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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Chronology of major Terrorist attacks in Bharat India

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Chronology (timeline) of major Terrorist attacks in Bharat (Hindustan/India) or on Bharatiya (Hindustani/Indian) Citizens
  1. September 7, 2011 1017 hrs - Terrorist attack (bomb blast) outside Gate No. 5, Delhi High Court, Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli) - Harkat-ul-Jehadi (HuJI) & Indian Mujahideen
    At least nine people have been killed in an explosion outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday morning. The explosion took place outside Gate No. 5 of the Delhi High Court at 10:17 AM injuring 45 others. Union Home Secretary RK Singh confirmed that nine people have died in the explosion. UK Bansal, Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, said that the explosive device was kept in a briefcase. He said that the blast was well planned and of high intensity. The injured have been rushed to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital with some of them reportedly in a critical condition. National Security Guard (NSG) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams have also reached the blast site. NSG Director General Rajen Medhekar said that ammonium nitrate has been used in the blast. "Whatever we could gather from the blast investigations is that it is an IED (improvised explosive device) with ammonium nitrate. We are working with the Delhi Police to get details," said Medhekar. The Delhi Police said that Gate No. 5 is one of the busiest areas of the Delhi High Court and have cordoned off the area. Gate no. 5 of the Delhi High Court is where the passes are made for the litigants and the explosion happened outside the reception. Police officials said that about 100 to 200 people were waiting in queue to get passes for entry into the court complex. Forensic experts have reached the site and are examining forensic evidence to find out the nature of the blast. Fire tenders and ambulances have also reached the blast site. Court business is usually heavy on Wednesday which is listed as a Public Interest Litigation(PIL) day when the visitors come to the court in large numbers. It is in the second time in four months that a blast occurred outside the Delhi High Court complex. An explosion on May 25 triggered panic prompting the authorities to sound a high alert in the capital and tighten security at public places. But no one was injured in the may 25 blast. In that blast too ammonium nitrate was used and the explosive device was wrapped in a polythene bag and kept close to the car parked near Gate No. 7. The blast took place at 1:30 PM. Along with ammonium nitrate, a battery-like object, wires and some nails were found at the site by forensic experts. This is the the worst terror attack in the capital since the triple blasts on September 13, 2008 in which 25 people were killed. On September 13, 2008 serials blasts had rocked Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash in the capital in which over 150 people were injured.


  2. July 13, 2011 1854 hrs - Terrorist attack (multiple bomb blasts) at Zaveri Bazaar, famous Mumbadevi temple, Opera House and Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra
    The blasts took place within minutes of each other with the first being reported at 6:54 PM in south Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar, near the famous Mumbadevi temple, 6:55 PM at Opera House and 7:05 PM at Dadar.


  3. May 26, 2011 - Islamic Terrorist attack in Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli)
    A low intensity blast was reported from the parking lot outside gate number 7 of the Delhi High Court - one of the most well secured areas in the capital. The explosion was caused by a crude explosive packed in a polythene placed right next to a Ford car which belongs to a lawyer.


  4. December 7, 2010 - Islamic Terrorist attack in Kashi/Varanasi/Banaras/Benaras/Varanasya, Uttar Pradesh
    A two-year-old Hindu girl was killed and several wounded in a blast outside a temple in Varanasi in northern India.


  5. September 19, 2010 - Shootout in Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli)
    Gunmen on motorbikes shot at a tourist bus near a mosque in New Delhi, wounding two Taiwanese visitors, weeks before the city hosted the 54-nation Commonwealth Games. Officials put it down to local gangs and ruled out the involvement of militants.


  6. April 17, 2010 - Islamic Terrorist attack in Bengaluru/Bangalore, Karnatak
    At least one person was killed and 15 people were wounded after two bombs exploded outside a packed cricket stadium in the software hub of Bangalore. Police suspect the LeT and other militant groups were involved.


  7. February 15, 2010 2030 hrs - Mao-Communist Terrorist attack (gun attack) by at Silda in West Midnapore, West Bengal
    20 Army troops of Eastern Frontiers Rifles murdered by 100 Mao-Communist terrorists. "At least 20 jawans of Eastern Frontiers Rifles (EFR) have been killed in the attack at the Silda camp and the condition of two is stated to be very critical," district magistrate N S Nigam told PTI from Midnapore. The Maoists launched another attack on a CRPF camp at Dharampur in the district tonight. A group of 40 armed Maoists attacked the camp around 8.30 pm in Lalgarh engaging the jawans in an exchange of fire. Nigam said at least 100 Maoists armed with sophisticated weapons came on motorcycles and four-wheelers, exploded landmines near the Silda camp before barging inside with a volley of fire around 5.30 pm. There were 51 EFR jawans and officers in the camp when the attack took place, sources said. The attack took most of the jawans by surprise as they were either "whiling away their time in the camp or busy in the kitchen cooking", a senior police officer said. Meanwhile, Maoist leader Kishenji claimed responsibility for the attack. "We have attacked the camp and this is our answer to Chidambaram's 'Operation Green Hunt' and unless the Centre stops this inhuman military operation we are going to answer this way only," Kishenji told PTI from an undisclosed location.


  8. February 13, 2010 1915 hrs - Islamic Terrorist attack (bomb blast) by Muslim Terrorists in Poona, Maharashtr
    9 killed, 45 injured. The blast — believed to have been triggered by an IED kept in an abandoned bag — took place at German Bakery at 6.56 pm. Significantly enough, the German Bakery is located in the vicinity of Osho Ashram and the Jewish Centre “Chabad House”.


  9. June 10, 2009 0830 hrs - Terrorist attack (landmine blast) by Maoists on joint team of CRPF and local police Police personnel in Serengda-Aruanga village in West Singhbhum district about 160km (100 miles) from the state capital, Ranchi.
    Eleven security personnel were killed and six others injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in a Naxal-affected district in Jharkhand on Wednesday, police said.

    The incident took place in Serengda-Aruanga village in West Singhbhum district when a joint team of CRPF and local police was returning in a mini truck after a two-day patrolling in extremist-infested Saranda forest, Director General of Police (DGP) V.D. Ram said.

    The rebels are fighting for communist rule in a number of Indian states. More than 6,000 people have died during their 20-year fight.

    The rebels say that they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, and are fighting for better land rights and more jobs for agricultural labourers and the poor.


  10. May 22, 2009 1320 hrs - Terrorist attack by DHD(J) on Police personnel on Security Train, North Cachar Hills district, nearly 350 km from Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati), Assam
    Three Assam police personnel sustained injury when DHD(J) rebels again attacked a special security train with bullets in North Cachar hills on Friday.

    According to information, the incident took place at a round 1 in the afternoon in between Lumding and Langting when the Dimasa rebels sprayed bullets on the train leaving the police personnel injured. Barring security trains, other services have been remaining closed due to continued attack on trains by the DHD(J) rebels.


  11. May 19, 2009 0330 hrs - Terrorist attack on Civilian Train, Karbi Anglong hills district and North Cachar Hills district, nearly 350 km from Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati), Assam
    Ten people, including six militants were killed and at least seven persons including two security personnel were injured in separate incidents of encounter and militants’ attacks on civilians and goods trains in the central Assam’s Karbi Anglong hills district and North Cachar Hills district on Tuesday.

    Suspected militants also set ablaze 10 houses in a Zeme Naga village in North Cachar Hills district during the day.

    In another incident, six militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were killed in an encounter with troops of the Armys Red Horns Division near Donghap village under Doboka Reserve in Karbi Anglong.

    The slain militants are suspected to belong to anti-talk faction of the NDFB, a Defence spokesman said.

    Five railway employees and two BSF jawans were injured in an attack on a goods train in N.C. Hills by suspected militants of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD-Jewel Gorlossa faction) between Migrendisa and Lower Haflong railway station.


  12. May 11, 2009 1400 hrs - Dimasa tribals attack (indiscriminatory firing, arson) on Zemi Naga, Guilung Village, North Cachar Hills, Haflong, nearly 350 km from Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati), Assam
    Three persons were killed and at least 70 houses were set ablaze in two Zeme Naga villages in the North Cachar Hills district of Assam on Monday following an attack by militants.

    Monday’s incident comes after a series of attacks by militants on three Dimasa villages in which 101 houses were set ablaze and seven persons were killed. The authorities suspected that the violence was in retaliation to the attacks on the Dimasa villages.

    In another incident, miscreants removed fish plates on the rail track passing through a tunnel between Langting and Mupa stations of the hill district, forcing the cancellation of a goods train carrying food grains from Lumding to Badarpur.


  13. May 9, 2009 1300 hrs- Christian Zemi Naga Citizen's Rights Protection Voluneteers Terrorist attack (indiscriminatory firing, arson) on Dimasa Tribals, Phaiding Village, North Cachar Hills, Haflong, nearly 350 km from Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati), Assam
    Three Dimasa villages in which 101 houses were set ablaze and seven persons were killed. Three persons were killed and several wounded in an attack by suspected Naga gunmen at the Fiding Dimasagaon, nearly 350 km from Guwahati, in Assam's North Cachar Hills district on Saturday morning.

