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100 dead as gunmen target MumbaiTeams of gunmen have stormed hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a train station in co-ordinated attacks across Mumbai, killing at least 101 people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. At least six of the militants had [...]

Mumbai Terror – Are nuclear establishments safe?B Raman, ex RAW chief, is pained by the Govt.’s ignoring his call on terror    Send article as PDF   

Mumbai attacks come to an endIn Mumbai attacks, at least 183 have been killed, including 14 policemen and 13 foreigners and 327 people have been injured. Eight terrorists have been killed in the mission – four in Taj, two in Oberoi and two in Nariman House. One has been caught alive. Five hostages and two [...]

Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 300 injuredTerror struck the country’s financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked in Mumbai. At least 80 people were dead and over 300 injured in the terror attacks, hospital sources said. ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed during attacks in the [...]

Husain Film Pulled From Indian FestivalA 1967 film by Indian artist M.F.Husain has been withdrawn from the International Film Festival of India at the request of two Hindu nationalist groups. The removal of the movie, Through the Eyes of a Painter, was requested by the Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Jananagruti movements, which claimed that … [...]

Leaders of a Muslim charity convictedLeaders of a Muslim charity the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, shut down by the federal government had been convicted in a retrial of money laundering, tax fraud and supporting terrorism. The federal government declared Hamas to be a terrorist group in 1995. When the government shuttered Holy [...]

Nearly 60 per cent polling in J&K A large number of people turned up for the second phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. The overall polling percentage in Rajouri and Ganderbal districts was put at 59.09 per cent. It was much higher than the turnout in the 2002 elections …    [...]

IT HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA(English translation of the article written by Kannada writer S. L. Byrappa on religious conversions. The article is translated by Shri. Manoj Deshpande. Published in Vijaykarnataka, Kannada daily on 16th October 2008.) For the last four decades, Christian missionaries in India have been indulging in religious conversions and this trend has [...]

Pure insulin-producing cells produced in mouse Cells effective in treating diabetes in lab model Singapore researchers have developed an unlimited number of pure insulin-producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). These pure insulin-producing cells, which according to electron microscopy studies, have the same sub-cellular structures as the insulin-producing cells naturally found in the pancreas, [...]

New strain of deadly Ebola virus discoveredAn outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world’s most notorious viruses. The strain provisionally named Bundibugyo ebolavirus after the district where the outbreak occurred joins four other known species of the pathogen. More [...]