NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Police tightened security Wednesday in India's Punjab for the funeral of a preacher whose killing in Vienna, Austria sparked violent protests in the Sikh majority state last week.

The body of Rama Sand lies in state in Vienna before being transported to India.

Top-ranking officers are camping in Jalandhar district, where Rama Nand will be cremated Thursday, said Parag Jain, Punjab's inspector-general of police.

"Security arrangements are elaborate," he told CNN.

Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday in Sachkhand Ballan, a monastery dedicated to Guru Ravidass, a 14th-century low-caste Hindu spiritual figure.

Guru Ravidass' writings are predominantly found in the primary Sikh scriptures called the Guru Granth Sahib, placed in the sect temples as in the Sikh houses of worship.

Sect head Niranjan Dass, who was injured in the Vienna assault, will also be arriving Thursday, Sachkhand Ballan secretary S.R. Heer said.

The sikh guru's death led to widespread violence across the Punjab region, which resulted in the army and federal security forces being called in to restore order.

Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas. They also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported.

A number of businesses were ransacked as well. Police reported one death.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, appealed for calm, in a statement.

"There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.

Question:
Who was killed
what caused widespred violence
what will come in on thursday
who was shot dead in temple
What is due to arrive

Answer: Rama Sand

Answer: The sikh guru's death

Answer: Nand's body

Answer: Rama Sand

Answer: Nand's body

Summary:
Tensions ease in Punjab after widespread violence over Sikh guru's death .
Sant Rama Nand shot dead in temple in Vienna, Austria; another guru wounded .
Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- President George W. Bush called India's prime minister Thursday to push a proposed nuclear partnership that sparked an unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the Indian leader this week, a White House spokesman said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote despite opposition to the nuclear deal. "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," Gordon Johndroe said. The phone call took place two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh narrowly survived the no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. The vote was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the U.S. The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago. Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants. That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements. In return, India has promised that it would not transfer the fuel and equipment to its weapons program, and it would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect at least 14 of its 22 nuclear plants. The plan would also expand U.S.-Indian cooperation in energy and satellite technology. The plan was approved by India's Cabinet last year, and does not have to be ratified by the parliament. The leaders of India's two communist parties -- which hold about 60 seats in Parliament -- have accused Singh of surrendering India's sovereignty to the United States with the deal. A no-confidence vote would have forced Singh to resign, and required the government to hold early elections unless a new coalition could have been formed. The Congress Party-led coalition has governed India since 2004. Tuesday's 275-256 vote was so crucial to the survival of Singh's government that five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to cast votes -- under the watchful eyes of their jailers. Shortly after Singh survived the vote, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino praised the deal as "a good one for everybody." "It's good for India because it would help provide them a source for energy that they need, one that is nonpolluting and one that doesn't emit greenhouse gas emissions," she said. "And we think that we can move forward with this. If their legislature lets it move forward, then we can do the same here and then we'll be able to get this wrapped up."

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Question: who president bush calls?

Question: what did indian governemnet win

Question: Who is President Bush calling on to push a nuclear partnership?

Question: What were five parliament members freed from prison for?

Question: What were the Indian people angry about?

Question: what amount of parliament members were freed to vote?

Question: What does President Bush call India to do?

Question: What was there anger about?

Question: what did bush propose

Question: What was the final vote count?

Question: When did Bush call?

Question: How many serve prison sentences?

Question: Who  won confidence vote?

Question: What were they voting for?

Question: Who were freed to vote?

Question: What did Bush want from Indian PM?

Question: Who  calls India's PM to push a proposed nuclear partnership?

Answer: five members of parliament serving prison sentences

Answer: India's prime minister

Answer: confidence vote

Answer: India's prime minister

Answer: to cast votes

Answer: India was kowtowing to the U.S.

Answer: five

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: kowtowing to the U.S.

Answer: nuclear partnership

Answer: 275-256

Answer: Thursday

Answer: five members of parliament serving

Answer: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: five members of parliament serving prison sentences

Answer: proposed nuclear partnership

Answer: President George W. Bush

Summary:
President Bush calls India's PM to push a proposed nuclear partnership .
Indian government won confidence vote in face of anger over U.S. nuclear deal .
Five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to vote .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tensions eased in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, following widespread violence across the region after a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria. Sikh demonstrators brandish sticks as they shout slogans during a protest in Amritsar. The situation was tense, but under control, Punjab's inspector general of police said Tuesday morning. The army and federal security forces were called in to restore order, added inspector general Parag Jain. Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas. They also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported. A number of businesses were ransacked as well. Police reported one death. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, appealed for calm, in a statement. "There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. Killed in Sunday's attack in Vienna was 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand. A second guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, was seriously injured. His health has improved noticeably, according to the Indian Embassy, the Austria News Agency reported. Fifteen others were also wounded. "Sant Niranjan Dass is doing well," the embassy said. "He could soon be released from the hospital." Six people were arrested in connection with the attack, which occurred Sunday afternoon in Vienna's 15th district, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar told CNN. One suspect shot the two gurus, and five other attackers wielding knives assaulted people in the congregation during prayer, Hofar said. Four of the wounded were suspects, two of them in serious condition, he said. About 150 people were in the room when the violence took place, he said. Authorities are investigating what triggered the attacks, but Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter said Sikhs have lived "exceptionally peacefully" in Austria. CNN's Ben Brumfeld and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

Question:
When did the violence begin?
Who was shot dead in Vienna?
What caused the tensions in Punjab
Where did the shooting take place?

Answer: Sunday afternoon

Answer: a Sikh guru

Answer: a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.

Answer: Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.

Summary:
Tensions ease in Punjab after widespread violence over Sikh guru's death .
Sant Rama Nand shot dead in temple in Vienna, Austria; another guru wounded .
Situation remains tense in Punjab, police say; also unrest in Doaba region .
Several businesses ransacked, one person reported dead, according to police .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The alleged surviving attacker from last month's Mumbai terror attacks is seeking help from Pakistani officials, India said Monday. Guests arrive at the reopening of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai. The suspect, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, wrote a letter to Pakistan's High Commission in India that was handed over to Pakistan's acting high commissioner in New Delhi on Monday evening, India's foreign ministry said. Asked about the statement, Pakistan's foreign ministry said the government in Islamabad "has so far not received any information or evidence relating to the Mumbai incident from the government of India." According to India's foreign ministry, Kasab, 21, stated in his letter that he and the other attackers were from Pakistan and asked for a meeting with Pakistan's High Commission. Indian authorities said Kasab had admitted he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai on November 26, sparking three days of battles with police and Indian troops in the heart of the city that is the hub of India's financial and entertainment industries. India said Kasab told investigators he and the others were trained for more than a year in Pakistan by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a banned Islamic militant group. The attacks left more than 160 people dead, as well as nine of the gunmen. Most of the deaths occurred at the Taj Mahal Palace and the Oberoi-Trident hotels, which reopened on Sunday -- three weeks after the attacks. CNN's Sara Sidner in New Delhi and Zein Basravi in Islamabad contributed to this report.

Question: when was the attack?

Question: What did Kasak admit to?

Question: what did officials say

Question: Who does the surviving attacker seek help from

Question: who wrote a letter

Question: what did kasab admit

Question: Who did  Kasak write a letter to?

Answer: November 26,

Answer: he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai

Answer: Kasab had admitted he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai on November 26,

Answer: Pakistani officials,

Answer: The suspect, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab,

Answer: he was one of 10 gunmen who attacked several targets in Mumbai

Answer: Pakistan's High Commission in India

Summary:
Alleged surviving attacker from Mumbai terror attacks seeks Pakistani help .
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab writes letter to Pakistan's High Commission .
India officials say Kasab has admitted he and other attackers were Pakistani .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The chairman of India's fourth-largest software-services provider resigned Wednesday after confessing to inflating the company's profits for years with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash. Satyam Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju The news sent stocks of the Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services into free fall. Stocks plummeted more than 70 percent within hours after the revelation. The major stock index in India -- the BSE SENSEX -- fell 7.3 percent Wednesday. Satyam employs 53,000 people, operates in 65 countries and serves almost 700 companies, including 185 Fortune 500 companies. More than half of its revenue comes from the United States. Satyam Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said the balance-sheet padding began several years ago to close "a marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in the company's accounting books. It continued through the years, he said. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten," Raju said in a letter to the company's board of directors. Raju said no board member was aware of what he was doing and he did not profit from the inflated accounts. The deception came to light after Raju tried to plug the hole by getting Satyam to buy his son's construction companies. The acquisition was "the last attempt to fill the fictitious assets with real ones," he wrote in his letter. The deal would have cost Satyam $1.6 billion -- but the company's board vetoed it. Stocks fell following the botched deal. Soon afterward, Raju came clean, saying he was doing so "with deep regret, and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience." Analysts say Satyam is ripe for a takeover, and the government is expected to submit a formal report on the matter Thursday. -- CNN's Bharati Naik contributed to this report.

Question: Who is Satyam's Chairman?

Question: What happened to the stocks of Satyam Computer Services?

Question: How many countries do they operate in?

Question: In how many countries does Satyam operates in?

Question: How many people do they employ?

