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...itself is the objective. It says: 'We're here. And this is what we are going to do to you.'" In a paper published Monday, Institute research fellow Bibhu Prasad Routray warned that SIMI had been stepping up its operations in Bombay and the surrounding state of Maharashtra. He described several "SIMI strongholds" in the state, adding that the "seizure of 30 kilograms of RDX, 17 AK-47s and 50 hand grenades from Aurangabad and Malegaon [two Maharashtran towns] between May 9 and 12 and subsequent arrests of 11 LeT terrorists pointed to linkages between SIMI...
Almost since the day the H5N1 virus was first discovered, India has loudly proclaimed itself free of the bird flu it causes. The discovery that 50,000 chickens have died of H5N1 in the western state of Maharashtra has confirmed what many long suspected: that for a vast country with a chicken population of around 2.4 billion producing 33 billion eggs a year on 160,000 farms, the arrival of a disease thought to be spread by migratory birds was only a matter of time...
...Some suspect bird flu has been in India for a while, but merely gone undetected. Indeed Maharashtra's Animal Husbandry Minister himself suggested the outbreak began in mid-January. "As they died, truck drivers just dumped them on the highways," says Anees Ahmed. "The damage would have been less if we had been informed on time, but we were not kept in the picture." Nor does India's record on dampening the spread of other diseases inspire confidence. While some southern states, which are generally richer and have better healthcare, have won commendation from health experts for their efforts...
...well spent. Over the past two weeks, H5N1 avian flu has breached the heart of Europe, cropping up in Germany, Italy, Austria and France, among other countries. On Saturday, India confirmed its first outbreak of H5N1 in poultry, and began culling 500,000 birds in the western state of Maharashtra. Yet in a world where millions die every year because of diseases that could be prevented with a bit more funding, $1.9 billion is a lot of money for a virus that has so far killed fewer than 100 people. A real risk exists that a single-minded battle against...
...week's end, authorities said the floods had killed 370 people in Bombay and about 900 across Maharashtra state, and had caused some $230 million worth of damage. The storm effectively shut down the city of 16 million. Power and telephone lines were severed. Without staff or customers, stores closed. Trains and buses stopped running, and planes were grounded because the international airport was flooded. Streets stayed blocked for days by vehicles whose drivers had abandoned them. If Bombay really is the business capital of the next big economy, asked the city's stranded businessmen, how come the entire infrastructure...