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SUBCONTINENT update (6#) -

# Controversial Bangladeshi writer
Taslima Nasreen was moved to
Rajasthan on Thursday. [toi]

# But, inquiring minds want to know, who were the key players behind the Calcutta riot? Because of concerns that the organizers could be jihadis or associates of the al Qaeda cultists, some reporters from the Indian Express undertook a preliminary investigation into the matter.

# Panic during the riot
caused a massive mobile phone jam.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in India . . .

# Bangalore: *Rogue tusker injures 2 ... Rowdy Ranga, the rogue pachyderm, is back. This time, he injured two people, including a woman... Ranga is a repeat offender.*

# Gujarat: For the first time in history,
snake charmers are going to vote [photo included].

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And in Pakistan . . .

# NWFP-Swat update: The PK Army regained control over the Kabal police station which had been overrun by the insurrectionists. And troops shot at a suspected suicide bomber who refused to stop his car on the approach to the valley’s Saidu Sharif airport... resulting in the car blowing up from the explosives it was carrying. [pdtimes]

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