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India: Muslim leader issues bounty for Nupur Sharma’s tongue, says he’ll force her to dance JUN 17, 2022 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “Mujra” is a dance of courtesans. The enduring irony of all this rage is that what Nupur Sharma said was true: Islamic tradition records that Muhammad married a six-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was nine. “Bhim Sena Chief Nawab Satpal Tanwar arrested for issuing bounty to cut Nupur Sharma’s tongue, had said he would make her do ‘mujra,’” OpIndia, June 17, 2022: The Delhi Police has arrested Bhim Sena Chief Nawab Satpal Tanwar after he...

The greatest level of sympathy towards Israel can be found in India, according to international study on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. According to the study, which was unprecedented in scope and was undertaken by an international market research company, 58% of Indian respondents showed sympathy to the Jewish State. The United States came in second, with 56% of American respondents sympathizing with Israel. The study was undertaken as part of the "Branding Israel" project and aimed at looking into Israel's international stature at what researchers characterized as the world's 13 most important countries, including the...

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (AP) -- This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy. An impoverished place still recovering from the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hambantota has a desolate air, a sense of nowhereness, punctuated by the realization that looking south over the expanse of ocean, the next landfall is Antarctica. But just over the horizon runs one of the world's great trade arteries, the shipping lanes where thousands...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told the U.S. Congress his country and the United States need to work together to confront the threats terrorism poses to democracies. The Indian leader addressed a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday, also touching on the issue of nuclear proliferation. Prime Minister Singh observed that the world's largest democracy, and the world's oldest have much in common. The open society and economy of the United States, he said, have attracted the brightest young minds from India, transcending distance and differences between the two countries. He said India is poised to take advantage of a...