News

26/11: India set to reply to Pakistan

Praveen Swami
NEW DELHI: Indian authorities are in the final stages of drafting a response to a 30-point questionnaire prepared by the Pakistani investigators on the murderous Lashkar-e-Taiba attack on Mumbai in November last.
Government sources told The Hindu that the response, based on the documentation made available by the Mumbai Police, could be issued as early as […]



Living the terror

Terrorists do a Mumbai in Lahore

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Before Tuesday, Pakistan had seen hundreds of terrorist attacks by suicide bombers, but nothing resembling the strike on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, ominously similar to the Mumbai carnage.
As captured on television footage, the attackers were a throwback to the Mumbai gunmen, as they ran with rucksacks on their backs and […]



Aftermath

26/11: “permit examination of FBI witnesses”

Staff Reporter
Mumbai: Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Thursday filed an application in the Special Sessions Court here seeking permission to examine and summon six witnesses from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to present technical evidence on November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai. He handed a sealed envelope to the court containing a letter from […]



Backgrounders

26/11: electronic evidence no clincher

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 […]