Migrants influx in Delhi - But where are they coming from?

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How US newspapers remembered 09/11

Let’s stop worrying..!

Starting afresh has always been a challenge to me. Be it relationship, writing, job or any other thing I think of. Life is accustomed to a particular way of living, loving and moving. The challenge from the days of Adam’s remains the same. Over the time we have been programmed to act in a particular way we call lifestyle. The style sheet I follow barricades new ideas & inventions. Of late status quo has become my obvious definition. In short, I fear change!! Stagnation is the buzzword.

Practice does not always make perfect. Practice does make permanent. In a way practice though good, plateau our lives. After certain time in a particular job we need motivation, time and know-how to move up the ladder. Getting all three essential components at a particular instance is tough and there lies the challenge. Some have motivation and know-how but no time. Others have plenty of time but in the absence of motivating factor they get dumped.

Goals we choose must be very specific. We should be clear in mind and heart about what we really want to achieve and improve. The target we choose must be broken down into baby steps, logical as well as achievable. Choosing a goal too high is risky and fraught with possibilities of failure. Giant leap might prove lethal in achieving our target.

The next challenge is to get a genuine and accurate feedback. Beating around the bush won’t help. Imagine practicing calligraphy blindfolded. No feedback and worst wrong feedback is fatal. One traditional source of feedback is Guru or master or a coach. The important feature that distinguishes between a good and a bad coach is the ability to give exact feedback. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to find a good Guru.

After you start getting accurate feedback about your improvement in a certain area, it’s time to identify the ‘next-step’.

So, let’s stop worrying. Take action! Set ourselves a goal; let’s find a Guru who can give us accurate feedback.

Delhi Police has a lot to answer for

The deadly Delhi High Court blast on Wednesday morning is a clear indicator that indigenous terror groups, or so-called remnants of Indian Mujahideen, have re-grouped. They have overcome difficulties with improvised explosive device (IED) hardware, and they now have the capability to strike at regular intervals all over the country. The national capital is no stranger to terror attacks and a large number of them are still lying unsolved with the Delhi Police. This question the Delhi Police must answer now that innocents have been killed and scores injured by a brief case bomb on Wednesday.

Notwithstanding the claims of Delhi Police, key perpetrators are at large in the following cases: Diwali bomb blasts on October 29, 2005; Jama Masjid bomb blast on April 14, 2006; Mehrauli blast on September 27, 2008; Jama Masjid firing and car bomb blast on September 19, 2010 and explosion outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011.

Unsolved terror cases embolden terrorists to take chances with the law enforcement agencies. It is not without reason that the Home Ministry handed over the investigation of the latest blast to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Mumbai police could take cover after the blast on July 13 by saying that it had got no prior intelligence, but the Delhi Police does not have that convenient excuse.

The fact is that the Intelligence Bureau had alerted Delhi Police once the National Security Guard’s (NSG) final report in July on May 25 Delhi High Court explosion indicated that it was no crude bomb but a lethal device. The NSG found the device contained nearly 1.5 kg of ammonium nitrate, which was mixed with PETN explosive and diesel fuel oil. The device had a timer with two detonators. Delhi was fortunate that the detonators caught fire and the exploded but not the core charge. At that point, top Home Ministry officials alerted the Delhi Police that the incident could be a dry run for future attacks in Delhi.

Either the Delhi Police’s special cell, which is in charge of investigating terror cases, did not take this advice seriously or they simply had no clue about the culprits. It does not take a rocket scientist to predict that Delhi is a top target for terrorists in the sub-continent after Mumbai. Even the Jama Masjid car bomb on the second anniversary of Batla House encounter was enough to give sleepless nights to security though in this incident the detonator had caught fire too. The 13/7 Mumbai blasts showed that indigenous terrorists may have had overcome the detonator difficulty and the Delhi High Court blast on Wednesday only confirms it.

It is entirely possible that forces across Indian borders either helped them technically through Skype calls or even supplied them with detonators through sleeper spy modules. However, the response of the Delhi Police was predictable after the May 25 incident: teams were sent out to Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to find out whether friends of deceased terrorist Atif Ameen were still active and technical inputs were used to scan through call data records. While one hopes that the NIA nails the culprits behind the heinous attack in Delhi, the Madhya Pradesh police did teach a lesson to our law enforcement agencies this June in how to fight terror.

The arrest of 10 Students’ Islamic Movement of India men, who were out to target the three Allahabad high court judges who gave the Ayodhya dispute judgment, was done on the basis of manual intelligence and pavement thumping, not stand-off software and technical intelligence. The arrest of Abu Faisal alias Doctor, who ran Alpha Medical Store in East Andheri, Mumbai, along with his mentor Izzazuddin of Karneli in Madhya Pradesh revealed that Abdus Subhan Qureshi, the key Indian Mujahideen mastermind, module was still alive. This self-help financed module was found to have linkages with a cleric in Saudi Arabia with Izzazuddin as the link man. The NIA will have to think de novo if they have to solve the latest carnage in Delhi. The Delhi Police model does not work anymore.

Why I trust Team Anna...!

You can sleep on railway platforms with a reynolds pen in your pocket to become an agent of change.

Uff...Someone tweeted this.!

Source: Selected from the tweets minutes after US quake.

Swiss black money list out..!

So, can someone blackjack Julian Assange? Yes, someone more smarter did and perhaps he/she is an Indian. Click the picture below.

Sonia Gandhi was “receiving treatment for an unspecified cancer for at least eight months”, claims UK’s Daily Telegraph

While Indian news organisations were afraid of speaking about Sonia Gandhi’s illness, Dean Nelson of London Telegraph first confirmed the news that Congress President is suffering from cancer. Dean reports, “Sonia Gandhi, leader of India's ruling Congress Party, is to undergo surgery in the United States, amid reports that she is suffering from cancer.

He further writes, “Sources close to Mrs Gandhi, told The Daily Telegraph she had been receiving treatment for an unspecified cancer for at least eight months”.

The Indian daily Kolkata Telegraph elaborates the story. In its report titled “At facility in Manhattan”, the newspaper writes, “Sonia Gandhi is an

unlisted patient at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan, according to sources in New York.”

Telegraph report also says that, “All the arrangements for Sonia’s surgery and treatment have been made by Pulok Chatterji, her long-time confidant who is now India’s executive director at the World Bank headquarters in Washington.”

Indian diplomatic outposts in New York and Washington have been completely shut out of Sonia’s treatment and other arrangements. This is said to be a reflection of the Gandhi family’s desire to keep the government at arm’s length from what it considers a private affair and, in part, to prevent speculation based on ill-informed leaks.

Tehelka’s Iftikhar Gilani was first to break the news of Sonia being admitted to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The news however was pulled out of the website for reasons unknown to me.

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