Crossings

Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq’s uncle, Maulvi Mushtaq Ahmed, shot at while praying at a Srinagar mosque on May 29, dies.

Milon K. Banerjee, 74, gets a second stint as the Attorney-General of India. A-G during the Rao years (’92-’96), he succeeds Soli Sorabjee.

CIA director since ’97, George C. Tenet, who faced flak over intelligence failure on 9/11, Iraqi wmds and even on India’s ’98 N-tests, quits.

Black British writer Andrea Levy has won the Orange Prize for women writers. Her book, Small Island, dealt with post-war racism in Britain.

Dashing Kiwi allrounder Chris L. Cairns, 34, who despite an injury-ridden career is still only the sixth player to achieve an all-rounder’s double of 200 wickets and 3,000 runs, retires.