    Police said a group of about 20 to 25 gunmen raided the Dimasa-dominated village near Fiding railway station around 6 in the morning and started firing indiscriminately. They also set afire 43 houses in the village dominated by the anti-talks faction of the Dima Halam Daogah (DHD).

    Thanagjam Dibhrakete (40) and Ripunjay Dibhrakete (20) died on the spot, while Hatulal Dibhrakete (40) succumbed to his injuries at at Mahur Civil Hospital. All the injured were rushed to hospital, police said.

    Citizen's Rights Protection Voluneteers, a group which not many have heard of, owned up to the attack on the Dimasa village and warned of more such attacks on Dimasas in future.


  14. April 12, 2009 2115 hrs - KLNLF Terrorist attack (multiple powerful bomb blasts) on Kolkata-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express train, near Nilalong, close to Diphu, the headquarters of Karbi Anglong district, about 320 km east of Assam's main city of Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati)


  15. April 6, 2009 1340 hrs - ULFA Terrorist attack (multiple powerful bomb blasts) at a busy bus stop in Maligaon, Gauhati, Assam near Maligaon police station and the headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Railway


  16. March 31, 2009 1800 hrs - ULFA Terrorist attack (bomb blast) near Shankar hotel in Jyotikuchi Road, Lalganesh area, Gauhati, Assam


  17. March 25, 2009 1850 hrs - ULFA Terrorist attack (hand grenade bomb blasts) at Lakhsmi Mandir area, Sonitpur district, Tezpur town, Assam


  18. February 1, 2009 1115 hrs - Naxal Maoist Terrorist attack (gun firing) in Marke Gaon, Dhanora tehsil, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra


  19. January 10, 2009 1830 hrs - Maligaon Shuttle Gate locality, Gauhati, Assam - Terrorist attack (powerful Bomb blast)


  20. January 1, 2009 1435 hrs - Birubari, Bhootnath and Bhangagarh areas, Gauhati, Assam - Terrorist attack (multiple powerful 3 Bomb blasts)


  21. December 1, 2008 0800 hrs - Diphu, Karbi Anglong district, Assam - Terrorist attack (powerful Bomb blast) in Lumding-Tinsukia Passenger Train


  22. November 26, 2008 2200 hrs - Mumbai, Maharashtra - Terrorist attack (coordinated attack by at least 20 terrorists at 11 places. AK-47 firing, grenade attack and hostage crisis)


  23. October 30, 2008 1130 hrs - Gauhati, Assam - Terrorist attack (multiple powerful 13 Bomb blasts) - 68 dead & 335 wounded


  24. October 21, 2008 1930 hrs - Imphal, Manipur - Terrorist attack (powerful Bomb blast) using an improvised explosive device (IED) at Ragailong Gate on the northern side of the historic Kangla Fort in which at least 17 people were killed and over 30 injured


  25. September 29, 2008 - Malegoan - Bomb blast


  26. September 29, 2008 - Modasa, Gujarat - Bomb blast - One child died


  27. September 27, 2008 1405 hrs - Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli) - Terrorist attack (powerful Bomb blast) just two weeks after the previous terrorist attack in Indraprasth and a few days before Hindu's holy Nine days festival of Navratre


  28. September 18, 2008 1115 hrs - Bijni, Chiranga District, Gauhati, Assam - आतंकवादी हमला (बम फोड़ा गया) यूनाइटेड लिबरेशन फ़्रंट ऑफ़ असम (उल्फ़ा) द्वारा / Terrorist attack (Bomb blast) by ULFA terrorists


  29. September 13, 2008 1810 hrs - Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli) - Terrorist attack (multiple powerful Bomb blasts) just a day before the last day of Shri Ganesh Mahotsav


  30. July 26, 2008 Karnavati (misnomer: Ahmedabad), Gujarat - Terrorist Attack (multiple Bomb Blasts)

    • Complete text of Indian Mujahideen's email before Gujarat terrorist attack

    • Chargesheet against Indian Mujahideen terrorists today by Times of India on February 16, 2009
      Mumbai Police will on Tuesday file chargesheet against 21 alleged members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM) for hatching here the conspiracy to set off blasts in various cities including Delhi, Bangalore and Surat.

      The terror group is alleged to have carried out blasts across the country since 2006 including the 2008 serial blasts in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore and Surat.

      Apart from the stringent provisions of MCOCA, the 21 accused will also be charged under Indian Penal Code, Arms Act, Explosives Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology Act.

      Riyaz Bhatkal, the mastermind and founder member of IM, and his brother Iqbal Bhatkal are still wanted by Mumbai police.

      The 21 arrested accused are Azal Mutalib Usmani, Mohd Sadik Shaikh, Mohd Arif Shaikh, Mohd Zakir Shaikh, Ansar Ahmed Shaikh, Asif Bashir Shaikh, Mohd Mansoor Peerbhoy, Mubin Kadar Shaikh, Mohd Atique Iqbal, Dastagir Phiroz Mujawar, Mohd Akbar Chaudhary, Anique Shafique Sayed, Majid Akthar Shaikh, Yasir Anis Syed, Farooq Sharfuddin Tarkash, Fazal-e-Rehman Durani, Ahmed Bawa Abubakar, Moh Ali Ahmed, Javed Ali and Syed Noushad, Asgar Ali.

    • ‘Brainwashed with Iraq, Babri, Gujarat riots’ by Indian Express on February 11, 2009

    • Ahmedabad serial blasts: Five more chargesheets filed by PTI, TOI on February 4, 2009
      • The city police have filed five more chargesheets in connection with last year's serial blasts here, which claimed the lives of 57 people. All the chargesheets have more than 1,000 pages each and blame Indian Mujahideen (IM) and SIMI operatives for the explosions, Crime branch officials said.
      "Roles of Gujarat, Mumbai, Delhi and Karnataka IM modules, who worked in tandem to carry out the attack, as well as that of each individual in the modules have been described in detail in the documents," the officials said.
      The chargesheets filed in the designated court here related to blasts at Sarkhej, Maninagar (two cases), Kalupur and Vatva areas, the officials said.
      "There were 21 blasts in different parts of the city on July 26, 2008. The Crime branch has treated each blast as a separate case and has been filing chargesheets in each case," they said, adding chargesheets in the remaining cases would be filed soon.
      The documents have named 54 accused and 47 absconders in the Sarkhej case, including alleged masterminds of the blasts Amir Raza Khan, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, 44 accused and 48 absconders in the Maninagar case and 43 accused and 45 absconders in the Vatva and Kalupur cases.
    • Supplementary chargesheet filed in Ahmedabad blasts case by PTI, TOI on January 17, 2009

    • Police find 17 crude bombs in Ahmedabad by PTI, TOI on September 29, 2008

    • Ahmedabad blasts: Ken Haywood arrives in India by C Unnikrishnan, TNN, TOI on September 11, 2008

    • 2008 Ahmedabad bombings on Wikipedia



  31. July 25, 2008 - Bengaluru (misnomer: Bangalore), Karnataka - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)


  32. May 13, 2008 - Jaipur, Rajasthan - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb Blasts)


  33. January 2008 - Rampur - Terrorist attack (firing by terrorists) - 8 Army personnel killed


  34. November 23, 2007 1310-1325 hrs - Varanasi, Faizabad & Lucknow Courts, Uttar Pradesh - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)


  35. August 25, 2007 - Lumbini park, Bhagyamathi (misnomer: Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)



  36. May 18, 2007 - Bhagyamathi (misnomer: Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh - Bomb blast



  37. February 18, 2007 2353 hrs - Indraprasth-Lahore Samjhauta Express, after Diwana station, Panipat, Haryana - Bomb blast



  38. September 8, 2006 - Malegaon, Nashik, Maharashtra - Bomb blast



  39. August 16, 2006 1700 hrs- ISKCON Mandir/Temple, Imphal, Manipur - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts) - 10 citizens murdered

    • Five die in blasts at ISKCON temple during a terrorist attack
      At least five persons were killed and 28 others, including a foreigner, injured when a powerful bomb exploded in the complex of International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Wednesday evening when the shrine was teeming with Janmasthami devotees. The toll might go up because some of those who suffered injuries were in critical condition, sources in the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital said. The five victims included a 10-year-old boy and a 70-year-old woman, the sources said. Several important persons, including chief priest of the ISKCON's Damodar Das, were among those who were hit by splinters of the bomb which was reportedly hurled at the Tulihal airport area in Imphal West district of Manipur by some unidentified persons. Reports said that today being the birthday of Lord Krishna, there was a huge gathering of people at the ISKCON complex, about five km south of Imphal, and the bomb exploded among the crowd at around 7 pm. No individual or organisation has claimed responsibility for the explosions, official sources said.


