NEW DELHI — Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.

Police officer Raj Jeet Singh said a 29-year-old woman was the only passenger on a bus as she was traveling to her village in northern Punjab state on Friday night. The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and drove her to a desolate location, he said.

There, the driver and the conductor took her to a building where they were joined by five friends and took turns raping her throughout the night, Singh said.

The driver dropped the woman off at her village early Saturday, he said. […]

Also on Saturday, police arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly raping and killing a 9-year-old girl two weeks ago in Ahmednagar district in western India, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Her decomposed body was found Friday. […]

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India probably weighed this and decided that Nerds are less likely to get violent than tribal xenophobes and hatemongers.

The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.

The backlash came as New Delhi turned up the heat on Twitter, threatening “appropriate and suitable action” if it failed to remove the accounts as soon as possible. Several Indian newspapers said this could mean a total ban on access to Twitter in India but government officials would not confirm to Reuters that such a drastic step was being considered.

Twitter, which does not have an office in India, declined to comment. There are about 16 million Twitter users in the South Asian country.

The government has found itself on the defensive this week over what critics see as a clumsy clampdown on social media websites - including Google, YouTube and Facebook - that has raised questions about freedom of information in the world’s largest democracy.

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India is seeking international arrest warrants for three Iranians suspected of being part of a plot to attack Israeli diplomats.

New Delhi Police Chief Brijesh Gupta said Friday India has contacted Interpol about warrants for the three men, thought to be behind last month’s bombing of a car belonging to the Israeli embassy.  He said investigators have also linked them to a failed bombing in Thailand.

The February 13 attack in New Delhi wounded the wife of an embassy official as she was on her way to pick up her children from school.  Indian officials say the bomber attached the explosives to the car using magnets.  Officials in Thailand say those same magnets were used in a bomb that detonated prematurely a day later in Bangkok.

Thai police arrested two Iranians in connection with the Bangkok explosion.  A third man, Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, was detained in Malaysia.

On Friday, New Delhi’s police chief said investigators had determined that the suspects in the New Delhi attack had been in contact with Masoud.

Israel has openly accused Iran of trying to carry out a series of attacks, including a bombing in Tbilisi, Georgia.  Iran denies the allegations.

Tensions between the two countries have reached new heights as Israel threatens to take military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities.  Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Just last week, India arrested an Indian journalist working for an Iranian news agency in connection with the New Delhi attack.

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The wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi and her driver were injured on Monday when the car they were traveling in was bombed, officials said. A second attempted bombing was defused outside the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, at about the same time.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately blamed Iran, which has vowed revenge for the recent assassinations of several scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Hezbollah, which receives funding and strong support from Iran, also had promised to avenge the assassination of one of its leaders, Imad Moughniyeh, who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus on Feb. 12, 2008.

Ticking off places where he said recent attacks on Jews and Israelis had been thwarted, including Azerbaijan and Thailand, Netanyahu accused Iran of orchestrating the attempts and called the government in Tehran “the greatest exporter of terror in the world.”

“In all these cases,” Netanyahu said, “the elements behind the attacks were Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah.”

Netanyahu offered no details of the attempts he cited, or specific evidence for his claim. But Israel had put its foreign missions on high alert in recent days, because of the anniversary of Moughniyeh’s death.

Both the New Delhi attack and the discovery of the bomb in Tbilisi happened around the same time Monday—3:20 p.m. in New Delhi, and 1:50 p.m. in Tiblisi (4:50 a.m. in Washington).

New Delhi police commissioner Brajesh Kumar Gupta said the wife of the diplomat “was going to pick up her children at the American embassy school” when a person on a motorcycle approached her vehicle and affixed a magnetic bomb to its rear side.

“A mild explosion soon took place and the car caught fire,” Gupta told reporters at a news conference.

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