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: plummeted more than 70 percent

Answer: 65

Answer: 65

Answer: 53,000

Summary:
News sent stocks of Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services plunging .
Satyam employs 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries .
Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said balance-sheet padding began years ago .
Raju said no board member was aware of what he was doing .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The chief financial officer of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was arrested Saturday, the third person taken into custody in a scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash. Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju is shown Saturday being sent to prison in Hyderabad. Vadlamani Srinivas will appear Sunday before a special court, said A. Sivanarayana, additional director general of police in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, told CNN. Company founder B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother, Rama Raju, Satyam's managing director, were arrested Friday in connection with the scandal. In a letter written to investigators, B. Ramalinga Raju admitted that he and his brother were responsible for cooking the books at Satyam, according to CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN. Satyam, India's fourth-largest software-services provider, serves almost 700 companies, including 185 Fortune 500 companies, and generates more than half its revenues from the United States. It employs some 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries. B. Ramalinga Raju resigned Wednesday and confessed to padding company balance sheets. The practice began several years ago to close "a marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in the company's accounting books, he said, but continued for several years. "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten," B. Ramalinga Raju said in a letter to the company's board of directors. He said no board member was aware of what he was doing and he did not profit from the inflated accounts. The deception came to light after he tried to plug the hole by getting Satyam to buy his son's construction companies. The acquisition was "the last attempt to fill the fictitious assets with real ones," he wrote in his letter. The deal would have cost Satyam $1.6 billion -- but the company's board vetoed it. Stocks fell following the botched deal. Soon afterward, B. Ramalinga Raju came clean, saying he was doing so "with deep regret, and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience." After his confession, stocks of the Hyderabad-based company fell more than 70 percent, causing India's major stock index, the BSE SENSEX, to fall 7.3 percent Wednesday. The BSE SENSEX on Thursday deleted Satyam Computer Services from its indices. The company's interim chief executive officer said Thursday the company's immediate goal is to continue its operations uninterrupted. CNN's Bharati Naik and Harmeet Singh contributed to this report.

Question: Who is the chairman of the company?

Question: What was the basis for the fraud charges.

Question: Amount of people that the computer giant employs?

Question: Who is the chairman?

Question: How many countries does the computer giant operate in?

Question: What was Satyam's chief financial officer arrested for?

Question: What is balance sheet padding

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets

Answer: 53,000

Answer: B. Ramalinga Raju

Answer: 65

Answer: scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash.

Answer: marginal gap" between actual operating profit and one reflected in

Summary:
Satyam's chief financial officer arrested in profit-fraud scandal .
Computer giant employs 53,000 people and operates in 65 countries .
Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said balance-sheet padding began years ago .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The collective cry throughout India of "Jai ho" (May you win) received a resounding answer when composer A.R. Rahman took home two Oscars for the movie "Slumdog Millionaire."

Composer A. R. Rahman, "The Mozart of Madras," celebrates his double Oscar win -- for Best Score and one for the song "Jai Ho" from the film.

Rahman's wins -- one for the song "Jai Ho" and the other for Best Score -- were just two reasons for Indians to erupt in boisterous celebrations Monday morning.

"Slumdog," which was shot in the streets and slums of Mumbai bagged eight golden statuettes in total, including one for Best Sound Mixing. Indian Resul Pookutty shared it with fellow sound editors who worked on the film.

"This is the finest hour of Indian cinema in the global scenario," said Anand Sharma, the country's junior external affairs minister.

Indians crowded around television sets in dorm rooms, restaurants and homes, exhaling in relief as Rahman's name was announced as the winner. They high-fived each other, hugged, shrieked and wept.

"I cannot describe this feeling," said Nikhil Jyonti, a Mumbai resident. "I'm bursting with pride for India."

In the Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where many of the scenes in "Slumdog" were shot, a television  was set out for the street children to watch the ceremony. Few in the teeming slum of one million people had heard of the Oscars, but they knew Rahman's win was a source of pride for the country.

Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches film tells the story of a tea-boy at a Mumbai call center who earns a spot in the Indian version of the quiz show "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" He raises the suspicion of the show's host when, despite the lack of a formal education, he begins to answer the increasingly difficult questions with ease.

The movie also won four Golden Globes and a host of honors at other award shows.

While the overwhelming sentiment was one of pride Monday, the movie has faced backlash from many Indian movie critics who took exception to its depiction of Mumbai's underworld without highlighting any of the city's achievements.

Among the most notable criticisms was one offered by Amitabh Bachchan, considered the most successful movie star in Bollywood history, and a former real-life host of the Indian "Millionaire."

The film," he said, "projects India as the third world's dirty underbelly ... and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots."

But most Mumabikers, still reeling from a terrorist attack in their city in November, embraced the movie while looking for something positive to root for.

They found that in Rahman, a composer who has consistently broken barriers in his musical scores for dozens of Bollywood hits and is known as the "Mozart of Madras." Rahman has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide -- more than the Beatles -- but has remained relatively unknown in Europe and the United States.

Director Spike Lee used one of his songs in his 2006 heist film, "Inside Man."

Many hope the Oscar win will bring Rahman greater exposure. Rahman and Pookutty, however, aren't the first Indians with Academy Awards to their names.

In 1992, legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray received an honorary award for his contribution to world cinema. And in 1982, Bhanu Athaiya shared an Oscar for costume design for the movie "Gandhi."

CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report

Question:
What did A.R Rahman win?
Who did India celebrate at the Oscars?
What did Resul Pookutty win?
what did India celebrate last night
what Indian made documentary win
Where is A.R. Rahman from?
What did A.R. Rahman win at the Oscars?
what awards did Rahman win

Answer: two Oscars

Answer: Composer A. R. Rahman,

Answer: Best Sound Mixing.

Answer: double Oscar win

Answer: A.R. Rahman

Answer: India."

Answer: Best Score and one for the song "Jai Ho"

Answer: two Oscars

Summary:
India celebrated composer A.R. Rahman winning two awards at last night's Oscars .
Rahman won Best Score and Best Song for the film "Slumdog Millionaire"
Indian Resul Pookutty also won Best Sound Design for "Slumdog Millionaire"
Indian-made documentary "Smile Pinky" won Best Documentary Short .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The death toll from an outbreak of hepatitis B in India's western Gujarat state reached 38 on Sunday as authorities prepared to begin a vaccination drive against the disease. Hepatitis-B patient Mahir Husain, center, is comforted at a hospital in Ahmedabad. Malayappan Thennarasa, the top administrator of the affected Sabarkantha district, told CNN the toll had climbed to 38 and that shots would be administered free of cost starting Monday. Health officials have recorded 125 cases of the infection in two weeks.   Authorities were carrying out raids at medical stores for bogus drugs and recycled syringes. Police have so far arrested five medical practitioners. One of them was charged Sunday with attempted murder. The doctor is accused of reusing syringes, Thennarasa said. Hepatitis B is a contagious liver disease resulting from infection with the hepatitis B virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It usually spreads through blood, semen, or other bodily fluids, often through sexual contact or sharing needles or syringes with an infected person. The disease can range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, chronic illness resulting in long-term health problems or death, the CDC said.

Question:
Where did the victims die?
What disease killed 38 people?
how many recorded?
How many people died?
what state the victims died?
What is the recorded number of cases?
what was contagious?

Answer: state

Answer: hepatitis B

Answer: 125

Answer: 38

Answer: Gujarat

Answer: 125

Answer: hepatitis B

Summary:
An outbreak of contagious liver disease hepatitis B kills 38 people in India .
The victims died in the state of Gujarat in western India in the past two weeks .
Officials have recorded 125 cases of the infection .
Doctor is facing attempted murder charge .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The father of a baby born with his heart protruding from his chest has told CNN about the 1100 km train journey he made to save his son's life. Chander Majhi's son was born with his heart outside his chest  and faces complex surgery. Chander Majhi, 24, became a father last week but he had to leave his wife behind in hospital and make a train journey from a remote region along India's border with Nepal to the capital New Delhi. His son was born with his heart protruding from his chest, an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in one million live births. The parents did not know about the defect until the child was born on August 25 at a government facility in Majhi's home state of Bihar in eastern India. "We didn't go for any (pre-natal) tests," Majhi told CNN. Doctors at the government facility referred him and the baby to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS, A.K. Bisoi, told CNN the baby was admitted to the hospital with dehydration and a severe infection which he probably suffered because of the arduous train journey. Doctors were surprised that the child had been able to survive despite so many complexities, he said. Doctors at the state-run AIIMS are now planning a complex surgery on Thursday for the boy, referred in their records as "baby of Vibha," his mother. His heart has been covered with a synthetic membrane and infected blood fully replaced from his body, said A.K. Bisoi, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at AIIMS. Surgeons may now plan a total circulatory arrest procedure that will also involve creating a home for the heart in the chest, said Bisoi. The baby, who suffers from immunodeficiency, will be put in a state where his blood will be cooled down to 18 degrees (64 Fahrenheit) for a half-an-hour stage of the operation, he explained. "We could carry it out in one go, if the child is able to tolerate. If not, we will do it in stages," he said. "We are working with hope," Bisoi remarked when asked about chances of success. And it was the same hope that drove Majhi to Delhi. "That is why I am here. There's hope. My child is a fighter," he said. In 2006, doctors in the U.S. state of Florida carried out a similar operation on Naseem Hasni who was born with his heart outside his chest. The operation was carried out immediately after Naseem was born by caesarean section at a Florida hospital. Doctors wrapped his heart in Gore-Tex, a waterproof, breathable fabric used in outdoor clothing and medical applications. His heart was then wrapped in a layer of his own skin, to substitute for his missing pericardium, the sac that encloses the heart. The heart was then slowly eased inside.

