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...Party (BJP), composed of Hindu nationalists, never paused. On Nov. 28, while Mumbai was still in the grip of terror, the BJP released a campaign ad for coming state elections that said, "Brutal terror strikes at will. Weak government: unwilling and incapable. Stop terror. Vote BJP." Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat who has been widely criticized for failing to stop the 2002 anti-Muslim violence, appeared before the cameras to announce an award of $200,000 for the families of those "who have been martyred while fighting the terrorists" and to criticize Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address...
...first to resign. He has been under intense criticism for months, the pressure mounting with each new bombing elsewhere in the country. There have been at least 10 major blasts over the past 18 months, the most recent one in Assam. Two Maharashtra state officials fell next: Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took his actor son Ritiesh and the Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma on a tour of the gutted Taj, and Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil, who resigned after he was quoted saying, "Small things do happen in big cities. They wanted to kill 5,000 people; we have...
...after the attacks, and 16 of them lost their lives in the blasts and gunfire, but their leaders failed to fulfill one of their basic functions: to secure calm and order in a crisis. Police and army leaders gave out little information to the public, and Mumbai's police chief, Hasan Gafoor, gave his first press conference to the hundreds of journalists gathered in Mumbai on Dec. 2, six days after the attacks. In the absence of any official line, sensational cable-television broadcasts and newspapers were full of anonymous police sources giving out conflicting information about the number...
...Shine In these days of extreme emotions, one of the biggest surprises has been the relative calm of the Indian stock market. It is about where it was the day before the attacks, with no sudden drop or panicked selling. Yet investors have certainly noticed the attacks; Mark Matthews, chief Asia strategist for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, says that India missed the rally over the past week enjoyed by the rest of the Asian markets. "India didn't get a share of that bounce." In the long term, he says, investors may simply start thinking of India...
...story, "City Starts Search For School Chief," stated that the School Committee voted "not to extend Fowler-Finn’s contract through July 2009" and that his departure last month "surprised" the committee. In fact, the committee voted to extend his contract through next July, and committee members were not surprised by his departure...