Mumbai Attack: Total Cost 4 Crore

IB sources have revealed today that the entire Mumbai attack operation would habve costed approximately 40 million INR (4 Crore Indian Rupees) to LeT.

IB has arrived at these figures based on statements of Sabahuddin, of the terrorist involved with IISc attack earlier, and several other inputs received from Ajmal the lone terrorist the custody who was involved wih Mumbai terror attack.

10 terrorist each receiving 20 Lakh = 2 Crore
amount spent on arms and ammunition = 50 Lakh
Misc expanses on training and other logistics = 1.5 Crore

Total ~ 4 Crore

Pakistan says "Kasab belogs to Pakistan"

After a long denial about involvement into Mumbai Terror attack, Pakistani former PM Nawaz Sharif has shown some sense of accountability. Nawaz Sharif has accepted that the Mumbai attacker hailed from Pakistan's Punjab province. He also mentioned that the suspect's village was cordoned off and his parents were not allowed to meet anyone.

"I have checked myself. His (Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab) house and village has been cordoned off by the security agencies. His parents are not allowed to meet anybody. I don't understand why it has been done," Sharif, who hails from Punjab, said in an interview to Geo News channel.

"The people and media should be allowed to meet Iman's parents so that the truth could come out in the open," he said, adding that "We need some kind of introspection."


Finally some sign of co-operation from Pakistan.

Dhoni Dating South Indian Acress Lakshmi

It has been reported by several local media persons that the most eligible bachelor of India and the Captain of Indian Cricket team, M S Dhoni has been dating south Indian actor Lakshmi Rai.

The latest rumour is that MS Dhoni was in Chennai for the selection of the Indian Cricket Team for the series against the England which is happening in Chennai. MS Dhoni reportedly had dinner with actress Lakshmi Rai at a private hotel with tight security. Once again buzzes get kicks off that MSD and Lakshmi Rai are romancing.

When approached by local media persons, Lakshmi Rai expressed that MS Dhoni and she are good friends. She also said that they become friends when they met each other at IPL’s Chennai Super Kings.

Lakshmi Rai is an upcoming south indian actress and was reportedly dating her co-star previously.
Resorts in Yercaud

Pakistani Media spreading hatred and tension

It was a big shock to come across the online version of one of the reports published in a leading Pakistani Newspaper. I have always believed that media in any part of the world is always slightly biased towards their own country and people and presents the facts (at times) in a distorted manner favoring their own people, but showing a completely different picture would be like playing the role of catalyst to agitate hatred and tension between the involved parties.

And Pakistani media seems to be spreading hatred and tension between the two countries.

Here is an excerpt from Pakistani Newspaper "The Daily Mail"

source of the article:
http://dailymailnews.com/200812/12/news/dmtopstory01.html
By Makhdoom Babar

ISLAMABAD— Government of Pakistan is set to demand handing over of Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit of Indian Army, the main accused of 2007 Samjhauta Express inferno in which 69 Pakistani passengers, returning from India to Pakistan were killed, The Daily Mail has learnt on good authority.

Highly reliable sources have revealed to The Daily Mail that Pakistan is going to insist on handing over of Col. Purohit because he was proved guilty of killing 69 Pakistanis in 2007 by India’s own investigative agencies. It may mentioned here that India’s anti-terrorism specialist and formal RAW’s officer Mr. Hemant Karkare, who was investigating Samjhauta Express inferno and Malegaon Blast in his final conclusion report, framed Col. Purohit as the main accused and mastermind in both the cases and arrested Col. Purohat for further investigations. However Mr. Karkare and two other members of his Investigation Team were later killed by Saffron Terrorists, belonging to Sang Parivar’s Aatma Ghataki Pathak (Hindu Suicide Squad), during Mumbai carnage, while after Karkare’s assassination Col. Purohit was also released on bail by the court and there are no further investigations on this direction and the matter has been hushed up.

