Bihar in India is notorious for having the country's highest crime rate. But local police have found a novel way to fight it, building on the state's vibrant tradition of folk music, they have created a choir that sings to raise awareness of crime.
> Singing Policemen of Bihar: Part one
Bihar in India is notorious for having the country's highest crime rate. But local police have found a novel way to fight it, building on the state's vibrant tradition of folk music, they have created a choir that sings to raise awareness of crime.
> Singing Policemen of Bihar: Part two
A girl participates in the celebrations for the spring season during Holi, the festival of colours, in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated by Hindus all over the world.
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Force India's lead driver Giancarlo Fisichella got up to pace even as the times dropped sharply on the concluding day of the penultimate F1 winter tests here.
Fisichella put in quicker laps Thursday than team mates Vitantonio Liuzzi (Tuesday) and Adrian Sutil (Wednesday), as he did 89 laps with a best of one minute, 20.669 seconds that placed him 11th overall among 16 drivers.
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Force India Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella of Italy drives during a training session at the Jerez racetrack, in the southern part of Spain.
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The Campaign Against Censorship is an action platform of over 300 Indian documentary filmmakers who came together in August 2003 to protest the attempt by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to make censor certificates a mandatory precondition for Indian documentaries entered into the Mumbai International Film Festival.
In an unprecedented display of collective resistance filmmakers from across the country organized the Campaign Against Censorship, and were successful in forcing the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to drop its attempts to introduce censor certification for the festival.
