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July - 2 
On July 2, West Bengal inspector-general of police (law and order) Raj Kanojia said that the intelligence wing of Bengal police has found enough proof to suggest that the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) is trying to regroup in three districts
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On July 2, West Bengal inspector-general of police (law and order) Raj Kanojia said that the intelligence wing of Bengal police has found enough proof to suggest that the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) is trying to regroup in three districts of north Bengal. "From inputs received from the intelligence wing, we have come to know that a fresh batch of KLO militants is trying to reorganise in Jalpaiguri, Malda and parts of Dinajpur districts," Kanojia told reporters at Siliguri. He added that a number of other insurgent groups existed in north Bengal. "There are so many issues here. KLO and border-related issues are among them. I have discussed the issues with local police officials. We are getting information about Maoist activities as well and are alert about it," he said.
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July - 7 
41 persons, including four Indians, were killed and over 140 were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his bomb-laden car into the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7-morning, reports The Hindu. Among the killed were an Indian diplomat, V.
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41 persons, including four Indians, were killed and over 140 were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his bomb-laden car into the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7-morning, reports The Hindu. Among the killed were an Indian diplomat, V. Venkateswara Rao, and the military attaché, Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, whose car was entering the embassy compound at the time of explosion and two Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel. Others killed in the attack were local security personnel and Afghans who had queued up for visas to travel to India. Several shops across the road, including the Indian Airlines office, were damaged.
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July - 7 
Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the "enemies" of the strong friendship between Afghanistan and India for the attack but did not name any person or group. The Afghan Interior Ministry, however, in a statement, said, it "believes this attack was c
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the "enemies" of the strong friendship between Afghanistan and India for the attack but did not name any person or group. The Afghan Interior Ministry, however, in a statement, said, it "believes this attack was carried out in co-ordination and consultation with an active intelligence service in the region", in an obvious reference to the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
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July - 8 
The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has accused that the massive daily intrusion of fishermen from Tamil Nadu in southern India into the Sri Lankan waters very near Mannar and Jaffna is posing a major security threat to north Sri Lanka. "They not only poach fis
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The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has accused that the massive daily intrusion of fishermen from Tamil Nadu in southern India into the Sri Lankan waters very near Mannar and Jaffna is posing a major security threat to north Sri Lanka. "They not only poach fish, but smuggle in fuel and other war-like material for the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)," SLN spokesman Commodore DKP Dassanayake told New Indian Express in Colombo on July 8. For example, between June 6, 2007 and July 7, 2008, as many as 6,839 Indian fishing boats were seen off the north Sri Lankan coast, especially Thalaimannar, Pesalai and Delft island, he said, adding that "These boats carry fuel, bicycle balls and explosives for the LTTE. Several of them have been seen heading towards Vedithalthivu and other places, presently under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. We also learn that each boat gives 20 litres of fuel as a bribe to the LTTE to be able to fish in this area. Just imagine the amount of fuel that the LTTE must be getting on a daily basis from these fishermen."
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July - 9 
The Tamil Nadu (TN) Government is working on a technical system to track and communicate with Indian fishing trawlers, with the aim of preventing them from straying into Sri Lankan waters and avoiding incidents involving the Sri Lankan Navy or the Li
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The Tamil Nadu (TN) Government is working on a technical system to track and communicate with Indian fishing trawlers, with the aim of preventing them from straying into Sri Lankan waters and avoiding incidents involving the Sri Lankan Navy or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). An unnamed official sourcetold New Indian Express on July 9 that the technical and the funding aspects of the system were being discussed.
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India on July 12 confirmed that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency, had a definite role in the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, Times of India reported. The National Security Adviser
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India on July 12 confirmed that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency, had a definite role in the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, Times of India reported. The National Security Adviser, M. K. Narayanan, said on July 12 that "We not only suspect but we have a fair amount of intelligence (on the involvement of Pakistan)… We have no doubt that the ISI is behind this….people of the country deserve to know the facts." He also said "I think we need to pay back in the same coin. We are quite clear in our mind… The people of this country deserve to know the facts rather than being carried away by people who make statements that these are insinuations. There are no insinuations." According to him, "The ISI needs to be destroyed. We made this point, whenever we have had a chance... There might have been some tactical restraint for some time, obviously that restraint is no longer present," he told television channels according to the Press Trust of India. Indicating that the joint anti-terror mechanism with Pakistan had run its course, Narayanan was quoted as saying: "The anti-terror mechanism was one piece of this picture. The hope was that in course of time both sides would share whatever information they have and come up with a holistic idea of what was going on… Talk-talk is better than fight-fight. But it hasn't worked so far. In some way, we haven't arrived at the decision that we should go for fight-fight so let talk-talk continue for the moment."
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July - 14 
Daily News and Analysis quoting Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources reports that the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) is recruiting children for its sleeper and information cells in West Bengal. This development has reportedly as a concern
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Daily News and Analysis quoting Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources reports that the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) is recruiting children for its sleeper and information cells in West Bengal. This development has reportedly as a concern area for the State Police as the outfit is known to have a substantially bigger network in the state, especially in Indo-Bangladesh border districts of in Murshidabad, Nadia, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas. An unidentified IB official said, "Huji is mainly targeting school drop-outs with extremely poor financial background and wooing them with money." The child recruits’ assignments include passing on information on police deployment in their respective areas of operation. "These children are also being used as messengers between HuJI-B linkmen," he added.
