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Aug 15, 2009
Feb 15, 2009
How terrorists get away with fake passports
It is common knowledge that terrorists travel on fake passports and almost 9 out of 10 times they manage to give security agencies the slip.
Intelligence Bureau officials says that terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayiba have a fixed set of guidelines for terrorists with false passports, identification cards and record books.
Lashkar operatives like Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed -- the prime accused in the January 1, 2008 attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur and the December 28, 2005 attack on the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore -- have disclosed to interrogators that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence arranged their fake passports.
Sabahuddin has claimed that an ISI officer organised his journey to the airport in Pakistan to ensure that he had a safe passage into India. IB officials list the guidelines that terrorists follow while dealing with passports, record books and also identification cards.
Intelligence Bureau officials says that terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayiba have a fixed set of guidelines for terrorists with false passports, identification cards and record books.
Lashkar operatives like Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed -- the prime accused in the January 1, 2008 attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur and the December 28, 2005 attack on the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore -- have disclosed to interrogators that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence arranged their fake passports.
Sabahuddin has claimed that an ISI officer organised his journey to the airport in Pakistan to ensure that he had a safe passage into India. IB officials list the guidelines that terrorists follow while dealing with passports, record books and also identification cards.
- All documents, which lead up to creating a fake passport or an identification card should be falsified. There should be nothing genuine about the documents that help create these important documents.
- All the false information provided on either the identification card or the passport should be memorised by the terrorist. In case the man is questioned, he should not be seen fumbling when asked for information regarding details as mentioned in the fake identification or forged passport. He should have on his finger tips, the false name, place of residence and also the profession. In case a top terrorist is travelling outside the country, it is ensured that he has multiple identification cards and passports.
- A person carrying multiple documents should not have similar details in them. The names, addresses and profession on each of these documents should be different.
- All identification cards and the passports, which terrorists have in their possession, have photographs without beards. This is to avoid suspicion, the IB says.
- The validity of documents should be confirmed. Great care is taken while preparing these documents and the date of validity is very carefully entered in these documents.
- There is a terminology called procedural control, which is used while carrying such falsified documents. All documents should be carried safely and not in a haphazardly manner. Terrorist outfits are also very strict about safe possession of a document as they do not encourage creating the document once again in case it is lost as frequenting government offices to recreate a document would only raise alarm bells.
- In case a terrorist is married, then the name of his spouse or even his marital status should not be mentioned in the passport or any other document that he is carrying. This, the IB says, is done to ensure that no trail is left in case they are caught.
- Lastly, extreme care is taken to ensure that the terrorist is not travelling to a country where the forged passport is made. So if an Indian passport is made for a terrorist sitting in Pakistan then he is told not to travel to India. If he needs to travel to India, then he would have to have a passport of a different country. Terror groups feel that this is an extremely important guideline since it is easy to detect forgery.
Jan 28, 2009
36 Ways to Identify an Indian
How to identify an Indian!
1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2.. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminium foil.
3. You are Always standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children! in rhythms (example, Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam, Kamini & Shamini.)
8. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No Food Allowed' ..
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
11. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
12. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but they
won't let you do certain things because of what the other 'Uncles and
Aunties' will think..
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used, as it is for special occasions,which never happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
16. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with purchase of other stuff )
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel
means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
21. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off
or receive you whether you are travelling by bus, train or plane.
26. If she is NOT your daughter, you
always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run with whose son
and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the speed of
light.
27. Your wedding gifts are mostly in cash with a one rupee coin added to the note in a cover.
28. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
29. You call an older person you never met before Uncle orAunty.
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes,you
discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
31. Your parents don't realize phone connections ! to foreign countries
have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of
their lungs when making foreign calls.
32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them fromgetting dirty.
33. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food colour.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2.. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminium foil.
3. You are Always standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children! in rhythms (example, Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam, Kamini & Shamini.)
8. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No Food Allowed' ..
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
11. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
12. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but they
won't let you do certain things because of what the other 'Uncles and
Aunties' will think..
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used, as it is for special occasions,which never happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
16. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with purchase of other stuff )
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel
means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
21. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off
or receive you whether you are travelling by bus, train or plane.
26. If she is NOT your daughter, you
always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run with whose son
and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the speed of
light.
27. Your wedding gifts are mostly in cash with a one rupee coin added to the note in a cover.
28. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
29. You call an older person you never met before Uncle orAunty.
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes,you
discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
31. Your parents don't realize phone connections ! to foreign countries
have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of
their lungs when making foreign calls.
32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them fromgetting dirty.
33. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food colour.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
Jan 26, 2009
Jan 25, 2009
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India's First Woman Lifeguard
India's First Woman Lifeguard
Meet Kerry Blewett, the first woman to patrol India's beaches.
The 22-year-old British citizen, a certified lifeguard, is part of a team of experts brought to Goa to train lifeguards.
Blewett, who was in Mumbai on Monday, has been assigned as a motivator
by Drishti Special Response, an agency appointed by the Goan government
to make beaches in the state safe for swimmers.
About two million tourists visit Goa every year. At present, 149 lifeguards patrol Goa's 106 km long coastline.
Blewett and her squad -- spearheaded by Australian expert Craig Carney -- are training 22 more lifeguards.
She has also been trying to persuade local women to become lifeguards
Crowd management is one of the biggest challenges faced by life-savers in India, she was quoted as saying by a daily.
Blewett is a lifeguard by the certified Royal Life Saving Society, UK.
RLSS is the governing body and leading provider of training and
education in lifesaving, life guarding, water safety and life support
skills in the UK.
Good news followed Blewett as she arrived in Mumbai to give handy tips to lifeguards patrolling the metropolis' beaches.
She has been selected for the final round to determine Britain's sprint
kayaking team for the London Olympics in 2012. If selected, she intends
to return to UK and train for the event.
Jan 18, 2009
India Launches One More Royal Tourist Train
New Delhi, Jan 11 : Royal Rajasthan on Wheels,
a regal train chugging across the land of maharajas in western India,
Sunday started its maiden journey, with the government promising to
launch similar services in more states.
“Many states have shown interest in this regard
and I am going to take up the issue before the cabinet and also with
the states that are keen on having luxury tourist trains,” Tourism
Minister Ambika Soni told reporters after flagging off the new train at
the Safdarjung railway station here.
The luxury train is a joint venture by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation and the Indian Railways.
It will provide an alternative to the Palace on Wheels, India’s first luxury train, which is already booked till 2010.
The seven-day sojourn on the Royal
Rajasthan train promises to be a heady mix of Rajasthan’s pristine
historic experience, said Soni.
With a carrying capacity of 82 people, the
train will have 13 deluxe saloons and one super deluxe saloon, four
service cars and two restaurant bars. A top-class spa and wi-fi
facilities are also in the offing.
The itinerary of the train will be the
same as the Palace on Wheels: it would leave Delhi and start on its
week-long journey through Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Sawai Madhopur
among other places before terminating the run at Delhi.
Due to technical difficulties, the train will not go to Bikaner this season though announced earlier.
The train was earlier expected to commence operations from October 2008.
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