellite launch market," he said, including what ISRO noted is now the

How many events does the Indian space group list?

Which asian countries are involved in a space race

When does India launch it s first unmanned mission?

When did India make its first rocket launch?

When did India launch its first unmanned mission to the moon?

when will india launch its first mission to the moon

How many milestones did the Indian space group list?

Answer: 60

Answer: India and China.

Answer: 2008:

Answer: November 21, 1963.

Answer: November 21, 1963.

Answer: 2008:

Answer: November 21, 1963.

Answer: more than 60

Summary:
India made its first rocket launch on November 21, 1963 .
Indian space group list more than 60 events it considers "milestones"
India launches its first unmanned mission to the moon in 2008 .
The South Asian nation is seen as being in an Asian space race with China .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Flight attendant Sheela Joshi is 5 feet, 4 inches and 148 pounds. Air India has strict weight parameters that all attendants must meet. When they don't, the airline grounds them. Her employer, Air India, says she is too fat to fly. Joshi, 50, has been an air hostess -- as they are still called in India -- for the national airline for 26 years. But she's been grounded because the airline has done away with its wiggle room on weight. Until two years ago, Air India allowed an attendant's weight to vary within 6.6 pounds (3 kilograms) of a specified limit. It has since put in place strict weight parameters that all attendants must meet. When they don't, the airline grounds them without pay until they shed the excess pounds. The airline says that someone who is Sheila's age, height and weight should weigh 143 pounds (65 kilograms). She misses the mark by 5 pounds. "It's very demoralizing," Joshi told CNN. "And ... it's quite humiliating." "Weight is always on my mind," she added. "They can tell you, 'You look overweight. Please go.'" Joshi and 12 other grounded attendants sued the airline for weight discrimination. Air India fought back, saying the employees knew the job requirements when they signed up and didn't express concern.  Watch airline defend its position » Furthermore, it said, appearance and physical fitness are vital parts of an attendant's job. "(A) safety concern is also there," said Air India's lawyer, Rupinder Singh Suri. "Because it's a high action job. And in case of emergencies, the person has to accelerate and move at a very, very fast pace." Weight used to be a consideration for airlines in the United States, as well. Then, a series of weight-discrimination lawsuits forced carriers to do away with it. Now "most airlines want candidates with weight proportionate to height," according to the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Outlook Handbook. In the India case, the airline hasn't deemed any of the attendants medically unfit -- just over the weight limit. Their attorney contends the move is actually about getting rid of older, well-compensated women in favor of younger ones who will do the job for less money. "They have spent their entire life working for Indian airlines," said lawyer Arvind Sharma. "They were small girls when they came in now. They are 45-plus and they feel bad." The Delhi High Court recently sided with Air India in the case. Joshi's attorney has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, Joshi and some of her colleagues say they aren't taking any chances. They are going on diets to get airborne again.

What forced U.S. carriers to do away with weight limits?

Until when did Air India allow an attendant's weight to vary within 6.6 pounds?

In what country arethe attendants not deemed medically unfit -- just over the weight limit?

Answer: 143 pounds

Answer: weight-discrimination lawsuits

Answer: two years ago,

Answer: India

Summary:
Until two years ago, Air India allowed an attendant's weight to vary within 6.6 pounds .
Weight-discrimination lawsuits forced U.S. carriers to do away with weight limits .
In India, the attendants are not deemed medically unfit -- just over the weight limit .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north. The death toll in the hard-to-reach Bihar state in northeastern India has been difficult to determine. Bihar emergency management official K.K. Agarwal confirmed 10 deaths to CNN on Wednesday, but the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) reported 55. Phone lines and electricity are out in the flooded areas. In the Supaul district city of Birpur, Mohd Rauffudin's hopes were fading. He told IBN -- a CNN partner station in India -- that while he was trying to stay afloat, he lost contact with his wife and children, as well as his nine brothers and his parents. "I wish the help had reached (us) on time. That way at least my children could have been safe," he said. A woman who called herself Ruby told IBN her baby has been sick for four days, she can't reach medical help and she has lost track of her family. "My child is so ill. I cannot do a thing about it. I wonder what I did wrong that my child must suffer," the mother said. The flooding began when the river burst through an embankment in Nepal more than a week ago, swallowing villages and destroying about 225,000 homes, officials and UNICEF India said. Water flowed so forcefully from the breach that the river changed course, making a new channel about 75 miles (120km) east of its river bed, flooding areas unaccustomed to water that high.  Watch survivors find safety on roofs » Agarwal said the disaster affected about 2 million people and 725 villages in Bihar, India's poorest state. Ninety-five relief shelters had been set up, 44 health-care camps and 22 shelters for animals, he said. Army spokesman Lt. Col. A. K. Mathur said 400 troops were involved in rescue operations, and the military had dispatched at least 20 rescue boats. Three army helicopters were dropping thousands of food packets, he said. PTI reported earlier in the day that bad weather had prevented Indian air force choppers from conducting relief drops in the worst-hit districts of Bihar: Supaul, Saharsa, Araria and Madhepura. Officials told CNN it was the worst flooding in Bihar in 80 years.  Watch more on people stranded » The Kosi is known to Indians as the "River of Sorrow" because of its flooding during the monsoon season, which lasts from June to September. The river flows into the Hindu-revered Ganges River. Video has shown residents huddled atop low-rise buildings, standing in waist-high water in the streets and trying to escape in boats. The flooding has submerged roads and railway tracks, and cut off electricity.

In what country did this disaster take place?

How many homes were reported destroyed by flooding?

What did the troops use to deliver supplies?

Answer: worst flooding in decades,

Answer: 55.

Answer: India

Answer: food packets,

Answer: 225,000

Answer: helicopters and boats

Answer: 22

Answer: 225,000

Summary:
Indian army troops use helicopters, boats to deliver supplies, rescue villagers .
NEW: Survivor says he lost wife, children, parents, nine brothers .
India says more than 2 million affected, 225,000 homes destroyed by flooding .
Ninety-five relief shelters and 44 health-care camps set up .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India Friday announced it has banned import of Chinese toys for six months. The move was announced by India's Directorate General of Foreign Trade of the Commerce Ministry. The ministry notification gave no reason for the six-month ban effective immediately. In 2007, there were recalls in the United States of Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amount of lead paint. Also that year, China suspended export of a bead toy that was contaminated with a "date rape" drug, Chinese media reported. Some children who swallowed the beads vomited and lost consciousness.

What year were the recalls on Chinese products?

Which country banned imported toys from China?

Answer: it has banned import of Chinese toys for six months.

Answer: concerns of excessive amount of lead paint.

Answer: 2007,

Answer: India

Answer: six months.

Answer: 2007,

Summary:
India say it  has banned import of Chinese toys for six months .
No reason given for embargo .
Move follows 2007 recalls in the U.S. on Chinese products .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India launched its first lunar mission on Wednesday, with hopes of achieving high-resolution images of the moon's topography and diving into the international space race. The spacecraft carrying India's first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, lifts off in Sriharikota on Wednesday. The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1, or "moon craft" in ancient Sanskrit, came at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday (8:50 p.m. ET) from the Sriharikota space center in southern India. The two-year mission seeks high-resolution imaging of the moon's surface, especially the permanently shadowed polar regions, according to the Indian Space Research Organization. It will also search for evidence of water or ice and attempt to identify the chemical breakdown of certain lunar rocks, the group said. Despite the numerous missions to the moon over the past 50 years, "we really don't have a good map of the moon," said Miles O'Brien, CNN chief technology and environment correspondent. "The goal is to come up with a very intricate, three-dimensional map of the moon." The Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the United States, European Union countries Germany, Britain, Sweden and Bulgaria, and India plans to share the data from the mission with other programs, including NASA.  Watch the launch of India's first lunar mission » ISRO said on its Web site that the mission would lay the groundwork for future lunar missions and "probe the physical characteristics of the lunar surface in greater depth than previous missions by other nations." "It will also give us a deeper understanding about the planet Earth itself or its origins," a statement on the Web site said. "Earlier missions did not come out with a full understanding of the moon and that is the reason scientists are still interested. This will lay the foundation for bigger missions and also open up new possibilities of international networking and support for planetary programs." Until now, India's space launches have been more practical, with weather warning satellites and communiations systems, The Associated Press cited former NASA associated administrator Scott Pace as saying. To date, only the U.S. Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon, according to AP. Critics of the mission have questioned its $80 million price tag, saying the money should have been spent by the government to improve education and fight poverty. But, "there are scientists that would argue that there are plenty of things we don't know about the moon ... and India might have the know-how" to find answers, said CNN's Sara Sidner in New Delhi. The United States and the Soviet Union dominated the field of lunar exploration from the late 1950s. The United States is preparing for its own mission slated for next spring -- the first U.S. lunar mission in more than a decade, according to NASA. Soviet spacecraft were the first to fly by, land on and orbit the moon. Luna 1, launched on January 2, 1959, and sped by the moon two days later. Luna 2 was launched on an impact mission on September 12, 1959, striking the surface two days later. Luna 9 launched on January 31, 1966, becoming the first craft to successfully land on the moon and send back data, touching down on the surface on January 31, 1966, and transmitting until February 3, 1967, when its batteries ran out. Luna 10 was launched March 31, 1966, entered lunar orbit on April 3, and operated for 56 days. But the United States' Apollo missions were the first manned missions to reach the moon, culminating with six missions that set down on the surface. The first, Apollo 11, left earth on July 16, 1969, and landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface on July 20 while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above. The astronauts returned safely to earth on July 24. Most recently India's fellow Asian nations, China and Japan, put lunar orbiters in place. Japan launched the Kaguya orbiter in October 2007, followed by China

What follows Japan and China's missions to the moon?

Chandrayaan-1 follows which countries missions to the mooon?

One of the countries Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from?

Answer: India

Answer: "moon craft"

Answer: high-resolution imaging of the moon's surface,

Answer: The Chandrayaan-1

Answer: China and Japan,

Answer: two-year

Answer: United States,

Answer: "moon craft"

Summary:
NEW: Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the U.S., EU and Bulgaria .
Two-year mission seeks high-resolution, 3-D imaging of the moon's surface .
Chandrayaan-1 follows Japan and China's missions to the moon .
Chandrayaan means "moon craft" in ancient Sanskrit .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels to "release" civilians, who it said numbered about 70,000 in Sri Lanka's war zone.

A Sri Lankan soldier poses in front of a Tamil Tigers emblem in the rebel group's former military headquarters.

India is ready to help evacuate them, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Indian parliament.

"Estimates on the number of civilians trapped vary, but 70,000 or so are estimated to be there now. The LTTE were reportedly using them as human shields," he said, referring to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the Tamil Tigers.

"As the conflict enters what may be the final phase of military operations, the LTTE would best serve the interest of the Tamils by immediately releasing all civilians and laying down arms," Mukherjee added.

He noted that some civilians had either been caught in cross-fire or "stopped and even killed" by Tamil rebels as they tried to escape.

Government troops and the Tamil Tigers are locked in a battle over the rebels' remaining territory in northern Sri Lanka's Vanni region.

The rebels have been fighting for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983.

Tens of thousands of people have fled the region as government forces have advanced and rebels have been pushed into a smaller and smaller patch of land.

CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

What is India urging Tamil Tiger rebels to do?

Number India estimates are trapped in the region by the conflict?

Who did India urge to allow civilians to leave?

What other country is communicating with the Tamil Tigers?

Answer: "Estimates on the number of civilians trapped vary, but 70,000 or so are estimated to be there now.

Answer: an independent homeland for the country's ethnic

Answer: "release" civilians,

Answer: 70,000

Answer: vary, but 70,000 or so are

Answer: urged Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels to "release" civilians,

Answer: trapped

Answer: Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels

Answer: India

Answer: Government troops and the

Summary:
India urges Tamil Tiger rebels to allow civilians to leave Sri Lankan war zone .
Sri Lankan troops, Tamil fighters locked in battle for control of rebels' territory .
India estimates up to 70,000 are trapped in the region by the conflict .
Tamil Tigers have been fighting for independent homeland since 1983 .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels to "release" civilians, who it said numbered about 70,000 in Sri Lanka's war zone.

A Sri Lankan soldier poses in front of a Tamil Tigers emblem in the rebel group's former military headquarters.

India is ready to help evacuate them, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Indian parliament.

"Estimates on the number of civilians trapped vary, but 70,000 or so are estimated to be there now. The LTTE were reportedly using them as human shields," he said, referring to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the Tamil Tigers.

"As the conflict enters what may be the final phase of military operations, the LTTE would best serve the interest of the Tamils by immediately releasing all civilians and laying down arms," Mukherjee added.

He noted that some civilians had either been caught in cross-fire or "stopped and even killed" by Tamil rebels as they tried to escape.

Government troops and the Tamil Tigers are locked in a battle over the rebels' remaining territory in northern Sri Lanka's Vanni region.

The rebels have been fighting for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983.

Tens of thousands of people have fled the region as government forces have advanced and rebels have been pushed into a smaller and smaller patch of land.

CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

Who has been fighting for independent homeland since 1983?

What is the estimate of people trapped in the region by conflict?

What is India urging the Tamil Tiger rebels to do?

when Tamil Tigers have been fighting for independent?

Answer: Sri Lanka's war zone.

Answer: The rebels

Answer: 70,000

Answer: "release" civilians,

Answer: since 1983.

Summary:
India urges Tamil Tiger rebels to allow civilians to leave Sri Lankan war zone .
Sri Lankan troops, Tamil fighters locked in battle for control of rebels' territory .
India estimates up to 70,000 are trapped in the region by the conflict .
Tamil Tigers have been fighting for independent homeland since 1983 .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India's child-rights watchdog has sought a report from police investigating allegations by a tabloid that the father of a "Slumdog Millionaire" child star tried to sell her to an undercover reporter, the watchdog's leader told CNN. Rubina Ali has backed her father over newspaper allegations he offered her to an undercover reporter. "We have sought a report from them and will take a decision after seeing it," said Shantha Sinha, who heads the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Meanwhile, authorities in Mumbai have recorded the statements of Rafiq Qureshi; his "Slumdog" daughter, Rubina Ali; and his former wife, Khurshida Begum, senior police inspector Prakash Salunke told CNN. Qureshi has denied allegations made in Britain's News of the World that he tried to sell 9-year-old Rubina for £200,000 ($290,000), Salunke said. In her statement, the child-actor favored her father, according to the police. Qureshi's former wife, whom he divorced several years ago, endorsed the allegations leveled against him by the British newspaper. Police are investigating, Salunke said. "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars this year, including best picture. Director Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches movie tells the story of a tea-boy at a Mumbai call center who earns a spot in the Indian version of the quiz show "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" He raises the suspicion of the show's host when, despite the lack of a formal education, he begins to answer the increasingly difficult questions with ease. The movie is set largely among the poverty-stricken districts of Mumbai, which is home to Rubina and other "Slumdog" child stars in real life.

What is the father of Rubina Ali being accused of?

Answer: that he tried to sell 9-year-old Rubina for £200,000 ($290,000),

Answer: allegations by a tabloid

Answer: tried to sell her to an undercover reporter,

Summary:
Indian child-rights watchdog requests police report on alleged offer to sell child star .
Father of "Slumdog's" Rubina Ali, 9, alleged to have offered her to undercover reporter .
Father has denied allegations in UK newspaper; Indian police are investigating .
"Slumdog Millionaire" used real children from poor neighborhoods of Mumbai .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India's financial capital of Mumbai was put on a high-tide alert with officials expecting a water rise of up to 197 inches (5 meters). High tides lash the coast near the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Thursday. Sea tides are expected to rise 5 meters Friday, 4.9 meters Saturday and 4.7 meters Sunday, according to a bulletin by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. "We have installed water pumps along the coast and advise the people to avoid beaches," said Jagtab, an official at the disaster management control room. Floodgates may also be closed in case the threat mounts, he added. High tides are also forecast from August 19 to 23. At least 467 people have died in floods in India from this season's monsoon rains, federal authorities said in their latest report. Flooding has affected about 1.7 million people in parts of India, according to the disaster management division of the federal home ministry. The country's main weather office has warned of heavy rains in western and central parts of India.

what is the name of india's financial capital

Up to what did officials expect a water rise of?

will sea tides also rise by a large amount

To how high were sea tides expected to rise?

What do the officials expect to happen with the water?

Answer: from August 19 to 23.

Answer: Mumbai

Answer: 197 inches (5 meters).

Answer: India's financial capital of Mumbai

Answer: are expected to

Answer: 5 meters Friday, 4.9 meters Saturday and 4.7 meters Sunday,

Answer: 197 inches (5 meters).

Answer: rise of up

Answer: to rise 5 meters Friday, 4.9 meters Saturday and 4.7 meters Sunday,

Summary:
India's financial capital of Mumbai put on a high-tide alert .
Officials expect a water rise of up to 197 inches (5 meters)
Sea tides expected to rise 5 meters Friday, 4.9 meters Saturday, 4.7 meters Sunday .
High tides also forecast from August 19 to 23 .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India's lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber's history. Meira Kumar was nominated by the ruling Congress party. Meira Kumar is also a member of the "untouchable" Dalit class, the lowest rung in the centuries-old caste system in the country. The speaker conducts the proceedings of the house. She will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women. Kumar, 64, was elected to the position unopposed. She was nominated by the ruling Congress party but also had the backing of the alliance led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Women play a prominent role in the politics of India, the world's largest democracy. The South Asian country of 1.1 billion people has a female president, Pratibha Devisingh Patil. And four of the country's political parties, including the Congress Party, are led by women. Hindus believe there are five main groups of people. The last group is the Dalits. They're considered impure and are often forced to work in menial jobs. They drink from separate wells and use different entry ways to come and go from buildings. Dalits number about 250 million in India, about 25 percent of the population, according to the Colorado, U.S.-based Dalit Freedom Network. India's constitution outlaws caste-based discrimination, and barriers have broken down in large cities. Prejudice, however, persists in some rural areas of the country. CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

What amount of members will she preside over?

Mrs. Kumar will preside over how many members?

Answer: 250 million in India, about 25 percent

Answer: "untouchable" Dalit class,

Answer: 58

Answer: 543

Answer: 543 elected members, of which 58 are women.

Answer: 64,

Answer: Dalit

Answer: 64,

Answer: Meira Kumar

Answer: "untouchable" Dalit class,

Answer: 543 elected

Answer: 64,

Answer: 543

Answer: 64,

Summary:
Meira Kumar a member of the Dalit class -- lowest rung in centuries-old caste system .
She will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women .
Kumar, 64, was elected to the position unopposed .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian authorities Tuesday filed a police complaint against Continental Airlines for frisking a former president of the country as he was to travel to New York in April. Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was exempt from body checks, officials said. Civil aviation officials in New Delhi accused Continental of gross violation of Indian security rules that prohibit pre-embarkation body checks on certain dignitaries like a former president. The police complaint followed a probe that had established that APJ Abdul Kalam was subject to frisking before he boarded a flight from New Delhi to New York on April 21, the Indian civil aviation ministry said in a statement. The ministry also alleged the airline did not respond to its show-cause notice in connection with Kalam's body checks. In its police complaint, Indian civil aviation authorities accused the airline staff of "willful violation" of their directions on exemptions from pre-embarkation frisking. Continental, however, insisted it followed standard American air-safety procedures. "TSA (Transportation Security Administration) requirements impose a final security check in the aerobridge just before boarding the aircraft. "This procedure is followed by all carriers flying to the U.S. from most of the countries in the world and there is no exemption to this rule," it said in a statement.

What is the name of the former Indian president?

who files complaint against Continental?

Which air safety procedures does Continental insist it followed?

who followed standard U.S. air-safety procedures?

Who filed a complaint against Continental?

What company has a complaint filed against it?

What is the name of the former president?

Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam

Answer: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was exempt from body checks,

Answer: Indian authorities

Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam

Answer: American air-safety

Answer: Continental,

Answer: filed a police complaint against Continental Airlines

Answer: Indian authorities

Answer: Continental Airlines

Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam

Answer: Continental

Answer: frisking a former president

Answer: Former president APJ

Summary:
Indian authorities file complaint against Continental for frisking former president .
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was exempt from body checks, officials say .
Continental, however, insists it followed standard U.S. air-safety procedures .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian police swiftly handled a "security scare" at New Delhi's major airport early Friday amid heightened concern in the wake of last week's terror attack in which gunmen killed 179 people in Mumbai.

An Indian soldier joins the beefed up security detail at New Delhi airport.

New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said police responded to reports of gunfire at Indira Gandhi International Airport but found no casualties or damage. Bhagat said there was "no terror threat."

"And there's no cause of panic," he added.

Uday Banerjee, the head of India's Central Industrial Security Force, told reporters at the airport that something sounding like gunshots was heard, but no one saw anything and no bullet casings were found.

Indian authorities stepped up security at the nation's airports on Thursday after receiving intelligence reports that terrorists might be planning an air attack.

At Indira Gandhi, four armed police stood guard at each entrance, and people waiting for arriving passengers were not allowed inside.  Watch what triggered the security scare there Â»

"There have been intelligence inputs about some terrorist activity, and therefore security has been tightened (at airports)," civil aviation spokesperson Moushmi Chakraborty told CNN.  Watch heightened anxiety after the attacks Â»

Police beefed up security at all airports including in the capital New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, Chakraborty said.

A spokesman for the Indian Navy, Cmdr. Nirad Sinha, also confirmed to CNN that security officials had received warnings about an airborne attack.  Watch more on increase in security Â»

The Press Trust of India, a nonprofit newspaper cooperative, said that reports had suggested that terrorists could have sneaked into the country to carry out strikes on the anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition. The mosque -- one of the largest in the Uttar Pradesh state -- was destroyed on December 6, 1992, by Hindu nationalists who believe it was built on the site of an existing temple.

On Wednesday India's defense minister met with the chiefs of the army, air force and navy and discussed what the ministry in a news statement called "possible terror threats from air."

The officials also discussed the country's coastal security plans and how to tighten security along the military line of control dividing the disputed region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan to "prevent infiltration of terrorists," the statement said.

India ranks among the countries where terrorism is most common, according to the U.S. State Department.

CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh and Sara Sidner contributed to this report.

Who discussed the country's security plans?

India's top military officials discuss what?

Who said that there was no cause of panic?

Answer: India's defense minister

Answer: New Delhi airport.

Answer: "possible terror threats from air."

Answer: Rajan Bhagat

Answer: terrorists might be planning an air attack.

Answer: terrorists could have sneaked into the country to carry out strikes

Answer: New Delhi airport.

Summary:
NEW: "There's no cause of panic," says New Delhi police spokesman .
Security raised at all the nation's airports amid intelligence on terrorist activity .
Press Trust of India: Reports suggest possible strike on December 6 .
India's top military officials discuss country's security plans .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian police swiftly handled a "security scare" at New Delhi's major airport early Friday amid heightened concern in the wake of last week's terror attack in which gunmen killed 179 people in Mumbai. An Indian soldier joins the beefed up security detail at New Delhi airport. New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said police responded to reports of gunfire at Indira Gandhi International Airport but found no casualties or damage. Bhagat said there was "no terror threat." "And there's no cause of panic," he added. Uday Banerjee, the head of India's Central Industrial Security Force, told reporters at the airport that something sounding like gunshots was heard, but no one saw anything and no bullet casings were found. Indian authorities stepped up security at the nation's airports on Thursday after receiving intelligence reports that terrorists might be planning an air attack. At Indira Gandhi, four armed police stood guard at each entrance, and people waiting for arriving passengers were not allowed inside.  Watch what triggered the security scare there » "There have been intelligence inputs about some terrorist activity, and therefore security has been tightened (at airports)," civil aviation spokesperson Moushmi Chakraborty told CNN.  Watch heightened anxiety after the attacks » Police beefed up security at all airports including in the capital New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, Chakraborty said. A spokesman for the Indian Navy, Cmdr. Nirad Sinha, also confirmed to CNN that security officials had received warnings about an airborne attack.  Watch more on increase in security » The Press Trust of India, a nonprofit newspaper cooperative, said that reports had suggested that terrorists could have sneaked into the country to carry out strikes on the anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition. The mosque -- one of the largest in the Uttar Pradesh state -- was destroyed on December 6, 1992, by Hindu nationalists who believe it was built on the site of an existing temple. On Wednesday India's defense minister met with the chiefs of the army, air force and navy and discussed what the ministry in a news statement called "possible terror threats from air." The officials also discussed the country's coastal security plans and how to tighten security along the military line of control dividing the disputed region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan to "prevent infiltration of terrorists," the statement said. India ranks among the countries where terrorism is most common, according to the U.S. State Department. CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh and Sara Sidner contributed to this report.

When is the possible strike supposed to occur?

Who reported that there might be an attack on Dec 6?

Who said that there was no cause for panic?

When do reports say there could be a strike?

Answer: New Delhi airport.

Answer: the anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition.

Answer: India's defense minister met with the chiefs of the army, air force and navy and

Answer: India's defense minister

Answer: Press Trust of India,

Answer: last week's terror attack in which gunmen killed 179 people in Mumbai.

Answer: New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat

Answer: on the anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition.

Summary:
NEW: "There's no cause of panic," says New Delhi police spokesman .
Security raised at all the nation's airports amid intelligence on terrorist activity .
Press Trust of India: Reports suggest possible strike on December 6 .
India's top military officials discuss country's security plans .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian tourism authorities will be holding English classes for auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Auto-rickshaw drivers are being taught English ahead of the Commenwealth Games. More than 40,000 natural gas-fueled auto-rickshaws, or motorized three-wheeled taxis, run on the Indian capital's dilapidated roads, according to the city government statistics. The city is expected to host around 100,000 tourists during the Commonwealth Games scheduled from October 3-14 in 2010. About 9,000 athletes and officials of 52 Commonwealth countries are likely to participate. Some 8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in the training program that will involve classes in yoga, life skills, first aid, spoken English and psychometric tests, federal Tourism Secretary Sujit Banerjee announced Tuesday. Each trainee will be paid Rs 200, or about $4, daily for attending the program spread over 200 sessions for a year. Indian auto-rickshaw drivers have often been accused of overcharging, refusing short trips and misbehavior. Traffic authorities have in the past opened a range of avenues for passengers to lodge their complaints -- such as on help lines, via text messages or simply calling a telephone number printed on the three-wheeled cabs. "The India image that we strive to convey to a foreign tourist depends, to a large degree, on how good the taxi/auto-rickshaw (driver) that he or she meets is in his demeanor and conduct," Banerjee remarked.

What is the course of study for the 8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers who will be enrolled in the training program?

How many auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in the training program?

In what city will the Commonwealth Games be expected to host 100,000 tourists?

What is the number of tourists expected during the Commonwealth Games?

How many tourists is the city expected to host during the commonwealth games?

On what date will more than 40,000 auto-rickshaws ply the roads of the Indian capital?

What is the number of drivers being enrolled in the training program?

How many auto-rickshaws ply roads of indian captial?

How many rickshaws ply the roads of Indian capital?

How many tourists are expected during the Commonwealth Games?

How many rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in the training program?

How many rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in training?

How many tourists are expected for Commonwealth Games?

Answer: yoga, life skills, first aid, spoken English and psychometric tests,

Answer: Some 8,000

Answer: New Delhi

Answer: Commonwealth Games in 2010.

Answer: 100,000

Answer: around 100,000

Answer: October 3-14 in 2010.

Answer: 8,000

Answer: 40,000

Answer: More than 40,000

Answer: 100,000

Answer: 8,000

Answer: New Delhi

Answer: 8,000

Answer: New Delhi

Answer: 2010.

Answer: 100,000

Summary:
More than 40,000 auto-rickshaws ply roads of Indian capital .
City expected to host 100,000 tourists during Commonwealth Games .
8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in training program .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- More than a dozen trucks loaded with fruits, spices and other goods Tuesday crossed the line dividing Kashmir as India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region for the first time in more than 60 years. Kashmiris watch as Indian trucks cross into the border town of Chakothi in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. To cheers and band music, the first trucks rumbled from the Pakistani side across a white bridge to a brightly decorated trade center festooned . Apple-laden Indian trucks heading the other way were also warmly welcomed. It is hoped the move will ease tensions in the troubled Himalayan region, which has been a conflict flashpoint between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan who both lay claims to the territory. "Today, we have regained our lost market," said Ghulam Rasool Bhat, president of the Kashmir fruit growers' association.  Watch more about the historic day » "We are sending the sweet Kashmir apple as the first consignment. This is sure to sweeten the relation between the two neighbors. The beginning of the trade between the two Kashmirs will further improve the relations and lead to a peaceful resolution of the bitter problem," he said. The trucks were subjected to thorough security checks before they crossed the bridge, one of the few crossing points in the heavily militarized 742-kilometer (460-mile) Line of Control, the de facto frontier that divides the region. Kashmir has been a major source of dispute between India, and Pakistan since the two countries were partitioned at the end of British rule in 1947. Muslim Kashmiris sided with Pakistan to the north, while the Hindu south joined India. For the past 18 years, Kashmir has been wracked by a bloody separatist campaign. Authorities say up to 43,000 people have died, but rights groups and non-governmental organizations put the death toll at twice that. Violence had dropped off since the countries began a peace process in 2004, but it surged after the state government in Indian-controlled Kashmir announced plans in June to donate land for a Hindu shrine. Muslim protests following the decision prompted a government U-turn that triggered Hindu demonstrations calling for it to be restored. Subsequent violence left 40 dead and hundreds wounded. It is hoped Tuesday's route opening will bolster the peace agreement and combat lingering mistrust between India and Pakistan. A bilateral cease-fire has been holding in the region for more than four years. A bus service connecting the divided Kashmir began amid much fanfare in 2005 but struggled under the weight of elaborate security checks and stifling bureaucracy. "This is a great emotional moment, as it brings to mind my grandfather, who used to drive lorries on this road," said Muzhar Hussain Naqvi, who drove the leading Pakistani truck. CNN's Sara Sidner and Mukhtar Ahmad contributed to this report

What is the name of the source of a bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947?

Kashmir has been a source of dispute between which countries?

The trade route was the first in how many decades?

What is a source of dispute between India and Pakistan?

How long has it been since there's been a trade route between the two sides?

What is the name of the strip of land where there is a heavy military presence?

What is the strip of occupied land known as?

What is happening for the first time in six decades?

What is the number of decades since the trade route was open?

How long has Kashmir been a source of bitter dispute?

Trade route between the two sides the first in how many decades?

How long has Kashmir been a point of dispute?

What nations are in conflict over Kashmir?

When was the peace accord between the South Asian rivals?

What area is occupied by a strong military presence?

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: India and Pakistan

Answer: more than 60 years.

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: 60 years.

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region

Answer: 60 years.

Answer: end of British rule in 1947.

Answer: more than 60 years.

Answer: more than 60 years.

Answer: 60 years.

Answer: Kashmir

Answer: Pakistan

Answer: 2004,

Answer: Line of Control,

Answer: the peace agreement

Answer: Kashmir

Summary:
Trade route between the two sides the first in six decades .
A heavy military presence occupies strip of land known as the Line of Control .
Kashmir a source of bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 .
Trade meant to bolster a 2004 peace accord between the South Asian rivals .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Police in India have charged 63 people with murder in the beating death of a company boss who fired them. Labor minister Oscar Fernandes was criticized for saying Chaudhary's death was warning to management. The 63 were among 137 people police had rounded up by Wednesday -- two days after a mob of fired employees attacked L.K. Chaudhary, the chief executive of an Italian car parts manufacturing company. The others were charged with disturbing the peace in the Monday incident in Noida, located in the outskirts of the capital New Delhi. More arrests are likely, said R. K. Chaturvedi, the senior superintendent of police in Noida. The former employees of Graziano Transmissioni had gone to meet with company management over their reinstatement, said Noida police Inspector Manoj Pathak. The meeting turned violent, and the mob attacked Chaudhary with iron rods, Pathak said. On Tuesday, India's labor minister, Oscar Fernandes, drew sharp criticism after he said Chaudhary's death should serve as a warning to management, according to CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN. "The workers should be dealt (with) with compassion and should not be pushed so hard that they resort to whatever that had happened in Nodia" CNN-IBN quoted Fernandes as telling reporters. The minister later apologized, telling CNN his comments had been taken out of context. He said the murder of the boss could never be justified. The Italian Embassy said the company had, for several months, been facing "violent forms of protest by self-proclaimed workers' representatives." "The situation had been repeatedly brought to the attention of the competent Indian authorities, both at central and local level," it said in a statement. Business groups condemned the killing with the Confederation of Indian Industry calling it "tragic, unwanted and gory." "Such instances of industrial violence cannot be a solution to any problem and must not be tolerated," said Salil Singh, chairman of the group that promotes industrial growth. Meanwhile, authorities sought to appease businesses that police were aggressively investigating the case. "The legal course will be followed and all culprits brought to book," Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said. "This stray tragic occurrence would not be allowed to mar India's position as an investment-friendly destination." CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

How many people have been charged with murder in India?

What did the labor minister apologize for?

How many people were charged with murder?

Who was attacked by a mob of fired employees?

Did India's labor minister apologize for his statement?

What crime were the 63 people charged with?

What was the apology issued by India's labor minister?

What type of company was run by the chief executive who was attacked?

What were the sixty-three people charged with?

In India, how many people did police charge with murdering their company boss?

Answer: L.K. Chaudhary,

Answer: 63

Answer: Italian car parts manufacturing

Answer: L.K. Chaudhary,

Answer: his comments

Answer: company boss

Answer: 63

Answer: Graziano Transmissioni

Answer: 137

Answer: L.K. Chaudhary,

Answer: Graziano Transmissioni

Answer: later apologized,

Answer: attacked L.K. Chaudhary,

Answer: India

Answer: murder in the beating death of

Answer: his comments

Answer: comments had been taken out of context.

Answer: Italian car parts manufacturing

Answer: murder

Answer: 63

Answer: 63

Summary:
Police in India charge 63 people with murdering company boss who fired them .
Mob of fired employees attacked chief executive of Italian car parts company .
India's labor minister apologizes for saying death is warning to management .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Police tightened security Wednesday in India's Punjab for the funeral of a preacher whose killing in Vienna, Austria sparked violent protests in the Sikh majority state last week.

The body of Rama Sand lies in state in Vienna before being transported to India.

Top-ranking officers are camping in Jalandhar district, where Rama Nand will be cremated Thursday, said Parag Jain, Punjab's inspector-general of police.

"Security arrangements are elaborate," he told CNN.

Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday in Sachkhand Ballan, a monastery dedicated to Guru Ravidass, a 14th-century low-caste Hindu spiritual figure.

Guru Ravidass' writings are predominantly found in the primary Sikh scriptures called the Guru Granth Sahib, placed in the sect temples as in the Sikh houses of worship.

Sect head Niranjan Dass, who was injured in the Vienna assault, will also be arriving Thursday, Sachkhand Ballan secretary S.R. Heer said.

The sikh guru's death led to widespread violence across the Punjab region, which resulted in the army and federal security forces being called in to restore order.

Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas. They also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported.

A number of businesses were ransacked as well. Police reported one death.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, appealed for calm, in a statement.

"There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.

Who was killed
what caused widespred violence
what will come in on thursday
who was shot dead in temple
What is due to arrive

Answer: Rama Sand

Answer: The sikh guru's death

Answer: Nand's body

Answer: Rama Sand

Answer: Nand's body

Summary:
Tensions ease in Punjab after widespread violence over Sikh guru's death .
Sant Rama Nand shot dead in temple in Vienna, Austria; another guru wounded .
Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- President George W. Bush called India's prime minister Thursday to push a proposed nuclear partnership that sparked an unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the Indian leader this week, a White House spokesman said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote despite opposition to the nuclear deal. "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," Gordon Johndroe said. The phone call took place two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh narrowly survived the no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. The vote was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the U.S. The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago. Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants. That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements. In return, India has promised that it would not transfer the fuel and equipment to its weapons program, and it would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect at least 14 of its 22 nuclear plants. The plan would also expand U.S.-Indian cooperation in energy and satellite technology. The plan was approved by India's Cabinet last year, and does not have to be ratified by the parliament. The leaders of India's two communist parties -- which hold about 60 seats in Parliament -- have accused Singh of surrendering India's sovereignty to the United States with the deal. A no-confidence vote would have forced Singh to resign, and required the government to hold early elections unless a new coalition could have been formed. The Congress Party-led coalition has governed India since 2004. Tuesday's 275-256 vote was so crucial to the survival of Singh's government that five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to cast votes -- under the watchful eyes of their jailers. Shortly after Singh survived the vote, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino praised the deal as "a good one for everybody." "It's good for India because it would help provide them a source for energy that they need, one that is nonpolluting and one that doesn't emit greenhouse gas emissions," she said. "And we think that we can move forward with this. If their legislature lets it move forward, then we can do the same here and then we'll be able to get this wrapped up."

Who is President Bush calling on to push a nuclear partnership?

What were five parliament members freed from prison for?

What were the Indian people angry about?

what amount of parliament members were freed to vote?

What does President Bush call India to do?

Who  calls India's PM to push a proposed nuclear partnership?

Answer: five members of parliament serving prison sentences

Answer: India's prime minister

Answer: confidence vote

Answer: India's prime minister

Answer: to cast votes

Answer: India was kowtowing to the U.S.

Answer: five

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: kowtowing to the U.S.

Answer: nuclear partnership

Answer: 275-256

Answer: Thursday

Answer: five members of parliament serving

Answer: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: five members of parliament serving prison sentences

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: President George W. Bush

Summary:
President Bush calls India's PM to push a proposed nuclear partnership .
Indian government won confidence vote in face of anger over U.S. nuclear deal .
Five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to vote .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tensions eased in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, following widespread violence across the region after a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria. Sikh demonstrators brandish sticks as they shout slogans during a protest in Amritsar. The situation was tense, but under control, Punjab's inspector general of police said Tuesday morning. The army and federal security forces were called in to restore order, added inspector general Parag Jain. Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas. They also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported. A number of businesses were ransacked as well. Police reported one death. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, appealed for calm, in a statement. "There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. Killed in Sunday's attack in Vienna was 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand. A second guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, was seriously injured. His health has improved noticeably, according to the Indian Embassy, the Austria News Agency reported. Fifteen others were also wounded. "Sant Niranjan Dass is doing well," the embassy said. "He could soon be released from the hospital." Six people were arrested in connection with the attack, which occurred Sunday afternoon in Vienna's 15th district, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar told CNN. One suspect shot the two gurus, and five other attackers wielding knives assaulted people in the congregation during prayer, Hofar said. Four of the wounded were suspects, two of them in serious condition, he said. About 150 people were in the room when the violence took place, he said. Authorities are investigating what triggered the attacks, but Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter said Sikhs have lived "exceptionally peacefully" in Austria. CNN's Ben Brumfeld and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

When did the violence begin?
Who was shot dead in Vienna?
What caused the tensions in Punjab
Where did the shooting take place?

Answer: Sunday afternoon

Answer: a Sikh guru

Answer: a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.

Answer: Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.