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July - 14 
On July 14, the Additional District Judge court at Madanapalli in the Chittoor district sentenced to life imprisonment a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Azad Ahmed Qureshi, who was arrested in Madanapalli on July 3, 2007, UNI reported. The 29-year-old
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On July 14, the Additional District Judge court at Madanapalli in the Chittoor district sentenced to life imprisonment a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Azad Ahmed Qureshi, who was arrested in Madanapalli on July 3, 2007, UNI reported. The 29-year-old Qureshi, a native of Kashmir, was sentenced and fined INR 12,000 under sections 121, 121a and 468 of the Indian Penal Code for waging war against India, conspiracy to wage war and forgery in the preparation of election identity cards in Kashmir by the Judge. Qureshi was arrested when he came here to meet his woman companion in Madanapalli. Qureshi was sent by the LeT to collect details of places of economic importance in cities like Bangalore.
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July - 15 
Times of India reports that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on July 15-night arrested Mohammed MuqeemuddinYaser, a former member of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), from his residence in the Saidabad area of capital Hydera
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Times of India reports that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on July 15-night arrested Mohammed MuqeemuddinYaser, a former member of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), from his residence in the Saidabad area of capital Hyderabad. Yaser, who is a MBA student, is also the eldest son of Maulana Naseeruddin, the founder president of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Shaan-e-Islam (TTSI) and is presently lodged at the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for his alleged role in the assassination of the former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya. Yaser’s younger brother Raziuddin Naser, a suspect in the twin blast cases in Hyderabad in August 2007, was arrested by the Karnataka Police in January 2008 for planning terrorist attacks in Karnataka and Goa. SIT sources said “Yaser was an active member of SIMI. Now, he along with some other former SIMI activists of the city has formed a group which downloads jihadi material and religious killing videos from the internet and distributes disks to extremist religious groups in the country”.
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July - 16 
40 Sri Lankan refugees landed at different places of Rameswaram Island on July 16, reports The Hindu. This is the highest number to arrive in a single day in recent months. Of them, 11 were rescued by the naval detachment at Rameswaram. Another group
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40 Sri Lankan refugees landed at different places of Rameswaram Island on July 16, reports The Hindu. This is the highest number to arrive in a single day in recent months. Of them, 11 were rescued by the naval detachment at Rameswaram. Another group of 18 landed on Agnitheertham shore. Along with the boat, the refugees reported at the Rameswaram temple station. They were hailing from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-controlled Kilinochchi area. The third group of 11, who landed at Arichamunai in Dhanushkodi, sought asylum at temple station. The refugees were from Mannar, Vavuniya and other areas. After preliminary enquiry, they were sent to the Mandapam camp.
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July - 16 
Times of India reports that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on July 16 night arrested a Pakistani national, suspected to be an agent of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), from a hotel in Bagdogra on the outsk
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Times of India reports that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on July 16 night arrested a Pakistani national, suspected to be an agent of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), from a hotel in Bagdogra on the outskirts of Siliguri town. Some documents and maps showing details of army installations in north Bengal were recovered from the arrested person identified as Abid Khan alias Samir Ahmed Sagar, who did not possess a passport. A Siliguri sub-divisional court later remanded him to 12 days' custody. Subsequent interrogation revealed that Abid is a resident of Keru village under Bhawan Langra post office in Pakistan's Punjab province. He had been to Suncheri in Nepal, from where he sneaked into India about a week ago via Kakarvitta in eastern Nepal's Jhapa district. During the past week, he visited several places in Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling, from where he probably obtained the documents, which had information on the Binnaguri cantonment and the Hasimara air base. Intelligence sources believe that Abid has already developed a network in the region to get regular information on the defence installations.
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July - 17 
An official of the Indian mission said details were being verified.
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An official of the Indian mission said details were being verified.
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July - 17 
On July 17, India and Bangladesh held a day long foreign secretary level talks in New Delhi, reports Indian Express. Talks between Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohammad Touhid Hossain centred around stre
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On July 17, India and Bangladesh held a day long foreign secretary level talks in New Delhi, reports Indian Express. Talks between Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohammad Touhid Hossain centred around strengthening the ties between the two countries, particularly on security issues. "We are convinced that our security is interlinked and that terrorism will have to be tackled resolutely," said Menon after the talks. Responding to a question on whether activities of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) were discussed, Menon said, "We discussed the issue of terrorism and how we both need to face it together. The details, of course, are dealt with in other fora. We have other places where we discuss these things, the Home Secretaries’ talks and so on. And we look forward to working together against terrorism."
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July - 17 
The Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) on July 17 claimed to have "rescued’ an Indian national, who was under LTTE detention for the last five and a half years, while he was fleeing to India on a boat. The SLN said the Indian national had come to Sri Lanka in 200
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The Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) on July 17 claimed to have "rescued’ an Indian national, who was under LTTE detention for the last five and a half years, while he was fleeing to India on a boat. The SLN said the Indian national had come to Sri Lanka in 2003 with three other Indians on valid visas and travelled to Kilinochchi to visit relatives. However, they were reportedly ‘arrested’ by the LTTE.
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July - 18 
Three persons from Rathkhola in Siliguri, were detained on the suspicion of being linked with the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), reports Telegraph. Police sources said that the three arrested persons co
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Three persons from Rathkhola in Siliguri, were detained on the suspicion of being linked with the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), reports Telegraph. Police sources said that the three arrested persons could be accomplices of ISI agent Abid Khan, who had been arrested on July 17.
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July - 19 
Police arrested a person, Ranjan Bikash Borgohain, from the residence of a Parliamentarian, Anowar Hussain, in New Delhi on July 19, when he was trying to extort money in the United Liberation Front of Asom’s (ULFA) name, reports Assam Tribune. Hussa
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Police arrested a person, Ranjan Bikash Borgohain, from the residence of a Parliamentarian, Anowar Hussain, in New Delhi on July 19, when he was trying to extort money in the United Liberation Front of Asom’s (ULFA) name, reports Assam Tribune. Hussain is a Parliamentarian from the Dhubri constituency in Assam. Ranjan contested the last Legislative Assembly polls from Tingkhong seat in Assam on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.
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July - 20 
The Hindu reports that a consignment of counterfeit currency notes worth INR 79,000 were recovered by the police on July 20 from the Uttar Pradesh roadways bus station in Faizabad. One person named Zaheer Hasan Ansari was arrested along with the cons
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The Hindu reports that a consignment of counterfeit currency notes worth INR 79,000 were recovered by the police on July 20 from the Uttar Pradesh roadways bus station in Faizabad. One person named Zaheer Hasan Ansari was arrested along with the consignment. Subsequent interrogation of Zaheer revealed that the notes were brought by the accused from Durgapur in West Bengal. The Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), Brij Lal, told newspersons in Lucknow on July 21 that the recovery of the fake currency notes reinforced the police claim that such notes are entering Uttar Pradesh from Bangladesh through West Bengal.
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July - 21 
After the fifth round of the India-Pakistan composite dialogue on peace and security, Jammu and Kashmir and other Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters in New Delhi on July 21 that "the composite dia
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After the fifth round of the India-Pakistan composite dialogue on peace and security, Jammu and Kashmir and other Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters in New Delhi on July 21 that "the composite dialogue process was under stress," according to Daily Excelsior. Menon said the ongoing investigations into the recent Kabul embassy blast had revealed the hand of “elements in Pakistan,” The Hindu reported. Speaking to the media after meeting his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, Menon said the dialogue process had come “under strain” because in the “recent past several events have vitiated ties” and some of the leaders in Pakistan had reverted to the “old polemics.” “This sequence of events culminated in July 7 [Kabul embassy blast]. All our information in the ongoing investigation, which still has to continue, points to elements in Pakistan behind the blast.” He described the cease-fire as “under stress” but both sides agreed that it must be “maintained and continued.” He further said there were three pillars to the improved relations with Pakistan — absence of violence, addressing all outstanding issues and creating a cooperative atmosphere. On all three counts, the relationship now comes up short and he listed these as the ceasefire violations, increased infiltration and “incitement of violence within the Indian state of J&K”. Interacting with the media later in the evening, Bashir said his Indian counterpart had not given any evidence and described the charge of Pakistani hand in the Kabul embassy blast as “baseless” and “made first elsewhere” (he later said it was made by National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan). Bashir reportedly cautioned against treating Islamabad as “on probation” since “we don’t have to prove our credentials to anybody. Pakistan is not the epicentre of terrorism. Please understand that.” He added that “It is imperative to refrain from the blame game. Pakistan was among the first to condemn the Kabul attack. I asked India to provide intelligence or evidence.”
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July - 21 
Both sides reiterated the need to keep talking to each other on the outstanding issues with Menon acknowledging that meetings between both sides gave them the opportunity to have “frank discussions on how we can deal with this.” Bashir assured India
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Both sides reiterated the need to keep talking to each other on the outstanding issues with Menon acknowledging that meetings between both sides gave them the opportunity to have “frank discussions on how we can deal with this.” Bashir assured India that Pakistan was committed to “positive constructive engagements that will lead to good results.”
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July - 22 
The ‘Q’ Branch of the Tamil Nadu police on July 22 neutralised a major Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) procurement network, seizing five imported Yamaha outboard motors with a 40-horse-power capacity each. In connection with the seizures, the
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The ‘Q’ Branch of the Tamil Nadu police on July 22 neutralised a major Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) procurement network, seizing five imported Yamaha outboard motors with a 40-horse-power capacity each. In connection with the seizures, the Police team arrested Kumargurubaran, a resident of Chennai, Ramesh, hailing from Ramanathapuram, and Manamohan from Pesalai in Sri Lanka, from near the Kattumanadi bus stop near Manalmelkudi. The motors were meant to be transported to Sri Lanka for the LTTE in a boat kept ready by Ramesh. "The gang had transported the motors from Chennai to Pudukkottai and was planning to take them by sea to Sri Lanka. We are yet to ascertain whose name the import consignment had been booked under and who collected it from the Chennai Port. There are more persons involved in the procurement of the motors and the investigation is on to find them," an unnamed senior Police official told Times of India. He added, "The smuggling for LTTE has been going on in Tamil Nadu. But, of late, we have been detecting more cases. However, LTTE is now more dependent on the supply from India as they are suffering huge losses from the war… They procure these things from all over India and smuggle it via villages along the east coast. The smuggling cases are more in Tamil Nadu because of its geographical proximity. Apart from the procurement for LTTE, there is commercial smuggling also happening between Sri Lanka and India. It is mainly to make profit using the wide differences in pricing of some items in both countries. Smuggling of beedi bundles are mostly for commercial purposes."
