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Topic1993 Mumbai blasts

Topic: 1993 Mumbai blasts

30 yrs since first charge sheet, 12 yrs in SC to Tunda’s acquittal — Timeline of 1993 blasts case

It was only in 2004 that TADA court handed life term to 15 convicts. In 2021, apex court had ordered framing of charges against three remaining accused, including Tunda.

Indian govt hasn’t had much luck in killing Dawood Ibrahim—but media is doing much better

When Modi stood on the cusp of being elected PM, he vowed to hunt down Dawood. That hasn’t been delivered on—but media seems determined to proclaim success, regardless.

‘He used our rage against us’—How Dawood Ibrahim destroyed Bombay in 1993 serial blasts

In ‘Bombay After Ayodhya,’ Jitendra Dixit chronicles how the past three decades have been a period of unprecedented flux in Mumbai.

Out of jail in 2030 — how Abu Salem pushed India to honour its promise to Portugal

1993 Mumbai blasts convict Abu Salem fought two rounds of litigation with govt and won both, thanks to a 2002 extradition ‘assurance’ given by India to Portugal.

SC says India should honour its word to Portugal, free Abu Salem after 25 years

Salem's sentence can't exceed 25 years as per a solemn assurance given by India to Portugal for his extradition in 2002.

BJP brings up ’93 blasts before BMC poll, slams Shiv Sena for backing ‘Dawood aide’ Nawab Malik

On Wednesday, ED arrested NCP minister Nawab Malik on charges of laundering money for fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, sparking a political slugfest.

SC dismisses Mumbai blasts convict’s plea for leniency because he was a ‘juvenile’ in 1993

The top court declined the plea saying that the judgment which has attained finality cannot be challenged under Article 32 of the Constitution.

Yusuf Memon, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict, dies in Nashik jail

Yusuf Memon was the brother of Tiger Memon, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 serial blasts. Officials said the cause of death was yet to be ascertained.

The mystery of the first AK-56 rifle police has recovered from Mumbai in 10 years

Police seized the weapon from the house of a Dawood ‘gang member’, suspect it could be one the AK rifles that went missing after 1993 blasts.

Mumbai 1993 blasts: ISI’s most sinister plan that did not succeed

Bombay 1993 was until then the ISI's most daring attack on India — an AK rifle as weapon for self-defence, an “unforgettable” meeting with Dawood and why I believe Yakub Memon deserved to hang.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.