The Daily Mail’s investigation reveals further that the Pakistan authorities have taken an exception note of findings of Karkare’s investigation and are very anxious to get hold of Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit to investigate him further to ascertain in his involvement in the killing of many other Pakistanis in different terror attacks inside Pakistan and also in India, since it has been established through Karkare’s report that Col. Purohit is an important member of the network of Hindu Extremists and like minded officer in Indian Army. The authorities believe that handing over of Col. Purohit to Pakistan, who is a proved accused of massacre of 69 Pakistanis, is more important than handing over of certain Pakistani “suspects”, doubted to be involved in Mumbai carnage.

It may be mentioned here that the Pakistan has already prepared a list of 35 most wanted terrorists that are to be sought from India, however Col. Purohit’s name was earlier not on that list and his name is to be given separately in wake of the Karakare’s investigations. However due to Mumbai incident that occurred soon after release of Karakare’s report, Islamabad could not initiate the move but now it has become imperative to go ahead with Col. Purohit’s handing over demand. It is yet to be decided that when and how this demand is to be made.

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Terrorist in Oberoi speaking to a News Channel

India's Most Wanted Terrorist

Dawood Ibrahim

For long, Dawood Ibrahim was the man whose name was synonymous with terror before many other able hands took over.

This man's importance cannot be over-stressed but it is said that the ISI shifted him out of the country for a few hours when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was visiting Pakistan. (India has for long accused Pakistan of providing Dawood with shelter and Islamabad did not want an embarrassment when the prime minister was there for peace talks.)

Son of a police constable, Dawood first dabbled with petty crime before climbing the rungs of the Mumbai mafia. The

 1993 blasts saw Dawood turn from smuggler and criminal to terrorist and traitor.

The ISI is accused of using him to orchestrate the serial blasts and ever since he has been declared a terrorist by the United States in 2005 and the United Nations has put him on a special list of few who are in contact with the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Ayub Memon

Ayub Memon is one of the key members of the first family of terrorism in India.

Till the time Mumbai Police officer Rakesh Maria's eyes fell on top of an almirah in a nondescript Mahim house, the Memons were just another family that owned a business, Tejarat International.

But once Maria's glance fell on a scooter key, which would match one of the vehicles used in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, it would emerge that not only was the company a front to launder money, but it was also the means through which the serial blasts were funded.

Most members of the Memon family fled to Pakistan soon after the blasts and all except Ayub and Tiger Memon returned to India. Four of them family were tried and convicted.

Chota Shakeel

Once the three Khalistan movement lost its steam, the focus of the intelligence agencies shifts to the old hands of modern day terrorism in India outside the Kashmir Valley. Chota Shakeel and others in the list are all involved in one way or the other in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

In May 2006, Prakash Jaju, actor Priyanka Chopra's recently-fired manager went to the police claiming that he got a threatening call from a man, who claimed he was Chota Shakeel asking him to withdraw the police case he had filed against Chopra. Though the caller's identity was never proven, that is exactly what Shakeel specializes in -- extortion in the movie industry.

Intelligence agencies say Shakeel is a key ISI operative as his men help them with information about all things India and also help the agency to identify suspected Indian intelligence agents even as they land in Pakistan.

He has been charged with attempts to murder Shiv Sena leader Milind Vaidya and several Bollywood personalities. Shakeel continues to live in Karachi with his boss, Dawood Ibrahim and it is also said that he has bought several properties in prime localities in Mumbai under various fronts.

Tiger Memon

If Ayub Memon's role was mainly restricted to funding the Mumbai blasts, Tiger -- or Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq -- Memon was the mastermind, who plotted the entire blasts sitting in his Mahim home.

He is also said to among those who attended a secret meeting -- chaired by Dawood Ibrahim -- outside India where the idea to retaliate for the Babri Masjid riots took shape.

He recruited frustrated Muslim youth, one of whom backed out in the final days leading to the bombings and ratted on the gang on being arrested.

