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Late on the evening of December 28, a gunman walked into a hall of the Indian Institute of Science, a prestigious academic institution in Bangalore,and opened fire with a Chinese-made AK-56 rifle at the delegates attending a conference. A retired Mathematics professor was killed; four others were injured. The gunman scaled a wall and fled. (Four unexploded grenades were also discovered on the Institute's campus...
...prime suspect, but Bangladesh-based terror outfits are also considered potential culprits. India's security experts have been warning for months that it was only a matter of time before terrorists attacked Bangalore in a bid to weaken the country's booming technology sector. In March this year, Indian authorities announced that plans seized from militants belonging to a Lashkar-e-Toiba cell in New Delhi showed that the terrorists had planned to strike at software companies in Bangalore...
...jihadist groups are indeed behind the attack, then they have picked their target well. The Indian Institute of Science is one of India's most important scientific institutions, and its presence in Bangalore is a key reason that the city became India's technology powerhouse. That's why the psychological impact of the attack is immense-analogous to the impact that an attack on MIT would have in the United States. Jaswant Singh, a former finance minister of India and a member of the BJP, India's major opposition party, said that the attack could seriously hurt ?the internal, international...
...more mahi-mahi to the spring menu, which is currently being finalized. In an effort to respond to similar past comments, HUDS’s current winter seasonal menu includes lobster bisque and mussels, more frequent vegetable samosas, and, starting in January, a biweekly make-your-own Indian naan and curry station. According to Crista Martin, HUDS assistant director for marketing, “the survey has existed for a long time,” but has only recently been standardized to allow for better year-to-year comparisons. Martin wrote in an e-mail that...
...whole deal, as 42 might say, was 43's idea. Looking for a way to showcase the U.S. relief effort after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami last December, George W. Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly...