Mumbai: The closed circuit television (CCTV) footage of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on the night of 26/11 is no match for the copious oral evidence of witnesses in the Mumbai terror attacks case. The poor quality and absence of original recording makes the electronic material secondary evidence, useful only for corroboration.
Two videos of the […]
Praveen Swami
SRINAGAR: Ever since the massacre in Mumbai in November 2008, intelligence services across the world have searched, without success, for one of its architects: a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander known only by the twin aliases Muzammil and Yusuf.
Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Muzammil alias Yusuf, in a computer-generated photofit.
Now, highly-placed police and intelligence sources have told The Hindu, […]
Praveen Swami
NEW DELHI: Sahil Pavaskar used to leave home early and return late, and appeared to have no friends or family — in other words, leading a colourless life exactly like those of hundreds of thousands of young migrants to Mumbai.
Pavaskar’s neighbours found that the young man, who had rented a one-room tenement at […]
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government on Wednesday appointed deputy attorney-general Sardar Mohammed Ghazi as the special public prosecutor in the Mumbai terror attack case.
Minutes after his appointment, Mr. Ghazi made comments to Dawn News television that Pakistan had formally asked India for custody of Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab,’ the lone surviving Mumbai gunman. But […]
Meena Menon
NAGPUR: Countering the allegations made by Union Minister for Minority Affairs A.R. Antulay, Maharashtra Home Minister Jayant Patil clarified in the Assembly on Thursday that the government had complete conviction that Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare and the two senior police officers with him were killed in “brush firing” by terrorists near Cama Hospital […]
Meena Menon
Mumbai: It was not a crack police team which eventually got the two suspected terrorists who were trying to escape in a silver Skoda on the night of November 26.
The real heroes who captured one of the terrorists alive were the ordinary policemen from the D.B. Marg station in South Mumbai. (Full Story)
Meena Menon
Mumbai: It was not a crack police team which eventually got the two suspected terrorists who were trying to escape in a silver Skoda on the night of November 26.
The real heroes who captured one of the terrorists alive were the ordinary policemen from the D.B. Marg station in South Mumbai.
At the entrance to […]
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi
IMMEDIATE political reactions to the terror attack in Mumbai revolved around one word: unity. Initially, leaders of all political parties said repeatedly that the issue of terrorism was beyond petty politicking and that politicians of all hues would “stand united in this hour of crisis”. But the assurances did not […]
PRAVEEN SWAMI
IN October, the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s supreme religious and political head, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, in a signal speech to top functionaries of the organisation, said: “The only language India understands is that of force, and that is the language it must be talked to in.”
If India’s strategic establishment had been listening, all those people who made […]
Praveen Swami
MUMBAI: India’s intelligence services had delivered at least three precise warnings that a major terrorist attack on Mumbai was imminent, highly-placed government sources have told The Hindu.
However, weaknesses in police manpower and training allowed the attacks to proceed, the sources said.
On November 18, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) intercepted a satellite phone conversation, […]