The CBI says he too, like most Dawood associates, lives in Karachi. He too, like Shakeel, is said to have invested heavily in property and is even said to have opened a restaurant in Dubai a couple of years ago.

Abdul Karim Tunda

An Andhra Pradesh intelligence official said soon after the Hyderabad blasts: "The main reason is the ease with which Bangladeshi youth enter the city and blend with the local population. They even are able to get ration and PAN cards in a day's time."

If security agencies are to get to the root of the problem of Bangladeshis entering India at will, this is the man who they will have to stop.

Abdul Karim Tunda has been the recruiter-in-chief for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba ever since it decided to make use of Bangladesh and the porous border that country shares with India.

Tunda, an expert bomb-maker -- a botched attempt that cost him an arm notwithstanding -- was said to have been caught in Kenya in 2006. But this turned out to be a false alarm and it turned out it was a British national and not him.

The 65-year-old was a resident of New Delhi and was behind the blasts in the capital and in Jalandar in 1997. He is also said to be instrumental in bringing together and reviving the Khalistani outfits, which were long thought to be defunct.

In 1997, he is said to have fled to Bangladesh and the intelligence agencies have nothing on him since 2003.

Masood Azhar

The chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammad -- one of the deadliest terrorist groups operating in Kashmir -- Azhar was released by India after terrorists hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu, Nepal, on December 24, 1999.

The hijacked plane was flown to Kandahar in Afghanistan and the passengers were released only after India agreed to the terrorists' demand for setting three dreaded terrorists, including Azhar, free. Then Indian external affairs minister Jaswant Singh took Azhar, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar and Sheikh Omar Saeed to Kandahar to secure the release of the passengers. Saeed was later sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

 

King Khan to star in Film on Islam and Terrorism

India’s top Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan will star in a new movie exploring the issue of Islam in the post 9/11 world and the misperception that all Muslims are terrorists.

“My Name is Khan” tells the story of six people with Muslim surnames who suffer suspicion and prejudice years after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

“The movie is about a Muslim person's strife (in telling) people that ‘my name is Khan but I am not a terrorist’,” Mr Khan told reporters after being conferred the governors' award in the south-western Malaysian state of Malacca in recognition of his 2001 film “One 2 Ka 4”, which was set there and boosted its profile as a tourist destination.

The Indian Muslim actor, whose wife is Hindu, also condemned religious fundamentalism and denounced acts of violence, saying that the Holy Quran does not preach terror.

Will India Air attack Pakistan?

US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has said that there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attack and if Pakistan does not act, and act fast, to arrest the involved people, India will be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan.

Senator McCain, who arrived in Pakistan Friday from New Delhi with Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), was talking to a select group of Pakistanis at an informal lunch in Lahore.

When Daily Times quizzed him on the issue of use of force he said that this is what he and the other Senators were told by India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who, as Mr McCain put it, was visibly angry and reeling from the shock of the attack.

“The democratic government of India is under pressure and it will be a matter of days after they have given the evidence to Pakistan to use the option of force if Islamabad fails to act against the terrorists,” he said.

To a question about what the United States would do in the event that India carries out such a threat, Mr McCain said that Washington would not be able to do much even as “privately I will try to dissuade India from doing so”. “We were angry after 9/11. This is India’s 9/11. We cannot tell India not to act when that is what we did, asking the Taliban to hand over Osama Bin Laden to avoid a war and waging one when they refused to do so.”

He conceded the point that such an Indian attack could beget retaliation from Pakistan and that this is precisely the trajectory of actions and reactions that those who attacked Mumbai were hoping for but stressed that at this point, if Pakistan does not do anything to find and arrest the “bad guys”, India will have no option but to use force.

Senator McCain who left for Islamabad shortly after lunch said that he and the other Senators would meet the army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, before proceeding to Kabul in the evening. 

