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Behind
Pakistan's Defeat
A
secret inquiry into Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war held army atrocities,
widespread corruption, cowardice and the moral laxity of its generals
as prime reasons for the defeat in East Pakistan. The explosive Hamoodur
report has never been disclosed-until now.
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The
Nation
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Peace
Takes a Knock
The
Hizb has resumed battle, the killings continue and the Hurriyat is in
a quandary but the Government feels these are temporary roadblocks to
peace.
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AS
Good As It Gets?
The
economy has been chugging along well this year. Will it pick up speed
or lose steam in the coming months? Right now there is more optimism than
unease about the future.
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CRIME, VEERAPPAN
The
Tamil Connection
Fringe
ultra groups in the area are tutoring the bandit
When
Veerappan listed his demands, police officials quickly realised that the
"bandit king" was voicing somebody else's agenda. Investigations
revealed that Veerappan's gang was in contact with two little known Tamil
ultra groups -- the Tamil National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Tamil
Nadu Retrieval Troops (TNRT). In fact, besides Veerappan the other voice
in the cassette is believed to be that of TNLA chief Maaran, alias Senguttuvan.
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TELL
TALE SIGNS
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has demanded the release of five TADA detenus who belong to two little
known Tamil terrorist outfits.
In
the cassette given by Veerappan, another voice is audible. Police
believe this belongs to Maaran, head of one of the groups.
The
bandit's gang has suddenly acquired sophisticated weapons like AK-47
rifles. These have probably come from the Tamil groups.
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Most TNRT
members are disillusioned young workers of two political parties -- the
Pattali Makkal Katchi and the Dravida Kazhagam. First, they were lured
by the influential LTTE, which used them to fight its war for Tamil Eelam.
Their main job was to smuggle petrol to Jaffna. However, during a major
crackdown by the Tamil Nadu police, they escaped to the Vanniar belt of
north Tamil Nadu, close to Veerappan's territory. Soon, they approached
the bandit and his gang and lured him with sophisticated arms. Police
sources say they are the ones who advised Veerappan to get into kidnapping
and extortion.
As for the
TNLA, it was started by a student called Tamilarasan in the late 1960s.
He earned notoriety for murdering three landlords in the Srimusham area.
During his Naxalite days, Tamilarasan was arrested twice, and once escaped
from jail. After 1975, disillusioned with Naxalism, he took up the Tamil
cause in the Vanniar area of north Tamil Nadu. While trying to hold up
a bank at Ponparappi in 1987, he and his associates were ambushed by the
police and killed. It was later found out that a TNLA member had tipped
off the police. While most of his men died in the encounter, some managed
to escape, and one of them is Maaran who has joined Veerappan.
-Vaasanthi
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CHAT |
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the transcript
of
Wednesday's live chat with Vasudevan Bhaskaran, Chief Coach of
Indian hockey.
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STREET |
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The
Mercenary Journalist
Pressures of meeting deadlines have always been
nerve-wracking in Kashmir. But never before has there been such desperation
to be the first to break news, writes India Today Special Correspondent
Ramesh Vinayak who has covered militancy for over a decade.
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TALKING
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"May be Veerappan should be given a chance
to reform," Karnataka
CM S.M. Krishna tells INDIA TODAY Principal Correspondent Stephen
David as one of the options being considered to secure the release of
superstar Rajkumar.
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DESPATCHES |
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In
the eerie world of superstition that still exists in Andhra Pradesh's
Telengana region, four women and a man are brutally burned to death allegedly
for practising black magic. INDIA TODAY Associate Editor Amarnath K.
Menon says in Despatches
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