Two young Indian delegates to meet G-8 world leaders

A 16-year-old girl from Koraput, Orissa and a 17-year-old boy from Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, will be representing India at the Junior 8 summit in Rome this year

The J8 summit, to be held from 4-10 July, is now in its 5th year and takes place parallel to the annual G-8 summit

Sanjukta Pangi and Samuel Venkatesan will leave for Rome on Friday, but before they emplane, they will meet with the media at the UNICEF India Country Office Selection to the J8 presents these young people to join a group of 56 young people, where they will work together on youth-oriented solutions for this year’s three main G8 topics: climate change, the world financial crisis and development

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After Orissa, its Karnataka

Two pastors and six others were injured in simultaneous attacks carried out on 14 churches and prayer halls by suspected Bajrang Dal activists in Mangalore, Udupi and Chikmagalur districts on Sunday.

Eyewitnesses told the police that some motorcycle-borne miscreants barged into prayer halls and ransacked them.

A statue of Jesus Christ was damaged in a prayer hall next to Milagres' Convent in Mangalore City. While some of these churches belonged to the Pentecostal Mission, the rest were of Roman Catholics. The pastors were injured at Sirur in Udupi and Jayapura in Chikmagalur.

The attackers apparently were protesting against an alleged conversion drive by missionaries in the region.

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