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| Drama as Modi makes final push to pass GST bill | |  By Frank Jack Daniel and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making a last push before the end of a stormy sitting of parliament to pass a major tax reform aimed at boosting economic growth, but an opposition party has dug in its heels to stop the bill. Aimed at creating a customs union for India's 1.2 billion people, the Goods and Service Tax (GST) is the biggest revenue shake-up since independence from Britain in 1947. Supporters say it will add up to two percentage points to economic growth.
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| Protests return to Ferguson streets, state of emergency declared | |  By Carey Gillam and Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Police in riot gear clashed with protesters who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death sparked a national outcry over race relations. About 200 demonstrators, some waving flags, beating drums, and shouting anti-police slogans, marched along a street that was a flashpoint of riots that erupted last year after white police officer Darren Wilson shot dead 18-year-old black teen Michael Brown. Police made several arrests, including nine people on Monday evening after a group of protesters briefly blocked the roadway.
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| Murder probe casts shadow over comeback bid by Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa | |  By Shihar Aneez and Douglas Busvine COLOMBO (Reuters) - The exhumation of the remains of a star rugby player whose death is now the target of a murder investigation has cast a shadow over former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid at Sri Lanka's general election next week. Rajapaksa, 69, has denied allegations by the government that Wasim Thajudeen was tortured to death in May 2012 by members of his security team and did not die in a car crash as reported at the time. Rajapaksa, who has set his sights on becoming Sri Lanka's next prime minister, said the investigation was timed to coincide with the Aug. 17 elections.
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| India arrests 27 after "witch-hunt" massacre of tribal women | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI/PATNA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must do more to tackle the practice of witch-branding among tribal communities, activists said on Monday following the murder of five women accused of sorcery. The victims, aged 35 to 52, were dragged out of their homes in Jharkhand in the early hours of Saturday and beaten and stabbed to death by villagers who accused them of killing a youth. "Many of these murders are linked to superstitious beliefs, but they are also due to economic reasons where people want to take the woman's land or property," said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research, a women's rights organisation in New Delhi. |
| U.S. Coast Guard unloads $1 billion in seized narcotics in San Diego | | | The 32 metric tons of cocaine and 2 tons of heroin were stacked on pallets at the bow of the new Coast Guard Cutter Stratton, the lead ship among three vessels that took part in its maiden operation from April through July. The contraband was seized during some 30 separate interdictions of drug-running vessels, including two submarines and dozens of small outboard-powered boats called pangas, the Coast Guard said. "Every one of these bricks of cocaine was headed for the United States," Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft told reporters, adding that the United States consumes about 420 metric tons of cocaine each year. |
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