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July - 23 
The BDR and BSF personnel exchanged gunfire at the Chakpara border in Chapainawabganj on the same day, resulting in the shutting down of the Sona Masjid land port in northern Bangladesh.
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The BDR and BSF personnel exchanged gunfire at the Chakpara border in Chapainawabganj on the same day, resulting in the shutting down of the Sona Masjid land port in northern Bangladesh.
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July - 23 
The Hindu reports that a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and a villager injured in intermittent exchange of fire that lasted nearly two hours between the BSF and personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) across the border in West Bengal
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The Hindu reports that a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and a villager injured in intermittent exchange of fire that lasted nearly two hours between the BSF and personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) across the border in West Bengal’s Malda district on July 23. While the BSF trooper died on the spot, the injured civilian was admitted to a hospital in Malda. Out of nearly 100 rounds of fire being exchanged between the two forces only 15 rounds were fired by the BSF in retaliation, an unnamed BSF official said in Kolkata. This was the second exchange of fire between the two forces across West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh within a week. Two BDR soldiers were killed in the previous incident.
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July - 24 
According to New Indian Express, a donation slip book bearing a Killinochi address in Sri Lanka, camera, video cassettes, INR 25000 in cash and two film rolls kept inside a bag was seized by the Police in Thoothukudi on July 24. The bag was found aba
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According to New Indian Express, a donation slip book bearing a Killinochi address in Sri Lanka, camera, video cassettes, INR 25000 in cash and two film rolls kept inside a bag was seized by the Police in Thoothukudi on July 24. The bag was found abandoned near the Thoondigai Vinayagar Temple in Tiruchendur. Police suspect that the bag could have been left at the spot either by some Sri Lankan tourist or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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July - 25 
One woman was killed and seven persons injured in a series of eight low intensity blasts on July 25 in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka, The Hindu reports. The explosions were reported within 45 minutes from 1.15 pm (IST). The first explosion occurred
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One woman was killed and seven persons injured in a series of eight low intensity blasts on July 25 in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka, The Hindu reports. The explosions were reported within 45 minutes from 1.15 pm (IST). The first explosion occurred at a bus stop near the Madivala check post, off the busy Hosur Road, around 1.15 pm. Sudha Ravi, who was waiting for a bus with her husband, was killed on the spot, while two persons were injured. Two more explosives went off in the adjoining Adugodi area, injuring three persons. Similar low-intensity explosions were reported from three places on Mysore Road and at two spots in the heart of the city — near the Mallya Hospital and near the Rashtriya Military School on the Langford Road. At Adugodi, the explosives were planted behind a telephone junction box near a commercial complex under construction and another near a storm water drain. On Mysore Road, the explosives were placed under a power supply transformer near a mall; one near a storm water drain; and the third near a car showroom next to the Regional Transport Office. According to police sources, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) fitted to timer devices were used in all the explosions. Preliminary investigations revealed that ammonium nitrate, bolts and nuts and cement chips were packed into the devices. Sources in the National Bomb Data Centre told The Hindu that the IEDs were almost identical to the ones used in the explosions at the Mecca Masjid, Gokul Chats and the Lumbini Park in Hyderabad, and in the court blasts in Lucknow and Hubli. Though the police have not ruled out the involvement of terrorist groups, Bangalore Police Commissioner Shankar M. Bidari told journalists that "miscreants" had triggered the blasts to "disrupt the peace" in the city. Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, after an emergency Cabinet meeting, announced that no "hard core terrorist group" was involved in the blasts which, he claimed, were carried out to "malign" the Government.
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July - 25 
The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, said in New Delhi that the Centre had forewarned the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Governments that terrorists could target Bangalore and Hyderabad. "The Intelligence Bureau had received inputs
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The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, said in New Delhi that the Centre had forewarned the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Governments that terrorists could target Bangalore and Hyderabad. "The Intelligence Bureau had received inputs that terrorists could target the cyber cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore. Both the state Governments were told to be on high alert," he said.
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July - 26 
40 people were killed and more than 100 others injured when serial blasts struck different parts of Ahmedabad, the Capital city of Gujarat on July 26-evening, reports The Hindu. Unconfirmed reports said the worst attack occurred near the trauma centr
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40 people were killed and more than 100 others injured when serial blasts struck different parts of Ahmedabad, the Capital city of Gujarat on July 26-evening, reports The Hindu. Unconfirmed reports said the worst attack occurred near the trauma centre of the government civil hospital, where at least 25 people, including two doctors, were killed. Some eyewitness accounts claimed that it was a “human bomb” attack. The body was said to have been shattered but the incident was not confirmed by the Police, who put the casualties in the hospital attack at six. The police reports indicated that there were 17 blasts in 10 different areas and all, except the minority-dominated Sarkhej and Juhapura, were in the labour-dominated eastern parts of the old city. Most of the blasts occurred in crowded and congested points like traffic circles, near a Hanuman temple where a large number of devotees turn out on Saturdays or near bus stops. The first blast was reported from the Hatkeshwar locality in the Maninagar area at 6.38 pm (IST). Thereafter bombs went off at 7 other places - Bapunagar, Narol, Ishanpur, Saraspur, Sarangpur, Raipur, Sarkhej, Juhaapura - all within the next five to seven minutes. About 40 minutes after the first round of blasts, bombs went off near the trauma centre of the civil hospital and the main portico of the L.G. General Hospital in Maninagar, even as the injured were being rushed to the hospitals. About an hour later, three more blasts were reported from Maninagar and surrounding areas. The bombs were planted on old cycles apparently to avoid being identified. The preliminary reports from the sites indicated those gelatine rods in Tiffin boxes or in cloth bags with timers and tied to cycles were left behind in crowded areas, possibly minutes before the blasts. A couple of vegetable vendors, admitted to hospital with injuries, claimed to have seen a person leaving behind a cycle before the blast.
