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 14:45 | 13/Jul/2006 |
| After the blasts | |
| It’s been two days since the blasts, but citizen journalists refuse to let up.A couple of gruesome images here and an interesting comment that could have come from Gautam Malkani's debut novel Londonstani: "At least 190 innocents were killed this evening by losers shifting their gimpy sights from downtown Bombay (257 killed in ‘93 bombings) to the ...
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| 22:59 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| 'Dad, we don't want to go' | |
| A Mercury News report looks at how Indian Americans in the Bay Area struggled to get word of relatives back home. ``I'm scheduled to visit relatives in India next month,'' said Raj Bhanot, a member of San Jose's Human Rights Commission, ``and my children are asking me, `Dad, what's going on? We don't want to go.' ''
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| 22:17 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Who did it? | |
| Officially, no one knows yet, but unofficially, the jury appears to have reached a verdict, reports Jonathan Steele in the Guardian.Most speculation blames the Pakistani-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba which is fighting to end Indian rule in Kashmir, but the Indian government has not officially named it. A Lashkar spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, said his...
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| 22:01 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Mumbai is resilient, says envoy to US | |
| Ronen Sen, India's ambassador to the United States, told Forbes magazine he expects Mumbai, and India, to rebound from the latest terrorist strikes.We don’t have control in a democracy over our borders so we can never have the same security system or as tight border controls as those in an autocracy or dictatorship. Also, because of our democratic ...
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| 21:57 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Attacks won't hurt economy, say experts | |
| The idea behind striking at Mumbai may have been to deal a crippling blow to the country's financial nerve center, but it is unlikely to have much of an impact according to experts.
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| 21:53 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| The survival guide | |
| An ABC news story details new technology being tested to improve security for railways, and offers tips on what to do in the event of an attack.
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| 21:44 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Political fall out of blasts? | |
| In a think piece, Oxford Analytica -- an independent strategy analysing/consulting group -- suggests that the Mumbai blasts could further impact on an Indo-Pak peace process that is already on the skids.President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz were swift to condemn the attacks, but bilateral ties, already strained, are likely to c...
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| 21:16 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Maximum City | |
| Naresh Fernandes, editor of Time Out Mumbai, muses in the New York Times of the much-lauded 'spirit of Mumbai'.Despite the long history of sporadic violence, Mumbai has always picked itself up by its bootstraps and marched off to work as soon as the trains started working again. Our ability to jeer at misfortune is attributed in the Indian press to...
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| 20:11 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| India reacts to Pak gaffe | |
| Not sure if 'gaffe' is the right word for this, but anyway:“We find it appalling that Foreign Minister Kasuri should seek to link this blatant and inhuman act of terror against men, women and children to the so-called lack of resolution of disputes between India and Pakistan,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told a news conference....
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| 16:58 | 12/Jul/2006 |
| Bloggers to the rescue | |
| So, as they often have over the past couple of years, the bloggers have sprung into action once again.The impressive result is all manner of reportage. There are message boards set up to help, pages of information for people in other cities, images taken from digi-cams and mobile phones, and men and women sitting beside their PCs right through the ...
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