Question: What issues did the baby suffer from?

Question: When will the baby have surgery?

Question: What distance did the father travel?

Question: In what area did the baby have to have the procedure?

Question: What is wrong with the baby?

Question: How far was the train journey?

Question: What distance did he travel?

Question: What is the chance of this happening?

Answer: immunodeficiency,

Answer: Thursday

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: heart

Answer: born

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: 1100 km

Answer: five to eight cases in one million live births.

Summary:
NEW: Father speaks about 1100 km train journey to save his son .
Newborn baby with heart protruding from his chest faces complex surgery Thursday .
The baby has severe infection and hole in his heart .
Doctors in New Delhi say only five to eight cases of this kind in one million live births .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday. An aerial view of a flood-affected area in Bijapur district in North Karnataka, India. At least 192 people have died in the southern state of Karnataka, its disaster-management secretary H.V. Parshwanath told CNN. More than 450,000 people there have been housed in 1,330 relief camps as authorities completed rescue operations in most of the flooded zones in the state, he said. "The focus is now mainly on relief," Parshwanath said, adding that rains have now eased in Karnataka. In neighboring Andhra Pradesh, authorities put the death toll at 51. Some 531,000 people have been evacuated to safety, with more half of them now sheltering in relief camps, said Dinesh Kumar, the commissioner of the state's disaster-monitoring department. India has deployed the military to help with relief and rescue in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. More than a dozen teams of naval divers have been sent to the two flood-hit states, the country's defense ministry said. Air force planes and helicopters have also been dropping food packets in the submerged regions. The military has been able to rescue 1,336 people so far, it added. Flood waters were now receding in two of the five worst hit districts of Andhra Pradesh, disaster official Kumar said. But floodwaters from a local river might submerge the remaining three, he warned. Flooding also killed at least 25 people in Maharashtra state, officials said. Three others died because of lightning strikes, said S.C. Mohanty, director of Maharashtra's disaster-management department. About 3,000 people have been displaced because of flooding, he told CNN. Thousands of people die each year in India during seasonal monsoon rains. More than 1,100 had been killed in monsoon-triggered flooding in different parts of the country as of last month, according to the disaster-management division of the federal home ministry.

Question: Where is Karnataka located?

Question: What number of people have been forced to flee their homes?

Question: where are refugees

Question: What number of people are housed in relief camps?

Question: How many people are known to have died in floods in India?

Question: What is the death toll from floods in India?

Question: What natural disaster has occurred?

Question: How many people approximately  are housed in relief camps?

Question: What is the deathtoll?

Answer: India.

Answer: a million

Answer: 1,330 relief camps

Answer: 450,000

Answer: 271,

Answer: 271,

Answer: floods

Answer: More than 450,000

Answer: 271,

Summary:
Death toll from floods in India has now reached 271 .
Over a million people have been forced to flee their homes .
Over 450,000 people in southern state of Karnataka housed in 1,330 relief camps .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The wounds of partition festered again this week in India, resulting in the banning of a book and the expulsion of a respected politician. Protesters burn an effigy of Jaswant Singh over his book; the former foreign minister was ousted from his party. The home state of the father of Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi, forbade the sale and circulation of a new book it says spews revisionist history about the birth of secular but predominantly Hindu India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Written by Jaswant Singh, a former federal minister and senior member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the book calls Mohammed Ali Jinnah, considered by Indians the architect of the partition, a great man who is wrongly demonized. Jinnah went on to become the first governor general of Pakistan. In "Jinnah: India, Partition and Independence," Singh absolves the Pakistani leader as the man responsible for dividing the subcontinent, suggesting instead that it was another beloved independence leader, Sardar Patel, who played a major role. "The book wrongfully portrays the fateful partition of our nation," the Gujarat state government said in a statement. " Such a brainchild has no historic background at all. In the larger interest of society, the state government has decided to impose a ban on the book." The BJP accused Singh of deviating from the party's "core ideology". "We always respect freedom of expression but can never compromise our ideology," Sidharth Nath Singh, a party spokesman, told CNN. "You just can't eulogize Jinnah and accuse Sardar Patel instead." Singh, a widely respected politician known for his moderate views within the ranks of a conservative party, found it appalling that freedom of expression was threatened in the world's largest democracy. "The day we start banning books, we are banning thinking," Singh told reporters. He defended his work and said he did not understand the objection to his writings about Patel, who, as India's first home minister, banned the Hindu revivalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the mother organization of the BJP, after the assassination of Gandhi in 1948. "I don't know which part of the core belief I have demolished," Singh said. Nearly 350 years of British rule ended in 1947 when an agreement for independence was reached to give Muslims their own homeland. Indians think of Jinnah as the man who pushed a two-state notion based on religion as a prerequisite for freedom. In the days that followed, an estimated 1 million people died in a border-crossing exodus. Muslims fled from India into Pakistan while Hindus clamored to find new homes in India. The animosities fueled by that bloody birth -- including three wars fought by India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir -- continue to haunt Indians, said journalist and author Tarun Tejpal. "This flashpoint played out in public is a reminder of those wounds," Tejpal said of the book dispute. As a book of history written by a politician, it might have been inconsequential, Tejpal said. But as a book about the partition, it was incendiary. "What happened 62 years ago continues to haunt us in a very bitter way," Tejpal said. "We can't seem to leave our baggage in the past." This isn't the first time that Pakistan's founder has caused trouble for a Hindu nationalist. BJP President Lal Krishna Advani was forced to temporarily step down in 2005 for praising Jinnah's secularism during a trip to Pakistan. Political observers say the Singh controversy reflects a battle for the soul of the BJP, beleaguered by electoral defeats and vicious infighting. Many in India view the BJP as a divisive force attempting to gain power by exploiting Hindu-Muslim tensions. Advani was charged in the 1992 demolition of the 16th-century Babri mosque in the central Indian city of Ayodhya, though he was later acquitted in that case. Journalist K.G. Suresh, a longtime observer of conservative politics in India, said the BJP is struggling to figure out how to stay electable,

Question: on what countries does the animosities took over?

Question: What did the home state of Mahatma Gandhi ban?

Question: according to the book who was the architect of the division

Question: who was the leader the book suggested?

Question: Who does the book suggest was behind the India-Pakistan partition?

Answer: India and Pakistan

Answer: a new book it says spews revisionist history about the birth of secular but predominantly Hindu India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah,

Answer: Sardar Patel,

Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah,

Summary:
Home state of  Mahatma Gandhi bans revisionist history of India-Pakistan partition .
Book suggests independence leader Sardar Patel was the architect of the division .
Animosities over the partition continue to impact India and Pakistan .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Three weeks after an apparent misunderstanding sparked a confrontation, deadly Hindu-Christian riots continue unabated in the remote east Indian state of Orissa. Police officers chase away a protester in Mangalore, India, Monday. By Tuesday, about 20 deaths had been reported, said Praveen Kumar, the superintendent of police in the worst-affected Kandhamal district. The latest casualty is a police officer who died after an armed mob of about 400 to 500 mostly Hindus torched a police station in the district on Monday, Orissa state police said. Orissa's Director General of Police G.C. Nanda the policeman died when the mob opened fire at officers fleeing the burning building. The attack, he said, may have been in retaliation for arrests that police made in the ongoing communal fighting.  Watch more about the riots in India » The attack came two days after police fired on a crowd to prevent it from attacking Christian residents. Between three and six people died in the shooting, CNN's sister network CNN-IBN reported. The violence spread to southern India over the weekend when vandals attacked 14 churches in an hour in the state of Karnataka Sunday, the network said. The Christian community in the Karnataka -- numbering about 2.5 million -- said right-wing Hindus are targeting them for opposing the violence in Orissa. By Tuesday, police had arrested about 140 people in connection with the riots, said Karnataka's Inspector General of Police A.M. Prasad. Sixty of them -- all Hindus -- were arrested for the church attacks, Prasad said. The rest, mostly Christians, were charged with disturbing the peace, he said. Orissa has historically been a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions. Some Hindu groups view the work of Christian missionaries in the state with suspicion. They accuse missionaries of bribing or forcing Hindus into converting. The seeds for the current conflict were planted on August 23, when Hindu leader, Laxmananda Saraswati, and four others were killed in Kandhamal after 20 to 30 gunmen barged into a Hindu school and began shooting, the Orissa chief minister's office said. The authorities have not determined who killed Saraswati, but after the incident they detained five people who are Christians, said Sukanta Panda, spokesman for the chief minister. The government says the killings may have been the work of Maoist rebels -- investigators have many unanswered questions -- but some hardline Hindus blamed a Christian minority. They took to the streets in anger, rampaging through predominantly Christian neighborhoods, ransacking shops and torching houses. They chopped down trees to block roads, making it difficult for police to reach trouble spots. A Christian orphanage was set on fire. A 20-year-old woman, who was teaching children inside, burned to death. Christian residents fought back, and the clashes spread. Authorities imposed a night curfew in many towns and deployed state and federal forces in the troubled areas, Kumar -- the police superintendent -- said. Both sides said the violence has left Christian churches and Hindu temples razed to the ground. This is not the first time the simmering anger has boiled over in the state with deadly consequences. In 1999, a Hindu mob burned to death an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two children while they slept inside their car. And last Christmas, clashing groups killed four people and burned several churches in the same Orissa district -- Kandhamal. Maoist rebels, who claim to be fighting for the poor and the dispossessed, have been battling the Indian government in an insurgency that has resulted in thousands of casualties since the late 1960s. Some Christians accept the Maoist theory, saying the rebels have also struck against hard-line Hindus because they associate them as being closely aligned with the government. But Hindu groups insists that Christians were behind Saraswati's death. Unlike Orissa, Karnataka has until now been spared the large-scale clash between Christians and Hindus. But now, many in the Christian community fear their calm and prosperous state may become another battleground between the two religions, CNN-IBN said. CNN's Harmeet Singh contributed to

Question: What state was a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions?

