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Friday, June 5, 2009

Terror threat on radar, United States warns citizens in India

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Two days after the United States embassy in New Delhi, posted a message on its website, warning citizens of high threat of terrorism across, the Indian government reacted sharply asserting that India was absolutely safe.

The Ministry of External Affairs directed the Indian embassy in Washington DC to take up the matter with the Obama administration.

“Ambassador Meera Shankar has been asked to give her personal attention to this matter, to ensure that the message is removed,” a source told Hindustan Times.

On the other hand, Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, 53, reacted sharply and said “India is a safe place.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Navi Mumbai, the new terror hub

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How a wifi link was stolen investigations into Saturday's Ahmedabad serial bombings have thrown up the first clues: the terror operations were likely planned in Navi Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra.

It is now emerging that someone logged in to American manager Kenneth Haywood's Wi-Fi connection - installed in his apartment in Navi Mumbai - to send the e-mail warning of a terror strike, minutes before the first bombs went off, intelligence officials told the Hindustan Times on condition of anonymity .

Three of the four car-bombs in Gujarat were stolen from Navi Mumbai and the fourth was traced to an area near Nashik, said officials of Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Mumbai. The findings came on a day when the death toll crossed 50, a bomb was defused in Surat, and tense Indian cities were flooded with bomb hoaxes.

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