  40. July 11, 2006 - Commuter trains, Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts) - 187 citizens murdered


  41. April 28, 2006 - Bus terminal, Jalandhar, Punjab - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast) by terrorist organization Khalistan Zindabad Force



  42. March 11, 2006 - Byculla Railway Station, Central Mumbai, Maharashtra - Terrorist attack (Bomb)

    • Varanasi blasts : New wave of terror
      That the Varanasi blasts was not a stray incident, was confirmed by the detection of two kilograms of explosive ammonia nitrate from the Byculla Railway Station in Central Mumbai on Saturday, March 11. Apart from the explosive filled in a plastic water bottle, the police recovered a pocket-size transformer that could have provided the power if a detonator was to be attached to the device. Police Commissioner A.N.Ray said a high alert has been sounded in the city and security tightened at all places of worship, railway stations and vital installations. The seizure came a day before the 13th anniversary of the serial bomb blasts on March 12, 1993 which killed 256 persons and injured 713, besides causing damage to property worth Rs. 27 crore. Early this year, three terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir, allegedly having links with Laskhar-e-Taiba leader Sayyad Salahuddin, were arrested from the busy Nagpada area of central Mumbai, along with highly sophisticated wireless detonators. In neighbouring Goa, the police arrested a militant on charges of plotting an attack. Director General of Police Niraj Kumar said in Panaji on March 11 that the police arrested Tariq Anwar at Margao railway station. He was found to be carrying explosives and fire arms. Tariq is reported to have confessed during interrogation that Pakistan-based Tehrique-ul-Mujahiddin, the terrorist outfit to which he belongs, was targeting busy tourist places in the state. The police recovered two kilograms of RDX, two Russian hand grenades, a detonator, three mobile phones and three cameras from Tariq. The DGP said that Tariq had undergone two and a half years of training in Pakistan and had also traveled to Bangladesh and Nepal. Police teams have fanned out across the state to check his local links and more arrests are likely.


  43. March 7, 2006 1820 hrs - Kashi/Varanasi/Banaras/Varanasya, Uttar Pradesh - Terrorist Attack (multiple Bomb Blasts) - 40 Hindus murdered

    • Varanasi blasts : New wave of terror
      Two bomb blasts ripped thorough the temple town of Varanasi in Eastern Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, March 7, heralding a new wave of terrorist attacks in the country. There are indications that the Varanasi explosions were mounted by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed groups which have been responsible for many such incidents in the past. A little known outfit, Lashkar-e-Kahar, believed to be a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed responsibility for the blasts in which more than 20 people died. The Varanasi Cantt Railway Station and Sankat Mochan Temple were the main targets of the attack. The worst hit was the railway station where 14 persons were killed and 30 injured in a powerful explosion outside the waiting room on Platform No. 1 where a Delhi-bound train was at the time stationary. Just before this, a bomb want off at the Sankat Mochan Temple which was full of devotees. At least six persons were killed and 25 injured in the explosion. The security forces also recovered explosive devices at other places in the city, which did not explode and were defused later. Home Ministry officials said that they believed that the blasts were part of a planned conspiracy. They said the terrorists chose Tuesday for the blasts as there is a heavy rush of devotees at the Sankat Mochan Temple on that day. Within hours of the Varanasi blasts, a special task force team of the Uttar Pradesh police, helped by a team of the Jammu and Kashmir police, gunned down a terrorist in Lucknow on Wednesday morning (March 8). The police later claimed that the killed terrorist may have been involved in the terror attacks in Varanasi. The STF team said that the terrorist, Salar Aka Illullah Aka Doctor Aka Saleem, was an expert in planting explosives and was the area commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Uttar Pradesh. The STF claimed that he was also involved in the attack on Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, in which a scientist was killed. A Pakistan-made “Star” pistol, a telephone diary containing slips issued by PCO booths for overseas calls made by him, detonators, fuse and 2.5 kg. of RDX were recovered from his possession. On Wednesday itself, two terrorists owing allegiance to Lashkar-e-Taiba, were gunned down in an encounter with the Delhi Police in North West Delhi. The police say that the persons gunned down wanted to carry out a terror attack in the national capital. The deceased have been identified as Lashkar’s Bangladesh chief Ghulam Hasan alias Kajol. Forty pockets of plastic (PETN) explosives weighing four kilograms, one AK 56 with two magazines and 51 rounds , four hand grenades, two Luger-make imported pistols with two magazines and fake currency were recovered from the slain militants. “Intercepts of phone conversations between Abu Ali Kama and Tariq Ahmed Dar a few days after the Delhi serial blasts revealed that LeT was planning more attacks in the city and busy markets are their specific targets,” a senior police official said. The terrorists were carrying plastic explosives which, experts say, could cause an explosion stronger than the one seen during the serial blasts.

    • Varanasi blast accused gets 10 years' jail term by IANS, CNN-IBN on August 26, 2008


  44. October 29, 2005 - Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi) - Terrorist attack (multiple powerful Bomb blasts) just before Deepawali (Diwali)



  45. July 28, 2005 1715 hrs - Patna-Indraprasth Shramjivi Express train, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast)



  46. July 5, 2005 - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh - Terrorist attack by five Islamist Terrorists


  47. August 15, 2004 - Assam - Terrorist attack (Bomb blasts) killing 16 people, mostly schoolchildren, and wounding dozens



    48. December 2, 2003 - BEST bus, at the Special Electronics Export Promotion Zone (SEEPZ), a major commercial hub in Andheri east, Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Islamic Terrorist attack (Failed)

  48. August 25, 2003 - Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Islamic Terrorist attack (Simultaneous multiple Car Bomb blasts)
    • Judgement day Monday in August 2003 Mumbai twin blasts case by IANS, Daily Pioneer
      Six years after the twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, which left 53 people dead, a Mumbai Special Court is expected to deliver its judgement on the "rarest of rare" case here Monday. A terror module of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was involved in planting the powerful bombs in two cabs and triggering them by timers on Aug 25, 2003. It is the most awaited judgement in a terrorist case after the Special TADA Court completed the March 2, 1993, serial blasts trial in 2007 which led to the conviction of 100 people, including Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, now a Samajwadi Party leader. The terror attacks were carried out to "avenge" the deaths of Muslims during the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out in the wake of the Godhra train burning of Feb 27 that year. After painstaking investigations, the Mumbai Police nabbed the prime accused - Mohammed Hanif Sayed (35 then), his wife Fahimida (30 then), Ashrat Shafique Ansari (26 then), Zahid Yusuf Patni, Rizwan Laddoowala and A. Shaikh Batterywala. One accused and the blasts mastermind - identified only as Nazir, was subsequently shot dead in a police encounter in Matunga suburb in September 2003, said advocate for the accused S. Kunjuraman. A total of four cases was filed against all the accused in the case in which a total of 101 witnesses were examined in the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) Special Court, according to Kunjuraman. They are: the twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar which killed 53 and injured over 100; and a blast outside Ghatkopar railway station July 28, 2003, which left two dead and 31 injured. The fourth case pertains to planting a bomb in a public BEST bus Dec 2, 2003, at the Special Electronics Export Promotion Zone (SEEPZ), a major commercial hub in Andheri east, which failed to explode. "If found guilty by the Special POTA Judge M.R. Puranik, then the accused could attract the maximum death penalty," Kunjuraman said. Zahid Yusuf Patni offered to turn approver in the case in June 2004 and made a confession of his role in the terror attacks. He revealed how he lived and worked in Dubai where he met Hanif, who had gone there to work as an electrician. There they met some other persons who provoked them "to take revenge for the Gujarat riots of 2002". After hatching the blasts conspiracy in Dubai, they prepared themselves for the assignment with all the required resources and finally carried out the terror strikes in Mumbai. Patni also revealed that he had been "elected" as chief of the LeT module in Mumbai called 'Gujarat Defence-Revenge Force' and he directed all the blasts in the city. Meanwhile, midway during the trial, a POTA Review Committee recommended that Laddoowala and Batterywala be discharged from the case for lack of evidence, but the POTA Special Court rejected it. The matter was challenged before the Supreme Court which finally ordered their discharge in November 2008, proving a setback to the prosecution case, spearheaded by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. Incidentally, Nikam conducted the March 12, 1993, Mumbai serial blasts case and is also handling the Nov 26, 2008, Mumbai terror attacks case. The duo was accused of connecting the timer with the detonator and preparing the other electrical circuits used in the bombs. During the six-year long trial, 101 witnesses, including a taxi-driver who identified the accused planting the bomb in one of the taxis, were examined. Three Special POTA Judges conducted the trial - A.P. Bhangale, S.S. Joshi and currently, Special Judge Puranik.
    • Video: 03 Mumbai blasts verdict, guilty face death


  49. July 23, 2003 - Ghatkopar railway station, Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Islamic Terrorist attack


  50. May 14, 2003 - Army camp, Jammu - Terrorist attack



  51. March 13, 2003 - Commuter train, Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)



  52. December 21, 2002 - Kurnool express passenger train crash, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh - Sabotage by Terrorists



