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Tanaji wrote:

"There is a difference between the Atal Bihari Vajpayee [ Images ] government and the Manmohan Singh [ Images ] government. During our (NDA's) regime, attackers (terrorists) knew that either they will be caught or be killed," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

Yes sir... Jaswant Singh and Loh Purush Advani sure showed them at Kandahar... Mullah Omar is still quaking in his boots I hear at the mention of Jaswant Singh's name

Tanaji wrote:
Political affiliations aside, the reason I posted the link was to point out the sheer hypocrisy of the BJP spokesman when he makes those statements. The idea that BJP is "more resolute" and "stands up" to terrorists is a myth that its spokesmen assiduously try to cultivate. All Indian political parties are equally bereft of foresight, vision and testicular fortitude to stand up to terrorists due to vote bank politics.

Tanaji wrote:^^^

Shivraj Patil was in Kandahar giving an escort? I did not know... I thought the honor went to Jaswant Singh...

Political affiliations aside, the reason I posted the link was to point out the sheer hypocrisy of the BJP spokesman when he makes those statements. The idea that BJP is "more resolute" and "stands up" to terrorists is a myth that its spokesmen assiduously try to cultivate. All Indian political parties are equally bereft of foresight, vision and testicular fortitude to stand up to terrorists due to vote bank politics.

Im not a big fan of the BJP but what do these BJP haters want?

Please don't tell me that a non-NDA govt would have sent in the NSG/SF/SG/Marcos/<Insert unit here> to get the hostages rescued!!!!

During our (NDA's) regime, attackers (terrorists) knew that either they will be caught or be killed

I distinctly remember TV visuals of many Congress netas holding Dharnas outside then PM and other minister's houses with relatives of the hijacked passengers demanding immediate release of the hostages by acceding to whatever demands the hijackers had!

Prem wrote:Top Image retained for India's 2011 census project

AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Top Image Systems Ltd., /quotes/comstock/15*!tisa/quotes/nls/tisa (TISA 0.94, +0.15, +18.73%) the Tel Aviv producer of document-recognition solutions, was retained by India's Office of the Registrar General to collect and process the data from the 2011 census. Terms weren't disclosed. Top Image said that India's census is the largest such project in the world. The five-year project has two parts: housing and home listing as well as identifying and counting individuals. Top Image said that its eFlow solution would be employed to process the census forms. India's population exceeds 1.1 billion. Top Image said in a Wednesday statement that it expected to complete the first phase by September 2010 and to begin the second phase in February 2011. The company said that the India project is in line with TISA's strategic effort to pursue census projects worldwide and that it had recently won such contracts in Belarus and Vietnam.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-im ... 2010-05-26

Goi might as well sell info to EJ directly and earn some money. call the Project Vibhishan.

Tanaji, comparing Saeed's kidnapping with the hijacking that had almost 200 lives at stake are not exactly comparable you would agree.

End this blockade now

The blockade of Manipur by Naga political forces making the demand for “Nagalim” is threatening to take the two sides towards a showdown the region can well do without.

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The lack of urgency shown by New Delhi in the matter is beyond comprehension. The blockade has crippled life in the State, creating shortages of essentials, from fuel to medicines and food items. But efforts to end it are not apparent. The people of Manipur would be justified in asking if their State's location — at the farthest end of India — has played any role in shaping New Delhi's apathy. A blockade there does not affect the rest of the country.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/28/stories ... 351200.htm

In February, two British nationals were caught in the same hotel for aircraft spotting. They were booked under different sections of the Telegraph Act, but let off later.

AHMEDABAD: An incident of stabbing was reported from the notorious Patwa Sheri area on Wednesday night as violence spread to the Kalupur on the third day. Five police personnel were injured in fresh clashes between two communities in Kalupur and the police opened 10 rounds of fire and lobbed 45 teargas shells.

Shahpur reported stone pelting incidents in the Golwaad and Bhilvaas areas, even as a sanitary worker was stabbed near Patwa Sheri in the Karanj area of the walled city late on Wednesday night.

However, the resilient public decided to get on with business and at least 80 per cent of the bazaars opened in Shahpur, Kalupur and Dariapur on Thursday. Meanwhile, the police arrested nine persons for inciting tension in the walled city.

