21.   The violence in Gujarat started when a Muslim mob attacked a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in late February, provoking reprisals by Hindus.

22.   Then they return to bathe and feed their charges, and clean the cool concrete floors of the shelter, once a rest house for Hindu pilgrims.

23.   They issued passes for local residents and journalists, and cut the arrival of Hindu pilgrims to a trickle.

24.   Three Hindu pilgrims and one soldier were killed Friday when Tamil Tiger rebels fired at a military checkpoint in eastern Sri Lanka, the defense ministry said.

25.   Volunteers from religious groups handed out fried bread and curry to thousands of Hindu pilgrims who returned from Seshnag.

26.   He and his friends, however, said that the Moslem porters risked their lives to carry sick Hindu pilgrims down the mountains.

27.   Hindu pilgrims tried to set fire to an ambulance which was taking the bodies of two of the militants to a morgue.

28.   Hundreds of Hindu pilgrims who returned to Jammu, many without making it to the Amarnath cave, thronged the railway station Sunday to return to their home towns.

29.   Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims throng to Kashmir for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave, nestled in the Himalayan mountains, which begins early next month.

30.   In another development, Indian troops were erecting stone bunkers along the route to the holy cave, to pre-empt attacks on Hindu pilgrims undertaking the long annual trek.