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Terrorist attacks

Terrorists came, entered the establishments and killed people in Mumbai. These words are not meant to glorify terrorists but to describe how helpless we were.

Why do security agencies work the way they do? When terrorists own the responsibility for attack why don’t security agencies own their failure?

When the dust settles down and people will get back to work, there comes the danger. Terrorists will work out another attack and our security agencies will continue to look somewhere else. It is a full cycle, which keeps on getting repeated.

Innocent people who don’t have anything to do with politics and religion become target every time. It is time to deal with the terror with terror. There should be a unified agency that can make any terrorist organisation tremble.

Sukanta Rout,

Cuttack

With the onset of post monsoon our capital city has already geared up to accommodate a few thousand marriages in a span of two months but on a very few specific auspicious days and, as a result, the number of marriage halls get booked in no time.

All types of association buildings, clubs and open fields given for a other purposes are being used for performing marriages and because it is a extra income for all those and located at primary locations, they have roaring business.

It is a loss to the BMC and to the State exchequer as those new avenues in most cases avoids tax as they belong to powerful organisations and much of their members are also working in departments that are meant for keeping an eye on the tax collection and finding out ways to increase the revenue of the State.

It is hoped that there will be a change in the attitude of these officials and a check on these unauthorised halls will be maintained to ensure that revenue from these halls goes to the exchequer.

Bijay Mishra,

Bhubaneswar

As mercury level starts dipping a large number of temporary shops dealing with wollen materials have mushroomed all over the city and that too in strategic areas where traffic is always on move.

But if we remember it was in the starting of the year when one of the biggest textile fairs was organised on Durga Mandap field of Sahid Nagar.

The area was gutted without human causality. And there was mudslinging among officials of different departments over allowing such fairs. And, as always in such cases, no action was taken against the errant officials who didn’t even carry a little responsibility that they were supposed to do. And this year also a number of such markets have sprung up in the city but how many of them have taken permission from authorities is the million-dollar question.

Hope, officials responsible will take the matter seriously before any such incident occurs again.

Priyadarshi Patnaik,

Bhubaneswar

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