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10/09/08:Unfazed by the criticism his group has faced over the violence in Orissa, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has said that violence against Hindus will be met with violence.
10/09/08: The US has offered India a $170 million deal for the sale of two dozen Harpoon air to ground anti-ship missiles to modernise its air force anti-surface warfare mission capabilities and improve its naval operational flexibility.
10/09/08: Goa is one of only six States in India that do not have a naxalite presence, according to a report submitted by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to the Union Home Ministry. The other five States that have no naxalites are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh.
10/09/08: Over two dozen “cover” organisations of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) are now operating in South India, and government documents reveal there are 50 such front outfits across the country.
10/09/08: India would take up various defence issues, including the hike in the price of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, to be commissioned in the Indian Navy as INS Vikramaditya, as well as joint manufacturing of multi-role fighter aircraft during the visit of Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov later this month.
10/09/08: In Agra, a dozen people were arrested for inciting riots as tension continued to prevail in the Mantola area of the city Tuesday following communal clashes Monday night.
10/09/08: Fifty armed rebels of the CPI(Maoist) stormed Fodenga in Nimdih late last night and rained bullets on a villager branding him a police informer. The victim, Shyamapada Singh, is fighting for life in hospital.
10/09/08: David Bohigian, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who is leading a US Clean Energy Trade Mission to India, has said that business opportunity worth $ 100 billion will open up once the Indo-American Nuclear Agreement becomes operational.
10/09/08: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) said on Tuesday that it had urged the Union Home Ministry to put the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on the watch list of organisations indulging in terrorist-like activities and take the “severest action.”
10/09/08: The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested four militants owing allegiance to the Al-Badr outfit for carrying out two grenade attacks in Gulmarg and Batmaloo in July this year which left eight persons dead and dozens injured.
10/09/08: Unidentified militants exploded a bomb at Chingmeirong Khongnang Ani Karak area in Imphal West district injuring two Assam Rifles jawans of 39th battalion and a civilian
10/09/08: The first meeting of the committee formed to work out a solution to the Singur land issue failed to make any headway on Tuesday, as the Trinamool Congress stuck to its demand for 300 acres within the Tatas’ project area.
10/09/08: The Indian Army is devising new strategies to overcome infiltration from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir.
10/09/08: The Pentagon said Tuesday it has notified the US Congress of a possible sale to India of two dozen Harpoon air to ground anti-ship missiles. Such a deal would be worth as much as 170 million dollars, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.
10/09/08: India on Tuesday unveiled a new doctrine to provide synergy among its three services to fight an ‘amphibious war’ involving sea, land and air. The “Joint Doctrine for Amphibious Operations”, meant to serve as a guideline on how the armed forces intend to plan and conduct amphibious operations involving all three dimensions of warfare.
10/09/08: In a development of far-reaching and frightening implications for the stature of the Indian judiciary, Bar Associations in several parts of the country are effectively banning advocates from defending Muslim youth, a report published on the website Two Circles.net said on Tuesday.
09/09/08: Government forces fatally shot Javed Ahmad Bhat, a 23-year-old bystander on Saturday in held Srinagar, when the forces had fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse an angry crowd.
09/09/08: Bharat Sanchar Nigam plans to launch 93 million mobile lines in India. The state-owned company will accept bids for the $9 billion contract, although no bidder will be able to have more than 50 million lines.
09/09/08: India has completed construction of a strategic road linking landlocked Afghanistan with a port in Iran, India’s envoy said.
09/09/08: Israel’s army chief Major General Avi Mizrahi is on a three-day visit to India beginning today to enhance the already-growing defence ties between the two countries.
09/09/08: Defence Minister A K Antony met his US counterpart Robert Gates to discuss ways to deepen the bilateral security cooperation and exchange views on regional and international issues of mutual interest.
09/09/08: Favouring a “strategic” and accommodative approach towards resolving the boundary issue with India, China today said the two neighbours needed to think about larger interest of their ties and strengthen cooperation.
09/09/08: Five suspected militants of People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) were killed during heavy exchange of fire with a combined team of police commandoes and 4/8 Gorkha regiment in the wee hours today at Toubul Patto area in Bishenpur district.
