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New claims on local role in 26/11 dismissed by police
Praveen Swami
NEW DELHI: Police and intelligence personnel investigating the November 2008 Lashkar-e-Taiba terror attack on Mumbai have dismissed speculation that a still-to-be-discovered terror cell may have played a role in the massacre.
Broadcast in the British Broadcasting Service’s award-winning programme, Newsnight, the claim appears to lend weight to long-standing claims by Hindu nationalist politicians and in […]
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The flaw that let Saeed off the hook Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Arguments by A.K. Dogar, counsel for Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, in the Lahore High Court that led to Tuesday’s order for his release from detention centred on the failure of the government to provide the JuD chief with grounds for his detention within the stipulated 15 days. He maintained that the grounds, when […]
Eyewitness
“I have a lifetime of tears ahead of me”Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Bechan Ramprasad Gupta (50) used to earn a living selling bakery products. Every morning he left his home in a sprawling migrants’ colony in Mumbai suburbs, for sale of biscuits and puff. But November 26, 2008 changed all that.
Gupta, well known in the neighbourhood, usually visited his family at Nagra in Ballia district […]