Posts Tagged ‘mumbai’

India to raze ‘corruption flats’

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

India’s environment ministry has ordered the demolition of a block of flats in Mumbai that has been at the centre of a corruption scandal.

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Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, Militants

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service has been accused for years of playing a “double game:” acting as a front-line U.S. ally in the fight against terror while supporting selected terrorist groups which serve Pakistani interests. Now, for the first time, there is a detailed inside account of how that game is played. The U.S. investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks

Mumbai Alerted to Terrorist Threat

Friday, December 24th, 2010

Police in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, were hunting Friday for four Pakistani militants authorities believe came to the city to carry out a terrorist attack. With credible information that the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group was…

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Mumbai hunt for ‘LeT militants’

Friday, December 24th, 2010

Police are scouring Mumbai for four Pakistani alleged militants believed to have entered the city to carry out an attack, a top police official said.

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Wikileaks claim on Mumbai accused

Monday, December 6th, 2010

The alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks was running Lashkar-e-Taiba even as he was in prison in Pakistan, cables released by Wikileaks suggest.

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Pakistan ‘shared Mumbai research’

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Pakistan agreed to a US plan to share its data on the 2008 Mumbai attacks with India, US cables published by Wikileaks have revealed.

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Spain holds terror link suspects

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Seven men are arrested in Spain and three in Thailand on suspicion of links to the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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House-warming for world’s ‘most expensive’ home

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani hosts a house-warming party to show off his new 27-storey Mumbai residence, believed to be the world’s priciest home.

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India Remembers Mumbai Attacks

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Two years after the tragic and deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks, Indians marched for peace and remembered the victims of the day they call 26/11. “We will never succumb to the designs of our enemies. We pledge to redouble our efforts to bring the…

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Mumbai marks attacks anniversary

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai are to mark two years since gunmen launched terror attacks, killing 166 people.

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Bankers held over Indian ‘scam’

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai arrest eight people, including senior executives of top state banks, over a suspected loans scam.

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An intricate plot unleashed, the West confronts a new threat

Monday, November 15th, 2010

David Coleman Headley seemed like a gregarious, high-rolling American businessman when he set up shop in Mumbai in September 2006.

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U.S. Knew Mumbai Plotter’s Radical Ties

Monday, November 8th, 2010

A new report says the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration employed David C. Headley, who went on to plot the attacks that killed 164 people in Mumbai in 2008, as an informant in Pakistan despite several warnings that he sympathized with radical…

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Obama Holds Town Hall in Mumbai

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Maybe President Obama is doing some soul-searching on his trip. Fielding questions from college students in Mumbai, he acknowledged that he will continue to invest in education, infrastructure, and clean energy, but the midterm election “requires me to…

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Michelle Obama dances in Mumbai

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

During a visit to Mumbai with her husband, President Barack Obama, the First Lady of the US danced and sang with disadvantaged children in India’s capital.

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