By Bob Ellis on March 4th, 2010
We don’t hear so much about this now, but not too long ago in history it was common for nations to pay off annoying or threatening groups to leave them alone. One of the more well-known and relatively recent example of this was when European nations and even [...]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/2-minors-medical-student-commit-suicide-in-mumbai/108169-3.html?from=tn
Two minors and a medical student are suspected to have committed suicide here, sending shock waves across the city Monday.
A 20-year-old medical student, whose identity was not immediately known, was found dead in her flat at Chaitanya Nagar in the upmarket Powai area of north-west Mumbai, police said, adding that prelimanary investigations suggest it could [...]

NEW DELHI — Protesters took to the streets Friday, setting public buses on fire and clashing with police, in anger over India’s decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh.
The conflict highlighted the tensions that underlie the vast array of ethnic and linguistic groups bound together in the massive [...]

(CNN) — The U.S Army has granted a member of a religious minority permission to keep his turban, beard and uncut hair while he serves in the military, the Pentagon and a group representing him said.
Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, a doctor, is a Sikh, a faith that calls on its adherents not to shave or [...]

NEW YORK — One of America’s wealthiest men was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that prosecutors say generated more than $25 million in illegal profits and should be a wake-up call for Wall Street.
Raj Rajaratnam, a partner in Galleon Management and a portfolio [...]

By Yousuf Azimy
KABUL (Reuters) – A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76, in the latest of a series of attacks by militants on diplomatic and government buildings in the Afghan capital.
Violence has reached its worst levels of the eight-year war as Taliban insurgents [...]

Air India pilots, crew slug it out at 30,000 ft
Saurabh Sinha & Neha Lalchandani
NEW DELHI: The Maharaja witnessed his first in-flight Mughal-e-Azam at 30,000 feet above sea level on Saturday, as two members of the cabin crew—one male and one female slugged it out with the pilot and co-pilot.
Endangering the lives of 106 passengers [...]

From india today:
Overall Performance

Best Big State: Punjab
Best Small State: Delhi
Fastest Mover: Himachal Pradesh

Agriculture

Best Big State: Punjab
Best Small State: Puducherry
Fastest Mover (2003-09): Punjab