09/09/08: Infosys Technologies, the number two software services exporter in the country, is having a serious ‘rethink’ of its maiden investment plan in West Bengal given the unfriendly industrial and political climate in that state.
09/09/08: Two people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district and 200 kg of explosives besides Maoist literature were recovered from them, the police said Tuesday.
09/09/08: In Manipur, at least three suspected militants including one believed to be a hardcore UNLF cadre were killed at different places in the state by the security forces who also recovered arms and ammunitions even as heavy exchange of fire was reported at Patton area of Bishnupur tonight.
09/09/08: A possible grand alliance between Assam’s main opposition parties Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the general elections is being welcomed by the parties, but the chinks are already visible.
09/09/08: Parts of the city of the Taj Mahal were tense on Tuesday morning after a minor accident triggered off communal clashes where mobs pelted stones at each other and two houses were set on fire late Monday night, police said.
09/09/08: Left-wing extremists are spreading their presence to as many as 22 states with the Maoists even approaching banned groups like LTTE and ULFA for arms procurement, an intelligence report has claimed.
09/09/08: India’s leading offshore drilling contractor Aban Offshore Monday said it has won a contract for the deployment of the new build jack-up rig Deep Driller seven offshore in Thailand. The estimated revenue from the contract is $18 million (Rs.792 million), a company statement said.
09/09/08: In Orissa several Christians in 11 blocks of the tribal districts are said to have been “forcibly converted” as Hindus in the past 17 days of mayhem; the rest say they are facing a choice between life and faith.
09/09/08: The general court martial (GCM) trying a Military Intelligence officer for unauthorised contact with Ethiopian girls today accepted the defence plea that possession of an unlicenced weapon by a service officer does not amount to an offence under the Army Act.
09/09/08: Russia’s state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said on Monday it had contracted a number of Russian companies to provide India’s A-50 AEW aircraft with after sale services. In 2001 India ordered three A-50EI variant fitted with the Israeli-made Phalcon radar system from Russia. The first aircraft was scheduled to arrive in 2007-08 but has been delayed.
09/09/08: The inspector-general of police (special branch), Khagen Sharma, said security forces are now concentrating more on Lower Assam, specially after the declaration of a ceasefire by ULFA’s 28 battalion.
08/09/08: Nuclear Power Corp, India’s state- run monopoly, will begin talks this month with Areva SA and General Electric Co. while it waits for the U.S. Congress to clear a deal that allows the South Asian nation to buy atomic technology and fuel. Nuclear Power plans to buy more than $14 billion of equipment in 2009 from four companies.
08/09/08: China denied reports on Monday it was reluctant to support a U.S. proposal to lift a global ban on nuclear trade with India, as foreign ministers of the two countries began talks to solve a festering border dispute.
08/09/08: More than sixty people were injured when Kashmiris clashed with Indian Security forces on Monday during complete strike in the Kashmir valley.
08/09/08: Tata Motors said on Monday it would not start work at the low-cost Nano car site, where work was suspended last week, until it was confident of smooth operations and the continued viability of the project.
08/09/08: The Kandhamal administration on Sunday decided to relax curfew in different towns of the riot-affected district during day time from Monday.
08/09/08: A joint team of Nagaland Police, Nagaland Armed Police (NAP) and Assam Rifles (AR) conducted flash out operation here at Aradhura area yesterday and seized cache of arms and ammunitions.
08/09/08: The Chinese government on Saturday not only nearly toppled India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) bid in Vienna, but went a step further by advocating a similar nuclear deal for Pakistan.
08/09/08: The All Assam Tribal Sangha, an umbrella organization of different ethnic groups in the state has exhorted the Central government to gear up vigilance infrastructure along the borders with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan to stymie the demographic invasion across the border.
08/09/08: Heavy damage was caused to an old protestant church located in the Railway Colony here after a fire broke out, police said today. Church sources, however, blamed certain Hindu outfits for the incident at the 85-year-old church, one of the oldest Christian religious places in western Madhya Pradesh.
08/09/08: Defence Minister A. K. Antony has left on a four-day visit to United States to hold discussions on security cooperation and other strategic issues with President George W. Bush administration.
08/09/08: India will take its civilian nuclear deal with the United States to the world looking to secure fuel supplies and reactor technology, analysts said.
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