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July - 26 
In a 14-page manifesto e-mailed to the media minutes before the serial bombings, an organisation calling itself the “Indian Mujahideen (IM)” claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad attacks. Titled “The Rise of Jihad”, the manifesto says the bombings
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In a 14-page manifesto e-mailed to the media minutes before the serial bombings, an organisation calling itself the “Indian Mujahideen (IM)” claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad attacks. Titled “The Rise of Jihad”, the manifesto says the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. “In the light of the injustice and wrongs on the Muslims of Gujarat,” it says, “we advance our jihad and call all our brethren under it to unite and answer these irresolute kafireen [infidels] of India.” It warned of future attacks, complaining that the police “disturbed us by arresting, imprisoning, and torturing our brothers in the name of SIMI [Students Islamic Movement of India].” In a similar document sent minutes before serial bomb strikes in Jaipur (Rajasthan) in May, 2008, the IM had said such bombings were intended “to clearly give our message to Kuffar-e-Hind [the infidels of India] that if Islam and Muslims in this country are not safe then the light of your safety will also go off very soon.” Near-identical language had been earlier used by the IM in a document e-mailed to television stations minutes before the bombing of three trial-court buildings in Uttar Pradesh in November 2007. In its e-mail, the IM said it was retaliating against “wounds given by the idol worshipers of India.” Investigators believe the IM is a loose coalition of elements from the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (HuJI).
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July - 27 
Early in the morning, two live bombs were recovered from a garbage can near a vegetable market in the Hatkshwar locality in Maninagar in Ahmedabad, where the first of the 17 blasts occurred on July 26-evening. Another live bomb was defused near a gat
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Early in the morning, two live bombs were recovered from a garbage can near a vegetable market in the Hatkshwar locality in Maninagar in Ahmedabad, where the first of the 17 blasts occurred on July 26-evening. Another live bomb was defused near a gate of a textile mill at Santhej on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway after midnight. One bomb was found and defused in Kalol, also an industrial town near Gandhinagar.
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July - 27 
Police in Surat, the second major commercial centre in Gujarat after Ahmedabad, seized two abandoned cars - one with live explosives and another with ammunition - from different parts of the city on July 27. The cars were left abandoned at Punamgaon
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Police in Surat, the second major commercial centre in Gujarat after Ahmedabad, seized two abandoned cars - one with live explosives and another with ammunition - from different parts of the city on July 27. The cars were left abandoned at Punamgaon and Randel in the Varacha Road locality. Police said gelatine sticks, timers, ammonium nitrate powder, tiffin boxes and other material were found in one abandoned car which the locals said was lying there for a couple of days. The materials were reportedly enough to manufacture about eight to 10 powerful crude bombs, the kind of devices believed to have been used in the serial blasts. The police also defused a huge bomb found in an abandoned bag near a hospital on the City Light Road.
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July - 27 
The ‘Q’ branch of the Tamil Nadu Police on July 27 claimed to have neutralised a terrorist module with the arrest of a 39-year-old suspected fundamentalist who allegedly was part of a plot to cause bomb blasts on trains and in Chennai and Tirunelveli
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The ‘Q’ branch of the Tamil Nadu Police on July 27 claimed to have neutralised a terrorist module with the arrest of a 39-year-old suspected fundamentalist who allegedly was part of a plot to cause bomb blasts on trains and in Chennai and Tirunelveli. Sheikh Abdul Gafoor, employed in a shop in T. Nagar in Chennai, was arrested from a relative's house at Pettai in Tiruneveli and materials for making improvised explosive devices were seized from him, Times of India reported. "He has confessed to planning to blow up the Tirunelveli collectorate, and plant bombs on trains and in various parts of Chennai," a police officer said. All these were to be carried out on or before August 15. Police said the plot was allegedly hatched in Puzhal jail in Chennai and the kingpin was believed to be Pallavaram Ali Abdullah, a life convict. Abdullah was involved in eight cases, and had visited Pakistan in 1997 for training with the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Abdullah, who is in jail since 2003, is a former member of the Jihad Committee and the Islamic Defence Force, both fundamentalist groups active in the last decade. Gafoor, police said, was an expelled member of the Towheed Jamaat, a political organisation dedicated to propagating Islamic religious precepts.
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July - 27 
The Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner Asish Bhatia said an activist of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Abdul Halim, who was wanted in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, was arrested during the combing operation in the cit
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The Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner Asish Bhatia said an activist of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Abdul Halim, who was wanted in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, was arrested during the combing operation in the city.
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July - 27 
The death toll in the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, has risen to 46, reports The Hindu. As reported earlier, 40 persons were killed and more than 100 others injured in a series of 17 blasts on July 26.
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The death toll in the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, has risen to 46, reports The Hindu. As reported earlier, 40 persons were killed and more than 100 others injured in a series of 17 blasts on July 26.
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July - 27 
The Government has decided to roll out its 'Mega City Policing' guidelines, according to Times of India. At a high-level meeting chaired by the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on July 27, it was decided to finalise the modalities of the plan at the
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The Government has decided to roll out its 'Mega City Policing' guidelines, according to Times of India. At a high-level meeting chaired by the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on July 27, it was decided to finalise the modalities of the plan at the earliest. Currently, the plan is being implemented with piecemeal allocation of funds to different cities for modernization. "Once the modalities are finalised, these seven cities will have a separate exclusive plan and budegetary allocation for policing. Besides improving the standard of day-to-day policing, the plan will also help these cities strengthen their intelligence gathering capabilities," an unnamed senior home ministry official said. The plan will be finalised keeping in mind specific characteristics of the seven cities. "The anonymity afforded by lifestyles of mega-cities and the ease with which illegal immigrants can mingle with the local population has to be plugged by taking appropriate steps to contain their potential for mischief and unlawful activities. This needs special plans for each big city that has been facing terror threats," the official added. After the plan is implemented in the seven mega cities, Jaipur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kanpur will also be brought within its ambit. The idea - which centres around exclusive city-specific policing plan with a separate budget - is aimed at providing helicopters, sophisticated gadgets and aerial surveillance equipment to police in seven big cities. The plan had a limited launch in 2005 and the identified cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Delhi - were given some money to modernise their police forces. Five of these cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad – have witnessed terrorist attacks in the past couple of years.
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July - 27 
The Karnataka Police on July 27 recovered seven kilograms of explosive material from Channapatna in the Ramanagaram district, a place where an explosion had occurred on July 24, reports The Hindu. The Director General and Inspector General of Police,
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The Karnataka Police on July 27 recovered seven kilograms of explosive material from Channapatna in the Ramanagaram district, a place where an explosion had occurred on July 24, reports The Hindu. The Director General and Inspector General of Police, R. Sri Kumar, who visited the blast sites in the capital Bangalore on July 27, said that the police were examining the explosive material recovered from Channapatna. The police have found that the explosives used in Bangalore and Channapatna were similar. The Bangalore Police, meanwhile, reportedly alerted the Kerala Police after a reporter of a local TV channel received a call from a person speaking in Hindi who warned that Kerala was the next target and bombs were likely to explode across the State (Kerala) after 7 pm (IST) on July 27.
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July - 28 
A Nepali man, Gokan Bahadur, was detained along with his sons from Bahalda town in Mayurbhanj district, over 350-km from State capital Bhubaneswar, after the news channel India TV revealed that it had got an SMS threat, District Superintendent of Pol
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A Nepali man, Gokan Bahadur, was detained along with his sons from Bahalda town in Mayurbhanj district, over 350-km from State capital Bhubaneswar, after the news channel India TV revealed that it had got an SMS threat, District Superintendent of Police Dayal Gangwar told IANS on July 28. Gokan had sent an SMS on July 27 warning that the Indian Mujahideen, which has claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26, would trigger explosions in two places in the West Bengal capital, Gangwar added. Bahdur and his sons were held after police traced the SMS to their cell phone, he said. Bahadur has been living in Bahalda for several years and works in an electricity office. "We have detained them and are investigating whether they have any links to the series of blasts that rocked Ahmedabad and Bangalore," Gangwar said.
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According to PTI, for the fourth day on July 30, two more powerful live bombs were defused in Surat in Gujarat. While one live bomb was found near the Labheswar police post, about 200 metres away from where one live bomb was detected on July 29, anot
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According to PTI, for the fourth day on July 30, two more powerful live bombs were defused in Surat in Gujarat. While one live bomb was found near the Labheswar police post, about 200 metres away from where one live bomb was detected on July 29, another bomb was found near the Surat municipal corporation-operated swimming pool. It was found hanging from a mango tree. Both the bombs were found in the same labour-dominated Varachha Road area where 10 bombs were detected on July 29.
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July - 29 
The Bharatpur Police on July 29 seized more than 162-kgs of explosives, which are used for mining, from Nagal village under Pahadi Police station and arrested three persons in this connection, according to Times of India. They were identified as Noor
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The Bharatpur Police on July 29 seized more than 162-kgs of explosives, which are used for mining, from Nagal village under Pahadi Police station and arrested three persons in this connection, according to Times of India. They were identified as Noor Mohammed, Dugga Meva and Dinesh Sharma. "The Pahadi police got a tip-off that explosives had been stored in huge quantity for mining in Nagal village. A team conducted the raid at the place from where three persons were arrested," said Bharatpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohit Mahajan. During the raid, more than 1,298 tubes, in which explosives are stored, were seized. "Each tube contained around 125 grams of gelatin. So, the team recovered about 162 kg of explosive," the SP added. Besides, the police team recovered 109 bundles of fuel wires and many detonators. Dinesh Sharma, who use to carry out illegal mining work in the area, is allegedly the mastermind.
