NEW DELHI: Indian authorities demolished the home of "Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail.Despite the hit movie's mega-millions in box-office receipts, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail's life changed little after he returned home to Mumbai, India's, Garib Nagar.Even the roof over the real-life slum dweller's head was taken away as Indian authorities tore down the shanty where Ismail's family lived.Authorities said the home and about 20 others around it were illegally built.Senior Inspector Rahim Sheikh told media that the shanties were brought down as part of a municipal drive to clear encroachments on public land. Bulldozers leveled the slum built on a municipal garden, said Sheikh, who is in charge of the locality in Mumbai where Ismail lived.Ismail said his family was given no notice of the demolition and did not have time to remove their belongings. But, they said, they plan to return and rebuild.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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