Pakistan must protect their citizens

It has been a little over a week after the dreadful Mumbai attack. The impact of this attack on the common man can be seen even now. The life is gradually coming back to normal. The most shocking part is that even after 10 days, the investigation results are not going anywhere. Other than the internationally known fact that Pakistan is the source of all these terror attacks, the investigating agencies are still making theories about various possible series of events that would have happened before the terror attack took place.

The clueless Goverment of India, to show that they are taking the terror sriously now (few months before the election) , released a list of 20 terrorists most of them are staying Pakistani land.  Pakistan in an expected move, rejected the plea of Government  of India to extradite any of these terrorist to India. 

In my opinion, Government of India made a mockery of themselves by asking for the most wanted. The Government of India has no right to blame Pakistan to protect their own people. If the Government of India has been protecting Afzal Guru who has been sentenced a capital punishment by the Suprement Court then Government of Pakistan has all the rights to protect their citizens.

Mumbai Attack: It was a national humiliation

The Author of the Article is: Arvind Lavakare


Arvind Lavakare may be 71, but the fire in his belly burns stronger than in many people half his age. The economics post-graduate worked with the Reserve Bank of India and several private and public sector companies before retiring in 1997. His first love, however, remains sports. An accredited cricket umpire in Mumbai, he has reported and commented on cricket matches for newspapers, Doordarshan and AIR. Lavakare has also been regularly writing on politics since 1997, and published a monograph, The Truth About Article 370, in 2005.

Hang your heads in shame, my countrymen. Do it because a dozen-odd terrorists traveled 500 nautical miles of the Arabian sea from Karachi to Mumbai's Gateway of India, just opposite the grandiose Taj Mahal Hotel and proceeded to humble the city of 16.4 million into utter helplessness for over 48 hours even as over 125 civilians and some distinguished professional security men lost their lives to the hand grenades and rifle bullets of a fanatical mindset. It was a humiliation worse than the drubbing the Chinese army gave us in 1961.

It was because our motherland, India, is a soft nation, tested and proven so several times. Despite the weighty evidence of Clement Atlee, the Britain's post World War II prime minister to the contrary, the Congress party brainwashed the entire nation, including the press, that it was the non-violence strategy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that brought us independence.

Atlee had expressed fears regarding the rage of Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army as a reason for its decision to give us independence; another reason was that World War II had liquidated the British Empire and left it to ration even eggs to the citizens of England. But Gandhi disliked Bose's guts and gumption and Nehru sent the officers of the valiant INA to a secret trial in the Red Fort.

Thus, even as the Congress of Gandhi and Nehru, his pampered disciple, ahimsa, non-violence, became the motto of our motherland. So bad has this become over the last 60 years that today even killing a stray dog on the street, however vicious and sick, has become a crime, courtesy another Gandhi, Maneka by name.

Take the more serious issue of terrorism. Excepting during the Khalistan uprising in the eighties that was ultimately doused by K.P.S. Gill and his brave police force, our country's approach to terrorism has all along been tepid and timid, castrated and impotent.

Because almost all the terrorist acts in recent years have involved Muslims as the perpetrators, and because of the Congress fetish of appeasing the minority Muslim community at any cost, our soft national psyche inherited from Gandhi, our response to terrorism has become a combination of impotence and vote bank politics sought to be covered by rhetoric and pleas for peace.

At every stage of our every "encounter" with a terrorist act, our collective national response has been reactive rather than active, defensive rather than offensive. Public statements are issued, action is promised. Period. Nothing else really happens.

At the base of it all is the shameful fact that we choose to be confused by terrorism. We are not sure whether to treat it as a law and order problem or as an act of war against the nation. Our elite journalists of the print and TV/radio world are not even sure as to whether to describe those who indulge in an act of terror as "militants" or "terrorists".

Reams of newspaper reports are testimony to this confusion. The latest Mumbai drama was no different as one prominent TV channel kept on describing the killed terrorists as "militants". Politicians are, or choose to be, equally confused in this simple matter.

Yes, it is a simple matter because the English dictionary will tell you that a militant is one who confronts, face to face, not one who wears a mask; and this militant does not wield an AK 47 or throws hand grenades or detonates a bomb with remote control mechanism.

