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Even after the killing of the number one terroist in the world, Osama Bin Laden, India is still questioning. This article says that India is excited about the killing in itself, but is questioning the fact that Bin Laden was found 2 hours away from the capital city of Pakistan. Most of India's Newspaper Headlines were critical of Pakistan, one even called Pakistan Terroristan. The fact that he lived two hours away from the capital contributed even more to India's position on Pakistan, that they harbor and protect terrorists. It keeps going to say how different India and Pakistan are, when people think of them as very alike, how India would not do all the awful terrorism things that was done by many people of Pakistan. When the Pakistan's military cheif talked on Indian television, he said that the C.I.A. didn't inform them on the whereabouts of Bin Laden.
 * Article #2: Bin Laden's Killing as Seen From India**

I do find it interesting that Bin Laden was so close to the Pakistan capital without anyone even knowing, it seems very unlikely. But I also think that India is covered by a veil of hatred to their neighboring country Pakistan. They have always had many differences, so they will think different on this matter, and India will try to get them in trouble either way. I do find some truth in what India is saying, but I think it is mostly from the biases of what they think of Pakistan.

This article talks about how when India won the Cricket World Cup was the one moment in a long time that India's upper class and India's vast lower class. The truth is that India's upper class usually try to get away from the lower class, the poverty, the homless, etc., by moving onto private land and avoiding direct contact. On these islands they have all the things that the lower class can only dream of, all the way from luxuriouse cars and nice, big homes, to an education for their kids. Cricket was the only man-made phenomenom that the citizens of India could come together as one proud nation. They are trying to get their unity of a country back to full form.
 * Article #4: Fighting to Shut Out Real India**

I do like the fact the cricket made them come together and agree on something that makes them closer as a country. It really shows that there is a chance in the unity of the two classes, they just have to find a way to combine. I don't like how there are so many fortunate, wealthy people that are just not willing to get back to their country like they should be able to. I do see some promise in India, they just have to want to be proud as one united coutry.

This article is over the mess up in the wanted list that India gave Pakistan. This wanted list included Wazhul Kamar Khan, who was not supposed to be there. The Indian government appoligized and corrected their mistake, calling the mess up a "geniune error". Pakistan found this offensive because India thinks that they harbor terrorists and people that start trouble. This is a bad mess-up for India because now that they have spotted one incorrect accusationl, they will be able to accuse India of more mess-ups and more possibly falsely accused people on the list.
 * Article #7: Wanted list goof-up 'genuine error': Chidambaram**

I do agree that that is a bad goof-up. If someone is accused of something they didn't do to that steep of a degree, that is a bad deal. But, I also think that it is so bad because now Pakistan is able to say that India wrongly accused the people on the list that lives in Pakistan.

There was a docking gate that collapsed at the Visakhapatnam Naval Dockyard during routine operations. This gate was made to take the sea water to the dry dock. The gate collapsing killed four people, two officers and two sailors. As to how the gate collapsed is unknown and still trying to be discovered.
 * Article #9: Mishap at Visakhapatnam naval dockyard, four killed**

This is an awful and unusual loss of four men, two that risked their lives as a police officers of the Indian Government. It is awful to see that those few great men can die of a cause of such as that freak accident. They were just doing their job, it is hard to learn that those things can happen to ordinary people doing what they do everyday.

India's newest census put the population of India up to 1.21 billion, putting them to the 2nd largest population in the world. India now has a population that is higher than the poplulations of United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined. Of coarse, they are still behind China, but they are getting much closer. A strange statistic has shown that much many more boys are being born or surviving than girls, the worse its been since Indian independence in 1947. It was said that the ratio was more 927 to 1000 boy to girl ratio, and the Census Commisioner called it a "grave concern." Statistics have shown that India now makes up 17% of the world popoulation. This is a big step for India, and they are really getting high on the global rating.
 * Article #10: India census: population goes up to 1.21bn**

I think that this article shows that India is really getting up there with all the major power countries in the world. Now with the 2nd largest population in the world, they can only go up with the other numbers like literacy rates, sex ratios, etc. I do think that the sex ratio is a significant problem in India. So many more boys than girls in India could be a major problem in the future generations. All in all I think it is more of an accomplishment than a problem. This is one step in the uprising of India on the international scale.