Parag Sawant, who slipped into coma after sustaining severe head injuries in the 2006 serial train blasts, is showing remarkable improvement and is able to recognise his family members.
Tanvir Ansari, an alleged Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative who practices unani medicine in central Mumbai, was arrested on Sunday night.
'If we have to restrict and fight terrorism, first and foremost, we have to ensure communal harmony in the country.'
Parag Sawant sustained severe head injuries after a bomb exploded in a Virar-bound train.
In a significant development, an eyewitness in the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts case, on Tuesday identified the alleged planter of the RDX laden bomb in the train that blasted at Matunga station in Mumbai.
'In Mumbai, isolation is a very different isolation.' 'It's not about actual physical loneliness.' 'It's the loneliness in the company of others, and I felt that that is a very Mumbai thing.' 'You can be travelling in the ladies compartment squashed against everybody's armpits and still be really, really sad and alone.'
'The police wasted nine years of his precious life. Who will compensate him now?' a relative of Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only person acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, ask Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
The Crime Branch had already detained the two -- identified as Jamir Sheikh and Sohail Sheikh.
'We first collected samples from all the bomb blast sites.' 'We had to find what was common among them.'
Merchant had arranged the finance for the blasts, and was also linked to conspirators Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim.
'Each of us will have a beautiful story to tell about him because he went beyond work and touched our lives. That's a rarity in this industry.'
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The arrest of Mohammed Sabauddin in connection with the recent blast at Central Recruitment Police Force camp at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh has shocked people of Mithila belt on the porous Indo-Nepal border where terrorist activity is unheard of.
One of the prime accused of the Mumbai serial train blasts in 2006 may have been involved in the Ahmedabad blasts. The intelligence agencies are trying to track Zulfikar Kagzi, a native of Rajasthan, and Sayyad Sheikh in connection with the Ahmedabad blasts.Kagzi is considered to be an expert in manufacturing bombs by using ammonium nitrate. Both accused were members of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India.
The four suspects include two highly qualified professionals.
'Every day for the past one year, my friends and I check under the seats and the overhead racks for any suspicious objects. Most people laugh at us, make fun of us.'
The parade was carried out in front of an executive magistrate in the Thane Central Jail recently.
Anju's husband Krishna Kumar, a bank officer, who was killed in the Mumbai train blasts said that she has decided to immolate herself before Nitish Kumar to protest against forcible occupation of her flat by a leader of ruling party JD(U).
He was rushed to Mumbai's JJ Hospital due to chest pain.
Thirteen arrested persons stand accused in the case and MCOCA court judge M R Bhatkar had framed charges against them on August 7 this year. Apart from the 13 arrested, 15 others have been named as absconding accused, including LeT commander in chief Azam Cheema and two others who are no longer alive -- Salim died in the blasts and Abu Osama died in an encounter with the police.Among the thirteen accused is Faisal Shaikh, who is considered to be the key conspirator.
The Karnataka police have attained another breakthrough in the their investigations into the Karnataka terror plot with a key person by the name Sayed Sameer being detained.
'In Mumbai you are only safe once you reach home. You never know what will happen.'
Mumbai Meri Jaan follows the lives of people from all strata of Mumbai's bustling society as they tackle the aftermath of a fatal incident that brings out the best and sometimes the worst in them.
Many affected kin, struggling to cope with the loss of their loved ones, have been deputed as platform porters and cleaning staff in the railways.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai police on Thursday claimed that four of the six accused in the July 11 Mumbai train blasts confessed to the exact roles played by them in the incidents.
Mulk tells Indian Muslims they have to ensure that their children don't get involved in jihad, and at the same time tells Hindus not to doubt the patriotism of Indian Muslims, notes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The opposition bharatiya Janata Party had threatened to stall proceedings in the Lok Sabha if the government did not agree to a discussion
Mulla, an MBA graduate and a resident of Padgha village in Bhiwandi taluka in neighbouring Thane district, is the second accused arrested in connection with the blast.
"Many things are clearer now after the investigation but it will take time to reach to the crux of the matter," he said.
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While the Pakistan Foreign Office was yet to react, Minister of State for Information Tariq Azam rejected the claim and said India could provide any evidence it has and that Pakistan will investigate it.
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