Further, we have had the phrase "terrorism act" well defined in one of our Constitutional documents right from 1985.

Called "The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order", it empowered Parliament to enact any law to prevent "terrorist acts" and went on to define "terrorist act" as "any act or thing by using bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances or inflammable substances or firearms or other lethal weapons or poisons or noxious gases or other chemicals or any other substances (whether biological or otherwise) of a hazardous nature." By corollary, the perpetrator of a "terrorist act" is a "terrorist If you get your concepts right; the right action will follow --- provided you love your country more than your political party or your own advancement in political circles.

Tragically, that hasn't happened in our country so far and is unlikely to ever happen till, heaven forbid, a colossal and unbelievable act of terror paralyses the entire country into a daze.

Just recall some events of recent years. The UPA government that came in 2004 quickly repealed the Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA) which the Vajpayee-led NDA government had introduced after the ghastly attack in December 2001.

It was not withdrawn because of its stringent features but because it was allegedly misused against the minorities (read Muslims). The basic fact was that the Congress, which heads the UPA sarkar, wanted to appease and win over the Muslims with one more lollipop.

Amusingly enough, any call by the BJP for the re-introduction of POTA or some such tough law is counterattacked by the Congress. "Did your POTA prevent the attack on the Akshardham Temple?" they ask.

Forgotten in this child-like question is that it was POTA that secured the conviction of Afzal Guru. Forgotten is that the acceptance of a confession to the police as evidence (considered a draconian legal provision) was what led to the conviction under TADA of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins.

In several other areas as well, our successive governments have failed to act in ways so crucial to minimize, if not totally stop, the reign of terror that now occurs so frequently that from a tragedy it has become a joke for the cynic.

Take the policing of our urban areas which are the focal points of terrorism. Lt General Sinha recently disclosed that in the last sixty years after Independence the number of police stations in the country has increased by a laughable 15 per cent over the figure of 12,000 that existed then.

In contrast, he says, our population has increased four times in that same period even as policing has become so much more complex than before.

Further, whatever police force available is overworked but underpaid, apart from being manipulated and exploited by their political bosses. That is why, at least Mumbai's policemen, and policewomen , look so unfit, almost obese, and so blank in face.

Ditto with our Intelligence force. Marginal increase in their strength has occurred, but assignments include assessment of likely performance of the ruling party in the coming elections. And why the National Security Advisor should have been involved so much in the Indo-US nuclear deal as he actually was is a mystery.

Then there's the human rights industry and our politicians' concern for it much beyond national interest. And there's that impractical concern for "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" even in matters of terrorism. If cockroaches had votes and rats had a religion, our politicians would enact a law prohibiting killing of those two living species as well.

Imagine the People's Democratic Party of Jammu & Kashmir granting pensions from government to families of slain terrorists. Imagine, the Prime Minister himself disclosing his sleepless night over the plight of the mother of an Indian Muslim held in police custody in Australia on suspicion of being involved in a bomb blast but not over the plight of mothers of thousands of his innocent countrymen killed in terrorist violence.

Imagine two Cabinet Ministers oppose the ban on SIMI despite the latter's proven guilt. Imagine one Cabinet Minister wanting all illegal migrants from Bangladesh to be given full citizenship rights, when it is well-known that many among them have links with terrorists. Imagine another Cabinet Minister approving of a University vice chancellor's decision to deploy funds provided by a foreign government to be utilized for the legal defence of two of his University students accused of involvement in terrorist violence.

Imagine, lastly, that amounts running into thousands of crores have been spent on the Haj subsidy for Muslims but the security of our very long coastline on the west is so ill-funded that terrorists can come from Karachi across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai without being spotted.