  53. September 25, 2002 1630 hrs - Akshardham Mandir, Gujarat - Terrorist attack - 600 hostages, 34 citizens murdered

    600 devotees were in the temple at the time of attack. Around 50 devotees were trapped inside the building and quick action of the volunteers in the temple denied the attackers access to people inside. The National Security Guard (NSG) commandos commonly called 'black cats' intervened to end the siege in an operation called vajra shakti. All 50 trapped devotees were rescued and released after identity checks. Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader of BAPS, requested mercy for Muslim terrorists.
    • अक्षरधाम का आरोपी शौकतउल्ला गिरफ्तार

    • अक्षरधाम हमले का आरोपी गिरफ्तार
      शमशाबाद एयरपोर्ट से एंटी टेरेरिस्ट स्क्वॉड (एटीएस) ने एक आतंकी को गिरफ्तार किया। इस आतंकी की अक्षरधाम मंदिर में हुए हमले में तलाश थी। जानकारी के मुताबिक एटीएस ने हैदराबाद के शमशाबाद हवाई अड्डे से शौकतुल्ला नाम के आतंकवादी को गिरफ्तार किया है। शौकतुल्ला की गुजरात के अक्षरधाम मंदिर में हुए हमले में तलाश थी। इस आतंकी को गुजरात पुलिस को सौंप दिया गया है। शौकतुल्ला के साथ मौजूद उसकी पत्नी और बच्चे को हिरासत में ले लिया गया है।

    • Akshardham attack suspect arrested
      Nearly seven years after the terrorist attack on Akshardham in Gandhinagar, a prime suspect of the case has been arrested from Hyderabad. The terrorist attack on Akshardham on September 25, 2002 had left 34 people dead and at least 76 injured. Two terrorists involved in the terror attack were also killed in the night-long operation by the National Security Guard (NSG) commandoes who were flown in from Delhi. Shaukat-Ullah Ghouri, believed to be the financier of the operation, was arrested from the Hyderabad airport on Saturday night soon after his arrival from Saudi Arabia where he had fled after the Akshardham attack in 2002. A team of the Gujarat Police has rushed to Hyderabad for bringing Ghouri back to Ahmedabad where arrest warrants are pending against him and his brother Farhat-Ullah since 2002. Three culprits of the Akshardham attack were sentenced to death by a POTA Court in July 2006 while one was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two others were given prison terms of ten years and five years respectively for their involvement in the terror attack. Shaukat-Ullah and his brother Farhat-Ullah were trained by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), and were engaged in raising funds for terror attacks. They fled to Saudi Arabia after their names cropped up during the investigations into the Akshardham attack.

    • Gujarat Police arrests Akshardham attack suspect

    • Another Akshardham attack accused nabbed from Hyderabad

    • Gujarat police to bring Shaukatullah from Hyderabad

    • Key conspirator in Akshardham attack case being brought to city
      A Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative, Ghauri, who is a close associate of the mastermind behind the attack, Abu Hamza, had attended the pre-Akshardham attack conspiracy meetings at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and later at Hyderabad in 2002. Ghauri is also accused of raising funds for the attack, DCB sources said. Ghauri and his brother, Farhatullah, who is also accused of supporting and motivating the terrorists who carried out the attacks, were in Hyderabad at the time of the attack. They later fled to Saudi Arabia after their names figured in the list of suspects. Thirty-four people, including two National Security Guards (NSG) commandos and two state police commandos were killed and more than 80 others injured when two Pakistan-based terrorists stormed the temple in Gandhinagar on September 24, 2003, and opened indiscriminate fire with their automatic weapons and lobbed grenades. A designated POTA court in Gujarat convicted three of the six accused, arrested in the case, to death, in July 2006. Another accused was sentenced to a life term in prison, while two others were awarded punishment of 10 and five years each.

    • Key Lashkar financier held (Caution: This newspaper is known to spread Anti-Hindu propaganda and mythical lies that a so-called pogrom happened in Gujarat in 2002 and not riots. Its a baseless allegation as it has not been proved in any court or official commission of inquiry.)

    • Gujarat Akshardham attack accused arrested

    • Akshardham: Over 20 accused still absconding

    • Ghori handed over to Gujarat Police

    • Hyderabad ‘Imam’ held for terror links
      A non-bailable warrant was pending against him under POTA in a Gandhinagar Court in Gujarat,’’ the sources said. They said Shaukatullah Ghori, popular in Riyadh as Hafiz Saheb, was working as the Imam of a mosque in Riyadh. ‘‘He is not involved in any case in Hyderabad or any part of the State. His only involvement is in Akshardham Temple attack,’’ the sources said. It is learnt that after going through the records, the Andhra Pradesh police is likely to send him to Gujarat shortly. While two Pakistani terrorists were killed by the National Security Guards (NSG) in operation Vajra Shakti at the Akshardham Temple, three were sentenced to death and 10 to life imprisonment in the case. Twelve more accused are absconding.


  54. September 10, 2002 - Rajdhani Express train derailment, Over the Dhave river bridge, Rafiganj, Bihar - Sabotage by Naxalite Maoists Terrorists



  55. May 13, 2002 0318 hrs - Patna-Indraprasth Shramjivi Express train, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh - Sabotage by Terrorists suspected to be from Student's Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)


  56. February 27, 2002 - Sabarmati Express train burned, Godhra, Gujarat - Muslim Terrorists burnt the train following an altercation between local Muslims and the innocent Hindu pilgrims when the train was standing at the platform. The S-6 coach was occupied by Hindu religious pilgrims called Kar Sevaks who were returning from Ayodhya. 58 Hindu pilgrims (15 women, 20 children, and 23 men) who were inside, were burnt alive, and the coach was completely gutted by the fire.


  57. December 13, 2001 - Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi) parliament complex - Terrorist attack



  58. October 1, 2001 - Jammu and Kashmir assembly complex - Terrorist attack



  59. June 2000 - Train, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast)



  60. March 13, 2000 - Kailash Hotel, Paharganj, Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi) - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast) by terrorist organization Khalistan Zindabad Force



  61. February 10, 2000 - Sealdah Express train, Supwal village, Vijaypur, Jammu - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast) by terrorist organization Khalistan Zindabad Force



  62. November 11, 1999 - Jammu-Indraprasth Pooja Express train - Terrorist attack (Bomb blast) by terrorist organization Khalistan Zindabad Force



  63. February 14, 1998 - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)



  64. December 30, 1996 - Brahmaputra mail train, Assam - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)



  65. May 21, 1996 - Bombing in Central Market, Lajpat Nagar, Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli) by Islamic Terrorists

    • Death for three Muslim Terrorists in Lajpat Nagar blast case
      Describing the 14-year-old Lajpat Nagar blast case as “rarest of rare”, a city court on Thursday awarded death penalty to three of the six convicts. The explosion had claimed 13 lives in the Capital.
      “Aggravating circumstances have outweighed the mitigating circumstances. It is one of the rarest of rare cases, where the extreme penalty of death is required to be given to the convicts. I direct that these three convicts be hanged by neck till death,” said District and Sessions Judge SP Garg. Mohammed Naushad, Mirza Nissar Hussain and Mohammed Ali Bhatt were awarded the death penalty, which is subject to confirmation from the High Court.
      The court awarded different jail terms to the other three convicts, including life imprisonment to one, for their roles in the gory incident. Sending the three convicts to gallows, the court said, “On scanning the aggravating circumstances whereby 13 innocent persons lost their lives, it is certain that the convicts do not deserve to be dealt with leniently.
      There cannot be two opinions that looking at the prime conspectus of what was perpetrated at the Lajpat Nagar Market, it was the most dastardly act. The case comes in the category of rarest of rare cases. The convicts indulged in killing innocent persons without any provocation.”
      While awarding life imprisonment to Javed Ahmed Khan, the court said, “Though Javed’s case also comes in the category of rarest of rare cases, on taking into consideration the mitigating circumstances, Javed does not deserve the extreme penalty. He was residing in Nepal and not even known to Bilal Ahmed Beg. Earlier, he was not aware of the conspiracy and when he found arms and ammunitions lying in the room, he made inquiries…and came to know of the conspiracy to cause (the) bomb blast in Delhi.”
      The court also said that on instructions of Mirza Nissar Hussain and Bilal, Javed delivered ammunition at the Delhi residence of witness Wazid Kasai. “At the time of incident, Javed was not present in Delhi. After considering his role and his confessional statement exposing himself and the co-accused, case of Javed stands on a different footing,” it added.
      The court imposed a fine of Rs 42,000 on Mohammed Naushad. Mohammed Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hussain and Javed Ahmad Khan have been fined Rs 37,000 each under various penal provisions, dealing with murder, conspiracy and attempt to murder.
      Convict Farooq Ahmed Khan and lone woman convict Farida Dar were held guilty under milder penal provisions of the Explosive Substances Act and the Arms Act, and were allowed to walk free. The imprisonment served during the trial was their punishment, the court said. It fined Farooq Ahmed and Farida Dar Rs 10,000 each. “The term already undergone by Farooq Ahmed in this case shall be counted and Farida Dar is ordered to be released for the period already spent in jail with reasonable fine,” the court ordered.
      The court said the offence committed by the convicts was pre-planned and calculated. The apparent motive was to indulge in disruptive activities and to strike terror in the minds of the people. The convicts had used powerful material, including RDX. “These convicts had no feeling of remorse or repentance. The convicts had no apparent justification or motive to take the lives of innocent citizens. The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire city and the collective conscience of the society,” said the court. All these convicts were arrested in June/July, 1996.
    • Six convicted in 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case
    • Chronology of 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case
    • Court's observations on 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case
    • Chronology of 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case



  66. December 6, 1993 - Near-simultaneous bombing of five trains running between Mumbai, Indraprasth (misnomer: New Delhi/Nayi Dilli), Howrah, Bhagyamathi (misnomer: Hyderabad) and Surat. - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)

    • Was it all along about 1993 Blasts Case Convictions?
      On December 6, 1993 – the first anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid – he helped organise the near-simultaneous bombing of five trains running between Mumbai, New Delhi, Howrah, Hyderabad and Surat. Two people were killed, and 22 injured, in the strikes. Mujahideen Islam e-Hind, and until-then unknown group, had claimed responsibility for the 1993 strikes. Minutes after Friday’s bombings, an organisation with a near-identical name – Indian Mujahideen – asserted it had carried out the attacks.



  67. April 20, 1993 - Manzegari, Gondia District - Naxal Maoist Terrorist attack (gun fire)


  68. March 12, 1993 - Mumbai (misnomer: Bombay), Maharashtra - Terrorist attack (multiple Bomb blasts)


  69. June 23, 1985 - Montreal-London-Indraprasth Air India Flight 182, Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland - Terrorist attack (flight was Bombed). The plane, a Boeing 747-237B (c/n 21473/330, reg VT-EFO) named Emperor Kanishka exploded at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m), crashing into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 329 people on board, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens and 22 were Indian nationals.




Source:

  1. Terrorism in India

  2. Air India Flight 182

  3. Major attacks in India since 2003

  4. Terrorism Watch



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Friday, August 15, 2008

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  1. Hajj and Qurbani: Their Impact on Poor Muslim Countries

  2. http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/articles.htm

  3. The media-politician anti-Hindu nexus has to stop immediately, if we really don’t want another 26/11 by Arindam Chaudhuri, Editor-in-Chief, The Sunday Indian on December 7, 2008

  4. Why we must lose sleep over Hindu terror by mrv@mrv.net.in

  5. Secular Protocol deciphered by Tarun Vijay

  6. The case against banning outfits by Tavleen Singh, Indian Express on October 12, 2008

    7. The only thing that worries me is the circumstances under which the demand for banning the Bajrang Dal is being made. The politicians who currently demand the ban do so in the context of our problems with jihadi terrorism. These ‘secular’ gentlemen appear to believe that it is not possible to ban SIMI and other groups spreading Islamist ideology in our idol-worshipping land unless we make some kind of Hindu sacrifice. This not only makes no sense, it is also dangerous.
    May I put on record that I think those who believe that the Jamia Nagar encounter was fake should be ashamed of themselves? They should apologise to the family of Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma for making such a charge.
    If in Pune they have arrested the right men, then we face a problem that both our secular and communal politicians are refusing to address. If young men in their early twenties earning Rs 19 lakh a year are being lured by jihad, we need to start admitting that the battle for India’s values of secularism and religious tolerance is already lost. At least let us admit we have failed to convince Muslims that these are real values.
    If looked at in reverse, we could say that organisations like SIMI and the Darul Uloom in Deoband have been infinitely more successful at making their case than those who are supposed to defend the values of India. We can ban SIMI in one fell swoop and they will only return in some uglier, more insidious guise as long as the ideas that create them are compelling. When SIMI was set up in 1977, the stated idea behind its creation was to ‘liberate’ India by making it an Islamic society. In 1986, SIMI organised a national convention whose slogan was ‘liberation of India through Islam’. This was long before Osama bin Laden began the worldwide jihad against the West and us ‘idol-worshipping infidels’.
    What we need is a police force that is manifestly fair in its behaviour and political leaders who genuinely believe in the values that define India as a nation. Since both are in short supply, what we get from the jackals who constitute the bulk of our political class are howls in the name of secularism and communalism. Meaningless sloganeers all.
    Islamism is the antithesis of the idea of India and must be fought but is banning SIMI and closing down the mother ship, the Darul Uloom, the solution? Personally, I do not think so.

  7. Debating the right to convert by Sudheendra Kulkarni, Indian Express on October 5, 2008

    8. Does my religious freedom also mean that I should have the freedom to belittle or denigrate other faiths, their puja paddhatis and their devi-devatas, as New Life, an evangelical organisation in Karnataka, had been doing? One of New Life’s publications, Satya Darshini, says: “Urvashi, the daughter of Lord Vishnu, is a prostitute. Vashitha is the son of this prostitute. He in turn married his own mother. Such a degraded person is the Guru of the Hindu God Rama. When Krishna himself is wallowing in darkness of hell, how can he enlighten others? When the Trinity of Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are consumed by lust and anger, how can they liberate others? Their projection as Gods is nothing but a joke.” Isn’t this kind of profanity provocative?

  8. Scrap article 370 in J&K: VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia by Hindustan Times on October 6, 2008

  9. Why do we need a National Commission for Minorities? by Offstumped on October 5, 2008

    10. Offstumped Bottomline: Tax Payer Funded Consicence Keepers reflect our Nation’s lack of faith on our own values and Institutions. By misusing them to further politics of Muslim Appeasement neither helps the average Muslim feel secure enough to discard the Ghetto in favor of mainstream inclusion nor does it help safeguard the Constitution and Secular Values. The case for an Equal Opportunity Commission must be made on secular reasons of discrimination and not to appease Muslims.

  10. Narendra Modi's bureaucrats learn about climate change by IANS, Times of India on September 20, 2008

    11. He is the first Bharatiya Chief Minister to take an initiative on this. Modi ji's innovation and will to do for country is unparalleled today.
  11. Failure to the power of 3 by Shekhar Gupta on September 20, 2008

    12. Even half a success like New Delhi’s Jamia Nagar encounter may win Shivraj Patil, arguably the most disastrous Union home minister in living memory (or, in fairness, next to Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and probably level with P.C. Sethi), a reprieve of sorts. Now, having defended his waffling, covered up for the most lily-livered handling of our internal security in our history and ducked in embarrassment each time he — and his Sancho Panza — opened their mouths after a Terror attack, the leadership of the Congress cannot suddenly say they were wrong all along.
    It’s about high politics as practised by India’s largest and oldest political party and how it has shot itself in the foot three times over, in three key areas. And for none of these will it have an alibi. No Left pressure, no blackmail by allies. The party’s internal balance of power took precedence over the demands of governance and, amazingly, also of re-electability.
    The three areas of self-inflicted failure are internal security, HRD and Power. On each the UPA won’t even be rated one out of ten by even its staunchest supporters.     Each was manned by one of its own senior leaders, so there are no allies to blame. All three to have been given these key jobs were veterans, in fact the senior-most Congress figures in this cabinet. Then what went wrong?
    Simply, that each one was a man most unsuited for his charge.
    This kind of woolly-headedness from a party which fought terrorism as no other, which gave India the image of being a tough state behind a soft exterior. Under the UPA and Patil, India became a sheep in sheep’s clothing. Nothing will salvage the UPA’s record on internal security now, not the sacrifice of any more brave policemen like Delhi’s Mohan Chand Sharma, not even if its home minister junks his bandhgalas for some crumpled dhoti-kurta.
    As failures began to pile up soon enough, Patil should have been moved some place safer — for him, and for the rest of us. He rode his luck for sure. He was first all dressed up for Rashtrapati Bhavan until the Left vetoed him, expressing doubts on his secularism because of his devotion to Sai Baba. And once they had questioned his secularism, the Congress felt it had no choice but to keep him in the job, or it would sound like it accepted the charge that it had a non-secular Hindu in charge of politically the most sensitive ministry.

  12. Selfish politicians are impeding India's growth by Ashok Jha on September 18, 2008

  13. ‘Can’t counter hi-tech terrror with 19th-century laws’ by Suman K Jha, Indian Express on September 19, 2008

    14. You have taken some measures in Gujarat too in this regard?
    We have plans wherein a dedicated university would train students for five years after their twelfth. This vast pool of human resources then could be used in a number of areas related to internal security. The university is called Raksha Shakti University. Then a forensics science university is on the anvil where the accent would be on technology and its varied applications in fighting terror.

  14. UPA's soft stance: Slow poison for country by Dina Nath Mishra on August 31, 2008

    15. The Government is practically defrauding the nation.

  15. Only iron fist will work by G Parthsarthy on September 4, 2008

    16. For the past four years Mr Manmohan Singh's Government has pampered separatist outfits and leaders in the Kashmir Valley in the mistaken belief that they can be made to see reason by sweet words and magnanimous gestures. The country is today paying the price for such misguided beliefs. One hopes New Delhi now realises that soft words are no substitute for an iron fist in dealing with separatism.
    Mr Vladimir Putin crushed separatism in Chechnya not by plaintive appeals for understanding to Chechen separatists and militants, but by firm, decisive action. Abraham Lincoln acted no differently in safeguarding the unity and territorial integrity of the US, even not hesitating to have the separatist stronghold of Atlanta reduced to ashes as his forces ended separatist challenges.

  16. Fight terror with determination by Joginder Singh on September 8, 2008

    17. Since 2000, there have been 1,120 deaths in 69 jihadi terrorist attacks in our country. In July 2008, 56 persons were killed in terrorist bombings on consecutive days in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. A day after the massive killings, 28 unexploded bombs were defused in Surat. In the last few years, there have been bomb attacks in Mumbai, Coimbatore, Srinagar, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Jaipur. In some of these places there was more than one attack. The United States' National Institute of Counterterrorism says that between January 2004 and March 2007, the death toll in India from terrorist attacks was 3,674, second only to Iraq during the same period. In most of the major terrorist bombings, the name of one particular organisation, that is SIMI, has surfaced with definite consistency.

  17. PM a k a 'Lucky' Singh? by Chandan Mitra on September 14, 2008

    18. But how much longer will the stars bale out Manmohan Singh? Finally, the triumph or tragedy of politicians is not scripted in South Block but in the heat and dust of electoral politics. Thanks to a largely subservient media, "Lucky" Manmohan is being feted wildly for having bartered away national prestige at Vienna. It speaks of a particularly perverted mindset, which gloats over a single gold medal at the Olympics (as against China's 53) and is overwhelmed by any kind of certification from the West. By his single-minded obsession with the nuclear deal, Manmohan Singh has made it an election issue.
    Regardless of the abjectly fawning writings of so-called right-wing thinkers, I believe the people of India will scrutinise the deal with a fine toothcomb. When it sinks in that after sinking a staggering Rs 80 lakh crores in purchasing reactors from the US, France and Russia, nuclear energy will contribute a mere 7 percent of India's energy requirement by 2020, and the Congress's much touted 'nuclear bijli for aam aadmi' will cost Rs 9 per unit at today's prices, the alleged urban middle class exultation will evaporate.
    Manmohan Singh has been really lucky in the short run. After the election results, the sneering smile on his face is almost certain to evaporate.

  18. Anatomy of servitude by Chandan Mitra on September 8, 2008

    19. Either Manmohan Singh believes Indians are the most gullible people on the face of the Earth or his spin doctors have convinced him that repeating a lie a thousand times over will metamorphose into truth. There can be no other explanations for the orchestrated claim of India having wrested a "historic" deal at Vienna, a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group that will allegedly end the country's 34-year-long nuclear isolation, permit unrestricted flow of dual-use technology and also enable import of unlimited quantities of uranium to fuel nuclear power plants. If the Congress Party's propagandists are to be believed, all this will happen even as India retains its right to test nuclear devices and develop its strategic weapons programme. Admittedly, the Government has succeeded in propagating this package of lies through servile sections of the media, thereby sowing seeds of doubt even among those who are convinced that India has supinely pawned its nuclear sovereignty at the altar of non-proliferation Ayatollahs. In return for surrendering its claim to being a nuclear weapons state, all the country has been granted are a few paltry tonnes of uranium, which can be used only under strict international supervision.
    The nuclear deal has become a saga of deceit and perjury. The world must be wondering what drove the UPA regime to such abject desperation. Even before the murky deal becomes law, India's national prestige has been irreparably compromised. We believed the 21st Century would be India's Century. Having throttled this dream of a billion people and a resurgent nation, the Government is making a mockery of whatever is left of India's honour by claiming the deal marks a "new dawn". Can the forces of deceit and darkness ever herald the dawn, any kind of dawn?

  19. Response to HT article "Who's the real Hindu?" by Dr. Arindam Bandyopadhyay

  20. संप्रग सरकार पर जमकर बरसी भाजपा - जागरण द्वारा सितम्बर १३, २००८ को

  21. Political power has eluded Hindus for centuriesManifesto for saving Hindu India by Dr Gautam Sen on September 7, 2008

    22. The bogus secularism adopted by the political and intellectual elites essentially amounted to pandering to sectarian Islam and has ended with a total surrender to minority sectarianism, accompanied by vicious State-sponsored assaults on Hindus. The imperative and painstaking task of nation building was sacrificed to Deoband and Wahabi sentiment that sullenly asserted its rejection of India in favour of the Ummah.

  22. Britain dumps its garbage on Indian soil by Times News Network & Agencies, Times Of India on September 9, 2008

  23. What lies beyond the Deal by Swapan Dasgupta, Times Of India on September 7, 2008

  24. The Totalitarians by Tarun Vijay, Times Of India on September 7, 2008

    25. So what if you expose and warn about the grave fallout of continuing with the special status to Kashmir, that strengthens feelings of separation, we will go ahead with it.
    So what if Mahatma Gandhi and Vivekananda had opposed vehemently the proselytization campaigns of the Christian aggressive 'harvesters', we will support them.
    So what if the RSS guys were amongst the first to rush to help Bihar flood victims; we shall continue to paint them as barbaric goons busy burning down faith places, who had no time to help the poor, deluged fellow citizens.
    So what if a Hindu monk and three others, including a woman monk, were killed brutally by Christian assailants using AK47, we shall put the victims in the category of unmentionables and keep on repeating, 'Hindus attack churches.'
    So what if a Google search on Vatican's scandals produces 1.5 million results in less than 0.37 seconds and that includes how a Pope turned his palace into a whorehouse and how their bank swindled millions and the papal authority helped the disintegration of the Soviet Union, not to say apologies on gay scandals.     We shall continue to reward those Vatican's protégés who use derogatory terms against Hindu monks and testify against their country in a foreign senate.
    The icons of hate and barbarism look good and acceptable if made of saffron headbands and tridents. It looks photogenic. Have you ever, even in the passing, saw an icon of hate created out of green flag Jihadis who kill five- year-old girls in the thick of night (Wandhama and Doda) or the Christian rifle wielders who kill an 84-year-old monk and an ochre-robed lady celebrating Krishna's birthday? Have you ever heard or read the agony and pains of those who just want to remain what they are religiously and get killed for that alone?

  25. For Christ's sake by Chandan Mitra on September 7, 2008

    26. A parent told me about the following exchange with his school-going daughter: "Why is your school closed tomorrow?" he had asked. Pat came the reply, "Because Hindus are killing innocent Christians in Orissa." When he persisted and queried why Hindus are supposedly doing that, his daughter looked nonplussed and confessed she had no idea, but after some thought added, "They did that to Muslims in Gujarat also, No?" The brainwashing of children, especially in urban India, has acquired a new dimension.

  26. Circumscribing nuclear sovereignty by Sudheendra Kulkarni, Indian Express on September 7, 2008

  27. Congress led UPA lies to the Nation

  28. Can we have our Obama, please? by Tavleen Singh on August 31, 2008

  29. Hindus in US fight for defamation case filed by Sonia supporters by Lalit K Jha on June 27, 2008

  30. India interrupted: Who is to blame for infiltration? by P R Ramesh, ET Bureau, Times of India on August 26, 2008
    In the mid-90's, PV Narasimha Rao chose of all places Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to reiterate that the "sky is the limit" as far as autonomy to Kashmir was concerned. No single statement has done as much damage for the Valley and those four words became the benchmark for negotiations with secessionist mobs for successive Central governments.
    We would have expected politicians to learn a lesson or two from Rao's folly. But perhaps encouraged by the Wagah border candle light brigade and other bleeding heart liberals, Manmohan Singh actually has gone a step further. He recently decreed that borders have become irrelevant.
    If that indeed were the case, the prime minister needs to tell us why so many of our young men are getting killed every day while defending our borders? Some months ago, newspapers breathlessly reported that the prime minister was moved to tears after watching the visuals of a distraught mother of a Bangalore boy allegedly involved in a UK terror plot.
    It would of course be foolhardy to expect him to shed tears at the sight of the grieving young wife and and daughter of Colonel JJ Joseph, commanding officer of the 45 Rastriya Rifles, who died on last Friday defending our borders. If anything, Singh's statement is like fodder for the cross -border activists.
    The result of this approach is magnanimous approach towards illegal over-stayers, porous borders and a non-existent deportation system. The BSF chief AK Mitra sized up the problem on Monday: he said there was no data on the exact number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
    Through last year, the BSF had intercepted 807 Bangladeshis trying to illegally cross over to our side (the actual infiltration is roughly estimated to be double the numbers intercepted), the BSF chief said the figure was almost 10000-12000 till a few years back. In other words, what he could be saying is at least 24,000 Bangladeshis have been infiltrating every year.
    Even more shocking is the number of Bangladeshis who entered on valid papers but disappeared subsequently. The cumulative figure of Bangladeshi arrivals since 1972 -most come never to go back, is a whopping 12 lakh.


