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The investigators have identified a scooter on which one of the bombs was planted to trigger the Wednesday terror strikes in Mumbai, according to Union home secretary RK Singh.
However, more than 36 hours after terror struck Mumbai, the investigators are yet to report any definitive leads.
Giving an update on the status of investigations, the Union home secretary said that crucial CCTV footage in connection with the serial blasts are being probed by the investigating agencies.
He said attempts are being made to identify all those appearing in the recordings with the help of locals.
The investigating agencies hope to find crucial leads from the CCTV recordings, he said.
The home secretary said there is a total of 11 CDs that need to be scrutinized and the process will take time.
All suspicious people found in the recordings are being verified.
The Union home secretary also confirned the presence of an e-mail that originated outside country and said that the mail is being investigated. He did not give the details about the mail or its origin.
quite the reverse. bark da hutt swore at razdan for bringing pakistan into the discussion. seem like she has learnt her lesson.Lalmohan wrote:i seem to recall needhi razdan ripping barka a new musharaf for not blaming pakistan during the 26/11 incident - this was the whole mic switched on off camera comment episode that was discussed on BRF at some length
so lets take it easy people before we start hanging everyone
Which e-mail? Whom was it sent to?The Union home secretary also confirned the presence of an e-mail that originated outside country and said that the mail is being investigated. He did not give the details about the mail or its origin.
Any chance of someone having the audio or a link to it?Rahul M wrote:quite the reverse. bark da hutt swore at razdan for bringing pakistan into the discussion. seem like she has learnt her lesson.Lalmohan wrote:i seem to recall needhi razdan ripping barka a new musharaf for not blaming pakistan during the 26/11 incident - this was the whole mic switched on off camera comment episode that was discussed on BRF at some length
so lets take it easy people before we start hanging everyone
The barking mutt is looking almost presentable these days!JE Menon wrote:The sentiment towards Nidhi is understandable, but not entirely justified. Observations suggest the following environment within NDTV:
Nidhi is on the ascendant, while Barkha is on a downward gradient (only the steepness of it remains subject of uncertainty). The latter's growing unpopularity within the organisation, and in the online world is at least beginning to have an impact on her career. It is however being finessed through the age-old realities that no humans can avoid, namely: Barkha is a fat old cow (by media standards) while youngistan does not much care for her looks, and she has no specific "integrity" pillar to cling to (kargil reportage, 26/11 reportage, intercepted phone calls). Barkha has apparently been taking measures to reverse the trend, seemingly on a diet (crash), she has lost some weight, and tried to "feminise" herself a bit more. She remains fugly. There is no chance of this having any success against the looks of Nidhi, and her screen presence, or her chemistry with the talk-show crowds. Chances are, therefore, that Barkha will face the life-choice of stagnation in her frontline role, or being pushed upwards and increasingly out of sight.
Consequently, as Nidhi gains more relative power, and her sense of the public becomes more finely attuned, you will find her positions becoming more nuanced and reflecting a finer balance. She is a Kashmiri and probably has a better understanding of the situation there, and the fundamental issues involved, than most of us. But she has a job, and she needs to keep it. Undoubtedly, compromises will have to be made, and will be. We need to be a little more charitable.
Like I said, these are observations and could be entirely wrong. However, would appreciate if someone can tell me how wrong they are.
Disclaimer: I have already claimed somewhere in one of the threads in the fairly recent past that I find her to be attractive
That's a good analysis of intra-NDTV affairs - but what can have more impact long-term is how the inter-English news channel battle for eyeballs works out....JE Menon wrote:Observations suggest the following environment within NDTV
Delightful choice of words saar!JE Menon wrote:Jawline is tauter, and some plastrickery appears possible. However, make-up tartistes these days are very skillfool.
"Politically correct" only as per the current nauseating dispensation and benefiting catholic ladies onlee.Arjun wrote:That's a good analysis of intra-NDTV affairs - but what can have more impact long-term is how the inter-English news channel battle for eyeballs works out....JE Menon wrote:Observations suggest the following environment within NDTV
NDTV is increasingly seen as nauseatingly 'politically correct' and high-brow, compared to the more hard-hitting and 'calling a spade a spade' stye of TimesNow and Arnab Goswami. NDTV has been steadily slipping further behind TimesNow in market share.... Remains to be seen if Prannoy Roy learns some lessons from this as to what style appeals in the Indian market.
JE Menon wrote:Correct, Arjun. I'm hoping also for Headline News to show some cojones. So far they've been all balls.
New Delhi Security agencies have identified the owner of the two-wheeler in which the explosive material was planted at Zaveri bazar in Mumbai as cyber experts are looking into an email which may have some cross-border links.
Union Home Secretary R K Singh said investigations into the serial blasts in the metropolis was going on and several people were being questioned based on their "previous known linkages".
