MUMBAI (Reuters) – Activists demanded reforms of justice system and stricter laws for industrial disasters after a court took nearly 26 years to hand down a verdict for the world’s worst industrial accident in a central Indian city.

Thousands of people were killed in Bhopal after a plant of U.S. chemical firm Union Carbide accidentally released toxic gases into the air, and many more continue to suffer.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Authorities have tried to crack down on portrayals of Sonia Gandhi in movies, books and cartoons, triggering criticism that the world’s largest democracy is too reverent towards its most powerful politician.

Gandhi is a member of a family of Congress leaders that has dominated Indian politics since independence in 1947. As head of the ruling Congress party, she is widely seen as the power behind-the-scenes in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government.

SHILLONG, India (Reuters) – To Bob. Wherever you are.

With those lines, Andrew, a popular musician in India’s northeastern town of Shillong who goes by one name, kicked off an annual festival to commemorate Bob Dylan with a concert featuring the music icon’s best offerings.

This year, a hundreds-strong crowd clapped, cheered and bobbed their heads as they sang along with bands and musicians who had come to mark Dylan’s 69th birthday, which was on Monday.

SHILLONG, India (Reuters) – To Bob. Wherever you are.

With those lines, Andrew, a popular musician in India’s northeastern town of Shillong who goes by one name, kicked off an annual festival to commemorate Bob Dylan with a concert featuring the music icon’s best offerings.

This year, a hundreds-strong crowd clapped, cheered and bobbed their heads as they sang along with bands and musicians who had come to mark Dylan’s 69th birthday, which was on Monday.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – On a recent Saturday afternoon, the Celtics took on Magic, cheered on by raucous onlookers. The pace was quick, the players committed and the rivalry intense.

The participants, though, were not the storied Boston and Orlando basketball teams, but boys of the Mahindra-NBA recreational league in India, where the National Basketball Association (NBA) hopes to take advantage of the growing popularity of the sport to gain a foothold, backed by one of the largest corporate groups in the country.

MUMBAI, May 25 (Reuters) – On a recent Saturday afternoon,
the Celtics took on Magic, cheered on by raucous onlookers. The
pace was quick, the players committed and the rivalry intense.

The participants, though, were not the storied Boston and
Orlando basketball teams, but boys of the Mahindra-NBA
recreational league in India, where the National Basketball
Association (NBA) hopes to take advantage of the growing
popularity of the sport to gain a foothold, backed by one of the
largest corporate groups in the country.

SIRHIND, India (Reuters) – Lush green fields greet visitors to the agricultural heartland in India’s northwest, some dotted with tall bundles of paddy covered with black tarpaulin, exposed to the sun, the occasional thundershower and rodents.

A couple of hours away, workers wearing green hair nets and aprons clean and sort peas, tomatoes and potatoes in a 10,000-sq.ft. facility leased by Wal-Mart Stores <WMT.N>, which ships vegetables and fruits to 28 supermarkets and a Wal-Mart wholesale store within hours of being picked in the fields.