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...ACCUSED. Faisal Sheikh, Kamaluddin Ansari, and Ehtasham Siddiqui, of planting some of the bombs that exploded on seven suburban Bombay trains on July 11, killing almost 200; by chief of police A.N. Roy; in Bombay. Police said the attack was carried out by the three men, along with four other Indians and 11 Pakistanis, and claimed the plot was masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, along with at least two Indian terror groups. Pakistani officials quickly denied any connection to the attacks, calling the charges "baseless...
...comeback, just when it looked like the net was closing on it in India. Although 90% of India's districts are polio-free, the disease has spread out this year from its epicenter in western Uttar Pradesh to other parts. In March, sewage samples in three slum areas of Bombay, India's financial capital, found polio virus strains in the water. Earlier this week, a nine-year old Bombay girl was found to have got the polio virus, the first case in two years in the city...
Sometime after 2 p.m. on March 12, 1993, a man parked a scooter in Zaveri Bazaar, a busy jewelry market in Bombay, and walked away. Forty minutes later, the scooter exploded, killing 17 people?just one in a series of explosions in the city that day which killed 257 and injured over 700. It remains India's worst-ever terrorist attack. Last week, more than 13 years later, a Bombay court convicted 42-year-old salesman Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar of planting the scooter bomb. He was only the fifth of 123 defendants to be convicted of involvement in the blasts...
...trial was carried out by a special terrorism court meant to sidestep India's notoriously clogged judicial system, it still took more than a decade to plow through 26,000 pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have died, while the alleged masterminds?Bombay mobsters Dawood Ibrahim and Ibrahim (Tiger) Memon?have eluded police and are thought to be hiding overseas. Verdicts on the remaining suspects, including Bollywood film star Sanjay Dutt, accused of receiving arms from a gangster involved in the bombings, are expected in the next few weeks. But Sahni says...
...This key Curia post had been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...