"This investigation is on. We have identified the scooter in which one of the bombs was planted," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
Asked whether there was any cross-border links to the Wednesday's blasts, the Home Secretary said: "We have an email which originated elsewhere. It is being followed up".
Singh said the CCTV footages of the three blast sites were being scrutinised by the investigators and they were going through the 11 CDs made from the footages.
"Now, we have all the people and the faces appeared. They have to be recognised by local people to see whether they are locals or outsiders. That process is on. There are 11 CDs which have been gone through. It is a voluminous work," he said.
The Home Secretary said people not recognised by the locals have been put through a data base and they were being verified.
"Suspicious people are being verified. Various people with previous known linkages are being questioned based on our previous data bases. This investigation is on," he said.
Asked whether the investigators were working on any definite lead, Singh said "we have not yet zeroed in on".
Undoubtedly - perhaps the hottest "serious" babe in the electronic media since Damini Kumar (CNBC, 8-9 years back for people who remember)..But knowing a little bit chaiwallah stuff about NDTV, I dont think that the rest of the proposition is correct...But lets leave that aside (maybe Vishnu Som can commentJE Menon wrote:Disclaimer: I have already claimed somewhere in one of the threads in the fairly recent past that I find her to be attractive
).....Taking this to Nukkad.Lalmohan wrote:JEM saa'b - nidhi razdan is the thinking mullah's lal-madam
i find her anchoring to be quite good on the whole, and i haven't seen any of the biases others have commented on above
^ +1abhishek_sharma wrote:^ Watching NDTV is haraam onlee.
Well you can't blame us for calling it right wing we grew up on NDTV and CNN-IBN after allRahul M wrote:times now is right wing ? that too ultra ? being centrist is the extent of its rightwingness.
My sentiments exactly, anything right of extreme left is not Right wing. I agree narratives are fixed by Editors and news readers are not free to speak.Rahul M wrote:times now is right wing ? that too ultra ? being centrist is the extent of its rightwingness.
If India is not to be reduced to a Lebanon of yesteryears or another Pakistan we need to act with sense of urgency, marshalling our resources and spirits and acting with a single minded determination to eradicate the scourge of terrorism before it consumes us, says Vivek Gumaste.
Praising New Delhi for exercising caution in not pointing a finger at Islamabad for the Mumbai bombings, the Canadian media Thursday said India realises that Pakistan is already so unstable that any confrontation could push it over the brink.
India's politicians are "uncharacteristically exercising restraint and refusing to speculate over who was behind the fourth major terrorist attack on Mumbai in eight years", wrote the daily National Post.
"But the difference (in the Indian reaction) this time around may not be so much a new found sense of trust as it is fear South Asia could be plunged into a dangerous period of uncertainty and tension," according to the daily.
The paper said Wednesday's attacks couldn't have come at a worse time for the South Asian region. Pakistan flirts with violent disintegration and economic collapse as regional alliances are being strained by the growing rift between Islamabad and Washington following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "practically on the doorstep of Pakistan's main military academy".
At such a time, a confrontation with India over yet another terrorist attack may push Pakistan over the brink, the newspaper said.
"Given the current uncertainty within the Pakistan military and volatile situation inside Pakistan, Indian leaders may be loath to escalate tensions with Pakistan," it quoted Lisa Curtis, a South Asia expert with Washington's Heritage Foundation, as saying.
However, Wednesday's bombings could complicate the newly started confidence building measures by the two countries.
Further, by stirring up old animosities, Pakistani terrorists might also buy themselves some relief from the pressure the US has been putting on Islamabad to step up its fight against jihadists, the paper said.
"One immediate outcome of Wednesday's bombing is certain to be that the Pakistani military's inclinations will be to stay focused on India rather than the militants, who maintain close ties to segments of the Pakistani armed forces and the intelligence service," the paper quoted James Dorsey, a researcher at the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute, as saying.
Ahmedabad police- the first to bust various modules of Indian Mujahideen (IM)- are not ready to accept any other theory in connection with the bomb blasts in Mumbai on Wednesday. The cops believe it to be the handiwork of middle rung IM operatives who are still on the run from Gujarat police.
Singh further said that, the top level members of IM is in Pakistan, but the middle rung operatives are still in India and they execute such blasts. "The middle level operatives are the 'hardcore' terrorists and are always on the move," he said.
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Another police source familiar with the Ahmedabad serial blasts investigation said the possibility of any other terror outfit conducting such blasts is miniscule.
"The blast is clearly the work of IM," he said.
India's Home Minister says "We had no intelligence input about Mumbai blasts. But it is not an intelligence failure!"
Mr. Terrorist, can you please to send a post card to our Home minister before planting a bomb?
But, who can stop the home minister from saying, "We didn't get the post card, but it's not postal department failure!"????
God, before saving us from terrorists, please save us from these politicians!
