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| No breakthrough in Mumbai investigation | | Police have yet to zero in on suspects | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 16: Even as at least 25 people have come forward with information about 'suspicious looking men', there is no breakthrough in the investigation in the Mumbai train attacks--five days after the July 11 rush-hour blasts.
It is official: Indian police on Sunday increased their huge intelligence trawl for suspects in the Mumbai train attacks. Clearly, this follows the mounting pressure on the police and intelligence agencies to nab those behind the blasts that killed 200-odd people and wounded nearly 950.
According to a private TV news channel, conflicting descriptions from different sources are making it difficult for the police to zero in on suspects. Police, official sources told EARLY TIMES on Sunday, had picked up hundreds of people from different areas of India’s financial capital for questioning, though most were released afterwards.
Media and public pressure has mounted on the Mumbai police to come up with results, with a number of TV debates showing members of the public venting anger at the alleged inability of the force to round ... | |
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| The long arm of terror groups | | Is Pak involved in new 'bleed the hinterland' policy? | | | POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI: If it's true that a telephone call was made to Afghanistan, resurgent nursery of terror, minutes after the Mumbai rail blasts, it raises the spectre of the radicalisation of Indian Muslims for the first time since 9/11. The long arm of terror groups that flourish under the Al Qaida umbrella has finally succeeded in entangling elements of a community that had remained largely untouched by blandishments from across the border.
Just as the rigged elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in 1989 was the trigger that turned Kashmiri youth against Delhi, the destruction of Babri Masjid and the cynical anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat -- used ... | |
| | | | Manmohan Singh heaves a sigh of relief | | Sonia Gandhi issues warning to PM detractors | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 16: In a significant turn of events, the UPA government's 'political arm', Sonia Gandhi, has at last acted to keep the 'economic arm', Manmohan Singh, in good humour. The 'Lady of 10 Janpath' is understood to have issued a warning to the detractors of the Prime Minister to behave properly and to stop criticising him.
Sonia Gandhi's warning--not publicised so far for obvious political reasons--came after the Prime Minister did not conceal his disappointment over the attitude adopted by some of his senior colleagues. In fact, Manmohan Singh, completely upset over a drive against him by some Ministers in the UPA government, had complained to Sonia Gandhi.... | |
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