  31. Monumental folly by Swapan Dasgupta, Times of India on August 24, 2008
    The past few weeks have seen the most vile assaults on Indian nationhood. In the Kashmir Valley, emboldened separatists have desecrated the Indian tricolour with glee. The hitherto ambivalent slogan of azadi has become a defiant, full-throated acceptance of Pakistan. "We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam," the Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani told a mass rally in Srinagar on August 18, adding, "Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai." Simultaneously, the assumptions on which Indian democracy rests have been challenged by a Taliban-like advocacy of Nizam-e-Mustafa (state based on divine law).
    Made up of educated, lower-middle class Muslims, these ideologically-driven fanatics have made it their life's mission to wage a bloody jihad against non-believers. They too, have openly debunked the principles on which the Indian political order rests. According to the boastful email the IM sent minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts on July 26, "The terms democracy, secularism, equality, integrity, peace, freedom, voting, elections are yet another fraud with us." The group has also directed its ire at the "faithless infidels and their hypocrite allies from amongst the so-called Muslims...who have bartered their faith in return of just one seat in the Parliament."
    A striking feature of these threats is the resulting disarray in the liberal establishment. While the more weak-kneed and cosmopolitan intellectuals have advocated total surrender, others have fallen back on denial. The ruling Congress Party, for example, has equated demonstrators waving the national tricolour with those flaunting the Pakistan flag. Cabinet ministers have defended the terrorist SIMI and new-found allies of the UPA have rushed to console the family of the man the police believes was responsible for the murder of some 150 innocent Indians. Most important, homilies apart, there has been no meaningful intervention by those who felt that the Nehruvian ideal was the last word in India's political evolution.

  32. Oranges won't work anymore by Joginder Singh on August 25, 2008
    The CRPF Inspector-General was transferred from Srinagar on August 13 after an uproar in the Kashmir Valley, led by terrorists and their supporters, who alleged excesses by the Central paramilitary force. He was also denied the President's police medal for fear of controversy and wider protests. There is nothing new in this kind of approach as the decision-makers are far removed from reality. Meanwhile, it is the police and the security forces that continue to face life-and-death situations, standing between chaos and order.


  33. The right view: Son of Devaki by Tarun Vijay, Times of India on August 23, 2008
    I am filing this column from Jammu where people are showing the Indian way of patriotism to the valley. Every street and road is empty unless there is a demonstration. Traders have shuttered down their shops continuously for more than a month. Small entrepreneurs, auto rickshaw drivers, labourers are all off the work. Schools have not opened since last three months as immediately at the fag end of summer vacations the Amarnath Movement began. Banks are closed, sms's are prohibited, no public transport is available, it’s an unimaginable nightmare during any emergency. But who cares?
    To feed the citizens city is having free meals (langars) organized at more than fifty points where at an average one lakh people take meals twice a day costing ten lakh rupees per day. Every house hold is giving donations to run such langars without complaint.
    But strangely enough, the divide we see between valley and Jammu is reflected between media of Jammu and Delhi too. What Jammu's mainline papers are reporting doesn't get reflected in Delhi's papers and channels who have become self appointed guardians of secularism and peace of their own variety and think if they suppress the factual position on Jammu, peace will be restored soon and communalism will not spread. So when the patriots agitate, its communalism and needs to be suppressed. But when Pakistani flags are hoisted atop Lal Chowk and tricolor burnt amidst chants of Allah O Akbar and Pakistan Paindabad, it has to be reported 'objectively' and with full focus so that the sentiments of separatists are not hurt or suppressed! Strange media ethics these seculars follow.
    What son of Devaki won't have tolerated is being allowed by his followers. Isn't it the time to revive his spirit of Geeta and win a war of righteousness? The body alone perishes; the spirit remains immortal, so why fear O Arjuna?


  34. Better Mush than traitors by Chandan Mitra on August 24, 2008
    Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Jamaat leader, is reported to have openly declared his loyalty to Pakistan. Even Omar Abdullah, toasted by the secularist Indian media for his fraudulent double-speak in Parliament during the Trust vote last month, has begun talking of the Azadi option.
    And why not? Reinforcing the well-known fact that many Hindus have no stomach for a fight and would rather live in subjugation than valiantly defend their honour, celebrity writers and publicity-seeking showgirls have been harping on the Kashmiris' right to Azadi. Last weekend two prominent newspaper columnists wrote about the need to think out-of-the-box (a Musharraf copyright in this context) urging us to seriously consider if it is morally right to hold "unwilling" Kashmiris back in this country. I agree with them. As a matter of policy, the Government must encourage all those who have no loyalty to this country to leave, migrating across the Line of Control to the country of their dreams.
    Once they step over the de facto border, possessions they leave behind should be declared Enemy Property, reviving the provisions that existed on the statute books at least till after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. But under no circumstances can Indian citizens be allowed to promote secession. Advocating the right of Kashmiris to secede, as a professional female agitator (who believes the Vajpayee Government staged the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament) reportedly did in Srinagar, is tantamount to treason and must invite provisions contained in the law relating to waging war against the State. Personally, I feel that even publicising such treasonable views, leave alone using dedicated columns to indulge in secessionist propaganda, should invite the charge of promoting terrorism and anti-national activity.
    No true Indian can forget the way 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits were turfed out of the Valley by secessionists in a horrific instance of ethnic cleansing.
    The secularists bay for Radovan Milosevic's blood, but not a word is uttered against the butchers who masterminded the elimination of Pandits and the systematic targeting of thousands of patriotic security personnel who laid down their lives so that the tricolour could continue to flutter atop Government buildings in Srinagar. Traitors are cowards by choice. Like all cowards, they will die many times before their death. But the average Indian -- people like you and me -- will die but once, defending the nation's integrity and honour. Jai Hind!


  35. If only Arundhati would quit India by Kanchan Gupta on August 24, 2008
    There can be nothing more pathetic than a middle-aged 'radical' preaching treason and penning seditious pamphlets. I read about Arundhati Roy's seditious comments after attending a rally organised by Muslim separatists of the Kashmir Valley on August 19. She was clearly impressed by the turnout, as were Mohammed Ali Jinnah and his cohorts when they saw the first train carrying future Pakistanis trundling into what was supposed to be the 'land of the pure' but has turned out to be a sinful Jihadistan. Jinnah, the 'sole spokesman', and his Muslim League were equally delighted by the bloodletting on Direct Action Day, August 16, 1946, and held it up as evidence of the impossibility of Muslims cohabiting with Hindus in Hindustan. Six decades later, more Muslims live peacefully with Hindus in Hindustan than Muslims live with Muslims in Pakistan. But we digress.
    There is understandable anger over her remarks, although the Congress need not have tried to distance itself from Arundhati Roy's new age sedition: It's the appalling denigration of nationalism and faith in the nation, which the Congress unabashedly indulges in to proclaim its 'secular' credentials, that encourages Arundhati Roy and her tribe to ridicule India, repudiate our national identity and revile our democracy. Curiously, it's rather strange that having declared some years ago that she was "seceding from India", Arundhati Roy continues to foul this land for which she has nothing but contempt. Or else she would not have used her invitation to a book-reading session in the US to declare that "there is no democracy in India".
    A pity. If only we were not democratic to a fault with a quisling for Prime Minister and a dissolute Congress in power, Arundhati Roy would have been hauled up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967, amended in 2004-05.

  36. J&K divide: diplomacy versus democracy by Tavleen Singh, Indian Express on August 24, 2008

    Ten years ago I wrote a book that blamed the Government of India squarely for denying Kashmiris their democratic rights, thereby driving them towards armed insurgency. I believe this gives me the right to say that this time the Kashmiris have no cause. No country could have dealt with a secessionist movement more gently than India has after those initial mistakes in the early nineties. The movement for azadi turned into Islamist terrorism and India did nothing. Kashmiri Hindus were ethnically cleansed from the Valley and India did nothing. Jihadis came across our borders and turned Kashmiri Islam into a Saudi facsimile and India did nothing.
    This is why when something as absurd as the Amarnath land row should have brought thousands of Kashmiris into the streets carrying Pakistani flags and shouting jihadi slogans the reaction from Indians has been: get out. Enough is enough. In Delhi’s liberal drawing rooms they put it diplomatically. We should have a referendum, they say, and if the Kashmiris want to go to Pakistan then it’s time to let them go because, poor dears, they have suffered so much for their azadi.
    As a reporter who prefers to listen to what ordinary people say let me tell you what I hear when I put my ear to the ground. I hear people say that anyone who wants to go to Pakistan must be allowed to leave and never allowed back into Kashmir. I hear people say that they are not prepared to surrender another inch of Indian territory. If Kashmiri Muslims have a problem living with us let them emigrate to that Islamic country across the border. Whoever wants to go must be helped to go. But, there will be no more changing of India’s borders. The more belligerent say let the Kashmir Valley go to Pakistan but then there will be no room in India for Muslims.
    What I also hear is huge support for the movement in Jammu. So when our political leaders and politically correct TV anchors equate the two agitations they make a serious mistake. The way ordinary Indians see it is that we have one set of protesters who carry Indian flags and are ready to die for Bharat Mata and they cannot be equated with those who openly state their allegiance to Pakistan.


