Just after the early morning lift-off, the Proton-M rocket exploded into a fireball, spiraling back to Earth at the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan.
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Regardless of the modernising possibilities of Islamist groups and parties, the way religious terrorism has played itself across the Pakistani landscape has made it very clear that this is not a linear phenomenon and neither is it spearheaded by any single entity. The TTP is perhaps the most radical and insurgent face of Islamist activism but more important has been perhaps, the trickle down of what is called extremist Islam, to normative religious conservatism. Secondly, it is not just that terrorist organisations have a nexus and symbiotic relationship with mainstream Islamist groups (banned or not) but also that these often align themselves along ethnic lines which also feeds the conflict in a multicomplex manner.

It was a case of so near yet so far for the Bangladeshis who had reached the final for the first time.

How often backroom deal-making will work in today??s age of hyper-partisanship remains to be seen, but Congress?? recourse to it represents a welcome rediscovery of a home truth. Politics needs good leaders, but it needs good followers even more, and they don??t come cheap. Loyalty gets you only so far, and ideology is divisive. Political machines need to exist, and they need to work. No one understood this better than the street-smart political sage George Washington Plunkitt, who articulated the concept of honest graft.

Terms of a potential deal between Petronas and state-run Indian Oil have not yet been worked out, the sources said.