Tuesday May 29 ,2012

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INDIA, MYANMAR SIGN 12 PACTS NYAPYITAW
(MYANMAR): India on Monday extended a $500 million line of credit to Myanmar as part of 12 agreements on security, development of border areas, trade and revival of transport links between the two countries. 3 HELD FOR AIIMS PAPER LEAK Three people, including the mastermind of the AIIMS post-graduate examination paper leak, were arrested when they were trying to leak the question paper of another competitive exam on Sunday. 27 DIE IN MUMBAI EWAY ACCIDENT Twenty-seven members of a marriage party were killed and 28 injured when a speeding tempo collided with their parked mini-bus on the Mumbai-pune Expressway on Monday. Running BCCI is tougher than running a firm Former India captain Kapil Dev writes exclusively for HT on IPL and the need for BCCI to change its way of functioning.

Terroist attack on Mumbai

The 2008 Mumbai attacks (sometimes referred to as 26/11) were 11 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, by Islamist terrorists who came from Pakistan. The attackers allegedly received reconnaissance assistance before the attacks. Ajmal Kasab, the only attacker who was captured alive later confessed upon interrogation that the attacks were conducted with the support of Pakistan's ISI.The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308 Ajmal Kasab disclosed that the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant organisation, considered a terrorist organization by India, Pakistan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations, [ among others. The Indian government said that the attackers came from Pakistan, and their controllers were in Pakistan. [19] On 7 January 2009,[20] Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman officially accepted Ajmal Kasab's nationality as Pakistani. On 12 February 2009, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asserted that parts of the attack had been planned in Pakistan. A trial court on 6 May 2010 sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death on five counts.

PM on terrorism
NEW DELHI: While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of terrorism and the need to expedite the trial of Mumbai attacks accused with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, government sources said Zardari focused on Kashmir, Sir Creek and Siachen issues saying it was high time these were resolved. That Zardari managed to raise these issues focusing on their early settlement, even though he did not give any categorical assurance on either reining in India-specific terror groups or handing over LeT chief Hafiz Saeed to India, is likely to help him cater to his domestic constituency of which many had demanded until Saturday that he call off his visit. "Both felt that we need to move forward step-by-step," foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said.a