Contrast all of this is typically indolent-cum-idealistic-cum-selfish Indian attitude to the stark realism and patriotism of the USA when 9/11 occurred in 2001. One thing that nation did shortly after that dastardly day was the enactment by the USA Congress of what's come to be known as the USA Patriot Act. That nomenclature is really an acronym, and the full name of that legislation is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". If a name can arouse emotions, that one certainly does. And however draconian that law has been, it has prevented the recurrence of 9/11.

Unless the whole young nation of ours forgets non-violence as a magic mantra and unless our politicians show a commitment similar to that of the USA to engage in a literal war against terror, we shall continue to allow just about a dozen-odd terrorists to humiliate an entire nation for over 48 hours, even as a naïve Prime Minister calls the Pakistan chief of intelligence to share info with us.

Mumbai Attack: The terrorist were carrying BlackBerrys

Source of the story: Sun, London

According to the Sun, the terrorist gang involved in recent Mumbai attack looked for web updates and live footage on the net to help them prolong their three-day rampage that has left at least 195 dead and 295 injured.

It was further reported that at least five BlackBerry handsets were used for conversations, instructions and to surf British websites.

Key figures in the gang equipped themselves with BlackBerrys to monitor British news if the power was cut to televisions.

Mumbai Attack:Top 6 things India should do Now

1. Hang Mohammed Afzal Guru immediately. The Supreme Court of India has already found him guilty of conspiracy and planning a terror attack on the Parliament of the biggest democracy of world (2001 Parliament attack). The Supreme court has also upheld the death sentence on him. It is a big a insult to the Apex court of India by the Political system.

If a Hemant Karkare,a Sanip Unnikrishnan and a Gajendra Singh can give their life to save India from Terror, a Sarabjit can also give his life for Mother India ( with all regards to Sarabjit if his life comes at the cost of Afzal Guru, he (Sarabjit) himself would not like to live such a life )

2. Indian and US Government should put pressure on Pakistani Government to extradite Dawood Ibrahim and Omar Saeed Sheikh to India and US. Dawood Ibrahim is the underworld don and the terrorist responsible for Mumbai serial blast in 1993 which killed 258 people and is also believed to be one of the key people behind recent Mumbai Attacks. Omar Saeed Sheikh is the key accused in the Daniel Pearl case. Both of them are holed up in Pakistan under ISI Protection.

3. Indian,US and UK air forces should join hands together to attack the Western border and Pak Occupied Kashmir (POK) portions of Pakistan to wipe off all the terror camps of al-Qaeda and LeT. Pakistanti civilian government, in spite of declaring that they too want to fight terror, have not been able to wipe off the terror camps from their land. This clearly indicates that either the civilian Government in Pakistan has no control over their security establishments and their spy outfit (ISI) or their promise to eradicate terror camps from their land is a fake promise.

In any case, the forces outside should take command to wipe off these camps from Pakistan. If Pakistani Government is ready to offer support in this operation, they are most welcome.

4. Setup special courts in all the states to speeden up the process to closes terror cases. There should be stringent terror rules. The prosecution and implementation of judiciary's decission should be faster for these cases without much interferece from Political parties.

5. Setup control rooms in whole of western coastal boarder with hightech unmanned machines monitoring the entire coastal area from Porbandar in Gujrat to Kanyakumari. We, as a nation, lost 4000 Crores because of the recent Attack. The Indian Government should understand that spending half of this money(2000 Crore) for setting up control rooms in the entire coastal area would ensure that we donot face a similar incident again and loose another 4000 Crore.

6. No more further talks on J&K issue with Pakistan or any other third party. J&K is an integral part of Indian and will remain so. This message should go clear and loud to the International audience and any further disruption in J&K area should be handled strictly.
The likes of Farooq Abdullah should be given a choice to either be with Indian Government or goto Islamabad and join PPP for his political career.

Is Dawood Ibrahim behind Mumbai Attack?

The investigations which have taken place so far reveals that India's Most Wanted Terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, who has also been declared the key behind the 1993 Mumbai blast and wanted by Indian authority, is man behind Mumbai Terror attack. Dawood Ibrahim is wanted by Indian Goverment and is currently staying in Karachi, Pakistan.