Lets not go overboard, with this intelligence failure stuff, fact it there is a bunch of guys in the neighbourhood throwing rocks at our house, it is bound to hit someone's head. The only way you can end it by ending the guys throwing stones.SandeepA wrote:Picked up on FB..
India's Home Minister says "We had no intelligence input about Mumbai blasts. But it is not an intelligence failure!"
Mr. Terrorist, can you please to send a post card to our Home minister before planting a bomb?
But, who can stop the home minister from saying, "We didn't get the post card, but it's not postal department failure!"????
God, before saving us from terrorists, please save us from these politicians!
Amidst questions being raised on security issues in the wake of the Mumbai blasts, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said Congress agreeing to give the key Home portfolio to NCP was a mistake.
"I think it was a mistake. We should have re-looked at it. I don't know of any other coalition government where the portfolios of Home, Finance and Planning are not with the Chief Minister," Chavan said.
"This was a division agreed to by us in 1999 when Congress-NCP first came to power in the state. That pattern was based on the model adopted by the Shiv Sena-BJP government during 1995-99," Chavan told a TV channel.
The Chief Minister's remarks have come at a time when Home Minister R R Patil of NCP, who had to quit after 26/11 terror attacks, has come under fire over the Mumbai blasts.
"But then this is also a unique government where two almost equal partners are running the government, unlike in Delhi or West Bengal where there is a dominant partner having small parties' support," Chavan said when asked if there was an internal contradiction that a key portfolio like Home is being held by a junior coalition partner.
"This is a unique coalition. But I don't think that is a major problem. We both (Congress and NCP) come from the Congress culture. We split in 1999 for some reason," he said.
Asked if this had hampered his functioning, Chavan said, "There are difficulties at times. Decision-making takes time. We take everybody on board. But I think it is a part of coalition politics." PTI
That's a bit too fatalistic. There is a lot of routine, standard, boring, professional police work that could be done (which is done in major US cities) which is not being done, as noted by Kiran Bedi and others in the Sagarika Ghose Face the Nation show posted here earlier.Picked up on FB..
Lets not go overboard, with this intelligence failure stuff, fact it there is a bunch of guys in the neighbourhood throwing rocks at our house, it is bound to hit someone's head. The only way you can end it by ending the guys throwing stones.India's Home Minister says "We had no intelligence input about Mumbai blasts. But it is not an intelligence failure!"
Mr. Terrorist, can you please to send a post card to our Home minister before planting a bomb?
But, who can stop the home minister from saying, "We didn't get the post card, but it's not postal department failure!"????
God, before saving us from terrorists, please save us from these politicians!
What a B**turd, hope he meets his 72 if he keeps this type of Politics.abhishek_sharma wrote:Raj Thackeray blames migrants for terror strikes, BSP calls him 'terrorist'
Between the kangress and this ba$tard who are Mumbaikars supposed to vote for in the next elections if they want the security situation to improve?Aditya_V wrote:What a B**turd, hope he meets his 72 if he keeps this type of Politics.abhishek_sharma wrote:Raj Thackeray blames migrants for terror strikes, BSP calls him 'terrorist'
But US has got the defence of Geography, truth unless we hit the neighbour where it hurts say sink a submarine, stop the propaganda which falsly states that TSP/kashmir are only victims of everything but not perpatrators of nothing you will not get anywhere. And given India's geographic location, stuff like POTA which enable wiretapes, Interogations which today are not possible, you are never going to prevent enough terror attacks.KLNMurthy wrote:quote]Picked up on FB..
That's a bit too fatalistic. There is a lot of routine, standard, boring, professional police work that could be done (which is done in major US cities) which is not being done, as noted by Kiran Bedi and others in the Sagarika Ghose Face the Nation show posted here earlier.India's Home Minister says "We had no intelligence input about Mumbai blasts. But it is not an intelligence failure!"
Mr. Terrorist, can you please to send a post card to our Home minister before planting a bomb?
But, who can stop the home minister from saying, "We didn't get the post card, but it's not postal department failure!"????
God, before saving us from terrorists, please save us from these politicians!/quote]
Lets not go overboard, with this intelligence failure stuff, fact it there is a bunch of guys in the neighbourhood throwing rocks at our house, it is bound to hit someone's head. The only way you can end it by ending the guys throwing stones.
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Others like shiv here have also noted the dysfunctionality of the system in Indian cities like Mumbai. Just to say, "one stone is bound to hit" veers into the intellectually bankrupt territory of DIE like Rahul Gandhi.
Also, using expressions like "let's not go overboard" (I hope thoughtlessly and not deliberately) in this context connotes a condescending and manipulative tone, as if people having and articulating concerns and developing ideas interactively through forums such as these, are unintelligent, irrational and emotional creatures without a sense of proportion(by implication, unlike the speaker himself)--again a favorite rhetorical trick of DIE types.