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Mumbai Terror - Pay your tributes to ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.

Posted by : radhika_nandlal

According to Amar singh and mulayam MAYWATI has a lot of benami properties.. HAAAAAAAAAAA... who wants such filthy rich women in polticis... we want humble people with humble means like Lal bahadur shastri but with the punch of obama and sincerity of purpose like Abdul Kalam

Pay your tributes to Bangalore Boy Sandeep

Posted by : radhika_nandlal

Every bangalorean`s heart weeps for Sandeep Unnikrishnan, only 31 years of age.

Quoting BANGALORE MIRROR

Despite his keralite roots, his upbringing was in bangalore. He studied in the prestigous FAP (Frank Anthony Public School) here in Cambride Layout where he excelled in both academics and sports. He is the only son of his parents, his father works for ISRO.

Sandeep was driven by the desire to join the Armed Forces from his teens, but his parents were opposed to the idea as he was their only son.

Every annual function at FAPs had a chief guest from the Amred Forces. That was a big inspiration to the students.

Sandeep bent down to help one of the constables battling for his life, in trying to shield him Sandeep was felled by a terrorist`s bullet.

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Sandeep Darling, BANGALORE WEEPS FOR YOU. Our anger will reach the gods, Justice will prevail. We salute you dear braveheart for having sacrificed ur life for our safety. SALAAM!! May god grant you the best of everything in the other world. May he give strength to your parents to come to terms with their loss.

Mumbai Terror - Pay your tributes to ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.

Posted by : radhika_nandlal

Andy,

Shut up and be gone.. do u know the comments MAYWATI made on Brahmins.. shall i cut copy and paste it for you.

She is worth 100 crores for what should one have such kind of wealth.. She tops the list of taxpayers in the country.

DO NOT VOTE FOR POLITICIANS WHO BECAME MONETARILY RICH WITH THEIR POLITICAL CLOUT.. jago jago people and put the kinds of MAYAWATI into history books for ever.. She is worth 100 croes now... is that humanely possibly if one earned the normal way??

Hello Indians

Posted by : radhika_nandlal

Remember also that NDTV is the most bigoted channel. They used the *attack on politician* to get high visibility but who was their attack and barbs directed at most times - the BJP of course.

Also remember that Roy of NDTV has married brinda karat`s sister..LOL.. let them choose between communism and Congress.... ever since communists were ousted out of the UPA there is a small attack on the congress too but they have yet to make up their mind on party affiliations... we want media channels that are brazen with no party affiliation.

I wonder how Burkha who is such a revoultionary woman cannot see thru NDTV`s own politics. LOL

TV18 in contrast is a milder channel with a sense of fairness. All of you should join

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Mumbai plot revealed in Feb by arrested LeT man

Posted by : indianstock

Associated Press

A Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India`s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said, a blow to officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani terrorists.


As investigators sought to unravel the attack on Mumbai, stepping up questioning of the lone captured gunman, airports across India were put on high alert amid fresh warnings that terrorists planned to hijack an aircraft.


Also Thursday, police said there were signs that some of the six victims of the attack on a Jewish center may have been tortured. "The victims were strangled," said Rakesh Maria, a senior Mumbai police official. "There were injuries noticed on the bodies that were not from firing."


Members of an Israeli rescue group which had a team in Mumbai said it was impossible to tell if the bodies had been abused, however, because no autopsies were conducted in accordance with Jewish tradition.


The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba and identified two of the plot`s masterminds, according to two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Lashkar, outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the US a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaeda.


Kasab told police that one of them, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar`s operations chief, recruited him for the attack, and the assailants called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on a satellite phone after hijacking an Indian vessel en route to Mumbai.


The information sent investigators back to another reputed Lashkar operative, Faheem Ansari, who they hope could be key in pulling together different strands of the investigation.


Ansari, an Indian national, was arrested in February carrying hand-drawn sketches of hotels, the train terminal and other sites that were later attacked in Mumbai, said Amitabh Yash, director of the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police.


During his interrogation, Ansari also named Muzammil as his handler in Pakistan, adding that he trained in a Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad — the same area where Kasab said he was trained, a senior police officer involved in the investigation said.


In Pakistan, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters he had no information on Lakhvi or Muzammil but that authorities would check. According to the US Treasury Department, Lahkvi has directed Lashkar operations in Chechnya, Bosnia, Southeast Asia, training members to carry out suicide bombings and attack populated areas. In 2004, he sent operatives and funds to attack US forces in Iraq.


Ansari "told us about a planned Lashkar attack on Bombay, on southern Bombay", said Yash, referring to Mumbai by its previous name. "He gave us eight or nine specific locations where the attack would be carried out," he said, adding that Ansari had detailed sketches of the places and escape routes from the sites.


