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...Lisa M. Rama, public affairs officer at Naval Station Newport in Newport, R.I., said the police department had determined that the cannonball warranted a dispatch from the naval station’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Rama said Naval Station Newport is the closest facility to Cambridge that routinely responds to police department calls for assistance in removing explosive military material...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Rama said a lesson could be drawn from the incident. “This is a good opportunity for us to remind individuals that these things that people take as souvenirs are potentially dangerous,” she said...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...backed pro-market, liberalizing reforms. Back then, the BJP successfully occupied a nationalist space ceded to it by a weakened Congress - staging events harking back to an idealized Hindu past, such as the theatrical "rath yatra" (literally, a chariot ride, but used here to allude to the mythical Lord Rama's quest to slay the evil Ravana) that motivated frenzied crowds of Hindus to demolish an ancient mosque in December 1992, sparking months of Hindu-Muslim carnage. When in power from 1998 to 2004, the BJP renamed popular cities with names they deemed more "native" and changed school syllabi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Opposition Struggles With Past and Present | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Khalistanis (those supporting a separate Sikh nation) at the older gurdwara felt threatened." Those tensions came to a head this Sunday when management of the new gurdwara invited some preachers of Dera Sach Khand, a Ravidasia sect, to address the congregation. A violent clash ensued, in which Baba Rama Nand was shot and 15 people were injured. Baba Rama Nand later died in hospital. (Read "Five Challenges Facing India's Election Victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Murder Sparks Protests in India | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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