Summary:
Tensions ease in Punjab after widespread violence over Sikh guru's death .
Sant Rama Nand shot dead in temple in Vienna, Austria; another guru wounded .
Situation remains tense in Punjab, police say; also unrest in Doaba region .
Several businesses ransacked, one person reported dead, according to police .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The alleged surviving attacker from last month's Mumbai terror attacks is seeking help from Pakistani officials, India said Monday. Guests arrive at the reopening of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai. The suspect, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, wrote a letter to Pakistan's High Commission in India that was handed over to Pakistan's acting high commissioner in New Delhi on Monday evening, India's foreign ministry said. Asked about the statement, Pakistan's foreign ministry said the government in Islamabad "has so far not received any information or evidence relating to the Mumbai incident from the government of India." According to India's foreign ministry, Kasab, 21, stated in his letter that he and the other attackers were from Pakistan and asked for a meeting with Pakistan's High Commission. Indian authorities said Kasab had admitted he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai on November 26, sparking three days of battles with police and Indian troops in the heart of the city that is the hub of India's financial and entertainment industries. India said Kasab told investigators he and the others were trained for more than a year in Pakistan by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a banned Islamic militant group. The attacks left more than 160 people dead, as well as nine of the gunmen. Most of the deaths occurred at the Taj Mahal Palace and the Oberoi-Trident hotels, which reopened on Sunday -- three weeks after the attacks. CNN's Sara Sidner in New Delhi and Zein Basravi in Islamabad contributed to this report.

Who does the surviving attacker seek help from

Answer: November 26,

Answer: he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai

Answer: Kasab had admitted he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai on November 26,

Answer: Pakistani officials,

Answer: The suspect, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab,

Answer: he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai

Answer: Pakistan's High Commission in India

Summary:
Alleged surviving attacker from Mumbai terror attacks seeks Pakistani help .
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab writes letter to Pakistan's High Commission .
India officials say Kasab has admitted he and other attackers were Pakistani .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The chairman of India's fourth-largest software-services provider resigned Wednesday after confessing to inflating the company's profits for years with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash. Satyam Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju The news sent stocks of the Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services into free fall. Stocks plummeted more than 70 percent within hours after the revelation. The major stock index in India -- the BSE SENSEX -- fell 7.3 percent Wednesday. Satyam employs 53,000 people, operates in 65 countries and serves almost 700 companies, including 185 Fortune 500 companies. More than half of its revenue comes from the United States. Satyam Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said the balance-sheet padding began several years ago to close "a marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in the company's accounting books. It continued through the years, he said. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten," Raju said in a letter to the company's board of directors. Raju said no board member was aware of what he was doing and he did not profit from the inflated accounts. The deception came to light after Raju tried to plug the hole by getting Satyam to buy his son's construction companies. The acquisition was "the last attempt to fill the fictitious assets with real ones," he wrote in his letter. The deal would have cost Satyam $1.6 billion -- but the company's board vetoed it. Stocks fell following the botched deal. Soon afterward, Raju came clean, saying he was doing so "with deep regret, and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience." Analysts say Satyam is ripe for a takeover, and the government is expected to submit a formal report on the matter Thursday. -- CNN's Bharati Naik contributed to this report.

What happened to the stocks of Satyam Computer Services?

In how many countries does Satyam operates in?

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: plummeted more than 70 percent

Answer: 65

Answer: 65

Answer: 53,000

Summary:
News sent stocks of Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services plunging .
Satyam employs 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries .
Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said balance-sheet padding began years ago .
Raju said no board member was aware of what he was doing .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The chief financial officer of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was arrested Saturday, the third person taken into custody in a scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash. Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju is shown Saturday being sent to prison in Hyderabad. Vadlamani Srinivas will appear Sunday before a special court, said A. Sivanarayana, additional director general of police in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, told CNN. Company founder B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother, Rama Raju, Satyam's managing director, were arrested Friday in connection with the scandal. In a letter written to investigators, B. Ramalinga Raju admitted that he and his brother were responsible for cooking the books at Satyam, according to CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN. Satyam, India's fourth-largest software-services provider, serves almost 700 companies, including 185 Fortune 500 companies, and generates more than half its revenues from the United States. It employs some 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries. B. Ramalinga Raju resigned Wednesday and confessed to padding company balance sheets. The practice began several years ago to close "a marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in the company's accounting books, he said, but continued for several years. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten," B. Ramalinga Raju said in a letter to the company's board of directors. He said no board member was aware of what he was doing and he did not profit from the inflated accounts. The deception came to light after he tried to plug the hole by getting Satyam to buy his son's construction companies. The acquisition was "the last attempt to fill the fictitious assets with real ones," he wrote in his letter. The deal would have cost Satyam $1.6 billion -- but the company's board vetoed it. Stocks fell following the botched deal. Soon afterward, B. Ramalinga Raju came clean, saying he was doing so "with deep regret, and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience." After his confession, stocks of the Hyderabad-based company fell more than 70 percent, causing India's major stock index, the BSE SENSEX, to fall 7.3 percent Wednesday. The BSE SENSEX on Thursday deleted Satyam Computer Services from its indices. The company's interim chief executive officer said Thursday the company's immediate goal is to continue its operations uninterrupted. CNN's Bharati Naik and Harmeet Singh contributed to this report.

What was the basis for the fraud charges.

Amount of people that the computer giant employs?

How many countries does the computer giant operate in?

What was Satyam's chief financial officer arrested for?

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets

Answer: 53,000

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: 65

Answer: scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash.

Answer: marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in

Summary:
Satyam's chief financial officer arrested in profit-fraud scandal .
Computer giant employs 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries .
Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said balance-sheet padding began years ago .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The collective cry throughout India of "Jai ho" (May you win) received a resounding answer when composer A.R. Rahman took home two Oscars for the movie "Slumdog Millionaire."

Composer A. R. Rahman, "The Mozart of Madras," celebrates his double Oscar win -- for Best Score and one for the song "Jai Ho" from the film.

Rahman's wins -- one for the song "Jai Ho" and the other for Best Score -- were just two reasons for Indians to erupt in boisterous celebrations Monday morning.

"Slumdog," which was shot in the streets and slums of Mumbai bagged eight golden statuettes in total, including one for Best Sound Mixing. Indian Resul Pookutty shared it with fellow sound editors who worked on the film.

"This is the finest hour of Indian cinema in the global scenario," said Anand Sharma, the country's junior external affairs minister.

Indians crowded around television sets in dorm rooms, restaurants and homes, exhaling in relief as Rahman's name was announced as the winner. They high-fived each other, hugged, shrieked and wept.

"I cannot describe this feeling," said Nikhil Jyonti, a Mumbai resident. "I'm bursting with pride for India."

In the Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where many of the scenes in "Slumdog" were shot, a television  was set out for the street children to watch the ceremony. Few in the teeming slum of one million people had heard of the Oscars, but they knew Rahman's win was a source of pride for the country.

Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches film tells the story of a tea-boy at a Mumbai call center who earns a spot in the Indian version of the quiz show "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" He raises the suspicion of the show's host when, despite the lack of a formal education, he begins to answer the increasingly difficult questions with ease.

The movie also won four Golden Globes and a host of honors at other award shows.

While the overwhelming sentiment was one of pride Monday, the movie has faced backlash from many Indian movie critics who took exception to its depiction of Mumbai's underworld without highlighting any of the city's achievements.

Among the most notable criticisms was one offered by Amitabh Bachchan, considered the most successful movie star in Bollywood history, and a former real-life host of the Indian "Millionaire."

The film," he said, "projects India as the third world's dirty underbelly ... and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots."

But most Mumabikers, still reeling from a terrorist attack in their city in November, embraced the movie while looking for something positive to root for.

They found that in Rahman, a composer who has consistently broken barriers in his musical scores for dozens of Bollywood hits and is known as the "Mozart of Madras." Rahman has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide -- more than the Beatles -- but has remained relatively unknown in Europe and the United States.

Director Spike Lee used one of his songs in his 2006 heist film, "Inside Man."

Many hope the Oscar win will bring Rahman greater exposure. Rahman and Pookutty, however, aren't the first Indians with Academy Awards to their names.

In 1992, legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray received an honorary award for his contribution to world cinema. And in 1982, Bhanu Athaiya shared an Oscar for costume design for the movie "Gandhi."

CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report

What did A.R Rahman win?
Who did India celebrate at the Oscars?
What did Resul Pookutty win?
what did India celebrate last night
what Indian made documentary win
Where is A.R. Rahman from?
What did A.R. Rahman win at the Oscars?
what awards did Rahman win

Answer: two Oscars

Answer: Composer A. R. Rahman,

Answer: Best Sound Mixing.

