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Source: Reuters NEW DELHI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - 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 ... More...

Source: Reuters (Corrects second paragraph to say Times of India reported, not Hindustan Times) NEW DELHI, July 29 (Reuters) - Sikh leaders in the Indian capital want an end to ostentatious weddings involving ... More...

Source: IRIN Urban water quality in Pakistan has deteriorated dangerously over the past decade and the country's most heavily populated province, the Punjab, is at risk, say specialists. In Lahore, capital of the Punjab, east Pakistan, leaking sewage pipes are allowing dirty water to seep into...

(Washington D.C., June 17, 2005) - U.S. President George W. Bush should vigorously press the Vietnamese government to improve its dismal human rights record when Vietnam's prime minister visits the White House on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said today...

NEW DELHI, June 8 (Reuters) - Police in the Indian capital on Wednesday arrested three men, including a top Sikh militant and the main accused in the bombing of two cinemas last month that killed one person and wounded dozens...