61.  Police guarded empty offices Wednesday as nearly half a million government employees in a southern Indian state went on an indefinite strike to protest wage cuts.

62.  Police had banned the march after violence erupted at a similar demonstration last week in Jammu-Kashmir, a northern Indian state wracked by religious violence.

63.  Police said Thursday that they killed five Maoist rebels in an overnight shootout in eastern Indian state of Bihar.

64.  Police said Tuesday they killed four Maoist rebels in an overnight shootout that followed a rebel bomb attack on a police station in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

65.  Pakistan called off play because it was a national holiday in the country to express solidarity with Muslim separatists in the Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir.

66.  Police attacked a jungle hideout of left-wing guerrillas in a southern Indian state early Friday, killing seven of them, including three women.

67.  Police identified the man as only Nagatu, and said he came from the neighboring Indian state of Nagaland, where insurgents have been fighting soldiers for several decades.

68.  Police in a southern Indian state on Tuesday banned a movie criticized by both Hindus and Muslims alike as igniting communal tension.

69.  Police recovered seven bullet-riddled bodies of tribespeople Tuesday from a remote village in the northeast Indian state of Assam.

70.  Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.