I thought I saw it for a second.... and then it was gone:
"The newly targeted zone is nearly 700 miles northeast of sites the searchers have criscrossed for the past week. The redeployment came after analysts determined that the jet may have been traveling faster than earlier estimates and would therefore have run out of fuel sooner....
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The article is as vast and empty as the ocean they are prowling through. Once again, no mention of pings from black boxes, Diego Garcia, or mourning and angry families.
I'd ask the Indian armed forces for help, but.... in the latest fatal accident to hit the Indian navy.... cheap Russian crap; however, the do tell us polio has disappeared from India. The Maoists are still there but the declaration of independence muted them.
"5 in India found guilty of raping 2 women; Sentences may range up to life" by Mansi Choksi | New York Times, March 21, 2014
MUMBAI — A court in Mumbai found five men guilty on Thursday of raping a photojournalist and a call-center operator in an abandoned mill building last year, a case that shook a city that has long prided itself on its relatively progressive, cosmopolitan atmosphere....
The Mumbai case testified to the ripple effect of the fatal 2012 gang rape of a physiotherapy student on a moving bus in New Delhi.
A wave of protests followed that victim’s death, setting in motion remarkable changes in India. Reports of rape and sexual assault skyrocketed, suggesting a greater willingness to speak out about such crimes. Parliament created a fast-track court for rape cases and introduced new laws making especially brutal rapes punishable by death.
A leopard doesn't change his spots.
The reported incidence of rape in India is low by the standards of many Western countries, including the United States, but underreporting likely skews those figures.
The photojournalist’s case was of a kind that, in earlier years, could easily have gone unreported.
Testimony included in police reports suggested that the defendants acted with little fear of police action, summoning friends to the mill building by phone using a phrase — “the prey has arrived” — and then releasing their battered victim with a warning that if she reported the crime, they would publish photographs taken during the assault.
But the photojournalist, who cannot be identified according to Indian law, went straight to the hospital and reported the crime. The police initiated a broad, high-level response, arresting five men in quick succession and recording their confessions....
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Related:
"The brutality of the crime unleashed a wave of public anger over the treatment of Indian women and a long-unspoken epidemic of sexual violence in the country. The nationwide outcry following the gang rape led the federal government to rush legislation increasing prison terms for rapists and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks, and the trafficking of women."
Are they still burning brides in India?
Moving further south, there is a "strategic move to shore up local pro-Tamil sentiment before elections," and just offshore there is a release of prisoners just before the UN investigates.