A Colaba-based businessman, suspected to be henchman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, handed over arms and explosives to the Lashkar e Tayiba terrorists for carrying out the attacks on Mumbai, in what is emerging as the first major joint operation by the Karachi-based gangster and the banned outfit, official sources said in Mumbai.

Ajmal Amin, the only terrorist arrested during the operation, told interrogators that the dozen ultras who sailed from Karachi had come to Sassoon Dock from where they were taken first to Cuff Parade and later to the Gateway of India in boats arranged by a frontman of Dawood, who runs several custom clearing houses in Mumbai, the sources claimed.

The Mumbai police and central security agencies have launched a massive manhunt for the businessman considered to be a henchman of Dawood, who has been listed as a global terrorist having links to the Al Qaeda by the United States.

The suspect looks after some customs clearing mechanism and also indulges in diesel smuggling for the underworld don, the sources claimed.

After getting into waiting boats arranged by Dawood's gang in Mumbai, arms, ammunition and plastic explosives were quickly transferred to the waiting boats that took the terrorists to the Gateway of India which was had been marked as the launching pad for the terror strike, the first of its kind in the country's terrorism history.It is in India's National interest to put Pressure on Pakistani Government to extradite Dawood as soon as possible.

Read more about What India should do Next and Terrorist were carrying BlackBerry

An Indian from Bihar Regiment sacrifices for Thackrey's Mumbai

While the official death toll has reached 195 and we are still counting the people, Indians and Foreign Nationals, who have lost their lives in this tragic incident, my heart goes out to all those brave people who sacrificed their lives(on Duty) for their Mother India.

In addition to all the hostages and other innocent people who became victim of cruel firing of the Karanchi based (it's almost confirmed that most of terrorist came from Karanchi,Pakistan via sea to Mumbai) angels of God who are also enemies of Human kind, we have atleast half a dozen brave heros who sacrificed their lives for the Nation while fighting the terrorist.

A Mumbai, which beloged to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and their leader Raj Thakrey a few days back, where the people from other Indian states speacially from North India were not welcome, was saved by people from out side Maharashtra by taking a bullet at their chest and while this was happening all the MNS activist including their head Raj Thakrey was watching all this in TV at the comfort of their bed rooms.

As per reports so far, the two NSG commandos who sacrificed their life for saving Raj Takrey's Mumbai are Bihar Regiment's, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and another North Indian hawaldar Gajendra Singh hailing from Uttranchal.

I wish, the so called soldiers of Maharashtra's development (MNS) would atleast come out to give a shoulder to the NSG commandos who fought a 50+ hours continous gun battle to ensure mother land of marathi manoos is saved.

Do I hear you saying that "Mumbai is an integral part of India and it's very much the responsibility of every Indian to save the soil of India", NOW? I would love to hear you say that even after this storm is over.

Mumbai: Terror attacks in India

It was a horrible morning today. When you start the day with a shocking news like "terrorist attack in Mumabi", it has to be a horrible morning. Inspite of being 1000+ km away from Mumbai and hardly knowing anyone who got affected by this massacre, it was shocking to hear that a secular country like India which has a history to absorb and give respect to all the people who come from outside, is being attacked.

It's shocking that a religion which is at-least 1300 plus year old and has a rich heritage is going down in drains rather than evolving and growing. The common man whether in India or in Western countries is at the receiving end for no fault because of extremist thinking of a group of people.

I hate this fear. I feel I am not safe in any corner of the world. What mistake I did, I really don't know. I want to live and let others live happily. Is it too much to ask for? Do I need to part of any religion to understand such a basic need of human kind that everyone want to live and let other live happily?

It's so difficult to understand that a religion can push you to destroy the human race. A philosophy or thinking can not be termed as religion if it motivates you to do a massacre like this or works as a catalyst to provoke you to remove the man kind.