Question: What was the latest casualty?

Question: Where has violence spread?

Question: Who died after a Hindu mob torched a police station?

Question: who was the latest casualty?

Question: What state of India violence spread?

Question: WHen did the attack happen?

Question: What did the police fire upon?

Answer: Orissa.

Answer: is a police officer

Answer: southern India

Answer: officer

Answer: police officer

Answer: Orissa.

Answer: Monday,

Answer: a crowd

Summary:
Orissa state has historically been a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions .
Violence spread to southern India with churches attacked in Karnataka state .
Latest casualty was a policeman who died after a Hindu mob torched a police station .
Attack came 2 days after police fired on a crowd to prevent it attacking Christians .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tibetan exile leaders, meeting in northern India to debate a potential new approach to Tibet's decades-long struggle for autonomy, have voted to stay with the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach," according to a spokesman for the spiritual leader.

Some have sought Tibet's independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has sought autonomy.

"The majority of the people have spoken and have requested his holiness the Dalai Lama to continue with his middle way approach," said spokesman Tenzin Taklha.

The meeting was called after the Dalai Lama acknowledged he had failed in his efforts to convince China to restore the territory's autonomy. He did not attend the week-long conference in Dharamsala, a town in the hills of north India where he lives in exile. He called the meeting, he said, to offer the exiles an opportunity to discuss "the best possible future course of action" for Tibet.

Takhla said the Tibetans demonstrated that the Dalai Lama was their undisputed leader, and they hoped China would recognize him as such and negotiations toward a realistic solution could be held.

There was a small minority who said they wanted to demand Tibet's independence, Takhla said.

The "middle way" approach with Beijing is one in which Tibetans want a level of autonomy that will allow them to protect and preserve their culture, religion and national identity. In exchange, China could continue to claim Tibet as part of its territory.

Some in Tibet have advocated independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has long called for genuine autonomy.

Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said they favor real autonomy and resent the slow erosion of their culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in China.  Learn about Tibet's history of conflict »

The resentment spilled over in March, when Buddhist monks initiated peaceful anti-Chinese protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The demonstrations began March 14, the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Beijing's rule that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.

The protests soon turned violent, with demonstrators burning vehicles and shops. Some protesters advocated independence from China, while others demonstrated against the growing influence of the Han Chinese in Tibet and other regions of China with ethnic Tibetan populations. The subsequent crackdown left 18 civilians and one police officer dead, according to the Chinese government. Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile put the death toll from the protests at 140.

China blamed the Dalai Lama and his followers for the March riots -- a charge he has consistently denied.

Question: Who did they back?

Question: Who wnated Tibet's independence?

Question: What does Lama seek?

Question: What does a small minority demand for Tibet?

Question: What do Tibetian leaders back?

Question: What does the Dalai Lama seek from Bejing?

Question: What does Dalai Lama seeks?

Question: What does the minority want?

Question: What do the Tibetan exile leaders back?

Answer: the Dalai Lama

Answer: small minority

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: independence,

Answer: the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach,"

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: Tibet's independence,

Answer: "middle way approach,"

Summary:
Tibetan exile leaders back Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach"
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, seeks genuine autonomy from Beijing .
Small minority want to demand Tibet's independence, spokesman says .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tibetan exile leaders, meeting in northern India to debate a potential new approach to Tibet's decades-long struggle for autonomy, have voted to stay with the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach," according to a spokesman for the spiritual leader. Some have sought Tibet's independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has sought autonomy. "The majority of the people have spoken and have requested his holiness the Dalai Lama to continue with his middle way approach," said spokesman Tenzin Taklha. The meeting was called after the Dalai Lama acknowledged he had failed in his efforts to convince China to restore the territory's autonomy. He did not attend the week-long conference in Dharamsala, a town in the hills of north India where he lives in exile. He called the meeting, he said, to offer the exiles an opportunity to discuss "the best possible future course of action" for Tibet. Takhla said the Tibetans demonstrated that the Dalai Lama was their undisputed leader, and they hoped China would recognize him as such and negotiations toward a realistic solution could be held. There was a small minority who said they wanted to demand Tibet's independence, Takhla said. The "middle way" approach with Beijing is one in which Tibetans want a level of autonomy that will allow them to protect and preserve their culture, religion and national identity. In exchange, China could continue to claim Tibet as part of its territory. Some in Tibet have advocated independence from China, but the Dalai Lama has long called for genuine autonomy. Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said they favor real autonomy and resent the slow erosion of their culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in China.  Learn about Tibet's history of conflict » The resentment spilled over in March, when Buddhist monks initiated peaceful anti-Chinese protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The demonstrations began March 14, the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Beijing's rule that sent the Dalai Lama into exile. The protests soon turned violent, with demonstrators burning vehicles and shops. Some protesters advocated independence from China, while others demonstrated against the growing influence of the Han Chinese in Tibet and other regions of China with ethnic Tibetan populations. The subsequent crackdown left 18 civilians and one police officer dead, according to the Chinese government. Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile put the death toll from the protests at 140. China blamed the Dalai Lama and his followers for the March riots -- a charge he has consistently denied.

Question: What does the Dalai Lama seek?

Question: Who is the spiritual leader of Tibet?

Question: What do the Tibetan exile leaders back?

Question: Who wants to demand Tibet's independence?

Question: Who is the Tibet's spiritual leader?

Question: What to Tibetan exile leaders support?

Question: Who backs Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach"?

Question: What are a small minority demanding?

Question: Who want to demand Tibet's independence?

Answer: autonomy.

Answer: Dalai Lama's

Answer: the Dalai Lama's current "middle way approach,"

Answer: a small minority

Answer: Dalai Lama

Answer: "middle way approach,"

Answer: Tibetan exile leaders,

Answer: Tibet's independence,

Answer: China,


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian capital on Tuesday, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha told CNN Sunday.

The Dalai Lama with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on a recent visit to France.

The check-up in New Delhi is likely to take several hours, but the Dalai Lama will not be admitted to the hospital, the spokesman said.

The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala, will travel to the Indian capital on Monday.

The 73-year-old Tibetan leader was hospitalized in Mumbai in August for abdominal discomfort.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian capital on Tuesday.

Question: Who will undergo a medical exam his week?

Question: How long will the check up take?

Question: He was admitted for tests because of what?

Question: What country is the Dalai Lama associated with?

Question: Who is the Tibetan spiritual leader?

Question: What medical problems was the Dalai Lama having?

Question: What type of comfort did the leader suffer?

Question: In what city will the check-up take place?

Question: Who will undergo a medical exam?

Question: Where was the check-up?

Question: Where did the Dalai Lama receive medical treatment?

Answer: Dalai Lama

Answer: several hours,

Answer: abdominal discomfort.

Answer: Tibetan

Answer: Dalai Lama

Answer: abdominal discomfort.

Answer: abdominal discomfort.

Answer: New Delhi

Answer: the Dalai Lama

Answer: in New Delhi

Answer: hospital in the Indian capital

Summary:
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a medical exam this week .
Dalai Lama was recently admitted for tests after suffering abdominal discomfort .
The check-up in New Delhi is likely to take several hours .


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian capital on Tuesday, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha told CNN Sunday. The Dalai Lama with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on a recent visit to France. The check-up in New Delhi is likely to take several hours, but the Dalai Lama will not be admitted to the hospital, the spokesman said. The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala, will travel to the Indian capital on Monday. The 73-year-old Tibetan leader was hospitalized in Mumbai in August for abdominal discomfort. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian capital on Tuesday.

Question: Where the medical check be carried out?

Question: What is likely to take several hours?

Question: What was suffering the Dalai Lama?

Question: What kind of treatment is the Tibetan Spirtual leader undergoing?

Question: What happens to the Dalai Lama?

Question: What tests did Dalai Lama receive?

Answer: at a hospital

Answer: check-up in New Delhi

Answer: abdominal discomfort.

