The Dance of Death It was a routine busy Friday in Mumbai, which had sufficiently recovered from two-rounds of the devastating communal violence of December 1992 and January 1993 in the aftermath of the demolition of the disputed Babri mosque in Ayodhya. The Srikrishna Commission which probed the December-January violence put the toll at 900 dead and around 2,000 injured, most of them Muslims, in police firing and rioting...
THE 1993 BOMBAY BLAST
Chronicles of a gory plot retold The plot to bomb Mumbai was hatched at a meeting of smugglers and Pakistani ISI representatives at the Dubai residence of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim at the close of year 1992...
THE 1993 BOMBAY BLAST
13 BLASTS, 14 YEARS, A 100 CONVICTIONS With 12 convicts getting the death penalty and 20 lifers for their role in killing 257 people, the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case has made history in Indian as well as international jurisprudence...
THE 1993 BOMBAY BLAST
Unravelling the plot On Black Friday, the bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) of the Mumbai police, which is reckoned to be one of the best in the country was busy inspecting the bombed premises with its hi-tech equipment...
President of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Karan Singh shows letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to media representatives in New Delhi ON Tuesday.The Indian government purchased the letter written by Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his death from British auction house Christie's through ICCR and presented it to the local NGO the Navjivan Trust. AFP
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