Those who does advocacy of the religion when the religion is termed as a "Terror Religion" should stand up and take the responsibility of such gruesome attack on man-kind and if they cannot do anything to stop this, they should keep silent when people say that one of the religion of this world is a "Terror Religion".

May the soul of all the people who died in Mumbai yesterday rest in piece.

Break Free

It's been so long since I have been trying to get the definition of "breaking free", something which is going to work for me. 

All of us are different individuals and have different backgrounds, thinking and approach towards life and so definitely something which works for others, might not work for me and I need to explore this for myself.

At times, I feel like switching my current work profile and do something totaly different and that would make feel as if I have broken free. 

Spending time with the loaved and dear ones is something all of us love and cherish and but current day work pressure and life style does not let this happen easily. Would this be "breaking free", I mean leave everything behind to spend time with you near and dear ones.

Lately, I have come to realize that sprituality can play a major role in bring our stress level down, the stress which is caused and accumulated by of routine life style.

I need sometime with myself deparately to explore the meaning of "breaking free" for me man.

Damn it...when will that day come....

World 2050

Google has launched a new browser today, iPhone is making waves in Indian market, electronic gadgets available in the market has changed the face of life and world has definitely shrinking day by day with faster/newer modes of communications. This is the face of today's rapidly changing world.

If I have to imagine at this point, what's going to be the face of World 2050, is it very difficult for me? or looking at the past revolution pattern, I can make a rough sketch of World 2050. Let me at least make an effort to think wild and guess what the human kind would have achieved by 2050 and which direction the human kind would be heading towards.

World would probably have become a more tiny object than what it is today. People would be flying from Delhi to SFO in less than six hours. Will laptop survive till 2050? I am not too sure if it will. Probably a tiny device like iPhone would be doing most the work for us.

There are lot things like this which might sound a dream or imagination at this point but would be reality in the years come.

Go ahead humanity.........

Ownersip transfer of BESCOM meter for Apartments in South Bangalore

1. Get a NOC from you Apartment Office.

2. Get two forms (one AEH form and other indeminity bond form) near Kudlu gate(opposite Novel Office in Hosur Rd.) BESCOM office Bangalore. It cost around Rs 180. It is sold in a small tea shop near BESCOM office atKudlu gate. OR The AEH and Indemnity Bond forms can be obtained at the BESCOM office inKoramangala BDA complex as well for Rs. 200/-[This helps avoid the extra run to Kudlu Gate just for the forms]

3. Get an attested copy of Sale deed (by Notary or Bank official fromwhere loan in taken). Bank official easily does this. They just needto mention that orignial copy is with them and photcopy of sale deedis as per original. Notary Attestation at MayoHall MG Road/Residency Road crosswould be quick and much cheaper.

4. Take NOC, two forms (mentioned in point 2), last electricty bill,attested copy of sale deed, copy of khata to JE of Bescom office atBellendur gate (just above the place here electricity bill can bepaid). Please note the serial number of your Electricity meter andcurrent reading while going to JE.

5. JE would verify the documents and provide a report.

6. Submit this report along the documents to Kudlu gate BESCOM office. A transfer fees of Rs 100 has to be paid. JE at Bellandur Gate will give the report immediately [takes ~5 min].

7. The Bescom office at Kudlu Gate takes roughly 1 week to do the nametransfer. The JE there who handles the name transfer is Mr.Chandrashekhar.(known as Mr. "Chandru") Kudlu gate is on left hand side when going from Silk Board to E-City. Another landmark is Macaulay public school.

Life Is A Journey

A simple four letter word but people have tried to describe, explain and then re-define this word time and again over years. For some people its a mystery, a complicated one which needs to be solved for others its game to be played and some would term it as a drama where all of us are playing small roles. Noone really knows what this is all about. Its definitely a journey. There are ups and downs in life. There are streches of life which are pleasant and then some are not so pleasant. You have fellow travellers who can make the journey fun for you. Everyone knows their final destinations.

Let us enjoy this journey and make it pleasant for others too.