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PM attends NAM Summit
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Prime
Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh paid an official visit to
Brazil from September 11 to 14, 2006. The Prime Minister also
attended the 14th NAM Summit held in Havana, Cuba from September
11-16, 2006. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is made up of 116
developing countries and aims to represent the political, economic
and cultural interests of the developing world. The NAM traces
its origins to a meeting in 1955 of 29 Asian and African countries
at which heads of state discussed common concerns, including
colonialism and the influence of the West.
The two-day NAM summit adopted the Havana Declaration and the
“final document” urging countries to refrain from
extending political, diplomatic, moral or material support to
terrorism under the UN Charter. The final document expressed
concern that terrorist groups, including former Taliban, were
regrouping in southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan. The
efforts of international community to fight terrorism were being
undermined by support, protection and shelter that these forces
of destabilisation continued to receive, it said. »
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MOS for Non-Conventional Energy Sources visits
Australia
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Honourable Minister of State for
Non-Conventional Energy Sources of India, Mr. Vilas Muttemwar, visited
Adelaide (South Australia) on 18-20 September to attend the Global
Wind Power 2006 Conference. Hon. MOS addressed the Conference
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During the visit
he met Hon. Premier of South Australia Mr. Mike Rann, Hon. Minister
for Energy of South Australia Mr. Patrick Conlon and Hon. Minister
for Energy of Victoria Mr. Theo Theophanous.
Hon. MOS also visited wind and solar power facilities. Honourable
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the progress made by India in wind power generation.
He said that India already had installed wind power capacity
of 8000 MW, and proposed to increase it to 15000 MW. Indian
companies were now manufacturing wind power equipment.
MOS also mentioned that a special economic |
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zone is being
set up in India for the renewable energy sector.
He also spoke about progress in India in other areas of renewable
energy such as solar, nuclear, biogas fuel etc. He invited
Australian companies to consider investments in India in the
renewable energy sector. |
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New Foreign Secretary
Mr. Shivshankar Menon
has taken over as the new Foreign Secretary of India on
1 October. He has served as Ambassador in Israel,
High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Ambassador in China, and
High Commissioner in Pakistan. He has also served
in Austria and Japan. |
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Pakistan's
ISI behind blasts: Police
Claiming to have cracked the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai trains,
Mumbai Police said that Pakistan's ISI was the ‘mastermind’
behind the terror attacks carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba with help
from SIMI activists.
Addressing a press conference, Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy
said that out of the 15 people arrested in connection with the blasts
the ‘direct role’ of 12 people has been established.
Out of them, 11 are Pakistanis, who had arrived in India in batches,
Roy said.
The conspiracy was hatched in Mumbai and adjoining areas after taking
training in Bahawalpur in Pakistan, he said.
The Commissioner said the main players behind the blasts are Faizal
Sheikh, Kamaluddin Ansari, Ehtasham Siddiqui, general secretary of
SIMI, Maharashtra.
Two of the Pakistanis had come through Nepal reaching Mumbai around
May 25. The second group had come via Bangladesh after spending some
time in Kolkata while another separate group of four people had come
through the Gujarat
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border. Roy said they were kept in separate places
in Mumbai. Faizal Sheikh, a local, had arranged rented houses for
them one in Malad and four in Bandra in Mumbai.
About 15 to 20 KG of RDX was used in the blasts which was brought
from Pakistan by one Ehsanullah. Ammonium Nitrate which was mixed
with RDX was provided by local groups. The bombs were put together
in the Chembur area by one Mohammad Ali around July 8 to 10.
Roy said the bombs were kept in Faizal's home in Bandra from where
they were transported to the Railway Stations in taxis. The bombs
were kept in eight pressure cookers of five litre capacity which
were bought from two shops.
Each bomb contained two to 2.5 kg of RDX and 3.5 to four KG of ammonium
nitrate. The pressure cookers were kept inside bags which were in
turn camouflaged in things like newspapers and umbrellas, he said.
Roy said teams of two people each in a combination of a Pakistani
and an Indian took the bombs in taxis and placed them in the trains.
All the bombs were fitted with quartz timers and the suspects left
the trains before the bombs were set to go off.
He said Saleem, a Pakistani from Lahore, had died in the blasts
carried out in Khar and Bandra section.
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Of the seven Indians suspected to be involved
in the blasts four have been arrested. They are Faizal Sheikh, Kamaluddin
Ansari, Ehtashan Siddiqui and Naved.
A hunt is on for three other Indians suspected to have been involved
in the blasts.
Roy said the accused had purchased eight pressure cookers and used
seven for triggering blasts. "It was a professional, precise
and well-planned operation," he said. He said the first clue
received by the police was a phone call made from Navi Mumbai to
a place along the Indo-Nepal border.
Following this piece of information, police arrested prime suspect
Kamaluddin Ansari from Madhubani in Bihar.
He said all the arrested were trained in Pakistan and knew how to
dodge interrogators.
The Commissioner said the narco-analysis tests conducted on the
arrested persons also helped in tying several loose ends.
Faizal Sheikh told police he had received around Rs 60 lakh from
Pakistan during the last few years. Police recovered 26,000 Riyals
from his house, which he received from one Rizwan Devra, an ISI
operative living in Saudi Arabia, Roy said.
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