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SIMI ban lifted, govt fails to furnish enough evidence

Kamal Kishore — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:04:21 +0000

A Delhi High Court tribunal on Tuesday ordered the ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to be lifted. The court said the government has not furnished enough evidence to prove SIMI is an unlawful organisation. The decision...

Cost of Living in Bangalore

Krishna Chandra — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:59:32 +0000

I have been living in Bangalore the last 5 years or so. Prices of everything, from vegetables to rent to food has shot up several times. Sometimes the prices are so high , you get a feeling, you are in US or UK. I understand folks have money ,...

Post-blasts, foreign buyers reluctant to visit Surat

Kamal Kishore — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:31:54 +0000

Pawan Kumar, a dealer of polished and rough diamonds and owner of a brokerage firm Aura NV in Antwerp, Belgium, is apprehensive about visiting India to buy polished diamonds after the serial blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and recovery of live bombs...

Has India lost its war against terror?

View Point — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:37:38 +0000

The Bangalore and Ahmadabad bomb blasts are painful chapters in India’s war against terror. India is a soft terror target with serial bomb blasts rocking almost all major cities in the recent past including Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmadabad,...

Why Bangalore ?

Cute — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:39:18 +0000

I wish a safe life to all my colleagues those are working at Bangalore and all the resident of Bangalore. Bangalore is a great city, I have visited so many times, but the question coming in my mind why Bangalore ? here is some check...

Bombings in western Indian city kill 29

AP — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:15:07 +0000

Bombs exploded Saturday near a busy market and a hospital in a western Indian city, killing 29 people and injuring 88 a day after deadly blasts struck the southern technology hub of...

Eyes Wide Shut...

Reshmi — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:19:40 +0000

Yesterday at around 1.30 IST, seven blasts ripped through the city of Bangalore. The blasts were of low intensity, and the bombs were not so effective; i.e. hundreds of people were not killed at various places. Our senses have become so numb we...

Sonia Gandhi condemns Bangalore blasts

Desh — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:28:22 +0000

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today condemned the serial blasts in Bangalore. “This is a cowardly act and people who want to disturb the peace of the country are behind it,” she said. Meanwhile, Prime Minister...

Four low intensity blasts rock Bangalore

S.TIWARI — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:04:27 +0000

Bangalore, July 25: Terror seems to have struck again, this time in Bangalore, initial reports suggest that four blasts have ripped through different parts of the IT city, the first one in the Madiwala and the second in Adugodi area in Kormangla....

2 killed in synchronized bomb explosions in India

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:33:12 +0000

Seven synchronized small bombs shook India’s high-tech hub Friday, killing two people and wounding at least five others, officials said.Bangalore Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri said the seven blasts went off within several minutes of each...