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India-US N-deal near finish line

An Indian negotiating team in Washington “is in the final stretches of arriving at a nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement” with the United States. The pact is likely to be announced during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s five-day state visit to the US beginning on Sunday, reports Varghese K George.
Rana lived near Gujarat police chief’s bungalow
The National Investigation Agency and the Gujarat police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad have found that alleged Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative Tahawwur Rana had visited Ahmedabad three months after 21 synchronised bomb explosions rocked the city, reports Stavan Desai.
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A year on, we are still sitting ducks
Our response to 26/11 has been a failure. At the time we believed that the event was so horrific that Pakistan would stand isolated in the community of nations. And that our shared experiences would lead the US to help us in our own battle against terror. Both hopes have been belied, writes Vir Sanghvi.

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