Like cannons and other weapons of war, they were tools of the state and inaccessible to regular folks.

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The twice-daily service from Dhaka to Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, enables Indians living in the inaccessible far east of the country to go overland to Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) or Delhi via Bangladesh.

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The secretary of state hinted at a possible way out of the morass when he talked of weapons being made permanently inaccessible.

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