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MUMBAI, India–Heavy machine guns, AK-47s, and grenades erupted across Mumbai, India, killing more than 80 people and injuring at least 200, officials said Thursday.
Heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks. Police said the terrorists targeted British and American tourists.
“I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports,” Rakesh Patel told Times Online. He is a British witness who lives in Hong Kong and was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel on …
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It’s official. India is now the world’s sixth space power.
India’s victorious launch on Wednesday of its first lunar mission, the unmanned Chandrayaan-I, marked a dramatic step forward in its race with China to put a man on the moon.
Chandrayaan-1 — which means “Moon Craft” in ancient Sanskrit — launched from the Sriharikota space center in southern India in a two-year mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions.
Officials said the lift-off was a total success, with the rocket placing the craft into a transfer orbit around the …





