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Although there were several incidents outside J&K, the trend of bringing terror into the other parts of the country started with the July 11, 2006, train bombings in Mumbai.
It was a quirk of fate that made a Hyderabad-based advocate hire a cab instead of taking a local train to suburban Kandivali as the taxi blew up mid-way killing him in a powerful bomb blast in the 26/11 attack, a witness told the trial court on Friday.
Primarily trained for a career in FMCG, he shifted to insurance when the opportunity came his way.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday visited victims of the blasts in suburban trains who are being treated at Sion and King Edward Memorial hospitals in Mumbai.
On the Malegaon probe issue, Kavita said her husband "wasn't under pressure from what I understood... because according to the Bhagvad Gita if you are fighting evil, even if your gurus are not doing the right thing, you must continue your fight. He was not confused, his ideas, his ideology was fixed, even the investigations were going smoothly, he had finished his work."
The dog had served in the squad for eight years and had been admitted to animal hospital at Parel for treatment last month.
A Mumbai court on Saturday rejected the plea of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, seeking a direction to authorities that she be taken to Bhopal either by a plane or in an AC compartment of train for appearance in a murder case trial there.
'Counter terrorism does not appear to be good guys fighting the bad ones; it is about people being picked up, detained and charged with crimes they did not commit.'
'One police officer told me that trials take forever, conviction rates are low.' 'So one way to judge states' performance on handling crime is through the 'recovery rate' of their police.' 'The fastest way to get recovery is by torturing the accused.'
A close look at the persons arrested by the Mumbai cops gives an indication that most of them were tech savvy and were from respectable backgrounds. Let us take a look at the number of persons arrested so far and also the role each one had to play in the recent spate of bombings.
The various theories and statements about the culpability/innocence of 1993 blasts accused Yakub Memon present him with a Rashomon act, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Fishplates were found and removed at the spot where the Mumbai-bound Gyaneswari Express derailed early on Friday morning leaving several dead, a senior police official said.
The special TADA court sentenced Gul Mohammad to six years imprisonment with a fine of Rs 15,000.
There were some media persons present at the New Delhi Railway Station, but they did not get a chance to talk to Salem.
'That is how our machinery operates and sees every prisoner.'
Intelligence Bureau sources said that Pakistan terming the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the Samjauta Express blast as similar in nature is a delaying tactic. IB officials say that the only similarity in both the cases is that it was masterminded by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Intercepts picked up and investigations conducted in the Samjauta case point a finger to the Pakistan-based terror outfit.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has alleged that an Indian Army officer linked to the 2007 bombing of the trans-border Samjhauta Express train had hired Pakistan-based militants to carry out the attack.
'Three security challenges could emerge shortly. The possibility (almost bordering on certainty) is as certain as the fact that night follows day: A terrorist attack by a Pakistan-based group. Chinese intrusion on the border.Communal tension/riots.' Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) explains what the Modi Sarkar needs to be prepared for.
'The persons who are arrested are the ones who have played an active role in the blasts.' Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy defends the investigation into the July 11, 2006 blasts in Mumbai.
Anyone with such experiences could have been expected to turn fundamentalist. But Shaheen Kadri is anything but that.
Without mentioning the recent blasts in Mumbai's commuter trains that killed 200 people, the leaders of Russia, the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan have expressed "deepest sympathy" to all victims of these attacks.
Railways have taken several steps to strengthen and modernise the security arrangements
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The BJP had filed the notice last week.
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The Congress president, however, asserted that there could be no compromise on internal security.
Though no formal arrests have been made in connection with the blasts, SIMI activist Imran Ansari of Indore, a close confidant of top functionaries of the banned outfit, was arrested in Bhopal for an offence in Surat.
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