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NEW DELHI - Lingaram Kodopi, a tribal student from Chhattisgarh who police say is the "mastermind" of an attack by suspected Maoists on a Congress leader's house in the state's Dantewada district, says he is "shocked and shattered" by the allegation and can prove his innocence, but would rather commit suicide than surrender to the police as he feared for his life.

NEW DELHI - The government is readying the necessary papers to seek the extradition from the US of then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, it was announced here Thursday.

GENEVA - The United Nations launched a commission Thursday to investigate punitive laws that harm global efforts to respond to the decades-old HIV epidemic.