India Intelligence Guidance: 6th-8th September 2008

• 08/09/08: Kashmir’s top separatist leader has warned India’s heavy-handed crackdown on protesters in the Muslim-majority region could trigger renewed violence in the long-running separatist revolt.
• 08/09/08: Two persons armed with weapons looted more than 10 kg of gold jewellery from the employees of a courier company outside the cargo office of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad.
• 08/09/08: In a major haul, 70 kg of explosive powder, 1,994 detonators and 10,100 metres of fuse wire were recovered and four persons arrested from Ranchi district of Jharkhand.
• 08/09/08: Fifteen people and a policeman were injured, some of them seriously, when the police opened fire to quell a clash between two groups of people in Assam’s Karimganj district.
• 08/09/08: The stalemate over acquisition of land for the Tata Motors project at Singur ended here late on Sunday night, following two rounds of discussions between Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
• 08/09/08: India is preparing to press Australia to supply uranium to its reactors, hoping to build on Canberra’s support during negotiations in Vienna.
• 08/09/08: Cops are faced with the daunting task of hunting down fresh SIMI recruits — those who have no police records and who are insulated by their lack of information on the top SIMI cadre.
• 08/09/08: Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand will take the lion’s share of the deployment of the newly formed Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) to counter Maoist.
• 08/09/08: Intelligence agencies may start probing the ISI-Maoist collusion in pumping fake currency in India after the arrest of Umesh Rawat alias Prasad alias Patel. Apart from Maoists, Nepal is also learnt to be harbouring a well-oiled network of ISI and Dawood Ibrahim gang, especially in and around Kathmandu. According to intelligence reports, both ISI and Maoists have a common agenda of fostering anti-national operations in India.
• 08/09/09: The Indian Air Force [IAF] is on the verge of finalising the long awaited Rs 1,800-crore deal for 18 Israeli Spyder-SR low-level quick reaction missile [LLQRM] systems to augment its depreciated air defence systems, further bolstering military ties between Delhi and Tel Aviv.
• 07/09/08: Nepalese police have secretly deported two key suspects in 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai after arresting them in the capital. Salim Ghazi and Riyaj Khatri who were suspected to be involved in Mumbai blast that killed over 250 people were arrested in a residential area here on Thursday.
• 07/09/08: While the Nuclear Supplies Group waiver at Vienna on Saturday has been a major breakthrough for India , there is concern here that China chose to join the group of six like-minded countries that expressed reservations in granting India-specific waiver at the last minute in the NSG meeting.
• 07/09/08: One soldier was killed and two were wounded in a gun battle that was underway Sunday morning between security forces and suspected militants in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
• 07/08/08: Describing terrorism as a “pervasive and insidious” threat to global security, India has sought a concerted action to root out its networks and deter regimes from encouraging and harbouring armed extremists
• 07/09/08: In what appears to be a part of the Maoist strategy to cause confusion and engineer division within the police rank and file,Naxalites belonging to the CPI (Maoist), have invoked the class rhetoric to woo the constabulary. The Maoists have pasted posters in several parts of the trouble-prone Dumaria -Imamganj area of the district reminding the constabulary engaged in the anti-Naxal combat of its (constabulary’s) common economic and social interests with the proponents of the Naxal ideology
• 06/09/08: The Peoples Liberation Front of Meghalaya, a new outfit backed by Ulfa and the NSCN (I-M), has started operating along the Assam-Meghalaya border. Preliminary investigations suggest that the PLFM was formed in 2003 and 35 of its cadres went underground to receive training and prepare network to carry out its operations. According to intelligence sources, the group wants to “liberate” Meghalaya from the “Indian colonial clutch” and mainly provides logistical support to the 709 battalion of Ulfa besides helping its cadres sneak into Bangladesh.
• 06/09/08: The world community is alarmed by attacks on Christians in Orissa. Seven members of the US House of Representatives have shown concern over it in a letter to the ambassador to the US, Ronen Sen, seeking quick action to neutralise the crisis.
• 06/09/08: Authorities in Orissa on Saturday clamped prohibitory orders restricting Hindu rallies in the state, following orders from the Supreme Court. Security has been beefed up in parts of the state and policemen have been deployed outside places of worship. Members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) criticised the restrictions as a violation of their fundamental rights.
• 06/09/08: At least 300 protestors have been arrested by police in Indian Kashmir after the recent agitation and curfews. The Indian Kashmir witnessed massive anti-India and pro-freedom marches and rallies in August. Tens of thousands of people attended these marches and rallies, which called on India to grant freedom to Kashmir.
• 06/09/08: One person was killed and three wounded on Saturday when police fired on hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators protesting against New Delhi’s rule in Indian Kashmir, police and witnesses said.