Sunday, January 24, 1999
Missionary, sons set afire
The campaign against Christians, so far largely limited to Gujarat, took an ominous turn with an Australian missionary and his two sons being torched to death in Keonjhar district early yesterday morning.
Talbott blasts India's theocratic political set-up
In an unprecedented critique of democracy and governance in India, US officials have expressed concern over what they see as a rise in caste and religious-based politics that is threatening to "undermine pluralism, civil society, good governance and the rule of law."
Express staffer Shivani murdered
Shivani, a principal correspondent with The Indian Express and an intrepid member of the newspaper's Special Investigative Team, was found murdered in her Patparganj (East Delhi) residence yesterday evening.
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