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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A first: Foreign interest in Arjun tank

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Seeking to build up its armoured warfare capabilities to crush a potential threat from Venezuela, its Latin American neighbour Colombia has shown interest in buying India’s indigenous Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun.

The first ever expression of interest from abroad in the MBT Arjun could translate into an export order worth Rs 1,700 crore, with Colombia wanting to raise at least two regiments of main battle tanks.

“Bogota has expressed interest in the MBT Arjun. The Colombian army has an immediate requirement for 10 tanks to be followed up with the induction of another 100 over five years,” said a senior official, on the condition of anonymity.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Born Muslim, raised Hindu

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Every Day for six years, Mohammed Salim Sheikh and his wife mourned the loss of their two-year-old son Muzaffar, missing since a deadly mob attack ruined their home and life during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Last year, they found him.

But Muzaffar had now become Vivek, 7, son of Hindu fish-seller Vikram Patni, a childless man who cared for him since and with whom the boy wants to stay rather than his biological parents. A court battle followed. On Wednesday a court declared he , would continue to live with the Patni family .

"I'll move High Court. This isn't the end," said Sheikh. Muzaffar – or Vivek – clung frightened to the arms of his feeling parents on February 28, 2002 as thousands of rioters raided Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society in a , six-hour carnage that also killed former MP Ehsan Jaffrey who had given them shelter.

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