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July 2009

 

India prays for rain as water wars break out The Observer, 12 July 2009

The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue. Gethin Chamberlain reports

IT was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After days without a drop of water, the Malviya family were the first to reach the hole they had drilled in the pipe, filling what containers they had as quickly as they could. Within minutes, three of them were dead, hacked to death by angry neighbours who accused them of stealing water. 

 

Gunman's blow-by-blow account of Mumbai attack after change of plea, The Guardian, 20 Jul 2009:

Teenage terrorist takes courtroom by surprise with detailed account of attack that killed 166 people

 

Indian politician arrested over rape comments, The Guardian, 16 Jul 2009

Rita Joshi held after criticising state chief minister Mayawati

 

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