'Haunted' Indian Station Reopens

Originally from BBC news: 'Haunted' Indian Station Reopens

All ghost stories are either scams or lies. This one definitely lies in the lies category. Indian railway workers invented a ghost to prevent them having to work at a remote train station. The sad thing is, until just recently, it worked.

Problems in India

I don't have a particular favour of the Guardian, despite the fact that lots of my news articles have been coming from there recently. They just make it easy for me to add their religious stories to Google Reader.

Sunny Hundal wrote a piece that sums up the problems between rival factions in India. Note that all of these problems are rooted in religion!