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Imtiaz Gul in New Delhi PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

Pakistan’s deception & double game continues

Union home minister P. Chidambaram, defence minister A.K. Antony and Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor have warned about the possibility of a repeat of 26/11, when the attack by highly trained Pakistani terrorists rocked Mumbai, shocked India and shook New Delhi. Then comes an input from the FBI’s interrogation of David Coleman Headley and Pakistani Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana that the prestigious National Defence College in New Delhi, Doon School, Dehra Dun, and Woodstock, Mussoorie, both high-profile boarding schools in Uttarakhand, are on the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s target list. America and Israel have already issued advisories on travel to India.Full story

NGO helps rural Bengal get water, sanitation facilities

Shagufta Kalim
Around the world, 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion are without adequate sanitation facilities. Every day, nearly 6,000 people who share our planet die from water-related illnesses, and the vast majority are children. Full story

Thrilled Tawang ready to welcome Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama may not like to retrace his escape route that he had undertaken 50 years ago, wading through snow to enter India near Zemithang (93 km northwest of Tawang bordering Bhutan and China), to escape persecution by the marauding Chinese soldiers, but there are a number of Monpa community leaders who had mesmerising memory of his historic escape. The Dalai Lama is very close to their heart.Full story