Answer: double Oscar win

Answer: A.R. Rahman

Answer: India."

Answer: Best Score and one for the song "Jai Ho"

Answer: two Oscars

Summary:
India celebrated composer A.R. Rahman winning two awards at last night's Oscars .
Rahman won Best Score and Best Song for the film "Slumdog Millionaire"
Indian Resul Pookutty also won Best Sound Design for "Slumdog Millionaire"
Indian-made documentary "Smile Pinky" won Best Documentary Short .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The death toll from an outbreak of hepatitis B in India's western Gujarat state reached 38 on Sunday as authorities prepared to begin a vaccination drive against the disease. Hepatitis-B patient Mahir Husain, center, is comforted at a hospital in Ahmedabad. Malayappan Thennarasa, the top administrator of the affected Sabarkantha district, told CNN the toll had climbed to 38 and that shots would be administered free of cost starting Monday. Health officials have recorded 125 cases of the infection in two weeks.   Authorities were carrying out raids at medical stores for bogus drugs and recycled syringes. Police have so far arrested five medical practitioners. One of them was charged Sunday with attempted murder. The doctor is accused of reusing syringes, Thennarasa said. Hepatitis B is a contagious liver disease resulting from infection with the hepatitis B virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It usually spreads through blood, semen, or other bodily fluids, often through sexual contact or sharing needles or syringes with an infected person. The disease can range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, chronic illness resulting in long-term health problems or death, the CDC said.

Where did the victims die?
What disease killed 38 people?
how many recorded?
How many people died?
what state the victims died?
What is the recorded number of cases?
what was contagious?

Answer: state

Answer: hepatitis B

Answer: 125

Answer: 38

Answer: Gujarat

Answer: 125

Answer: hepatitis B

Summary:
An outbreak of contagious liver disease hepatitis B kills 38 people in India .
The victims died in the state of Gujarat in western India in the past two weeks .
Officials have recorded 125 cases of the infection .
Doctor is facing attempted murder charge .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The father of a baby born with his heart protruding from his chest has told CNN about the 1100 km train journey he made to save his son's life. Chander Majhi's son was born with his heart outside his chest  and faces complex surgery. Chander Majhi, 24, became a father last week but he had to leave his wife behind in hospital and make a train journey from a remote region along India's border with Nepal to the capital New Delhi. His son was born with his heart protruding from his chest, an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in one million live births. The parents did not know about the defect until the child was born on August 25 at a government facility in Majhi's home state of Bihar in eastern India. "We didn't go for any (pre-natal) tests," Majhi told CNN. Doctors at the government facility referred him and the baby to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS, A.K. Bisoi, told CNN the baby was admitted to the hospital with dehydration and a severe infection which he probably suffered because of the arduous train journey. Doctors were surprised that the child had been able to survive despite so many complexities, he said. Doctors at the state-run AIIMS are now planning a complex surgery on Thursday for the boy, referred in their records as "baby of Vibha," his mother. His heart has been covered with a synthetic membrane and infected blood fully replaced from his body, said A.K. Bisoi, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS. Surgeons may now plan a total circulatory arrest procedure that will also involve creating a home for the heart in the chest, said Bisoi. The baby, who suffers from immunodeficiency, will be put in a state where his blood will be cooled down to 18 degrees (64 Fahrenheit) for a half-an-hour stage of the operation, he explained. "We could carry it out in one go, if the child is able to tolerate. If not, we will do it in stages," he said. "We are working with hope," Bisoi remarked when asked about chances of success. And it was the same hope that drove Majhi to Delhi. "That is why I am here. There's hope. My child is a fighter," he said. In 2006, doctors in the U.S. state of Florida carried out a similar operation on Naseem Hasni who was born with his heart outside his chest. The operation was carried out immediately after Naseem was born by caesarean section at a Florida hospital. Doctors wrapped his heart in Gore-Tex, a waterproof, breathable fabric used in outdoor clothing and medical applications. His heart was then wrapped in a layer of his own skin, to substitute for his missing pericardium, the sac that encloses the heart. The heart was then slowly eased inside.

In what area did the baby have to have the procedure?

Answer: immunodeficiency,

Answer: Thursday

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: heart

Answer: born

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: five to eight cases in one million live births.

Summary:
NEW: Father speaks about 1100 km train journey to save his son .
Newborn baby with heart protruding from his chest faces complex surgery Thursday .
The baby has severe infection and hole in his heart .
Doctors in New Delhi say only five to eight cases of this kind in one million live births .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday. An aerial view of a flood-affected area in Bijapur district in North Karnataka, India. At least 192 people have died in the southern state of Karnataka, its disaster-management secretary H.V. Parshwanath told CNN. More than 450,000 people there have been housed in 1,330 relief camps as authorities completed rescue operations in most of the flooded zones in the state, he said. "The focus is now mainly on relief," Parshwanath said, adding that rains have now eased in Karnataka. In neighboring Andhra Pradesh, authorities put the death toll at 51. Some 531,000 people have been evacuated to safety, with more half of them now sheltering in relief camps, said Dinesh Kumar, the commissioner of the state's disaster-monitoring department. India has deployed the military to help with relief and rescue in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. More than a dozen teams of naval divers have been sent to the two flood-hit states, the country's defense ministry said. Air force planes and helicopters have also been dropping food packets in the submerged regions. The military has been able to rescue 1,336 people so far, it added. Flood waters were now receding in two of the five worst hit districts of Andhra Pradesh, disaster official Kumar said. But floodwaters from a local river might submerge the remaining three, he warned. Flooding also killed at least 25 people in Maharashtra state, officials said. Three others died because of lightning strikes, said S.C. Mohanty, director of Maharashtra's disaster-management department. About 3,000 people have been displaced because of flooding, he told CNN. Thousands of people die each year in India during seasonal monsoon rains. More than 1,100 had been killed in monsoon-triggered flooding in different parts of the country as of last month, according to the disaster-management division of the federal home ministry.

What number of people have been forced to flee their homes?

What number of people are housed in relief camps?

How many people are known to have died in floods in India?

What is the death toll from floods in India?

How many people approximately  are housed in relief camps?

Answer: India.

Answer: a million

Answer: 1,330 relief camps

Answer: 450,000

Answer: 271,

Answer: 271,

Answer: floods

Answer: More than 450,000

Answer: 271,

Summary:
Death toll from floods in India has now reached 271 .
Over a million people have been forced to flee their homes .
Over 450,000 people in southern state of Karnataka housed in 1,330 relief camps .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The wounds of partition festered again this week in India, resulting in the banning of a book and the expulsion of a respected politician. Protesters burn an effigy of Jaswant Singh over his book; the former foreign minister was ousted from his party. The home state of the father of Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi, forbade the sale and circulation of a new book it says spews revisionist history about the birth of secular but predominantly Hindu India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Written by Jaswant Singh, a former federal minister and senior member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the book calls Mohammed Ali Jinnah, considered by Indians the architect of the partition, a great man who is wrongly demonized. Jinnah went on to become the first governor general of Pakistan. In "Jinnah: India, Partition and Independence," Singh absolves the Pakistani leader as the man responsible for dividing the subcontinent, suggesting instead that it was another beloved independence leader, Sardar Patel, who played a major role. "The book wrongfully portrays the fateful partition of our nation," the Gujarat state government said in a statement. " Such a brainchild has no historic background at all. In the larger interest of society, the state government has decided to impose a ban on the book." The BJP accused Singh of deviating from the party's "core ideology". "We always respect freedom of expression but can never compromise our ideology," Sidharth Nath Singh, a party spokesman, told CNN. "You just can't eulogize Jinnah and accuse Sardar Patel instead." Singh, a widely respected politician known for his moderate views within the ranks of a conservative party, found it appalling that freedom of expression was threatened in the world's largest democracy. "The day we start banning books, we are banning thinking," Singh told reporters. He defended his work and said he did not understand the objection to his writings about Patel, who, as India's first home minister, banned the Hindu revivalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the mother organization of the BJP, after the assassination of Gandhi in 1948. "I don't know which part of the core belief I have demolished," Singh said. Nearly 350 years of British rule ended in 1947 when an agreement for independence was reached to give Muslims their own homeland. Indians think of Jinnah as the man who pushed a two-state notion based on religion as a prerequisite for freedom. In the days that followed, an estimated 1 million people died in a border-crossing exodus. Muslims fled from India into Pakistan while Hindus clamored to find new homes in India. The animosities fueled by that bloody birth -- including three wars fought by India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir -- continue to haunt Indians, said journalist and author Tarun Tejpal. "This flashpoint played out in public is a reminder of those wounds," Tejpal said of the book dispute. As a book of history written by a politician, it might have been inconsequential, Tejpal said. But as a book about the partition, it was incendiary. "What happened 62 years ago continues to haunt us in a very bitter way," Tejpal said. "We can't seem to leave our baggage in the past." This isn't the first time that Pakistan's founder has caused trouble for a Hindu nationalist. BJP President Lal Krishna Advani was forced to temporarily step down in 2005 for praising Jinnah's secularism during a trip to Pakistan. Political observers say the Singh controversy reflects a battle for the soul of the BJP, beleaguered by electoral defeats and vicious infighting. Many in India view the BJP as a divisive force attempting to gain power by exploiting Hindu-Muslim tensions. Advani was charged in the 1992 demolition of the 16th-century Babri mosque in the central Indian city of Ayodhya, though he was later acquitted in that case. Journalist K.G. Suresh, a longtime observer of conservative politics in India, said the BJP is struggling to figure out how to stay electable,

