How could Mumbai again become a soft target after 26/11?

 by Shreya Roy

Three serial blast at hearts and minds of people

The three serial blasts which rocked India's financial capital, Mumbai on 13th july, 2011 at Zaheri Bazar, Opera House & Dadar areas in Mumbai within 6.30-7.00pm (IST) carried the trademark of Indian Mujahideen with the links of Lashkara-e-Tayiba.There was no specific target, rather the bombs were exploded to kill and wound as many citizens as possible. So far according to recent updates 18 peoples were killed & 131 injured during the city's peak hour crush.

Our Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram illustrates three serial explosion as unfortunate & advices every citizen to maintain peace. Chief Minister of Mumbai Prithviraj Chavan acknowledges that some lessons from 26/11 are yet left to be learned. Is it not enough for them to learn a lesson at this point of time?

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Third rape in 48 hours, victim burnt alive - you think you are secured ?

All the events in our country one after the other are just being looking as if they have become natural. Nothing moves us from our daily life. We just don't really care about anything that goes around without effecting us directly. A martyr's widow or mother, a raped girl, a jobless man, etc. feel the actual pain of living with the people like us. Rape - a victim knows the deathly attack - much bitter than poison.

A 33-year-old woman was burnt alive after allegedly being raped in Etah district in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
Her family alleged that five men first gangraped her and then lynched her because they were afraid that she would identify them and go to the police.

The police have denied these allegation and have claimed that the attackers were trying to rob and not rape her.

This will be third rape case to be reported in the state in 48 hours.Earlier a Dalit minor from Kannauj was allegedly stabbed in the eye and left blind by two men when she resisted rape. Two policemen were suspended for delaying the filing of an FIR.

An 18-year-old Dalit girl was also allegedly raped at gunpoint by a man in Ranipur Beladi village.

Even after 27 days, Shiromani Akali Dal leader Satnam Singh Kahlwan -- accused of raping 13 year old girl, continues to evade arrest. However, adding insult to the injury, Satnam's mother flaunts her VIP connection and says her family not afraid of anyone.

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Justice delayed for 30 years - not enough to be said as denied ?

We have always seen in movies that its really a person arrested and jailed gets justice after long terms of imprisonment. But here goes a real case that took me aback.

After more than three decades, a former Army man got a reprieve from the Bombay high court in a case of possession of live cartridges. The HC set aside his one-year prison sentence and let him off with a Rs 5,000 fine.

Laxman Jadhav (72) had been convicted under Section 25 of Arms Act, and was arrested in 1977 from his house in Sangli. Justice J. H. Bhatia set aside imprisonment keeping his age in mind.

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J. Dey murder mystery unveiled - seven arrested

The nooks and corner of the inhuman killing of one of the tormenting investigation journalist J. Dey has brought thousands of the journalists on the streets of Mumbai in the demand of laws and policies concerning their security.

In connection with the killing of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, seven people have been arrested, a top police officer said Monday

'Yes, the information is confirmed and we shall inform you with details later,' Additional Commissioner of Police Deven Bharti told.

The seven suspects, nabbed from various parts of Maharashtra late Sunday, will be produced before the metropolitan magistrate court in south Mumbai around noon.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik is likely to address the media in the afternoon.

Dey, editor (Special Investigations) with Mumbai tabloid Mid Day, was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants near his residence in Powai on June 11 afternoon.

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Asteroid passes Earth closer than the Moon

The unnoticed part of the day is here. I was really stunned by this news and report. The mere fright of 2012 comes floating into our eyes as soon as we hear to know some aspects of universe movements. Here goes one of such things.

An asteroid zoomed past Earth this morning, coming within 7,500 miles above Earth's surface over the southern Atlantic Ocean.

2011 MD, as the asteroid is named, did not come as close to Earth as a smaller asteroid, 2011 CQ1, which avoided an impact with the planet by just 3,405 miles in February, according to Geek.com.

Even so, 2011 MD flew closer to Earth than the moon.

The latest asteroid is 33 feet long and was discovered this week by telescopes in New Mexico, the AP reports.

According to the IBTimes, 2011 MD is the fifth-closest asteroid to zip past Earth.

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BET Awards - Giving international stage for humanitarian awards

Well, the international entertainment shall not be deprived here in this blog. The negativities available on the articles shall be quenched with some best moments in the world. So, I had to blog about this. I really wish this article won't be thought as a useless part on this blog. Thank You.

Patti LaBelle performs at the BET Awards on Sunday, June 26, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Gladys Knight presented Patti LaBelle with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's ceremony.

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Cash votes - now WikiLeaks says

The most stunning part was just out of any leaks that got its mirror on the face of our democracy. The claim that I got to access is about a WikiLeaks India cables that Manmohan Singh-led UPA government used cash to win trust vote in Parliament in 2008 over Indo-US nuclear deal. WikiLeaks said that five days before UPA-I faced a crucial vote of confidence in Lok Sabha, Congress leader Satish Sharma's aide Nachiketa Kapur showed a US employee two chests containing money to be used to bribe MPs

According to a report, it was said that he was part of a bigger fund of Rs 50 to 60 crore that the Congress had arranged to purchase the support of  MPs for the nuclear deal.

Read the WikiLeaks India Cable...

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Education system needs to be in urgent alert

The pace with which the world is moving at present era, needs to be looked into the prospect of education system. And specially when it comes to India, a developing country, it stands as a big issue to be dealt with minute attention. I was really amazed that even this needful section of a country was diseased with corruption. 

 Here I present a report by UNESCO.

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Rotten food grains or Death due to starving - which one you prefer ?

Sometimes, I really run out of issues to blog about. But the very next moment comes knocking on my head, saying "dude, you are in India !" Oh, I really forgot and am never out of any issue. Corruption is a well- defined  issue in my last articles, but corruption in food system in a developing country like ours, is really a tension to be concerned about. One report showed dogs eating grain in UP, where poverty and malnourishment are rampant. Another showed sacks of wheat in Punjab rotting away outside warehouses. A third caught officials trying to burn grain because they hadn't been able to distribute it to families entitled to free rations.

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Swami Nigamanand's fasting death - a slap on everyone of us

Swami Nigamanad in Hospital

I am really finding it difficult myself to understand the way the citizens are dealt by the politicians in our country. Sometimes, some deeds make us to think of them as good (relax, even a little bit of goodness). But the very next moment blurs our thoughts into air, making us saying "after all you are a politician, no good of your kind !". Here, as the topic indicates, I am to blog about something that really pinched me and asked me to stop looking for TRPs like media and go for the mud beneath clear-seeming water. The unfortunate death of Swami Nigamanand is the cause for this state of my article now.

Swami Nigamanand

Before putting my comments over the incident, I must put light upon it. My readers must know the new smoke of polluting part of the society.
A swami fasting for over three months against illegal mining along Ganga died on Monday in the same Dehra Dun hospital where Baba Ramdev was recuperating after his nine-day fast, and stirred the Congress into attack back the BJP. The game that they think they play well, without getting us noticed the real motive. Poor politicians ! Really poor?

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