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Caste battles loom in India's lawless east
There's an old joke in India's eastern state of Bihar: “People don't cast their votes, they vote for their caste.” Caste allegiances have dominated the political landscape of Bihar, a possible swing state in the country's April-May general election, (...)

10 - 04 - 2009
50 held, many hurt in India migrant riots
More than 50 people were arrested and about a dozen injured in clashes with police in eastern India on Saturday in protests against attacks on migrants in the financial hub of Mumbai, police said. Protesters vandalized railway stations, blocked (...)

26 - 10 - 2008
20 hurt in India migrant riots
At least 20 people were injured in clashes with police in eastern India on Friday in protests over attacks on migrants in the financial hub of Mumbai, police said. Protesters blocked roads, smashed cars and burnt tyres in the eastern state of (...)

25 - 10 - 2008
Migrant violence rages on
Protesters in the eastern Indian state of Bihar torched trains and ransacked stations for a fourth day on Thursday in retaliation for attacks on migrants in western India, ignoring an appeal for calm by the chief minister. Police arrested more than (...)

24 - 10 - 2008
India villagers urged to evacuate as waters rise
Authorities fighting floods in eastern India urged thousands of villagers to leave their homes on Saturday after rains caused flood waters to rise. More than four million people fled their homes after the Kosi river, which originates in Nepal, (...)

14 - 09 - 2008
Food riots as Indian floods destroy 2.5 million homes
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than two million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person was killed in Madhepura (...)

28 - 08 - 2008
Food crisis? Try rats, says Indian state govt
A state government in eastern Indian is encouraging people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks. Authorities in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, are asking rich and poor alike to switch to eating rats in (...)

19 - 08 - 2008
Man orders father killed to get his job
An Indian man, frustrated at failing to find employment, ordered the murder of his father to get his government job, a day before the victim was to retire, police said on Tuesday. The man, arrested from a village in the impoverished eastern Bihar (...)

05 - 06 - 2008
‘Osama Bin Laden' shot dead in India
An elephant named “Osama Bin Laden” that has killed more than 11 people and injured dozens over the past few months was shot dead in eastern India, officials said on Saturday. The wild male elephant, had been terrorizing villagers in two states, (...)

01 - 06 - 2008
Barbers turn health educators
An eastern Indian state is recruiting around 4,000 barbers to give free haircuts to poor children to improve hygiene and stop the children “looking funny,” a senior government official said. The barbers, paid a monthly wage of Rs1,500 (around $37), (...)

14 - 05 - 2008
Dozens of officials quit after Maoist threat
At least 64 district politicians in one of India's poorest states have resigned en masse, citing threats from Maoist insurgents, officials said on Monday. Officials from the National Democratic Alliance in the eastern state of Bihar quit their (...)

06 - 05 - 2008
16 girls stripped in school
At least 16 schoolgirls were made to strip naked by their teachers in eastern India after one student complained she had lost her pocket money, police said on Tuesday. Officials said the girls in Jharkhand state were taken to a room and (...)

30 - 04 - 2008
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