India Carves New State out of Andhra Pradesh

(12 Dec 09 - RV) India's plan to carve a new state out of southern Andhra Pradesh has sparked statehood demands in other parts of Asia's third largest economy in a new challenge to the Congress party-led government. Placido Rebelo, a priest of the Missionary Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, said the creation of a new state will not solve the problem of poverty and could create further difficulties…