Answer: a routine medical examination

Answer: undergo a routine medical examination

Answer: a routine medical examination


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi. "For the rest of the world India is powerful, but for many residing in the countryside, India is still disempowered, hungry and naked." Swechha started out as an organization to combat the pollution of the city's main waterway, the river Yamuna. Today it deals with the environmental issues that affect several aspects of Delhi. Vimlendu leads volunteers and local children to key sites around the city to tackle the ecological problems, as well as to raise awareness of the issues. Follow his efforts in his blogs and video diaries. October 18, 2007 We traveled, along with 100-odd kids from one of New Delhi's most progressive schools, The Shri Ram School, to the rural part of our country, to Kempty Village in Uttaranchal. The purpose of the visit was to expose these young minds (ages 15-17) to the existence of another India. Most of us have an illusion of India becoming a powerful nation and it is on a phenomenal growth trajectory. We are not so much seen as a developing nation but a developed nation. One wonders what actually makes a country developed, when most of the parameters of development are skewed, as is the case of our country. For the rest of the world India is powerful, but for many residing in the countryside, India is still disempowered, hungry and naked. Up to 70 percent of Indians still live in villages. Most of the time these villages are neglected and are centers of poverty. Development around India's cities has brought a flood of people from the rural areas who come in search of jobs. This population comprises the "urban poor" which is more vulnerable than the rural poor. Imagine, India still has more than 260 million people (26 percent of the population) living below the poverty line. In the last 10 years, we have had at least 40,000 farmer suicides in the country -- indicative of the growing gap between the poor and the rich. The purpose of this trip was to learn, and unlearn, about village stereotypes or notions we live with. The village in Uttaranchal wasn't as extreme an experience as other remote villages of India, but it was indicative of the hardships that people live with. Another reason for the trip was to celebrate the simplicity and generosity of the villagers vis-à-vis we, the insecure urbanites, and also to understand their hardships, due to our over-consumption and false assumption that our wrongdoing does not necessarily influence the rural population -- when we know it does. For many students, it was a first-time, first-hand experience of a village. Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened by the villagers' plight. The outing also gave them an opportunity to contribute in some way. Students worked in the fields, helped the villagers in agricultural work and breathed the clean air. It was a wonderful experience, aimed at understanding the gap between the two exisiting worlds; to bridge the gap between these two worlds. E-mail to a friend

Question: Who took a group of children to see a village?

Question: How did the children react to the plight of villagers?

Question: What did he say was their reaction to the plight of the villagers?

Question: What village were kids taken to see?

Question: Where was the village located?

Question: What did Vimlendu take a group of children to see?

Question: What was his aim?

Question: What was his intention?

Question: What were the children saddened by?

Question: Where had many of the children never been?

Answer: Vimlendu Jha

Answer: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

Answer: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

Answer: Kempty

Answer: Uttaranchal

Answer: key sites around the city

Answer: understanding the gap between the two exisiting worlds;

Answer: combat the pollution of the city's main waterway, the river Yamuna.

Answer: the villagers' plight.

Answer: Kempty Village in Uttaranchal.

Summary:
Vimlendu takes a group of children to see a village in Uttaranchal .
His aim was to show them the differences between India's city and village life .
Many of the children had never been to an Indian village .
Vimlendu says they were "saddened by the villagers' plight"


NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India. People test the "sky watching telescope" at the Gujarat Council of Science City in India. The "exceptionally long" eclipse that will cross half the planet Wednesday will be able to be seen by virtually all of the population of China and India. For beggars in India, the occasion means an extra day of receiving alms and food. The panhandler in Sandeep Jaggi's neighborhood normally visits the block every week on Tuesdays and Saturdays, as well as the days of a new and full moon. And because his patrons mark an eclipse with alms-giving, prayers and bathing, he rarely misses the chance to meet them on this day as well. "It's a family tradition and I follow it," says 34-year-old Jaggi. He will fill the beggar's small steel pail with mustard oil and coins and his disheveled sash with lentils. For others in the country, the eclipse is not a reason to celebrate, but a more ominous phenomenon. Send us your photos of the eclipse Most pregnant women hope to avoid giving birth during an eclipse. "None of the expectant mothers under my treatment are willing to have deliveries on Wednesday," Shivani Sachdev Gour, a gynecologist at New Delhi's Fortis La Femme hospital, told CNN. In fact, there are critically ill patients who do not want to be in the hospital on the day of the eclipse, she said. Indian astrologers even advise expectant mothers to stay indoors when this celestial event occurs. "It may not cause any physical harm to the baby, but it may affect the child's overall personality," said R.K. Sharma, who describes himself as a "remedial astrologer." A solar eclipse, he says, weakens the sun god temporarily because of an encounter with dragon Rahu and leaves some cascading results everywhere. "Bathing in holy rivers and ponds during this time thus helps protect health and develop positivism and greater will power," he explained. About 1.5 million people are expected at one such pond -- the Brahmsarovar, or the pool of Hindu god Brahma -- in northern India on Wednesday. "They offer prayers to the sun god and take holy dips during an eclipse," said Ashok Kumar Bansal, the sub-divisional magistrate of Kurukshetra, an ancient Hindu city. But the century's longest total solar eclipse is not just about the dragon-sun combat, it also means business for some. Travel firms in India have plans in place to cash in on the phenomenon. Cox and Kings India has a planeload of eclipse watchers heading for the eastern state of Bihar, one of the most preferred locations for sighting the event. The plane will hover over Gaya in Bihar and return to New Delhi the same day, company spokesman Thomas C. Thottathil told CNN. Passengers were given two options: to book a "sunside" seat facing the eclipse for about $1,640, or reserve an "earthside" seat for about $610, Thottathil added. "And it's a sold out flight now!" he said.

Question: Where do some critically ill patients not want to be during eclipse?

Question: Pregnant women in India hope to avoid what during an eclipse?

Question: What is marked with suspicion?

Question: Eclipse weakens sun god because of an encounter with what?

Question: Who hope to avoid giving birth during eclipse?

Question: Eclipse weakens sun god because of encounter with what mythical beast?

Question: What is marked with tradition and often suspicion in Hindu-majority India?

Question: What is the reason these women are concerned?

Question: What did the Astrologer says?

Question: What people group has strong impressions of lunar activity?

Question: What is the religious majority in India?

Question: What group in India is concerned?

Answer: in the hospital

Answer: giving birth

Answer: solar eclipse,

Answer: dragon Rahu

Answer: Most pregnant women

Answer: dragon Rahu

Answer: solar eclipse,

Answer: it may affect the child's overall personality,"

Answer: "Bathing in holy rivers and ponds during this time thus helps protect health and develop positivism and greater will power,"

Answer: pregnant women

Answer: Hindu-majority

Answer: critically ill patients

Summary:
Solar eclipse marked with tradition and often suspicion in Hindu-majority India .
Most pregnant women in India hope to avoid giving birth during eclipse .
Some critically ill patients do not want to be in hospital on day of eclipse .
Astrologer: Eclipse weakens sun god because of encounter with dragon Rahu .


NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- India has elected its first female president, official results show, in what supporters are calling a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.

Pratibha Patil, 72, is India's first elected female president.

Pratibha Patil, the ruling coalition's 72-year-old nominee for the mainly ceremonial post, easily beat opposition-backed challenger and vice president, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, in a vote by the national parliament and state politicians.

"This a victory of the people," Patil told reporters after official results were announced Saturday. "I am grateful to the people of India and the men and women of India and this is a victory for the principles which our Indian people uphold."

Patil won about two thirds of the electoral college votes. There had never been any doubt she would win, given support from the ruling coalition.

The governor of the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan, she emerged on the national stage when the Congress-led coalition and its communist allies failed to agree on a joint candidate.

"This is a very special moment for us women, and men of course, in our country because for the first time we have a woman being elected president of India," Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi, India's most powerful politician, said.

Supporters hoped Patil's candidacy would help bring issues that plague women in India, like dowry-related violence, into the public spotlight. A woman is murdered, raped or abused every three minutes on average in India.

Her presidency also reflects the growing power of some women in India, where an increasing number are taking part in the workforce and in schools and hold senior positions in corporations.

After the results, Patil supporters took to the streets, singing and dancing as others lit fire crackers and beat large brass drums.

India has had a number of female icons in the past -- most famously Sonia Gandhi's mother-in-law, Indira, who was one of the world's first female prime ministers in 1966.

But hope Patil's presidency would spark only positive talk about women's influence in India evaporated when it emerged the bank for women she helped established was closed in 2003 because of bad debts and amid accusations of financial irregularities.

The employees' union has taken Patil and others to court, claiming loans meant for poor women were instead given to her brother and other relatives and not returned. She was also accused of trying to shield her brother in a murder inquiry.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has dismissed accusations against her as "mud-slinging", said on Saturday her victory was "a vote against the politics of divisiveness".

"All the allegations against me are motivated and have already been answered," Patil said in a statement last week.

Her campaign was marked by other mishaps as well.

She managed to offend many minority Muslims, and anger some historians, by saying Indian women first veiled their heads as protection against 16th century Muslim invaders.

Then she dismayed modern India by claiming she had experienced a "divine premonition" that she was destined for higher office from a long dead spiritual guru.

