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| Political obstruction scuppers Modi's reform agenda | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered a major blow on Thursday when lawmakers ended the monsoon parliament session without approving a tax reform bill aimed at boosting economic growth. Modi's failure to secure parliament's backing for the measure could push back politically contentious bills such as labour and land legislation, which businesses and economists say are critical to create jobs for millions entering the workforce.
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| Islamic State claims huge truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City | | | By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 76 people were killed and 212 wounded on Thursday in a blast claimed by Islamic State in Baghdad's Sadr City, police and medical sources said, one of the biggest attacks on the capital since Haider al-Abadi became prime minister a year ago. "Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings." A statement circulated online by supporters of Islamic State said the blast had targeted what it called a stronghold of the "charlatan army" and Shi'ite Muslim militias. The market in the Shi'ite neighbourhood is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items. |
| Knife attacker kills woman in prime Beijing shopping complex | | | A lone attacker stabbed a French man and a Chinese woman in a popular Beijing shopping complex on Thursday, killing the woman, the city's public security department said. A 25-year-old suspect, from the northeastern province of Jilin, had been detained after the attack in the shopping centre, known for its international brands, bars and restaurants, the department said via an official microblog. |
| Sri Lanka's torture of Tamils persists despite war's end - charity | | | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The torture of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka by the police and military remains a major problem six years after the end of the civil war with victims beaten, burned and sexually abused, a UK-based charity providing medical care to survivors said. In a report released on Thursday, Freedom from Torture said that in 2014, for the third year in a row, Sri Lanka was the top country of origin of those the charity helped. The report, published ahead of elections next week in which wartime president Mahinda Rajapaksa hopes to reclaim power, was based on medical evidence relating to 148 Sri Lankan torture survivors, 94 percent of them Tamils. |
| Myanmar ruling party chief sacked in power struggle with president | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful ruling party chief Shwe Mann has been ousted from his post, party members said on Thursday, apparently after losing a power struggle with President Thein Sein three months before a general election. Security forces surrounded the headquarters of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the capital, Naypyitaw, late on Wednesday and prevented members there from leaving. Shwe Mann's ouster from the party follows rare discord within the establishment over the role of the military, which handed power to a semi-civilian government in 2011 but retains an effective veto over the political system. |
| Rare blast in mosque in Kashmir hurts 10 | | | A grenade exploded on Thursday in a mosque in Jammu & Kashmir, wounding 10 people, police said, the first such incident in 14 years in a region where militant violence has spiked recently. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the southern district of Shopian in the Himalayan region. "People were coming out of the mosque after morning prayers when the blast occurred," a police officer said. |
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