A communal riot broke out on Monday night when a marriage procession passed by a mosque during prayer time, in Shahpur. One person died in the backlash the following day leading to more tension even as stabbing incidents were reported from Mirzapur and other areas on Wednesday.

According to Kalupur police, a communal clash started around 11.30 pm on Wednesday in Durga Mata ni pol area. According to a complaint filed by sub-inspector BK Tatania, mobs of around 500 persons attacked one another with stones, brickbats and petrol bombs.

Earlier this month, home secretary G.K. Pillai and Pandey visited Imphal and then flew to Kohima to meet chief minister Neiphiu Rio and then Muivah. The Centre’s decision to send a team to Nagaland comes after a long wait during which Delhi tried to tire out the rebels and protesters while it helped ease supplies through Silchar and Jiribam into Manipur. The rebel outfit has now decided to shift out of Viswema. “We will be going to Pfutsero to hold consultations with the people,” said a senior NSCN (I-M) leader over phone.

A Maoist was arrested on Monday from the old city area of Ahmedabad. The arrest of Srinivas alias Seenu alias Sagar (35) comes after about a dozen similar arrests by the state police in past four months from south Gujarat, especially from and around Surat.

According to the police, Srinivas was arrested under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for his past activities as office-bearer of the banned Peoples War Group before it merged with MCC and other groups as CPI (Maoist).

"Based on inputs from Surat we have arrested one Srinivas, a resident of Isanpur area here and working with an NGO,"Satish Sharma, JCP said.

Police added that Srinivas's wife who works for an NGO here is also suspected to be involved in Maoist activities.

According to AK Singh, IG (Surat Range) supervising the probe into Maoist activities in the State, Srinivas was sent to Ahmedabad about five years back to execute the group's urban area agenda.

The first-of-its-kind arrest from Ahmedabad has put the police here on alert.

"For a police force which so far did not have to deal with such problem the arrest has come as a big alert. Though our information is specific to this person, we have to gear up now," Sharma told HT.

Srinivas is being sent to Surat for further investigation.

Gaurav_S wrote:
This is definitely alarming.

Acharya wrote:

Gaurav_S wrote:
This is definitely alarming.

govt should launch its ngo

Honour constitutional boundary: Centre

Talking to newsmen in New Delhi, Chidambaram said that he had requested the chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya to get the incident of police firing in Langpih probed by a sitting Gauhati High Court judge. He further said that he had requested the two chief ministers to settle all existing border disputes between the two States through talks.

“I am told that a meeting of the CCS is being scheduled shortly,” Chidambaram told reporters in response to a question on whether there was any move to revisit the government’s anti-Maoist policy. The Home Minister has said that he has been given a “limited mandate” to tackle Left-wing violence.

"Policing a country of over 1.1 billion people is not an easy task. Policing a country in a troubled neighbourhood makes the task more difficult. And policing a country with insufficient police stations and inadequate and ill-equipped police force makes the task almost formidable," Chidambaram said in his inaugural speech at the 40th All India Police Science Congress here.

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police's special operations group have recovered a cache of sophisticated missiles from a terrorist hideout in the state. The seizure of two sophisticated missiles which can be charged using solar power has sent the alarm bells ringing in the security establishment
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Police believe that the missiles could be of either Chinese or Russian make.

It is the first time that such missiles have been recovered in the state since the sratr of terrorism in 1990

sum wrote:India got Samad from UAE after four IM men escaped net

India was able to get back Abdul Samad, the brother of alleged Pune blast accused Yasin Bhatkal, from Dubai after New Delhi conveyed to the UAE its serious concern over four key Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives being allowed to escape from Sharjah two months ago.

Top government sources told The Indian Express that at a security coordination meeting two months ago, New Delhi had asked UAE for help in nabbing four IM operatives suspected to be involved in the Pune attack, who were then in Sharjah. Their addresses were handed over; however, the four men escaped. India was later told that the men could not be found at the given addresses. Indian agencies believe the IM men escaped to Pakistan.

UAE cooperated with Indian agencies to mount round-the-clock surveillance on Samad for nearly a month, and ultimately virtually forced him to board Air India’s Dubai-Mangalore flight on May 24, a day before his three-month Dubai visa was to expire.

