New York: US President Barack Obama and New York Governor David Alexander Paterson seem to be having a cold war of their own these days. Some time back,
Obama made it clear that he felt Paterson should forget about running for a full
term. So when Obama was speaking Thursday night in Midtown, Paterson was a block
away at the Barneys Penthouse at a party hosted by Olympic fencers Tim Morehouse
and Jason Rogers and Vault.com co-founder Sam Hamadeh to benefit UN sports programs
for kids in war-torn areas - all was obviously not well. According to the New
York Post, when one guest asked why he wasn't at Obama's speech, a smiling Paterson
was overheard saying, "Who?" A Paterson spokesman, however, said, "There was no
snub."
Sources in the Union Home Ministry on Monday feared that the casualties of the IED blast in
Chhattisgarh's Dantewada is likely to go high as the rescue and relief operations have been
hampered due to bad light. Security forces have launched a major rescue operation. On
Monday evening in one of the worst attack on civilians the Maoists blew up a private bus
killing over 30 people. The bus was on its way from Dantewada to Sukma when the incident
took place near Chingawaram, over nine kilometers from Sukma. The bus-CG17 SS 9295
was carrying 20 special police officers (SPO) and over 30 civilians.The SPOs were
on their way to participate in a special recruitment drive. The latest blast incident
has taken place a day after the Maoists called for a 48 hour shutdown in five
states-Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. The sources
said the attack might have been a pre -planned one. Reportedly, the Maoists also
fired on the bus after the blast to ensure that nobody stays alive.
