Indian Supreme Court orders reopening of Hindu-Muslim riot cases
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India's Supreme Court ordered that some 2,000 cases stemming from Hindu-Muslim riots which ravaged western Gujarat two years ago be reinvestigated amid allegations of bias on the part of the state authorities.
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A court asked India's federal police on Tuesday to reinvestigate anti-Sikh riots in 1984 after a witness surfaced to implicate a former minister in the violence that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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A Hindu cleric facing murder charges in southern India is also accused of ordering an attack on a former devotee.
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India's Supreme Court orders controversial politician Rajesh Ranjan, who is facing murder charges, back to jail.
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The &amp;quot;Da Vinci Code&amp;quot;, which opened to packed houses in New Delhi last weekend, has been banned in a fourth Indian state following street protests by Christians, officials said.
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A court in the western Indian state of Gujarat has given life term to six Muslim men for killing two Hindu boys in 2002.
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The Supreme Court ordered a rerun of the head-to-head presidential contest between Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko and the Kremlin-backed candidate on Dec. 26, setting off rejoicing Friday by opposition supporters who waved orange flags and ignited fireworks as they chanted "Yushchenko! Yushchenko!"
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The Taj Mahal, India's famous monument to love, reopens after being closed to tourists for a day after rioting in Agra city.
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The Supreme Court Tuesday sought noted Bollywood film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's response   on a plea seeking resumption of his prosecution for allegedly setting fire to the sets of his film   Black in 2004 to claim insurance.
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A Pakistan court orders the re-arrest of Asif Ali Zardari, husband of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, his lawyer says.
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The retrial of 16 Hindus charged with the murder of 12 Muslims in the Gujarat riots of 2002 opens in Mumbai.
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The row over smacking children was reopened today as the government announced a review of the law less than three years since MPs rejected an outright ban.
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Pakistani police detained opposition activists on Monday to stop them protesting in front of the Supreme Court as it resumed hearing petitions against President Pervez Musharraf's plans for re-election.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in an historic ruling on Friday that dealt a blow to President Pervez Musharraf, who suspended the country's top judge four months earlier.
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India's Supreme Court names two prosecution lawyers for the retrial of a notorious Gujarat riot case.
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(InfoWorld) - Operations of IT services companies in Bangalore face potential disruptions as the city protests a tribunal decision on the sharing of river waters between two states. The order covers Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, and the neighboring Tamil Nadu state. Besides Indian outsourcers like Infosys and Wipro, a number of multinational companies, including Dell, IBM, and Accenture have global services operations in Bangalore. The tribunal, set up to arbitrate the dispute, delivered a verdict on Monday that has angered the people of Karnataka, who want a larger share of the waters of the Cauvery river. Disputes over sharing the waters of the Cauvery have in the past led to violence in Karnataka. A verdict over sharing of Cauvery water by another panel, in 1991, sparked off anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka, which left about 18 people dead. Karnataka has a significant number of settlers from Tamil Nadu. A few Bangalore IT companies closed operations early on Monday and asked their staff to work from home as they were worried that news of the order would trigger off violence in the city. Most others however ran their operations normally. "It is business as usual as extra police have been deployed, and everything seems under control," said a spokeswoman for Infosys of Bangalore. Infosys, which is Indiaâs second largest outsourcer, is in touch with the government and is evaluating the situation round-the-clock, she added. Accenture, which also has a large operation in Bangalore, is working normally, said a spokesman for the company. The company has staff working on both day and night shifts. So far, there have been reports of only sporadic protests in Bangalore and surrounding districts. The government of Karnataka deployed about 18,000 police in the city ahead of the tribunal's verdict. If violence erupts or if there are calls for strikes, IT companies may have to temporarily scale down their Bangalore operations as it will become difficult for staff to get to work. Most IT companies like Infosys and Wipro have business continuity plans in place to move work to their facilities in other locations in India.
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A court in India convicts 14 Hindus of killing Muslims during bloody religious riots nearly 20 years ago.