Indian intelligence operatives escorted him to Mangalore, and he was taken away by Maharashtra ATS officers who were waiting on the tarmac.

mnag wrote:very worrisome news being reported by ibnlive

J-K Police recover solar-powered missiles
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jk-police-re ... justinhome

Tanaji wrote:Er, how is a solar powered thingy a "rocket"?

Kamal Nath had turned up at Rakab Ganj saying that he had been sent by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

vera_k wrote:The case against Kamal Nath

Pretty serious revelation from KN. Probably explains why he is untouchable, while the others are expendable.

Kamal Nath had turned up at Rakab Ganj saying that he had been sent by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

"An order has been issued adding Indian Mujahideen and all its formations and front organisations to the list of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967," the home ministry said in a statement.

ToI wrote:HYDERABAD: Passport tatkal online booking racket was busted and seven accused persons arrested by the city Task Force sleuths.

Addressing a press meet on Friday, city police commissioner A K Khan said the police started investigation after the passport authorities informed them that applicants were finding it difficult to get slots on the tatkal online booking site as it was never accessible.

The probe found that the passport office website was being hacked and online bookings blocked. The gang involved in it was selling the blocked slots for a hefty sum. In the last two months alone, as many as 3,000 applications were sold through these online slots.

The commissioner said Gorantla Lathadhar Rao, 36, a shop owner, Shaik Subhani, 34, travel agent (Akash Travels) from Narasaraopet in Guntur district, Mohd Jahangir, 45, native of Rezimental Bazar in Secunderabad, Bhooma Srihari, 56, resident of Market Street of Secunderabad, Giddala Chinna, 29, of Kummariguda, Secunderabad, Syed Valiuddin, 30, of Tolichowki, Kondreddy Penchal Reddy, 35, of Chikkadpally were arrested. All the seven are passport agents, he informed. Two other accused Khaleem and Srinivas of Hyderabad are absconding.

“These nine had formed a gang and were charging Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 from each applicant in dire need of a passport under tatkal scheme,’’ the commissioner said.

Terrorism knows no religion, and as much emerges from a scrutiny of 29 mercy petitions filed by Indian death row prisoners.{And, why does she start her report like this ? She is p-secular and therefore wants to instinctively protect Islamist jihadi terrorism. Read on} . . .Afzal Guru is the only “Muslim” terrorist on the list. {See he is only one out of nine; so Islamist jihadi terrorism is minuscule} His petition is also the most recent. Rajiv Gandhi's assailants — Murugan, Santhan and Arivu — top the list with a mercy petition that dates back to 2000. {The implication here is that Murugan, Santhan & Arivu were Hindu terrorists because their names sound like Hindu names. This is how p-secs hijack half-truths to falsely add strength to their arguments and hoodwink unsuspecting people.}

Next comes Devender Pal Singh . . . The third terrorism case involves Simon, Gnanaprakash, Madaiah and Bilavendra, who were convicted of killing 22 Karnataka police personnel {They were all members of the forest brigand Veerappan and have nothing to do with religion}

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam decided only two mercy petitions . . . .President K.R. Narayanan did not clear any mercy petition {and created a backlog of 14. Narayanan & Abdul Kalam must take the blame for this mess}. . . President Pratibha Patil, who inherited a backlog of 25-odd cases, the earliest dating back to 1997, has decided only one case so far.

Sources say a key reason for the Presidents to desist from deciding on the mercy pleas is the fact that most of the pleas have recommendations from the government to retain the death sentences.

In 2005, the home ministry sent its recommendations on three mercy pleas - moved by terrorists - saying all should be hanged, a source said. . . Though the President is still to decide on them, the ministry took only one year to send in their recommendations on the pleas moved by Singh and Veerapan's associates.

With mercy pleas moving at such a slow pace, home minister P. Chidambaram had last year devised a formula - to recall oneby-one all the pending petitions at the Rashtrapati Bhavan to the ministry and reconsider the initial recommendation made by it. One file each would then be sent back to the President every month.

"We have sent four cases back to the President after reconsideration," Chidambaram said.

But only one of these cases, where the ministry changed its initial recommendation of death sentence for one Govindswamy to life imprisonment, was decided by the President.