  37. Haridwar ashram receives SIMI threat to blow up religious places by by PTI, Times of India on August 25, 2008

  38. J&K: Tricolour at 8am, flags of separatists at 4pm by Avijit Ghosh, TNN, Times of India
    At exactly 8am, CRPF hoisted the Indian Tricolour at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar on Independence Day. At 3.45pm, Lal Chowk wore a totally different look. Hundreds of slogan-shouting protesters swarmed the area and at 4pm and planted the flags of Jamaat-e-Islami (which looks like the Pakistani flag) and the terrorist outfit, Hizb-ul Mujahideen, on top of the same tower where the Indian flag had been hoisted. One of the slogans of the protesters drove the message home - Jiyo, jiyo Pakistan, hum hain Pakistani. Other slogans included Islam Zindabad, Lad ke lenge azadi and Allah-u-Akbar. Around 1pm in the Safa Kadal area, loudspeakers blared out from mosques, humko chahiye azadi. A procession on Maulana Azad Road around 3.30pm had at least 5,000 people. Around 2.45pm, before the namaz at Jamia Masjid in old Srinagar town was over, a bunch of 15 women in burqas burned the Tricolour.

    These people deserve democracy? You call this civility by civil society? You call this intolerance epitomized by showing Bharatiyata (Indianess)? You call this secularism? You call this nationalist movement? You call this Bhaichara (Brotherhood)?
  39. Suspect SIMI? Of course by Javed Anand
  40. Sports minister to Bindra: Visit Sonia, not Advani by TNN, Times of India
    Good job Abhinav Bindra for defying the diktat of a dictator and not following chamcha of Antonia Maino alias Antonio Maino alias Sonia blindly. This shows how much hatred congress is carrying for the democratically elected opposition and possibly next Indian prime minister Advani ji. Refrences:- 1, 2

  41. Amarnath and Congress legacy in J&K by Sudheendra Kulkarni
    Gen (retd) S K Sinha, who until recently served as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, is being blamed for the controversy surrounding the Amarnath Yatra. The charge is false and malicious. If anybody deserves the blame, it is the leadership of the Congress party and the UPA Government.
    That was then. Now, 61 years later, we have a situation in which separatist forces have the audacity to take out a pro-Pakistan march to Muzaffarabad by raising the bogey of a non-existent economic blockade by the people of Jammu. On Independence Day, they pulled down the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and hoisted their own green-coloured flag.
    The best time to resolve the issue of Jammu & Kashmir once and for all was in 1947 itself, at the time of India’s partition. Sadly, Jawarharlal Nehru’s lack of firmness and farsightedness at the time is extracting a heavy price from India even today. What a stark contrast there was between Nehru’s messing up of J&K’s integration with India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s clean success in integrating all the remaining 562 princely states!


  42. Seven sutras: the PM’s biggest failures by Tavleen Singh
    As always I woke early on Independence Day to hear the Prime Minister speak. I listened carefully as he reiterated that the priorities of his government in the past four years, its ‘seven sutras’, had been agriculture, water, education, healthcare, employment, urban renewal and infrastructure. I wondered if he noticed that this could be a list of his biggest failures.


  43. Demagoguery apart by Shazia Ilmi
    Amidst Lalu’s stinging banter, Mohammed Salim’s moral rhetoric, and Rahul Gandhi’s Kalawati, Omar Abdullah’s speech was hailed as the high point of the political debate, the “stirring speech” that had the public and the media in raptures.
    Carpe diem - that Latin phrase means ‘seize the day’. Omar, like a sharp politician did just that. He seized his last national opportunity to reach out to his political constituency at the time when elections loom large and when the hangover of clashes over Amarnath ceases to abate. The short speech managed to press the right hot buttons -- Muslim identity, Gujarat riots and Amarnath shrine land transfer debacle. Bingo — the speech was sharp and smart just like the much-focussed politics of Omar Abdullah and National Conference (NC). Nothing noble or lofty about it, as some would have us believe.
    "We are not against the yatra but against the land transfer" is Omar's clever stand. The yatra has been going on for hundreds of years and Omar need not take an undertaking to keep it going. His remark in Parliament sounds patronising - almost a favour he and his Muslim brethren dole out to the ‘Hindu others’. It’s a clever political posture aimed at reaching out to his constituency.
    In the days of quicksilver equations, instant heroes and easy-fix solutions, let’s not blur the boundaries of spoken words and actions taken and let the smallness of politics engulf the larger purpose. Dalit woman, Muslim man - our contemporary political debate is being reduced to a charade of nomenclature, the packaging more important than the product, the identity superseding the cause. Or do we in our lethargy, do away with sifting and sieving, and stick to slick sound bites alone to salvage our politics?


  44. Modi versus chalta hai by Swapan Dasgupta

  45. Modi bashing any which way by Swapan Dasgupta

  46. Secularist assault on idea of India by Swapan Dasgupta
    The most intriguing feature of the ongoing turmoil in Maharashtra provoked by Raj Thackeray's posturing against North Indian migrants was the silence of those professing to be the watchdogs of amity. In the face of a calculated assault by an interloper on the traditional vote base of the country's most enduring saffron alliance, both the BJP and Shiv Sena reacted with exemplary patriotic maturity. Less exemplary was the conduct of those who go around shrieking "merchants of death" and pontificating about a Holocaust that never happened.


  47. People love emotive appeal by Swapan Dasgupta

  48. Masters of doublespeak by Swapan Dasgupta
    There is, however, another earthy side to separatism which is manifested when its leadership talks to fellow activists. The more extreme Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was an unlikely picture of obsequiousness to the Art of Living mediator. But read his unexpurgated version of the Amarnath Yatra to the 'faithful': "Indian Government... flooded Kashmir with yatris and tourists, purpose of this artificial pilgrimage tourism was to strengthen occupation and lay same type of claim to Kashmir as is made by Jews to the territory of Palestine. They also wanted to establish settlements within the occupied territory of Kashmir. For this purpose Amarnath Shrine Board was constituted. Kashmiris never had a problem with Yatra but once Yatra became a tool of strengthening occupation, Kashmiris got alarmed."
    Imagine if some ridiculous Togadia-like figure were to say that the Haj pilgrimage had become an instrument of terrorist indoctrination and must be stopped. Imagine if someone was to say that our congested airports could not cope with the traffic of Hajis any longer; and that building special Haj terminals would alter Indian identity. Or if some ecological wizard was to claim that excessive pilgrimage traffic to Saudi Arabia results in too much carbon emission and increases global warming? Let's say that these people wouldn't have been given the time of day by People Like Us.
    The agitation in the Kashmir Valley isn't really about Kashmiri identity or Geelani's quest for an elusive Kashmiriyat. It is a plain and simple secessionist movement based on the belief that a Muslim-majority region must have a separate Islamic State.

  49. Jammu stands up to Kashmir by Sandhya Jain
    Jammu continues to burn as Hindu nationalists struggle alone but undaunted against sabre-toothed partisans of Allah who seek to efface all vestiges of civilisational heritage from the land of Rishi Kashyap. Backed by a de-nationalised media and a shameless political dispensation at the Centre, the events in Jammu & Kashmir must be seen in the context of a perverse drama enacted in Parliament on 21-22 July 2008, when the UPA won a tainted trust vote to pursue a subordinate alliance with Washington.
    This set the tone for the unwholesome projection that the Muslim community alone could legitimately endorse or oppose Government policy. Ms Mehbooba Mufti's shrill ranting about the Babri Masjid and Gujarat riots, and demand that Jammu & Kashmir be treated with extra sensitivity, augmented the view that the UPA needed to pamper Muslim leaders alone.
    But it was Mr Omar Abdullah -- much celebrated since by the anti-Hindu media as the 'star' of the trust vote -- who took the cake, raging against the aggrieved Amarnath pilgrims and claiming to speak as a "Muslim and an Indian". Now, the first thing a bona fide Indian would know is that Hindustan has a hoary Hindu ancestry, and that it is impossible to be truly Indian without having some kind of 'Hindu face'. Interestingly, Mr Farooq Abdullah takes care to make nominal obeisance to Bharat Mata, Sri Ram, and often visits Tirupati Balaji.


  50. Amar Singh was napping during discussions: Shri Amarnathji Sangarsh Samiti by PTI, The Hindu

  51. Jammu has suffered more loss than Kashmir: Amarnath Samiti by PTI, NDTV
    "Jammu suffered a loss of at least Rs 1,500 crore due to the curfew clamped for last 50 days. Our agricultural produce is completely destroyed," Rajendra Mishra, one of the members of the Samiti said. "People from Kashmir have used the issue of economic blockade to mislead and blackmail the Government," he said. Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had announced an aid of Rs 200 crore for Kashmiri apple growers as they claimed that their tonnes of fruits were rotten due to the blockade. "But this is not apple season," Mishra said adding, people of Jammu have not received any help from the government.


  52. Terrorism Watch

  53. Bharat's Hall of SHAME / Corruption Watch

  54. India's addled version of Secularism



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