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Police 'clear about those involved'
MUMBAIMUMBAI, AUG. 26.AUG. 26. A day after the twin bomb blasts, police expected a significant breakthrough by the weekend but continue to remain tightlipped on the details of the progress, which sources said "had reached an interesting stage". ...
`Suspects conducted a dry run'
MUMBAI, AUG. 26.The Mumbai police are questioning Shiv Narayan Pande, a 55-year old taxi driver, who ferried the suspects to the blast site near the Gateway of India (and the Taj Mahal hotel) here on Monday. The taxi, in which the bomb was kept, ...
Chaos, traffic snarls back in metropolis
MUMBAI, AUG. 26. Less than 24 hours after Monday's twin blasts, Mumbai returned to its normal level of chaos and hyper-activity. The markets were open, the routine traffic snarls choked many roads and people were back at work. Even ...
Trading in bullion market comes to a halt
MUMBAI, AUG. 26. The normally bustling Zaveri Bazar wore a deserted look for the second day today following Monday's bomb blast in the centre of the bazar. Hundreds of retail gold jewellery shops remained shut and trading in the bullion market ...
Punish the mischief-makers: Sonia
MUMBAI, AUG. 26. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today asked the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, to ensure that blasts such as the recent ones in Mumbai "do not recur" with "terrorists from outside" striking with ...
'Action needed to eliminate terrorism'
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26.India today stopped short of directly blaming Pakistan for Monday's twin blasts in Mumbai, but said the scale and frequency of terrorist attacks made the task of sincere and well-meaning initiatives more difficult. The ...
ASI report raises more questions
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26.The report of the Archaeological Survey of India on its excavation at Ayodhya is unlikely to settle the academic debate, and will prolong the legal dispute on what lay beneath the disputed site. While proponents of the theory ...
Relief package for BSNL likely
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26.The Union Cabinet will shortly consider a relief package for the country's largest phone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), to prevent it from going sick due to the estimated additional financial burden of Rs. 40,000 ...
SC reserves verdict on plea against Advani
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26. The Supreme Court today reserved verdict on an appeal filed by the Bihar Government against a 1996 judgment of the Patna High Court expunging certain remarks in the Bhagalpur Riots Commission report describing the Deputy Prime ...
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