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...blasts in Delhi. Another Indian intelligence officer who spoke to TIME linked Tuesday's bombings to amateurish attacks late last year in the tech towns of Hyderabad and Bangalore, and possibly the Delhi blasts too. In Hyderabad last October, a suicide bomber blew himself up 200 yards from the Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister's office, killing only himself. And in Bangalore in December, a man ran into a conference at the Indian Institute of Technology and hurled several grenades which failed to explode, before firing a AK-47, killing a professor. "Some say it's all the same cell...
...While the situation appears grim, there is still hope. First, there is no foreign country backing the insurgents. New Delhi, for example, is worried that the insurgency will embolden Indian revolutionaries in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Similarly, whenever the insurgents in Nepal are referred to as Maoists, Beijing is offended. Second, the international community is willing to help. In the latter half of the 1990s, because of human-rights violations by Nepal, the U.S. and Europe were reluctant to provide assistance. Today, the Maoists are on Washington's list of designated terrorist groups, and both...
...sprayed half and drank half." CHINNA KOTESHWAR RAO, farmer in India's Andhra Pradesh state, on the growing practice of using cola as crop pesticide. Coca-Cola calls such use of its product "totally ineffective...
...Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that she is inarticulate in three languages. And experience has failed to make her a more inspired political player. At a rally last month in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, she resorted to the same lame vow?"The things that Indira and Rajiv believed in, I stand for them also"?as when she first assumed the Congress leadership. On the campaign trail she agrees to every supporter's request?fix the water, build a road, reopen someone's husband...
...Injured. N. Chandrababu Naidu, 53, Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh; when mines buried in a road detonated beneath his bulletproof car; in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India. Widely respected for his drive to develop the state capital Hyderabad into a high-tech hub, Naidu is a target for left-wing guerrillas operating in his state. He was treated for nose, chest and shoulder injuries...