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...senior Indian intelligence officer told TIME the coordination (police defused two further devices), planning and suspected use of RDX explosive pointed to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group with ties to al-Qaeda that carries out regular attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir and across India. LET was behind a gun attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi in December 2001, and linked to a twin bomb attack on India's financial capital, Bombay, in August 2003. While last week's bombs were likely to have been too long in the planning to be an attempt to disrupt...
...boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...
...dust, and people were worried they'd asphyxiate themselves," she says. "Everyone got down on their knees; there was real fear and panic at that moment." She remembers eating at the Lord Krishna hotel, which is right opposite the bomb blast site, just a few nights ago with an Indian friend. He had pointed out to her that the loudspeakers were blaring out in Hindi, again and again: "Be careful, there could be terrorists around...
...Will she leave? "No," she says. "I don't like being bullied. I think the people who exploded these bombs want to spread fear, and I don't want them to win." (According to TIME's New Delhi Bureau chief, Alex Perry, Indian officials are speculating that the perpetrator may be Lashkar-e-Toiba, a Pakistan-based group with ties to al Qaeda and believed to be behind many attacks on Indian institutions in the last five years. Police are now saying that they received a warning call 20 minutes before the Paharganj blast...
...documents surrounding Robeson’s Othello. Pusey Library. Free. Through Jan. 13, 2006. (LEB)Silver and Shawls. This exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during the late colonial period, focusing on the evolution of the former towards European styles and the latter towards more traditional Indian designs. Accompanied by a series of lectures and gallery talks by curators throughout the semester. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. Through Jan. 29, 2006. (KAK)Stratification: An Installation of Works Since 1960. Curatorial intern M. Celka Straughn organized this exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven...