Saturday,
November
14,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Headley
stayed at Taj His associate Rana left
Mumbai 5 days ahead of 26/11 New
Delhi, November 13
David Headley, the US-based
terror suspect who was arrested by the FBI for planning strikes
in India, had stayed at Mumbai’s Taj hotel. And his
Canadian-Pakistani associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana had left
Mumbai only five days ahead of last year’s audacious strikes
by the Lashkar-e-Toiba there. Records
seized from hotels in Delhi
A view of the hotel in Paharganj where US-based terror suspect David Headley stayed during his Delhi visit in March this year.
Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
There
was no ground-level info on Headley New Delhi, November 13
There are perilous gaps in
ground-level information gathering system in the Indian security system.
At least that appears from the fact that the names of David Headley and
his associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana never figured in the information
collected by any policemen in the country.
UK
entry to get harder London, November 13
In a bid to tighten visa rules, a
draft bill in the British Parliament proposes to replace the five
current application categories of immigrants with a clear-cut concept
— ‘permission’ — to be in the country.
Abandoned
kids can’t be adopted in J&K Jammu, November 13
Arti of Doda used to get excited to
see visitors in the Bal Ashram. A 10-year-old girl lost her parents in a
blast in Kishtwar. She had a hazy idea picked from movies and serials
that couples often visit orphanages or bal ashrams to adopt a child.
Koda
associate spills the beans New Delhi, November 13
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister
Madhu Koda, who is set to appear before the ED on November 15 in
connection with the multi-crore illegal investment and hawala case,
might find the going tough with his close associate Vikash Sinha said to
have spilled the beans about the alleged illicit network.
Australian gets
6-year jail for attacking Indian
Melbourne, November 13
A court here has sentenced an
Australian to over six years in jail for attacking an Indian taxi driver
with knife, an incident that led to hundreds of Indian cabbies blocking
the Melbourne streets last year.
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