India
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | June 24th, 2003 | Trackback
Hopes that a rapprochement between India and Pakistan could lead to peace in Kashmir were diminished when suspected militants launched three grenade attacks in four days June 20. The surge of violence was one of the worst since the beginning of a tentative peace plan between the two countries in April. Other incidents during the same period brought the death toll to sixteen, and dozens were wounded in the attacks that took place near Srinigar, Kashmir’s main city.
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India
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | June 10th, 2003 | Trackback
The monsoon finally arrived to bring relief to a scorched subcontinent where a three-week heat wave kept temperatures as high as 120 degrees and more than 1200 people died. The welcome rains were a week late in the south and are spreading throughout the country. Most of the deaths were in Andhra Pradesh state among the poor and homeless, but one Australian tourist became a victim when she suffered heat stroke on a crowded train to Varanasi. Clean water is critically short in large parts of India because of recent droughts. Lakes and rivers have dried up and the water table has dropped, causing countless wells to run dry.
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