A BANK has been allowed to chase a Co Kildare man for a €10 million debt by dropping a letter in the post.

The ruling party won a sweeping victory today in state elections in western India – a landslide that could boost Hindu supremacists in national politics and challenge the nation’s secular traditions.

At least 16 people were killed overnight as Hindus and Muslims attacked each other with stones, petrol bombs and acid in India’s western state of Gujarat.

Thousands of Indian army soldiers tried to control Hindu mobs in the western city of Ahamadabad today as the death toll in the country’s worst religious violence in a decade approached 300.