on what countries does the animosities took over?

What did the home state of Mahatma Gandhi ban?

according to the book who was the architect of the division

Who does the book suggest was behind the India-Pakistan partition?

Answer: India and Pakistan

Answer: a new book it says spews revisionist history about the birth of secular but predominantly Hindu India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah,

Answer: Sardar Patel,

Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah,

Summary:
Home state of  Mahatma Gandhi bans revisionist history of India-Pakistan partition .
Book suggests independence leader Sardar Patel was the architect of the division .
Animosities over the partition continue to impact India and Pakistan .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Three weeks after an apparent misunderstanding sparked a confrontation, deadly Hindu-Christian riots continue unabated in the remote east Indian state of Orissa. Police officers chase away a protester in Mangalore, India, Monday. By Tuesday, about 20 deaths had been reported, said Praveen Kumar, the superintendent of police in the worst-affected Kandhamal district. The latest casualty is a police officer who died after an armed mob of about 400 to 500 mostly Hindus torched a police station in the district on Monday, Orissa state police said. Orissa's Director General of Police G.C. Nanda the policeman died when the mob opened fire at officers fleeing the burning building. The attack, he said, may have been in retaliation for arrests that police made in the ongoing communal fighting.  Watch more about the riots in India » The attack came two days after police fired on a crowd to prevent it from attacking Christian residents. Between three and six people died in the shooting, CNN's sister network CNN-IBN reported. The violence spread to southern India over the weekend when vandals attacked 14 churches in an hour in the state of Karnataka Sunday, the network said. The Christian community in the Karnataka -- numbering about 2.5 million -- said right-wing Hindus are targeting them for opposing the violence in Orissa. By Tuesday, police had arrested about 140 people in connection with the riots, said Karnataka's Inspector General of Police A.M. Prasad. Sixty of them -- all Hindus -- were arrested for the church attacks, Prasad said. The rest, mostly Christians, were charged with disturbing the peace, he said. Orissa has historically been a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions. Some Hindu groups view the work of Christian missionaries in the state with suspicion. They accuse missionaries of bribing or forcing Hindus into converting. The seeds for the current conflict were planted on August 23, when Hindu leader, Laxmananda Saraswati, and four others were killed in Kandhamal after 20 to 30 gunmen barged into a Hindu school and began shooting, the Orissa chief minister's office said. The authorities have not determined who killed Saraswati, but after the incident they detained five people who are Christians, said Sukanta Panda, spokesman for the chief minister. The government says the killings may have been the work of Maoist rebels -- investigators have many unanswered questions -- but some hardline Hindus blamed a Christian minority. They took to the streets in anger, rampaging through predominantly Christian neighborhoods, ransacking shops and torching houses. They chopped down trees to block roads, making it difficult for police to reach trouble spots. A Christian orphanage was set on fire. A 20-year-old woman, who was teaching children inside, burned to death. Christian residents fought back, and the clashes spread. Authorities imposed a night curfew in many towns and deployed state and federal forces in the troubled areas, Kumar -- the police superintendent -- said. Both sides said the violence has left Christian churches and Hindu temples razed to the ground. This is not the first time the simmering anger has boiled over in the state with deadly consequences. In 1999, a Hindu mob burned to death an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two children while they slept inside their car. And last Christmas, clashing groups killed four people and burned several churches in the same Orissa district -- Kandhamal. Maoist rebels, who claim to be fighting for the poor and the dispossessed, have been battling the Indian government in an insurgency that has resulted in thousands of casualties since the late 1960s. Some Christians accept the Maoist theory, saying the rebels have also struck against hard-line Hindus because they associate them as being closely aligned with the government. But Hindu groups insists that Christians were behind Saraswati's death. Unlike Orissa, Karnataka has until now been spared the large-scale clash between Christians and Hindus. But now, many in the Christian community fear their calm and prosperous state may become another battleground between the two religions, CNN-IBN said. CNN's Harmeet Singh contributed to

What state was a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions?

Who died after a Hindu mob torched a police station?

Answer: Orissa.

Answer: is a police officer

Answer: southern India

Answer: officer

Answer: police officer

Answer: Orissa.

Answer: Monday,

Answer: a crowd

Summary:
Orissa state has historically been a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions .
Violence spread to southern India with churches attacked in Karnataka state .
Latest casualty was a policeman who died after a Hindu mob torched a police station .
Attack came 2 days after police fired on a crowd to prevent it attacking Christians .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tibetan exile leaders, meeting in northern India to debate a potential new approach to Tibet's decades-long struggle for autonomy, have voted to stay with the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach," according to a spokesman for the spiritual leader.

Some have sought Tibet's independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has sought autonomy.

"The majority of the people have spoken and have requested his holiness the Dalai Lama to continue with his middle way approach," said spokesman Tenzin Taklha.

The meeting was called after the Dalai Lama acknowledged he had failed in his efforts to convince China to restore the territory's autonomy. He did not attend the week-long conference in Dharamsala, a town in the hills of north India where he lives in exile. He called the meeting, he said, to offer the exiles an opportunity to discuss "the best possible future course of action" for Tibet.

Takhla said the Tibetans demonstrated that the Dalai Lama was their undisputed leader, and they hoped China would recognize him as such and negotiations toward a realistic solution could be held.

There was a small minority who said they wanted to demand Tibet's independence, Takhla said.

The "middle way" approach with Beijing is one in which Tibetans want a level of autonomy that will allow them to protect and preserve their culture, religion and national identity. In exchange, China could continue to claim Tibet as part of its territory.

Some in Tibet have advocated independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has long called for genuine autonomy.

Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said they favor real autonomy and resent the slow erosion of their culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in China.  Learn about Tibet's history of conflict »

The resentment spilled over in March, when Buddhist monks initiated peaceful anti-Chinese protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The demonstrations began March 14, the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Beijing's rule that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.

The protests soon turned violent, with demonstrators burning vehicles and shops. Some protesters advocated independence from China, while others demonstrated against the growing influence of the Han Chinese in Tibet and other regions of China with ethnic Tibetan populations. The subsequent crackdown left 18 civilians and one police officer dead, according to the Chinese government. Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile put the death toll from the protests at 140.

China blamed the Dalai Lama and his followers for the March riots -- a charge he has consistently denied.

What does a small minority demand for Tibet?

What does the Dalai Lama seek from Bejing?

Answer: the Dalai Lama

Answer: small minority

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: independence,

Answer: the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach,"

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: Tibet's independence,

Answer: "middle way approach,"

Summary:
Tibetan exile leaders back Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach"
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, seeks genuine autonomy from Beijing .
Small minority want to demand Tibet's independence, spokesman says .