Critics also dug up a comment she was said to have made as Maharashtra's health minister in 1975, saying people with hereditary diseases should be sterilized. E-mail to a friend

Question: Whom did India elect president?

Question: What was marked by scandal?

Question: What nation elected their first female president?

Question: What is the victory being called?

Question: Who was was the ruling coalition's nominee?

Question: Who's supporters are calling the victory a boost for women's rights?

Question: who is india's first female president?

Question: who cares about womens rights?

Question: Who is the president of India?

Question: What is the name of the president elect?

Question: What is Patil's first name?

Question: What is her name?

Question: What age is the new president?

Question: Who did India elect as the first female president on Saturday?

Question: What age was Patil at the time of the election?

Question: Which country elected it's first female president?

Question: What is Patil's age?

Question: What is the age of President Elect Patil?

Question: What kind of election campaign was it?

Question: Who was the first female president of India?

Question: what was the scandal?

Question: Was the election campaign marked by scandal?

Question: Who was the coalition's nominee?

Question: what was the election campaign marked by?

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: a bitter campaign

Answer: India

Answer: of the people,"

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: India

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: Pratibha

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: 72,

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: 72,

Answer: India

Answer: 72,

Answer: 72,

Answer: bitter

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: loans meant for poor women were instead given to her brother

Answer: a bitter campaign marked by scandal.

Answer: Pratibha Patil,

Answer: scandal.

Summary:
India elects first female president, official results show Saturday .
Pratibha Patil's supporters are calling victory a boost for women's rights .
Bitter election campaign was marked by scandal .
72-year-old Patil was the ruling coalition's nominee for mainly ceremonial post .


NEW DELHI, India -- Police covered up the murder of a British teenage girl in Goa last month to protect the tourist industry, a state minister and local media said Monday. Scarlett Keeling stands on Anjuna beach in Goa a few days before her death. Officers had initially said Scarlett Keeling had drowned on Anjuna beach after taking drugs, but changed their story when the 15-year-old's mother protested and a second autopsy suggested she had been raped and murdered. A suspect in the case was arrested Sunday but Fiona MacKeown said she did not believe he was the man who killed her daughter. "This is a clear case of murder and it has gone out of proportion because the police tried to cover it up," Francisco X. Pacheco, Goa's Tourism Minister told Reuters.com. Indian media suggested the cover-up was an attempt to protect Goa's tourism industry. "They should have arrested this man a long time ago and this issue would have got diluted, but now because of the tainted image of some police officers in the case, things have gone out of hand," Pacheco said. Police said they were investigating allegations of a cover-up and the actions of junior officers. "There are certain things under my scrutiny and I have taken cognizance of all these issues, specially these officers," Kishan Kumar, a senior police officer overseeing the probe told Reuters. Keeling's mother said she also believed police were trying to cover up the truth behind her daughter's murder, and that they had arrested Samson D'Souza, 29, to make it look like they were making progress in the case. "We've had an awful lot of contact with people that have been in this situation before, and they've warned us to be careful (that) the police will try and find someone immediately to try and put a front on it that they're actually doing something," Fiona MacKeown told BBC radio on Monday. Kumar described D'Souza as a "local Anjuna boy" who was a bartender at Liu's, a beachfront bar. He said police had confirmed D'Souza's role in Keeling's rape and were now trying to find evidence that he killed the teenager. "We have sufficient evidence to show that he was involved in rape," Kumar told CNN. "So far as murder is concerned, we are investigating further." Scarlett and her family arrived in November for an extended vacation in Goa, known for its white sandy beaches and dance music scene. Beachfront shacks house the bars that fuel the nightlife. MacKeown said Scarlett was left in the care of a trusted male friend and his aunts while the rest of the family traveled to an adjoining Indian state, but she told the BBC that she has had no contact with the family since her daughter's death. The mother said Monday she sent a letter to Goa's chief minister asking for India's Central Bureau of Investigation to look into the case. Goa is popular with Western tourists but several tourists have died from drug overdoses in recent years while women have been attacked and sexually assaulted. The Times Of India said 126 foreigners have died in Goa over the last two years and in January this year a 30-year-old British woman was raped.  E-mail to a friend CNN's Tess Eastment contributed to this report.

Question:
what did the police do
What was the girl's name?
Who covered up the murder of a UK girl?
Where was the murder covered up?
Where did the killer find the UK girl?
What age was the murdered girl?
what did the mother say
What age was the girl?
What are the mother's reasons?
Who thinks police arrested wrong man?
what did the police cover up
What was the man's name?

Answer: covered up the murder of a British teenage girl in Goa

Answer: Scarlett Keeling

Answer: Police

Answer: Goa

Answer: Goa

Answer: 15-year-old's

Answer: said she also believed police were trying to cover up the truth behind her daughter's murder,

Answer: 15-year-old's

Answer: police were trying to cover up the truth

Answer: Fiona MacKeown

Answer: the murder of a British teenage girl in Goa

Answer: Samson D'Souza,

Summary:
Indian police covered up murder of UK girl in Goa, state's tourism minister said .
Police arrest one man over the death of the 15-year-old .
Mother of Scarlett Keeling says she thinks police have arrested wrong man .


NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN)  -- A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, police said. Raymond Clark, 24, was arrested and charged with murder, police said. His bond was set at $3 million. Raymond Clark was apprehended about 8:10 a.m. ET at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had spent the night after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing. Bond for Clark has been set at $3 million, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said. Hours after his arrest, Clark appeared in court and did not enter a plea. Standing with chains on his ankles and his palms on a table, he looked only at the judge and spoke only to acknowledge that his rights were read to him. A court date of October 6 was set. Lewis described the killing as an instance of "workplace violence" but did not elaborate.  Watch chief, acquaintances talk about Clark » Annie Le's body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building Sunday. She had been strangled. Le, 24, a pharmacology student, was last seen alive September 8, the day she appeared in a surveillance video entering a four-story lab at 10 Amistad St., about 10 blocks from the main campus. Her body was found on what was to have been her wedding day. Lewis said the arrest "went smoothly."  Watch the police chief announce the arrest » He could not release details about the charges or whether DNA results led police to arrest Clark, who initially was described as a person of interest in the case. "This arrest warrant has been sealed, so no further information can be released in order to comply with this court order," Lewis said. Clark could have been arrested Wednesday if he had declined to provide DNA samples and allow police to search his home, but he was released after complying, New Haven city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said. Police had been monitoring the motel where Clark was staying. When asked about the arrest, Clark's attorney David Dworski referred CNN to the statement he released earlier: "We are committed to proceeding appropriately with the authorities with whom we are in regular contact." Two other search warrants also were executed Wednesday -- one on property belonging to Clark that was not named in the first warrant and a second for Clark's vehicle, which was being processed Wednesday evening, Lewis said earlier. He said Clark is a technician who does "custodial-type" work at the building. Clark answered police questions for a while but later retained an attorney and stopped, Lewis said. Yale President Richard Levin said while the school's administration is "relieved" by the news of Clark's arrest, "we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment." Clark, a lab technician at Yale since December 2004, had nothing in his employment history that "gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible," Levin said in a statement Thursday. Lewis said Clark and Le worked in the same building and passed in the hallway, but he refused to comment further on whether they knew each other. Investigators have collected about 250 pieces of evidence, Lewis said.  Watch police discuss the investigation » Lewis earlier said police had reviewed about 700 hours of video and interviewed more than 150 people, some more than once.   Watch a timeline leading up to Le's death » Authorities have not released information on what DNA evidence may have been found, although investigators said earlier that bloody clothing was found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling in another part of the building. Police have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they might have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the bloodstained garments. But Thomas Kaplan, editor in chief of the Yale Daily

Question: Who's body was found?

Question: What is the court date?

Question: What does the police chief describe the crime as?

Question: What date is set for the court?

Question: What is the bond set at?

Question: What is the crime described as?

Question: How much is the bond?

Question: How much is the bond for Clark?

Question: What is the court date set?

Answer: Annie Le's

Answer: October 6

Answer: an instance of "workplace violence"

Answer: October 6

Answer: $3 million.

Answer: "workplace violence"

Answer: $3 million.

Answer: $3 million.

Answer: October 6

Summary:
NEW: Suspect appears in court, doesn't enter plea; October 6 court date set .
Bond for Raymond Clark set at $3 million, police say .
Police chief describes crime as a case of workplace violence .
Le's body was found on what would have been her wedding day .


NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN)  -- A quiet rendition of "Amazing Grace" capped an emotional candlelight vigil Monday night for slain Yale University student Annie Le, whose body was found on what was to have been her wedding day. Students at Yale attend a candlelight vigil for Annie Le Monday night. Several hundred people turned out on the Yale campus for the vigil, crying and hugging each other. Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, said the 24-year-old graduate student in pharmacology "was as good a human being as you'd ever hope to meet." "She was also really tenacious and had a sense of humor that was never far away, and she was tougher than you'd think by just looking at her," Powers said. "That this horrible tragedy happened at all is incomprehensible. But that it happened to her I think is infinitely more so. It seems completely senseless." Connecticut state medical examiners announced Monday that the body found in a Yale medical research building over the weekend was that of Le, who had been missing for nearly a week. Her body was found Sunday hidden in a basement wall. Bloody clothes were found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling elsewhere in the same building, investigators said. Le was last seen entering the building Tuesday morning. Thomas Kaplan, editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News, said Le "really had everything going for her." "She was a top scholar. She was very outgoing, a warm person," Kaplan said. "You know, she was diminutive in stature, but certainly not in personality. And that's what I think just makes this so sad for everyone, regardless of whether you knew her. It's just a tragedy." Le's death is being investigated as a homicide, but Connecticut medical examiners released no further information beyond the identification. A candlelight vigil in her honor was scheduled for Monday evening on the campus. A Yale professor said on Monday that the building has good security and only certain people can enter, let alone access certain areas. Professor Gary Rudnick, who interviewed Le when she applied for admission to the graduate program in pharmacology, said it gives him the sense that there could be a "murderer among us." No suspects are in custody, but investigators are questioning several people in the case, New Haven Police spokesman Joe Avery said.  Watch a report about the case » Kaplan said Le's killing has left Yale students shocked and wary. "Only Yalies had access to that basement, and that seems to point to someone in our community being involved in this," Kaplan said. "That's what is so frightening." Authorities have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they may have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the blood-stained clothes. Kaplan said a Yale police official told the newspaper the clothes were not what Le was wearing when she entered the building. At a meeting Monday for members of the campus community, Yale officials discussed security and provided an update on the investigation. A faculty member and a student who attended the meeting told CNN that Yale officials said police have narrowed down suspects. Security cameras captured video of Le as she entered the four-story lab building at 10 Amistad Street, about 10 blocks from the main campus, six days ago. After poring over hours of surveillance tapes, authorities said they had not found images of her leaving the building. Rudnick described security in the building as "very good." It had restricted access, and simply having a Yale ID card was not enough to get in, he said. Within the building, one had to have special access to enter certain areas, he said. Le was to be married Sunday on New York's Long Island to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University. "Annie has been planning this wedding for over a year with John, and she was very excited. She's been doing

Question: Whose remains were found?

Question: What was her age?

Question: Who says the tragedy is "incomprehensible"?

Question: Where do they last seen?

Question: When were the remains found?

Question: Who are they questioning?

Question: What was Le's age?

Question: Where they found the remains of the student Annie?

Answer: Yale University student Annie Le,

Answer: 24-year-old

Answer: Powers

Answer: entering the building

Answer: in a Yale medical research building

Answer: several people in the case,

Answer: 24-year-old

Answer: Yale medical research building

Summary:
NEW: Roommate says horrible tragedy is "incomprehensible"
Grad student Annie Le's remains found Sunday in basement wall in building .
Le, 24, was last seen entering the building Tuesday morning .
Police: No suspects in custody, but investigators questioning several people .


NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN)  -- Slain Yale University graduate student Annie Le was intelligent, driven and destined for greatness, said those who knew her. The body of Annie Le, 24, was found in the wall of a Yale University laboratory building Sunday. "She was also really tenacious and had a sense of humor that was never far away, and she was tougher than you'd think by just looking at her," Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, told a crowd of hundreds gathered on campus for the slain 24-year-old's vigil Monday. Le's body was found inside a wall at a Yale medical school building Sunday, the day she was to be married to her college sweetheart, Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at New York's Columbia University. She disappeared five days before her wedding.  Watch timeline leading up to Le's death » Le and Widawsky attended the University of Rochester together, where Le majored in cell and developmental biology with a minor in medical anthropology. In a self-profile she wrote for the National Institutes of Health's undergraduate scholarship program, Le called her biology studies "interesting" but said she would like to pursue a research career in medical anthropology, "which has highlighted the severity of health issues in societies worldwide." She further wrote that she would one day like to work for the NIH or become a professor. Once at Yale, she majored in pharmacology and worked long hours in the lab where she was found dead this week.  Watch how Le's body was found » Le was scheduled to finish her postgraduate program in 2013 and had recently decided the topic of her dissertation: the effects of certain proteins on metabolic diseases like diabetes, reported the Yale Daily News, the campus newspaper. "She was probably the most brilliant person I've ever met in my life," her high school friend, Laurel Griffeath, told NBC's "Today" show, "but what made her more amazing was that there was an intersection of intelligence and personality and ability." Le impressed her peers and teachers long before delving into complicated medical research. Originally from Placerville, California, Le graduated in 2003 from Union Mine High School, where she was named "best of the best" and "most likely to be the next Einstein," according to CNN affiliate WFSB-TV in New Haven. Principal Tony DeVille told Le's hometown newspaper, the Mountain Democrat, that she was "one of the bright spots in the school's history." But she didn't excel solely in academic situations. Friends and professors gush when speaking of Le's vibrant personality and her sense of humor. Le "was as good a human being as you'd ever hope to meet," Powers said at the vigil.  Watch why police say killing not random » Griffeath said Le knew how to balance her social life and academic responsibilities as well. "She cared about people and she was funny, and she didn't sacrifice one part of her life for another like a lot of people kind of seem to," Griffeath said on "Today." Thomas Kaplan, editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News, described Le as "very outgoing, a warm person." "She was diminutive in stature, but certainly not in personality, and that's what I think just makes this so sad for everyone, regardless of whether you knew her," Kaplan said of the 4-foot-11 scholar. Friends describe Widawsky as the perfect match for Le. The portrayed a young couple deeply in love, constantly on the phone with each other and eager to exchange vows. Le tackled wedding planning with the same zeal she brought to her research, friends said. "She was just so excited about this wedding and everything from, you know, her flowers to her wedding dress and just certain details about it," Vanessa Flores, a friend and former roommate, told CNN. "We talked about this back in 2008. She was already thinking about the weather -- whether June,

Question: In what studies did Le excel?

Question: Who was named most likely to be next Einstein?

Question: who  planned wedding with the same zeal?

Question: In which building was the body found?

Question: Where was the student's body found?

Question: What subjects did Le excel in?

Answer: cell and developmental biology with a minor in medical anthropology.

Answer: Annie Le

Answer: Annie Le,

Answer: Yale University laboratory

Answer: in the wall of a Yale University laboratory building

Answer: academic situations.

Summary:
Annie Le named "most likely to be the next Einstein" in high school .
Friends: Le excelled in studies, including pharmacology, medical anthropology .
Grad student's body found in Yale building the day she was to be married .
Le planned wedding with the same zeal she brought to her research, friends say .


NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- Raymond J. Clark III, charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was smart, amiable and loved his dog, say those who knew him. Raymond Clark III was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the death of Annie Le. One researcher said he often went by the lab in the Yale School of Medicine building where Le was found strangled and stuffed in a wall. Lufeng Zhang worked with Clark, he said, and thinks the police may have the wrong man. "He's a nice man, always," he said. Clark, 24, the same age as Le, was a technician in the school of medicine's Animal Resources Center. While Le, who was pursuing a doctorate in pharmacology, conducted experiments on mice, Clark took care of the rodents and cleaned their cages. Police will not say whether Clark and Le were acquainted or why they homed in on Clark after Le went missing September 8, less than a week before she was scheduled to marry a Columbia University graduate student who was her college sweetheart.  Watch police announce arrest » "They work in the same building, passed in the hallways," New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said of Le and Clark. "Anything beyond that, I won't talk about." Though details of the investigation are scant, police said they arrested Clark on Thursday and charged him with Le's murder after collecting more than 250 pieces of evidence. Clark was an honor student at Branford High School in suburban New Haven. He graduated in 2004, and according to the school's yearbook, he was a member of the Asian Awareness Club his senior year. High school friend Lisa Heselin remembers Clark "as a jokester, kind of a class clown," she said. "Everybody knew him. Everybody liked him." She and others who knew Clark in high school are shocked that he was arrested in connection with Le's murder, she said.  Watch what acquaintances say about Clark » "They can't believe it, and then, of course, you're reminiscing, like, 'Oh my God, remember when we went over to his house and we all hung out?' You don't expect somebody you grew up with to be involved in something like this," Heselin said. Maurice Perry, who said he has been friends with Clark since first grade, told CNN on Thursday night that he doesn't believe his longtime pal is guilty. "This is not the Raymond Clark that I know," he said. "I've known him so long, I just can't picture him doing something like this." Asked if he ever knew Clark to be violent, Perry replied, "Not at all. I've known him to be outgoing, happy, athletic, fun. Violent, not at all." Most of his current neighbors in Middletown, about 30 miles northeast of New Haven, said they moved in after Clark or knew him only in passing. Many said he shared the second-floor apartment with his girlfriend and a dog. Police said he drove a Ford Mustang, which was seized as evidence. Neighbor Ashley Rowe described Clark as "decent" and said he asked a lot of questions when he spoke to people and wanted to know their full names and where they were from. Rowe also remembered the first time she met his dog. "His dog was very excited and he was just like, 'Oh, don't worry. He's friendly.' You could pet him," she said. "Pretty much, he just loved his dog and he walked around with his dog all the time." Police arrived at his apartment Tuesday night to collect DNA samples and released him into the custody of his lawyer early Wednesday. Neighbors say they didn't see him return to the apartment.  See investigation's timeline » Clark was arrested early Thursday at a Super 8 motel in nearby Cromwell. There were reports that Clark was scheduled

Question: Who is charged with the murder of Annie Le?

