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| Mumbai toll hits 65 | |
| 2003-08-26 | |
Two car bombs killed up to 65 people in the heart of India’s financial capital on Monday, one ripping through a congested bullion market and a second exploding near a popular tourist attraction. Around 150 people were wounded in the coordinated bomb attacks, which killed 42 people at the crowded Zaveri bazaar near Mumbai Devi temple, and a reported 23 at the historic Gateway of India, near the office of the Atomic Energy Department.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Leningrad is called St. Petersburg because it changed is name back to the original - St. Petersburg. During glorious days of Soviet Union a lot of old places were renamed - to commemorate criminals of the Soviet State and obliterate the past. I will be damned if I call Bombay Mumbai. Every nation has their own names for other nation's places and towns. You know of Auschwitz and Birkenau, but for inhabitants of the existing towns they were always Oswiecim and Treblinka. This is another example of PC run amok. TGA is right. |
| Posted by: Katherine 2003-8-26 11:55:22 PM |
| #4 They call München Munich, too, and this city hasn't changed its name in about 800 years or so. You don't hear any complaints from Milano, Roma, Athinai, Praha, Warszawa or Moskva either. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-8-26 3:54:05 PM |
| #3 Sad that Fox News has been calling Mumbai Bombay for the last couple of days. You would think they could purchase a new Atlas. It's been Mumbai for more than a few years now. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-8-26 3:24:32 PM |
| #2 ergo the Gateway cow symbol |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-26 11:21:02 AM |
| #1 Gateway of India, eh? Wonder if there's a Dell of India. Or an Hewlett-Packard... |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2003-8-26 1:28:57 AM |