Ansari said he carried out the reconnaissance in the fall of 2007, and that it also included the US consulate, the Bombay stock exchange and other Mumbai sites that were not attacked.


Ansari is now in Indian custody, according to Yash. It was unclear if he was being questioned again, but Maria said they were working to determine if Ansari played a role in how the attackers "got such intricate knowledge of the sites".




Mumbai plot revealed 10 months ago


Indian authorities have faced a torrent of criticism about missed warnings and botched intelligence, and revelations that Ansari disclosed details of the Mumbai plot 10 months ago will be added to the list.


Linking an Indian national to the plot also undermines India`s assertion that Pakistan is solely responsible.


Yash said during extensive interrogations Ansari confessed to scouting Mumbai, arranging a safe-house there for Lashkar militants and provided details on his involvement in the group. "We got everything out of him, whatever he knew," he said.


Ansari linked up with Lashkar while working at a printing press in Dubai. He was taken by sea to Pakistan to the Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad and received a false Pakistani passport and citizenship papers, which police recovered when he was arrested.


In 2007, Ansari said, he traveled to Katmandu, Nepal, and then crossed back into India and settled in Mumbai, where he conducted reconnaissance for a future attack, Yash said.


He was arrested on February 10 in the northern city of Rampur after suspected Muslim militants attacked a police camp, killing eight constables. He said he was there to collect weapons to bring to Mumbai for a future attack.

Baby Moshe`s nanny recalls Nariman horrror

Posted by : indianstock

Jerusalem: The world knows her as the daring nanny who, clutching a two-year-old boy, pushed past the havoc in a terrorised Mumbai and risked her life to keep the toddler safe.


But Sandra Samuel sees no heroism in her actions amid last week`s terror attacks on India`s financial capital that killed nearly 180 people -- including baby Moshe`s parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka. She only wishes she could have done more.


"Even today, I am thinking I should have sent the baby and done something for the rabbi and his wife," Samuel told CNN in an exclusive television interview in Israel, where she now lives.


Samuel and Moshe were among the few to make it out of the Chabad House alive after gunmen stormed the Jewish center, killing the Holtzbergs and four others.


Israel`s Chabad movement has set up a fund to provide for Moshe`s care. He is being looked after by members of the community, although who will serve as his guardian has not yet been established.


The nanny says she came face to face with a gunman late Wednesday, the first night of the siege. "I saw one man was shooting at me -- he shot at me."


She slammed a door and hid in a first-floor storage room and attempted to reach the rabbi and the others on the second floor.


Overnight, Samuel frantically tried to call for help as gunfire and grenade blasts shook the Chabad House.


Samuel says she emerged early the next afternoon, when she heard Moshe calling for her. She found the child crying as he stood between his parents, who she says appeared unconscious but still alive.


Based on the marks on Moshe`s back, she believes he was struck so hard by a gunman that he fell unconscious at some point as well.


"First thing is that a baby is very important for me and this baby is something very precious to me and that`s what made me just not think anything -- just pick up the baby and run," Samuel said.


"When I hear gunshot, it`s not one or 20. It`s like a hundred gunshots," she added. "Even I`m a mother of two children so I just pick up the baby and run. Does anyone think of dying at the moment when there`s a small, precious baby?"


Outside, chaos flooded the streets as people tried to make sense of the massacre that killed at least 179 people and wounded 300 others. Ultimately, she and Moshe reached safety at the home of an Israeli consul before arriving in Israel, where she is considered a hero.


In the aftermath of the attacks, Moshe asked for his mother continuously, Samuel says, and he is learning to play again -- though he likes the nanny close by. And while she still has nightmares of the horrific siege that took hold of Mumbai, Samuel, a non-Jew and native of India, said she will stay in Israel for as long as Moshe needs her.


"Yes, yes, they said it is important I am here," she said. "Me, I just take care of the baby."

NEXT PAGE: EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEW




CNN: Tell us what happened.


Samuel: I was in the kitchen. I came running to stop them and I saw one man was shooting at me he shot at me, it was like something I don`t know but still in that time I could shut the door I lifted the phone, I could hear rabbi speaking in second floor, everyone speaking at once, then I knew there was some problem, I put the phone down and took out that wire because I didn`t want that phone to be ringing.


CNN: What did you do next?



Samuel: That`s it, I was in the storeroom hiding like a coward, I don`t know.


CNN: How long for?


Samuel: It was until next morning when the baby called me. When I went, Moshe was next to his Ima (mother) standing and crying out my name, that`s what I know.


CNN: What were you thinking, what went through your mind?


Samuel: My first thought was for the baby, only for the baby. But then when I saw my rabbi and his wife. Even today I think I should have sent the baby and done something for the baby and his wife. But…


CNN: But you saved Moshe, how was he when you picked him up?


