Fallout from Bomb Blasts in India's Financial Capital
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.4 | Terrorism in India. Are there new leads in Tuesday's train bombings? |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Diana Nyad sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:20.9 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Today on the show, Indian authorities |
| 0:26.0 | have rounded up 350 or so people as possible suspects in Tuesday's bombings, which killed more |
| 0:32.1 | than 200, injuring some 700 more. Was it an act of international terrorism, or was it a statement by home-grown |
| 0:39.4 | terrorists, protesting India's quick growth toward globalization? On reporter's notebook later on, |
| 0:45.4 | the Big Dig was supposed to be Boston's engineering masterpiece, but after a subterranean ceiling |
| 0:50.7 | collapsed and killed a woman Monday, the Big Dig is at the moment more nightmare than |
| 0:55.7 | Marvel. First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica |
| 1:05.0 | and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation |
| 1:10.4 | and the John D. and |
| 1:11.5 | Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I'm Diane and I, had sitting in for Warren Allney today, back |
| 1:16.2 | with To the Point from PRI. Mumbai, formerly Bombay, has proved to be resilient in the wake of |
| 1:21.9 | eight simultaneous bomb explosions on the city's public train lines. They killed more than |
| 1:26.5 | 200, injured 700 more on Tuesday. |
| 1:29.6 | The trains ran pretty much back on schedule less than 24 hours after the attacks, and |
| 1:33.8 | the Bombay Stock Exchange climbed a healthy 3% that following day. Who's behind these attacks, |
| 1:39.9 | international terrorists or homegrown insurgents? On reporters notebook a bit later, Boston's 15-year multi-billion dollar project, |
| 1:47.8 | the Big Dig, was recently finished, but it's already showing serious, even fatal flaws. |
| 1:53.7 | First is news today. |
| 1:55.1 | Violence between Israel and Lebanon has reached crisis status. |
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