Question: What did the longtime friend of Raymond Clark III say?

Question: What was Clark charged with?

Answer: Raymond J. Clark III,

Answer: "He's a nice man, always,"

Answer: murder in the death of Yale graduate

Summary:
NEW: Longtime friend says Raymond Clark III "outgoing, happy, athletic, fun"
Another friend says she remembers him "as a jokester, kind of a class clown"
Clark charged with murder of Annie Le, who was found dead on her wedding day .
Girlfriend reportedly defended Clark on MySpace after "rumor of a fling" last year .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN)  -- The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said. Protesters converged on the small Louisiana town in September 2007 after the "Jena 6" were charged. Bill Furlow, spokesman for LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, declined to say whether the defendants will plead guilty. "It's not a done deal until it's a done deal," he said. In December 2006, six African-American teenagers were charged with second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy in the beating of a white classmate. The incident followed months of racial tension in the community of about 3,000 people. Jena, Louisiana, is about 140 miles southeast of Shreveport in the north-central part of the state. The case drew national attention from civil rights groups, who argued that the charges were excessive. An estimated 15,000-plus demonstrators turned out for a rally on behalf of the teens: Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and Mychal Bell. The charges were eventually reduced. Bell pleaded guilty to battery in a juvenile court and moved to Monroe, Louisiana. In January, Bell said he had attempted suicide the month before by shooting himself in the chest but was recovering. Friday's hearing is set for 1:30 p.m.

Question: Which town was it?

Question: What did the spokesman say?

Question: Who was charged with beating a white classmate?

Question: What was their crime?

Question: How many teens were charged in december 2006?

Question: How many people live in the town?

Question: Who pleaded guilty to battery in juvenile court this year?

Question: what happened before the incident took place

Question: what is the population of the town

Question: how many teens were charged in 2006

Question: what were the 6 studetns races?

Answer: Jena, Louisiana,

Answer: "It's not a done deal until it's a done deal," he said.

Answer: six African-American teenagers

Answer: second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy in the beating of a white classmate.

Answer: six

Answer: about 3,000

Answer: Mychal Bell.

Answer: months of racial tension in the community

Answer: 3,000 people.

Answer: six

Answer: African-American

Summary:
"It's not a done deal until it's a done deal," spokesman says .
6 teens charged in December 2006 with beating a white classmate .
Incident followed months of racial tension in town of about 3,000 people .
One of the the "Jena 6" pleaded guilty to battery in juvenile court this year .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN)  -- Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, residents say much of America has forgotten their plight. President Bush and first lady Laura Bush pause for a moment of silence Wednesday at a New Orleans school. But President Bush said Wednesday the federal government has been persistent in pushing recovery efforts. "I would like them to know that we still need all the help and caring and volunteers. We need it bad. People don't realize. They just don't realize," Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, resident Linda Fallon said. The beachfront communities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, were nearly destroyed in Katrina's fury. Two years later, one-third of Bay St. Louis residents haven't returned. Business has moved inland.  Watch the struggle to rebuild in Mississippi » "Without the people, we don't have a town. We don't have a city, we don't have a place apart," Bay St. Louis Mayor Eddie Favre said Tuesday. He predicted it would be at least seven years before the town is back to near-normal. A longtime resident, Diane Bourgeois, has moved 15 miles inland to an apartment and said she doubts she will rebuild. Her home was razed. When she asked why, she said, "I don't know, the memories. It will just never be the same. Can't risk it all again." David MacDonald, pastor of Calvary Independent Baptist Church in Bay St. Louis, said, "We get crews coming down, but they are thinning out as the months go on. "So it's trying to let the people know there is still a need down here, especially in the area of housing. And just the mental and spiritual needs that are down here -- just still overwhelming." In New Orleans, Bush participated in a moment of silence at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology to remember Katrina victims. He said that the U.S. government hasn't forgotten the Gulf Coast and that federal efforts to make post-Katrina improvements to levees and infrastructure were unyielding. "I hope people understand we're still paying attention. We understand," Bush said. Eighty percent of the the $114 billion allocated to the region for Hurricane Katrina repairs has been disbursed, he said. "We're still engaged," Bush said of federal agencies. The president, in his 15th visit to the region since Katrina hit, called the school "a place of hope." Bush said Katrina broke hearts but not "the spirit" of New Orleans citizens. But he alluded to the challenges faced across the region, citing teachers who commuted 30 miles to teach at the school. "This town is better today than it was yesterday," Bush said in praising the Gulf Coast rebuilding effort. But he said it would be even better tomorrow. He urged people across the country to pitch in to help the recovery, whether through donations or volunteer efforts or even moving to the area and joining its work force. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said his city's population increase -- citing 4,000 to 7,000 people a month -- is a good indication of the progress made since Katrina hit. On Wednesday, Nagin participated in the groundbreaking for a memorial to storm victims. "We ring the bells for a city that is in recovery; we ring the bells for hope that the promise that was made at Jackson Square will become a reality and will restore confidence in government at all levels," Nagin said, referring to the scene of Bush's vow in 2005 that the government would help the city and region recover. Katrina first made landfall on August 25 in South Florida as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of near 81 mph. At one point, after moving west into the Gulf of Mexico, it reached Category 5 status, with maximum sustained winds of nearly 173 mph before making landfall on the Gulf Coast. Four days after its initial landfall

Question: When did Hurricane Katrina hit?

Question: What percent of the $114 billion in federal rebuilding aid has been distributed?

Question: What percent of the money has been distributed?

Question: Who says that federal recovery is ongoing?

Question: What portion of the federal rebuilding aid did Bush say was distributed?

Answer: first made landfall on August 25

Answer: Eighty

Answer: Eighty

Answer: President Bush

Answer: Eighty percent of the the $114 billion

Summary:
President Bush says federal recovery effort ongoing .
80 percent of of $114 billion in federal rebuilding aid distributed, Bush says .
Mississippi mayor says his coastal city still years away from full recovery .
Hurricane Katrina left 1,800 dead in five states in 2005 .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A grand jury has indicted four people in the shooting death of a woman during what police say was a Ku Klux Klan initiation rite in the Louisiana woods, St. Tammany Parish prosecutors said.

Raymond "Chuck" Foster is reputed to be the leader of the Klan Group. He was among the four indicted.

Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, was indicted on second-degree murder charges Wednesday in the November death of Cynthia Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, said Rick Wood, spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish district attorney's office.

"That's what he was charged with," Wood told reporters on Wednesday. "The grand jury agreed with that charge."

Two other men, including Foster's son, Shane Foster, were indicted on a count of obstruction of justice, and a woman, Danielle Jones, was indicted on one count of being an accessory after the fact.

Wood said Thursday Foster's case was assigned to one judge and the others' cases were assigned to another. Foster is scheduled to be arraigned March 3, he said, and the others are set for arraignment next week.

Eight people initially were arrested in the case. The remaining four were not indicted.

"Haven't seen one like this," Wood said Wednesday. "We've had a lot of high-profile cases, but not one like this. ... As (district attorney) Walter Reed said, it will be to the max. They will be prosecuted to the max."

Authorities said Lynch was recruited over the Internet and took a bus to Slidell, Louisiana, where she was met by two Klan members. They then went to a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, where they met other members of the group, police said.

During the initiation rite, members of the Klan group, which calls itself the Sons of Dixie, shaved Lynch's head, according to Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Jack Strain, who spoke to CNN in November.

After 24 hours of drills, including chanting and running with torches, she asked to be taken to town. An argument began, authorities said, and the group's leader, Raymond Foster, pushed Lynch to the ground and shot her without warning.

Lynch apparently wanted to leave because she was homesick, investigators found after talking to her family members.

After the shooting, "Foster, we believe, removed a knife from his pocket and rolled over the victim and began a process of trying to remove the bullet from her body ... because he was trying to destroy evidence where law enforcement would not be able to piece these things together," Strain said.

Police believe other members of the Sons of Dixie helped cover up the slaying on Foster's behalf, Strain said at the time, including burning some of Lynch's personal items.

"We're up to the challenge," Wood told reporters after the indictments were handed up Wednesday. "This office is ready to proceed and take care of business."

Authorities received the initial tip about the slaying from a convenience store clerk, after two group members went into the store and asked him if he knew how to get bloodstains out of their clothes. The clerk told them he did not, then called police after they left.

Officials tracked down those two members and arrested them, then arrested others at the campsite and Foster. All the members surrendered without incident, police said.

Investigators found Confederate battle flags, Ku Klux Klan banners, five Klan robes and an Imperial Wizard robe at the campsite, authorities said. Lynch's body was found under loose brush along a road several miles from the campsite.

Raymond Foster has a history of Ku Klux Klan activity dating back seven years, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Alabama-based organization that tracks hate groups.

Question:
who is reputed leader of klan?
Where is Cynthia Lynch from?
What is the KKK?

Answer: Raymond "Chuck" Foster

Answer: Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Answer: Ku Klux Klan

Summary:
Police say Cynthia Lynch of Tulsa shot as she tried to leave KKK rite .
Raymond "Chuck" Foster is reputed leader of Klan group .
Foster, his son, two others accused in indictment of second-degree murder .
"They will be prosecuted to the max," spokesman for prosecutor said .