On 13th October 2009, assembly election was held successfully in Zangnan or Arunachal Pradesh with 72% voter turnout for electing its state government. China has chosen this day to lodge a protest against India for a visit by Indian PM Dr. Manmohan Singh to Zangnan or Arunachal Pradesh. India, as usual, has rebutted the protest and claimed that Arunachal is an integral part of India. Every Indian media is shouting at top of their voice that the voter turn out of 72% proves that the people from Arunachal Pradesh or Zangnan are overwhelmingly with India, not China!
Many do not fail to mention that 40% of the polling booths are reachable only by trekking for 3 days on foot after 62 years of India’s independence. This is in contrast with Tibet where Indians media claim, China has built modern roads everywhere.

PTI news about high voter turn out in Arunachal Pradesh :

Itanagar, Oct 13 (PTI) Arunachal Pradesh recorded a high turnout of 72 per cent in the election to 57 of the 60 seats in the state assembly today. Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and two other Congress candidates have been elected unopposed from the three seats in Tawang district.
“Around 72 per cent turnout was recorded, but it may go up,” Chief Electoral Officer Yeshi Tsering said.
The percentage in the 2004 assembly elections was 67.83. There were reports of disturbances and damage to EVMs from 23 polling stations in nine constituencies, he said.

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Recently, suicide bombing has become quite a regular news. Previously, suicide bombing was widely used by LTTE in Sri Lanka. But after LTTE demise recently, and before that too, suicide bombing was put to good use by Al Qaida terrorists.

Suicide bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan is almost regular and routinely executed by Al Qaida terrorists or its associates. Recently two suicide attacks took place, one in luxury hotels in Indonesia and the other in Afganistan.

Here is the news about Afghanistan suicide bombing attack :

KHOST(Afghanistan): Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised in burkas, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing six people, officials said.
The attacks in Gardez and Jalalabad came amid a surge in violence ahead of presidential and provincial elections on August 20, when President Hamid Karzai will stand for re-election despite criticisms about security and corruption. Source.

Here is the news of the other suicide bombing:

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Recently, India has witnessed a stranger political drama in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. The incidents might seem like a sequence of Hindi B-Grade movies. The sequence goes like this:-

10 July 2009 : News about Uttar Pradesh DGP visiting Dalit victims in his state and paying compensation as per SC/ST atrocities ac has hit

headlines. It comes as no surprise as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati , being a Dalit herself. Her party fared well below expectation in last Indian general election. So many thought, this was an act of appeasement of her Dalit people. Most probably, other political parties, specially Congress, thought of countering this.

16th July 2009 : News broke that Congress state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi remarked about his compensation that it is very inadequate, and said “If Mayawati thinks that such an amount is fair compensation for the mental and physical trauma suffered by a rape victim, then I would be ready to offer her a compensation of Rs.1 crore”. Source.

After this remark were known, Mayawati reacted quickly and ordered Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s arrest as well as charge her with SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act and she herself became eligible for Rs. 25000/- compensation as per the SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act. provisions.
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Recently, North Korea has conducted a nuclear test, few missile test. They have done those testing after world wide condemnation of their previous long range missile or satellite ( depending on which side you are) test. And within 6 weeks, they have done it again after showing a middle finger to world opinion and specially to the so called sole super power of the world, United States of America. This is in stark contrast to Iraq. Here are the news:

SEOUL, May 25 :The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way as requested by its scientists and technicians.

“The current nuclear test was safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control and the results of the test helped satisfactorily settle the scientific and technological problems arising in further increasing the power of nuclear weapons and steadily developing nuclear technology.
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