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...Indian Mujahideen, which claimed responsibility for blasts that killed over 45 people in Bangalore and Ahmedabad six weeks ago, declared itself to be behind today's Delhi blasts as well. The group also warned of more attacks in Mumbai, the country's financial capital...
...Delhi and Mumbai have been placed on high alert, and there is a palpable sense of panic in the capital. For at least an hour after the blasts, phone lines were jammed and traffic slowed to a crawl as people rushed home to safety. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the blasts and appealed for calm. Police said all the explosions were low intensity, but don't know much about the nature or composition of the bombs. Unconfirmed reports say that bombs were detonated on a bicycle, in a dustbin and in an autorickshaw...
When I left New York City for New Delhi earlier this year, I thought Kashmir would be a "good news" story. The valley had been relatively quiet for years, and in April and May Kashmir was celebrating record numbers of tourists. By August, however, normalcy had been replaced by strife, death, curfews and checkpoints. The immediate cause of the conflict this time was a dispute between Muslims and Hindus over 100 acres (40 hectares) of land near the Amarnath shrine in the Kashmir valley, which Indian authorities had granted to a Hindu pilgrim group. A compromise now gives the group...
...titles, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" - got the kind of presale treatment that Boeing and Airbus give the rollout of a new jetliner. In August a selection of the material was shipped for viewing to the Hamptons, the weekend retreat for New York millionaires. It also went to New Delhi, to wink at India's increasingly powerful collectors. In June Hirst flew to Kiev to attend a Paul McCartney concert and a party hosted by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel billionaire who owns seven Hirsts and a private art museum. A month later the artist gave a private tour...
...company that owns the rights to an item - but international textbooks are not technically counterfeit. Like eBay, AbeBooks acts as a third party for sellers - generally stores in foreign countries. One copy of Organic Chemistry found on its site was being sold by the William Bookstore in New Delhi. AbeBooks includes a disclaimer on its textbook page, warning that selling an international edition in the United States or Canada may violate copyright law. However, "no legal precedent has been set," says AbeBooks spokesman Richard Davies. "Until we know otherwise we will continue to allow our booksellers to sell the books...