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Photo from the EPA As the US experiences its ups and downs with its current Census 2010 campaign, India is taking the steps necessary to avoid any problems with their own historic version of public allotment for next year . The process, that will see every resident fingerprinted and photographed, is expected to cost about $1.25bn and employ 2.5 million staff over an 11-month period. "It is the first time in human history that we will identify, enumerate, record and eventually issue an identity card to 1.2 billion people," said Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's home minister. Undertaken every decade since 1872, the census this year will collect biometric data on every person aged over 15 for a new national population register. And already, the counting has begun: The first person counted on Thursday was Pratibha Patil, the Indian president, at his official residence, in the first leg of a process called "houselisting". Houselisting entails recording infor...

It seems another suicide bomb has occurred in Pakistan (Photo from EPA) The big news today comes out of Pakistan , with government officials blaming the Taliban: A series of attacks in Pakistan's second city, Lahore, has killed dozens of people and wounded more than 100 others, police say. At least 45 people, including 10 soldiers, were killed in Friday's first attack - a double bombing aimed at military vehicles, police said. A second attack later in the day near a police station is reported to have claimed another four lives. The double bombing occurred in RA Bazaar, a residential and commercial neighbourhood where several security agencies have facilities. "Two suicide bombers attacked within the span of 15 to 20 seconds and they were on foot," Tariq Saleem Dogar, the chief of Punjab police, said. A day after wild protests hit the nation's streets, feelings have calmed at little over in Greece over the austerity plans. Photo from AP Photo's Petr...

But wow at your security being tightened up ....Wow Security in India-controlled Kashmir was tightened Friday ahead of Indian Independence Day on Saturday, police said. Authorities have deployed contingents of local police and paramilitary troopers in the Srinagar city around the Bakhshi Stadium, the main venue of Indian Independence Day celebrations in the region. Policemen and troopers deployed on the roads of Srinagar city are frisking the pedestrians and vehicles to ward off any militant attack. Even the sniffer dogs have been pressed into service to detect explosives. But that won't shop the celebrations from happening.

Yup A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act. The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence". Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence. Rational thinking in rational times. But will they go the marriage route........like some in America?