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July - 29 
The death toll in the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in Gujarat has risen to 53, Government officials said on July 29, Rediff reported. Four persons who were seriously wounded in the blasts on July 26, succumbed to injuries in different hospitals in
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The death toll in the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in Gujarat has risen to 53, Government officials said on July 29, Rediff reported. Four persons who were seriously wounded in the blasts on July 26, succumbed to injuries in different hospitals in the last two days taking the toll to 53, they said.
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July - 29 
The Hindu reports that two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were arrested from Raghunathganj area in the Murshidabad district on July 29. Gelatine sticks, incriminating documents and a laptop were seized from them. While one of the two, who
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The Hindu reports that two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were arrested from Raghunathganj area in the Murshidabad district on July 29. Gelatine sticks, incriminating documents and a laptop were seized from them. While one of the two, who is a cloth merchant, is suspected to be a long time LeT operative and reportedly had liaised between its activists in Bangladesh and India, the other person was a teacher in a local school, an unnamed official of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said in capital Kolkata. They were arrested following a tip-off by the CID, which came to know about their activities from a recently arrested LeT militant in Kashmir. The report added that duo were in touch with militants in Nepal and Bangladesh.
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July - 29 
The Surat Police on July 29 recovered and subsequently defused 18 live bombs, averting a major tragedy in the second largest commercial centre of Gujarat, The Hindu reports. The bombs were found almost one after another from day-break till evening. O
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The Surat Police on July 29 recovered and subsequently defused 18 live bombs, averting a major tragedy in the second largest commercial centre of Gujarat, The Hindu reports. The bombs were found almost one after another from day-break till evening. Of the 18 bombs, at least 10 were found in the labour-dominated Varacha Road and Katargam areas. While two of the bombs were found in front of the Labheswar police post and Sardarpura police stations, two others were planted in the diamond market adjacent to the Varacha Road, one in the Radhakrishna textile market and two on a fly-over. The bombs were not totally concealed and most of the bombs were "boat-shaped" and wrapped in coloured papers. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. The bombs and the explosive-laden cars were recovered from Varacha Road or nearby areas in the city in the last two days.
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July - 29 
Times of India reports that an email in broken English sent from
[email protected]
on July 29 said, "Indian Mujahideen will not stop even if our mission in Surat failed. There is still more to come. And if you think you can stop us, sorry, you w
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Times of India reports that an email in broken English sent from
[email protected]
on July 29 said, "Indian Mujahideen will not stop even if our mission in Surat failed. There is still more to come. And if you think you can stop us, sorry, you won't." Another email from
[email protected]
, which was received by some media organisations, said, "It doesn't matter we lost our raw materials in Surat. It was intentionally designed plan to show our strength." Besides Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the email went on to warn schools and colleges in Gujarat of attacks and specifically named some prominent educational institutions. Police sources, however, said that the tenor and language of the emails would lead one to believe that they were bogus.
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July - 29 
Times of India reports that central intelligence agencies and the Delhi Police arrested a Bangladeshi national, identified as Mohammad Hakim, from the New Delhi railway station on July 29-night. Hakim, who was reportedly carrying some explosive mater
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Times of India reports that central intelligence agencies and the Delhi Police arrested a Bangladeshi national, identified as Mohammad Hakim, from the New Delhi railway station on July 29-night. Hakim, who was reportedly carrying some explosive material, is believed to be part of the module linked to the recent terrorist attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. ‘‘Hakim is being taken to Siliguri by a team of IB and special cell officers. They suspect that other members of the module could be hiding there. His interrogation has also thrown up vital facts about the low-intensity serial blasts reported in Mehrauli and Malviya Nagar recently,’’ said an unnamed senior police officer. Hakim has told the police that he was trained in bomb making by one Mohammad Ansari, who, too, is a Bangladeshi national. Ansari is also believed to have been trained in making low-intensity explosives in Bangladesh. ‘‘The agencies suspect that the module was active in West Bengal and used to sneak into Bangladesh. The disclosure of Hakim is important also from the point of view that the last terror e-mail about Surat bombs was sent from Kolkata,’’ said another officer who is part of the team.
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July - 30 
A local regional language television channel claimed to have received a letter sent in the name of "Harkat-ul-Jehad" explaining the "reasons" behind the bomb blasts in different parts of the country. As aired by the television channel, the letter was
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A local regional language television channel claimed to have received a letter sent in the name of "Harkat-ul-Jehad" explaining the "reasons" behind the bomb blasts in different parts of the country. As aired by the television channel, the letter was written in Hindi and it carried the stamp of the Shah Alam post office in the city. It declared that its "mission" in Gujarat had been "successful and completed" but warned that it would come back to the State if "our threats are not taken seriously." It claimed that the Harkat was a "Hindu organisation" and was causing bomb blasts in different parts of the country only to "avenge" the killing of Muslims in the Gujarat riots and would continue to take the revenge by attacking other cities and towns in the country. It said the "real terrorists" were Chief Minster Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janta Party leader L.K. Advani, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international general secretary Pravin Togadia, spiritual leader Asaram Bapu, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Bajrang Dal and the VHP. It also claimed that after the Jaipur blasts, the Harkat had informed the Gomtipur police about the Ahmedabad blasts. "It is not our fault that the Gomtipur police did not take us seriously," it added.
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July - 30 
An e-mail threatening to set off bomb blasts in the national capital Delhi was received by the Japanese embassy in Delhi, The Hindu reported. The e-mail stated that after the blasts in Jaipur and Ahmedabad, there will be bomb blasts in Delhi, sources
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An e-mail threatening to set off bomb blasts in the national capital Delhi was received by the Japanese embassy in Delhi, The Hindu reported. The e-mail stated that after the blasts in Jaipur and Ahmedabad, there will be bomb blasts in Delhi, sources said. The Sarojini Nagar area was identified as one of the targets. The market there was targeted by terrorists in October 2005.
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July - 30 
In a pre-dawn operation, police seized a large quantity of electronic gadgets and other articles meant for smuggling to Sri Lanka and arrested four persons at Uppur Chathiram in Ramanathapuram, according to UNI. Acting on a tip-off, the police team i
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In a pre-dawn operation, police seized a large quantity of electronic gadgets and other articles meant for smuggling to Sri Lanka and arrested four persons at Uppur Chathiram in Ramanathapuram, according to UNI. Acting on a tip-off, the police team intercepted a speeding van at Uppur Chathiram check post and seized 10 Global Positioning System equipments, 3360 pen torch batteries, one Honda Genset, one bundle LTTE uniform, five cell phones, 11 life jackets, one pistol cover, one satellite TV receiver, two battery chargers and Rupees 28050 cash. All the seized goods were meant for the LTTE in Sri Lanka. The arrestees include S. Sivaraman, G. Ramanan, S Vijilesh Nandan a.k.a Vasu and S. Vijaya Neevidan a.k.a Naveen. Except Sivaraman, the other three are Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and are inmates of the Transit Camp for Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees at Tiruchirapalli.
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July - 30 
The Tamil Nadu Police on July 30 arrested a top functionary of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), identified as J. Thambi Annan a.k.a Daniel, from the capital Chennai. "It is a very important catch. He is placed high in the LTTE’s hierarchy
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The Tamil Nadu Police on July 30 arrested a top functionary of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), identified as J. Thambi Annan a.k.a Daniel, from the capital Chennai. "It is a very important catch. He is placed high in the LTTE’s hierarchy. Daniel was heading the procurement module of the outfit in Sri Lanka," Director-General of Police (Law and Order) K.P. Jain told The Hindu. Daniel, a resident of Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka, played an instrumental role in procuring major consignments, including explosive substances, for the outfit from India and other parts of the world. He was involved in the attempts to smuggle consignments of aluminium ingots and ball bearings, which were intercepted and seized by the police in Ramanathapuram and Madurai districts in the recent months, sources said.
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July - 31 
As part of its ongoing investigations to find the source of the e-mail sent on the day of the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has so far seized seven systems, comprising laptops and hard disks, from houses in the n
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As part of its ongoing investigations to find the source of the e-mail sent on the day of the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has so far seized seven systems, comprising laptops and hard disks, from houses in the neighbourhood of the American national Kenneth Haywood from whose Internet Protocol address the e-mail was sent, according to The Hindu. "We are exploring all the possibilities. A multitude of possibilities exists," ATS chief Hemant Karkare told reporters on July 31. The ATS had not yet established that Haywood’s e-mail was hacked. He was, therefore, still on the list of suspects and had to be reportedly available to help investigations.
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July - 31 
Faced with strict vigilance along the Tamil Nadu coast and continuous monitoring of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sympathisers in the State, the LTTE have shifted their smuggling base to Kerala, said the Tamil Nadu Director General of P
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Faced with strict vigilance along the Tamil Nadu coast and continuous monitoring of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sympathisers in the State, the LTTE have shifted their smuggling base to Kerala, said the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police, K. P. Jain, according to New Indian Express. During a press conference in capital Chennai on July 31, Jain pointed to the arrest of a Sea Tiger (cadre of the sea wing of the LTTE), Daniel alias Thambianna of Kilinochchi, who operated their entire smuggling activities from Tamil Nadu. Recalling that police had seized a boat built by the LTTE at Munambam near Kochi for smuggling, he said that the LTTE used Kochi and Tiruvananthapuram coasts for building their boats.
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July - 31 
The Hindu reports that the Gujarat Police on July 31 arrested four Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, from the Gandhinagar area of capital Ahmedabad on suspicion of their involvement in the Ahmedabad bomb blasts. Sahel Sheikh, Rafiq Sheikh, Mu
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The Hindu reports that the Gujarat Police on July 31 arrested four Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, from the Gandhinagar area of capital Ahmedabad on suspicion of their involvement in the Ahmedabad bomb blasts. Sahel Sheikh, Rafiq Sheikh, Murad Malik and Khatimabibi Khalija were illegal immigrants and are suspected to have links with the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B).
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July - 31 
With four wounded people, including two children, succumbing to their injuries since July 31 the death toll in the Ahmedabad serial bombings has reached 55, New Indian Express reported. The Civil Hospital announced two more deaths - of Ishwar Chavda,
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With four wounded people, including two children, succumbing to their injuries since July 31 the death toll in the Ahmedabad serial bombings has reached 55, New Indian Express reported. The Civil Hospital announced two more deaths - of Ishwar Chavda, 38, and Bhavesh Kabira, 20. Earlier, two boys had died in the V S and Civil Hospitals.
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*Data till , May 29, 2024
Source:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.
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