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Indian media should learn from Boston bombing Panaji, May 4 (IANS) The Indian media could learn from the Boston bombing when the public and security agencies helped to close down the American city after the terror attack, a former RAW official said Saturday. Former special secretary of RAW Amber Sen was delivering a lecture at the International Centre, Goa. "The media were not good in Mumbai (26/11 terror strike). You do not give minute by minute coverage (of a terror attack) which is watched all over the world," said Sen. Sen has also served as the advisor to the National Security Council. The live coverage of the Mumbai terror attack in November 2008 reportedly enabled the Pakistan-based handlers of the terrorists to relay messages back to the foot soldiers about security movement and the presence of trapped survivors in the hotels under siege . Sen praised the manner in which Boston downed its shutters and people responded to government directives to

Bihar village orders boycott of rapist's family By Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – 10 minutes ago Patna, April 20 (IANS) A village panchayat in Bihar Saturday ordered social boycott of family of Manoj Kumar, 25, who allegedly raped the five-year-old-girl in Delhi, police said. "The village panchayat has decided to socially boycott the family of Manoj and appealed to villagers to have no connection with them," a police official said. The decision of the social boycott was taken in a meeting of the panchayat, police said. Manoj who allegedly raped the girl after confining her in his Gandhi Nagar room in east Delhi, is from Bharthua village in Muzaffarpur. The panchayat requested people not to drink water, eat food and not to marry their son or daughter in his family. On the other hand, hundreds of angry activists of Aam Admi Party (AAP) protested near the Patna Airport and demanded to hand over Manoj to them to punish him. "

Apart from “True Luv’s” extinction….. another One of the “Endangered Emotion” now-a-days is: Respect !!! Darbad Sahib = Harimandir Sahib = Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India. Rgrdz, GS Virdi