Until a few years ago, most of the big English papers had an understanding to stay off each other's turf: the Times in Mumbai, Hindustan Times in Delhi, Telegraph in Kolkata (Calcutta) and the Hindu in Chennai (Madras).

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Mr Halappanaver, who like his wife is a Hindu, has said that several times over a three-day period the family asked for the pregnancy to be terminated.

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