Off the injured list and back on the world stage, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned defense of American demands that India and other countries do more to tackle terrorism and global warming.

MUMBAI, India City workers bulldozed the home of a “Slumdog Millionaire” child star yesterday as part of the demolition of dozens of shanties in a Mumbai slum. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was asleep when a police officer woke him up and told him to leave his family’s home, he said. Shortly after that, the shack and about 30 more were destroyed.

The only surviving suspected gunman in last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him, including waging war against India and murder.

The makers of the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” have donated $747,500 to a charity devoted to improving the lives of street children in Mumbai.

On a breezy day on the cusp of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a spiritual community bade farewell to a Nelson County father and daughter who died in terrorist attacks last month in Mumbai, India.

“You can’t shoot a bullet at darkness,“ Rabbi Yossel Kranz of Chabad of Virginia said last night. In the face of tragedy, “we will bring light and joy, because we believe that good is greater than evil and that the world is truly a good place,“ Kranz told more than 100 people gathered at the Henrico County Chabad center to remember the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

Kia Scherr said she feels compassion and love for the terrorist who killed her husband and daughter in India last week. Scherr, speaking at a news conference yesterday at the Synchronicity Foundation’s home in Nelson County, said the terrorists are “completely shrouded by fear. We must show love overpowers fear.“ Alan Scherr, 58, and 13-year-old Naomi Scherr were shot dead while on a pilgrimage to India with a group from the Synchronicity Foundation, a spiritual community near Faber about 20 miles south of Charlottesville. Four other members of the group were wounded.

A Canadian who was shot several times during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai faces additional surgery. Michael Rudder was among a 25-person pilgrimage from a Virginia spiritual center when he was shot three times during the attacks Wednesday night.

Pakistan scrambled yesterday to avoid a crisis with India over the terror attacks in Mumbai, sending an intelligence official to share data and countering Indian charges that “elements in Pakistan” were behind the carnage.

Richmond-area businessman Rumy Mohta was supposed to arrive in Mumbai yesterday to visit his parents, who live about 2 miles from the Taj Mahal hotel. But his connection from Paris to Mumbai was canceled.

Alan Scherr’s decades of commitment to spirituality and simple living earned him recognition as an inspiring teacher of astrology, self-awareness and meditation. Scherr, 58, described his life as a “challenging . . . solitary journey.“ That journey led him to Mumbai, India, where he and his daughter Naomi, 13, were among more than 150 people killed by terrorists in attacks that began Wednesday.

People have come from around the world to seek peace at the Synchronicity Foundation’s retreat center at Horseshoe Mountain. The foundation is a nonprofit spiritual organization founded in 1983.