Delhi goes on a banishing spree for Commonwealth Games: dogs, elephants, beggars, rats, snakes! Snakes???

There is a grand plan to clean up the Indian capital for the Commonwealth Games - but it includes a very long list of who is to be banished from Delhi.

It started with stray dogs, slum dwellers and pavement squatters, but has now included cows, donkeys, bulls, goats, rats, snakes and even elephants and camels that are hired for general festivities and fairs.

And the cost to the government - $65m.  More...

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