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Jul 28 2008, View Point

The Bangalore and Ahmadabad bomb blasts are painful chapters in India’s war against terror. India is a soft terror target with serial bomb blasts rocking almost all major cities in the recent past including Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Malegaon,...

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