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_____________ Nithin Sridhar _____________ Two more terrorist attacks, a series of bomb blasts in two prosperous cities, many people dead, many more injured and a grave national loss! This has become a part and parcel of Indian life. The target shifts, outfits involved in terrorism changes, but the impact remains same and the intentions remain the same. This time the location was first Bengaluru, the Garden City, an IT hub and, next, Ahmedabad, one of the fastest developing cities of the country. In Bengaluru, low intensity blasts took place in the afternoon of 25 July 2008 in which at least two persons died and seven were injured. While the first seven blasts took place between 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm. The eighth bomb blasted at Hosaguddahalli near Gopalan Mall on Mysore road at about 5.30 pm and the ninth blasted near the Army Engineering College on Mysore Road at 6.30 pm. The Bengaluru Police has termed it as an act of terror. The crude bombs, stuffed with nuts and bolts, exploded at Ma

_______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ Going by science, electricity from nuclear energy was an afterthought. Going by history, China eyes Arunachal Pradesh the way Saddam Hussein eyed Kuwait. Talking about the present, India is still surrounded by hostile countries. In terms of dealing with defence apparatus, this country, which never built a dangerous weapon before its enemy did, is being asked to trust the United States, the sanctimonious international preacher that is itself a proliferator. In terms of both legalese and its interpretation, most international laws to check nuclear weapons are not ratified by the country that urges every other country to sign them. In these circumstances comes the 123 Agreement, all in all, a conspiracy to deviate India’s attention from where India needs nuclear energy to where it does not The science of afterthought Let’s begin from the beginning. When a motley group of maverick American innovators first set about to harness nuclear energy

Scrap it. The messengers being wrong does not make the message wrong _______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ G uess who is lying! On 8 August 2008, the IAEA uploads this statement on its website : “ Note to editors: The text of the draft Agreement is not public . IAEA Officials will not be giving interviews at this time.” That very night two blogs upload a portable document format file of the India-specific safeguard agreement along with the Additional Protocol, as agreed by the Government of India. Guess who is lying! Now the Government of India admits that this country's draft safeguards agreement with the IAEA was initialled on July 7 and moved to the Board of Governors for its approval on July 8 "soon after the Left parties said they did not wish to have the meeting scheduled for July 10," says National Security Adviser MK Narayanan. This national 'insecurity' adviser needs immediate treatment for his foot-in-the-mouth disease. As if his embarrassin