NEW DELHI - In the wake of the seizure of unaccounted money from a monastery of the Karmapa Lama, the Himachal Pradesh government will set up an investigation wing to keep tabs on the activities of Tibetan exiles settled across the state, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Tuesday.

LONDON - The new imam at the proposed Ground Zero mosque in New York has said that homosexuality is the result of "violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in the life of the gay people".

KATHMANDU - The ugly religious row that erupted near one of the holiest Hindu shrines in the world showed signs of calming down Tuesday after Nepal's caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal intervened, promising status quo to a minority community.