Samuel: When I picked him up he was quiet, that`s why I could bring him out, I don`t know if somebody else was there. May be he`d have created a racket. Just because it was me and he`s been with me that he didn’t cry.


CNN: Did you know where the gunmen were?


Samuel: No.


CNN: Were you scared as you ran out of the house?


CNN

Petrol price may be cut by Rs 10

Posted by : braintalks

PTI

With the assembly polls in major states concluding, the government may slash petrol price next week by Rs 10 a litre, diesel by Rs 3 per litre and domestic LPG by Rs 20 per cylinder in line with fall in global oil prices.
"Polling in Rajasthan will end today and with it electioneering in four major states. And so a revision in fuel prices is likely to be taken to the Cabinet at its next meeting scheduled on December 11," a government source said.

For the first time in three years, state-run Indian Oil [Get Quote], Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum are selling petrol at a profit of Rs 14.89 a litre and diesel at Rs 3.03 per litre.

But they continue to lose Rs 17.26 on sale of every litre of kerosene through public distribution system (PDS) and Rs 148.32 per 14.2-kg domestic LPG cylinder.

"The Congress-led coalition is keen on rolling back the Rs 5 a litre hike in petrol, Rs 3 per litre increase in diesel and Rs 50 per cylinder hike in LPG prices announced in June.

As oil firms continue to make losses on LPG, some of the margins on petrol may be used to bring down the cooking fuel price," the source said.

Polling in Jammu & Kashmir --one of the six states that went to elections-- would end on December 24. "When even Election Commission thought it appropriate to announce results of the elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram (on December 8) without waiting for polling in J&K, the government, too, is inclined to cut fuel prices," he said.

State-run oil firms have seen margins turning into positive zone from November 1 but the government did not want to revise prices as the Model Code of Conduct for elections was in place that bars it from making any announcement that could be seen as appeasing voters.

Based on the average international oil price in the second fortnight of November, the state-run firms earn a margin of Rs 44 crore (Rs 440 million) per day on petrol and Rs 42 crore (Rs 420 million) a day on diesel. They, however, lost Rs 66 crore a day on sale of kerosene and Rs 29 crore (Rs 290 million) per day on LPG.

The fall in international oil prices will result in lower revenue loss on fuel sales this fiscal. IOC, BPCL [Get Quote] and HPCL [Get Quote] will end the 2008-09 fiscal with Rs 109,190 crore (Rs 1091.90 billion) revenue loss, Rs 92,853 crore (Rs 928.53 billion) of which has already been accounted for in the first half of the fiscal.

The source said the Cabinet may also consider a mechanism to make good the losses oil firms have borne on selling fuel below the cost.

IOC posted its largest ever net loss of Rs 7,047.13 crore (Rs 70.47 billion) in July-September quarter. BPCL posted a net loss of Rs 2,625.17 crore (Rs 26.25 billion) in the second quarter on top of Rs 1,066.70 crore (Rs 10.66 billion) in April-June, while HPCL reported Rs 888.12 crore (Rs 8.82 billion) loss in the first quarter and another Rs 3,218.92 crore (Rs 32.18 billion) in the second quarter.

The state-run firms want the government to increase the quantum of oil bonds they get as part of compensation for selling fuel below cost.

The government compensates the three refiners for half of their revenue loss on fuel sales by way of oil bonds. Another one-third of the losses are met by companies like ONGC [Get Quote] and OIL by way of discounts on crude oil they sell to them.

However, this compensation was proving to be grossly inadequate, sources said, pointing to the net losses posted by the companies in July-September quarter.

Mumbai plot revealed in Feb by arrested LeT man

Posted by : indianstock

Associated Press

A Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India`s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said, a blow to officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani terrorists.


As investigators sought to unravel the attack on Mumbai, stepping up questioning of the lone captured gunman, airports across India were put on high alert amid fresh warnings that terrorists planned to hijack an aircraft.


Also Thursday, police said there were signs that some of the six victims of the attack on a Jewish center may have been tortured. "The victims were strangled," said Rakesh Maria, a senior Mumbai police official. "There were injuries noticed on the bodies that were not from firing."


Members of an Israeli rescue group which had a team in Mumbai said it was impossible to tell if the bodies had been abused, however, because no autopsies were conducted in accordance with Jewish tradition.


The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba and identified two of the plot`s masterminds, according to two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Lashkar, outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the US a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaeda.


Kasab told police that one of them, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar`s operations chief, recruited him for the attack, and the assailants called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on a satellite phone after hijacking an Indian vessel en route to Mumbai.


The information sent investigators back to another reputed Lashkar operative, Faheem Ansari, who they hope could be key in pulling together different strands of the investigation.


