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Nepal steps up security to quell Tibetan protest
Mar 09 (ENS) KATMANDU- Nepal has stepped up security and warned Tibetans exiles against organizing protests against China during the anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile, officials said Tuesday.
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Pakistan court convicts men for burying women alive
Mar 09 (BBC) A court in Pakistan has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the murder of two women who were buried alive in Balochistan province in July 2008.
The court in Balochistan's Jaffarabad district also released 16 other men who had been suspects in the case.
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Nepal ex-king 'wants' country to become Hindu state
Mar 08 (HT) Almost four years after Nepal proclaimed itself as secular, former king Gyanendra Shah on Monday attended a religious function that is demanding Hindu nation status for the country.
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India to reintroduce controversial women's bill
Mar 08 (BBC) A landmark bill reserving a third of parliamentary seats for women is due to be reintroduced in India's parliament.
The bill is to be presented in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) on Monday and in the lower house (Lok Sabha) later.
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Many die in India temple stampede, police say
Mar 04 (BBC) At least 63 people have died in a stampede after the gate of a Hindu temple collapsed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police say.
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Two arrested in India for tiger cubs death
Mar 09 (BBC) Two villagers have been arrested for allegedly killing two tiger cubs at the Ranthambhore national park in the north-west Indian state of Rajasthan.
Wildlife officials said the men poisoned the cubs in revenge for poaching their cattle. The carcasses of the cubs were found in the park on Sunday.
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Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refugees
Mar 09 (BBC) An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation.
Physicians for Human Rights said government authorities are preventing the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, from receiving adequate care.
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Bangladesh premier pledges to abolish discrimination against women
Mar 08 (M&C) Dhaka- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed pledged Monday to amend or repeal laws that discriminate against women in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh.
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Pakistan suicide bomb attack kills 11 in Lahore
Mar 08 (BBC) At least 11 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, police say.
More than 60 others were injured when an explosives-laden car targeted a building housing an anti-terrorist wing of the federal investigative agency.
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