From The Hindu:
Hyderabad blasts: 38 persons identified
Hyderabad, Aug. 26 (PTI): Thirty-eight persons including six women and two children, out of 40 people killed in the twin blasts, have been identified, hospital sources said today.
The death toll in the blasts was officially put to 40. Earlier, it was put at 42.
The 54 injured, six of them seriously, were undergoing treatment at different hospitals in the city.
Of the 32 bodies, which were shifted to mortuary of Osmania General Hospital, 31 bodies — including that of six women — have been identified while two bodies including a headless one were yet to be identified, hospital sources said.
While all the seven bodies at Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad have been identified.
Seven students of Amritvahini engineering college of Maharashtra and three railway employees from Madhya Pradesh were among the deceased, police sources said.
The Hindu also reports:
VHP calls Andhra bandh to protest Hyderabad blasts
New Delhi, Aug. 26 (PTI): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today gave a call for a general strike in Andhra Pradesh tomorrow to protest the Hyderabad twin bombings that killed more than 40 people.
VHP leader Praveen Togadia condemned the bombings as an act of “jehadi terrorism” as he gave the bandh call. He blamed the absence of tough anti-terror laws for terrorist strikes in the country.
Two bombs ripped through a food stall and an amusement park in Hyderabad yesterday, less than six months after an explosion in a city mosque.
“We have called for an Andhra Pradesh Bandh tomorrow against these terrorist attacks”, Togadia said.
HYDERABAD: The police have found 19 unexploded bombs in Hyderabad a day after at least 40 people were killed in blasts Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy blamed on terrorists based in Bangladesh or Pakistan.
New Delhi has sent extra police and special bomb detection equipment to Hyderabad, an IT hub, after bombs packed with metal pellets exploded at a food centre and an amusement park on Saturday night.
About 80 people were wounded by the three blasts that went off within minutes of each other.
Police discovered the unexploded bombs — most fitted with timers and placed in plastic bags — at bus stops, by cinema halls, road junctions and pedestrian bridges and near a public water tap across the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
VHP Condemns Bomb Blasts
Vijayawada, Aug 26 : The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today strongly condemned the twin bomb blasts at Hyderabad last night, which claimed the lives of 43 people.
Speaking to UNI over phone, VHP Andhra Pradesh Vice-President Y Lokanatha Sarma termed the blasts as a ‘heinous act’ of ISI agents, which they were carrying out across the country for quite sometime.
‘The terrorists were trying to create fissuries between Muslims and Hindus, who were living peacefully in several parts of the country, he lamented.” The VHP leader blamed both the UPA government at the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh government with utterly failing to take precautionary measures to avert such subversive acts in the country, even though Hyderabad, had become the hub of terrorist activities.
Mr Sarma said the VHP had called for a bandh in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad tomorrow against the state government’s soft stand on fundamental groups.
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August 27, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Fluffy
In addition, Paul’s opposition to NAFTA is based on his belief that it is managed trade, and not free trade. He would define free trade as the absence of a treaty mechanism to regulate trade at all. You might consider this an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good, since a treaty that liberalizes trade terms - while not as good as no government interference at all - is better than a protectionist system, holding out for laissez-faire is not likely to get Paul very far. But that’s different from implying that Paul is against free trade, as you have here.
August 28, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Anonymous
Some other issues concerning NAFTA is a trade highway that is to be built in conjunction with following through of the signing of the treaty. A highways existence that will no doubt incur more egregious use of eminent domain (you might remember the New London, CT debacle in which the government confiscated private property for the buildling of more private property, namely condo’s and office buildings in place of private, single-residence homes).
If you can call someone who actually supports a strict Constitutional interpretation, opposes the Military Commissions Act as well as both USA PATRIOT Acts as being anti-Constitution, I am forced to wonder who you are and just where you are getting your information.
August 28, 2007 at 7:20 pm
newcentrist
Fluffy and Anon, I’m not sure why you are replying to the Paul post here. This post is about the recent terrorist attack in India.
Fluffy, I understand the distinction, but I think it is bogus. Just as there were people who did not consider the USSR communist–they called it “state capitalist”–there are people who call our existing system of free trade, “managed trade.” Just as there were people who railed against actually existing communism in the name of “real” or “true” communism, there are people who rail against our actually existing system of free trade in name of ideal/laissez-faire free trade. You can deduce what I think of both groups from the various posts here at my blog.
Anon, let me make this as clear as I possibly can for you.
I do not suspect that you, Paul, or the rest of the Paulistas would consider someone a “strict-Constitutionalist” if they sought to get rid of amendments they support. Say for example, the Second Amendment.
If a candidate made a campaign pledge to get rid of the Second Amendment, the way Paul wants to get rid of the 14th, I seriously doubt you would consider that candidate a “strict-Constitutionalist.” I certainly wouldn’t.
You see, you really can’t have it both ways. Or, I suppose you can, but most of the thinking public will view you as hypocrites. The faithful may not, but the vast majority of the American public will. Not because we are dupes, “sheeple” or any such nonsense but we can plainly see when someone is talking out of both sides of their mouth.
Please direct future comments to the Paul post.