Ansari, an Indian national, was arrested in February carrying hand-drawn sketches of hotels, the train terminal and other sites that were later attacked in Mumbai, said Amitabh Yash, director of the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police.


During his interrogation, Ansari also named Muzammil as his handler in Pakistan, adding that he trained in a Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad — the same area where Kasab said he was trained, a senior police officer involved in the investigation said.


In Pakistan, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters he had no information on Lakhvi or Muzammil but that authorities would check. According to the US Treasury Department, Lahkvi has directed Lashkar operations in Chechnya, Bosnia, Southeast Asia, training members to carry out suicide bombings and attack populated areas. In 2004, he sent operatives and funds to attack US forces in Iraq.


Ansari "told us about a planned Lashkar attack on Bombay, on southern Bombay", said Yash, referring to Mumbai by its previous name. "He gave us eight or nine specific locations where the attack would be carried out," he said, adding that Ansari had detailed sketches of the places and escape routes from the sites.


Ansari said he carried out the reconnaissance in the fall of 2007, and that it also included the US consulate, the Bombay stock exchange and other Mumbai sites that were not attacked.


Ansari is now in Indian custody, according to Yash. It was unclear if he was being questioned again, but Maria said they were working to determine if Ansari played a role in how the attackers "got such intricate knowledge of the sites".




Mumbai plot revealed 10 months ago


Indian authorities have faced a torrent of criticism about missed warnings and botched intelligence, and revelations that Ansari disclosed details of the Mumbai plot 10 months ago will be added to the list.


Linking an Indian national to the plot also undermines India`s assertion that Pakistan is solely responsible.


Yash said during extensive interrogations Ansari confessed to scouting Mumbai, arranging a safe-house there for Lashkar militants and provided details on his involvement in the group. "We got everything out of him, whatever he knew," he said.


Ansari linked up with Lashkar while working at a printing press in Dubai. He was taken by sea to Pakistan to the Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad and received a false Pakistani passport and citizenship papers, which police recovered when he was arrested.


In 2007, Ansari said, he traveled to Katmandu, Nepal, and then crossed back into India and settled in Mumbai, where he conducted reconnaissance for a future attack, Yash said.


He was arrested on February 10 in the northern city of Rampur after suspected Muslim militants attacked a police camp, killing eight constables. He said he was there to collect weapons to bring to Mumbai for a future attack.

Job losses....

Posted by : sambala

Siemens to lay off 150 jobs at El Paso plant

It is reported that Siemens Energy & Automation plans to close its East Side manufacturing plant, lay off about 150 workers and move production to its plant in Juarez in 2009.

The El Paso plant at 1400 Henry Brennan makes components for home electrical circuit breakers and other home circuit protection products. The plant uses plastic injection molding and sheet metal fabrication for the parts.

Mr Michael Krampe a Siemens spokesman in Atlanta said that "A reduction in product orders tied to the nation`s economic slowdown forced the company to take these steps to remain competitive in this line of business."

Mr Krampe said that about 60 workers in technical and management jobs from the El Paso plant, which now employs about 210 people, will be offered jobs in Juarez. The Juarez plant now employs about 710 people.

Workforce Commission data show that the production shift will begin in January 2009 and the El Paso plant will close by June 30th 2009. El Paso has lost an estimated 900 manufacturing jobs since October 2007.

Mr David Coronado, labor market analyst at Workforce Solutions Upper Rio Grande, El Paso`s public employment agency, said that he expects more layoffs in coming months due to the nation`s economic recession. The major layoffs will likely take place in manufacturing, but other industries also will likely be cutting jobs or not hiring. He added that "Consumers are not spending as much as they had in the past and companies are cutting production."

Some Mumbai attackers may have fled: US official

Posted by : marketbear

that is obvious. They are not fool to wait to be caught by security. They are mastermind and people only can throw them out of the country. India should stop alloting visa for pakistanis as pakistan behaviour will not improve and they don`t understand good language. They should be tought a lesson by destroying it.

Mumbai Terror - Pay your tributes to ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.

Posted by : ashalanshu

Dear K.N.Pillai16968, Plz. read my post to dear subasu on the same subject.
Yes ur understanding is right there r 2 separate agencies in india each with a differant job to handle on paper.

SPG - Special protection group is designed specifically for security of V IPs, V V IPs, V V V IPs, V V V V IPs, V V V V V IPs..............

NSG - National Security Guards - To counter terrorist attacks & plane Hijacks....

In case of NSG, I put it as POLITICIANS Security Guards (PSG), just to show my anger like all of u but with a humorous note.

Thanks

Ashal

Some Mumbai attackers may have fled: US official

Posted by : indianstock

Several attackers may have survived the three-day siege of Mumbai that killed 212 people last week, analysts said on Thursday.