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India Today
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
How Ghazi Baba operation, shown in the film ‘Ground Zero', is detailed in IPS officer's biography
Continuing with the Hindi film industry's trend of making movies on real-life incidents, the Farhan Akhtar- Ritesh Sidhwani-produced Ground Zero, directed by Tejas Deoskar, is the story of the operation to eliminate dreaded terrorist Rana Tahir Nadeem aka Ghazi Baba, the mastermind of the 2001 Parliament Baba was originally a resident of Pakistan's Bahawalpur, one of the places struck by the Indian military during Operation film, which released a few weeks ago, has Emraan Hashmi playing the main protagonist—Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey, the second-in-command of a Border Security Force (BSF) battalion posted in the Kashmir film's release was preceded by the release last year of the autobiography of the late Vijay Raman, a highly decorated 1975 batch IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre. Raman was posted as BSF inspector general (IG) for Kashmir when the Ghazi Baba encounter took place in 2003. Raman's book Did I Really Do All This? covers his stints in the BSF, including Jammu and Kashmir. In the book, Raman describes how he received inputs about Ghazi Baba's whereabouts though an old contact. It was during his posting in Delhi that he came to know about the militant's presence in Srinagar. By a twist of fate, the BSF IG in Srinagar took ill and Raman was assigned in his got posted in Srinagar in mid-2003 and resumed contact with his informer. The chapter 'My Tryst With India's Osama' in his book describes in detail how Raman set up a team and did multiple recces to locate Ghazi Baba. On one such trip, Raman and other BSF personnel, armed but in civvies, had spotted Ghazi Baba in downtown when Raman was to exit his vehicle to apprehend Ghazi Baba, the informer held him back and asked the driver to get out of the area at the earliest. Later, he dropped a bombshell: Ghazi Baba wore an explosive belt and any attempt to arrest him could have been catastrophic as he would have blown himself August 29, 2003, Raman received information from Narendra Dubey that he had inputs on Ghazi Baba. According to the book, Raman had not shared his pursuit of the militant with anyone until then. Ahead of a prime ministerial visit to Srinagar, the BSF had apprehended a man with grenades and weapons. He turned out to be Ghazi Baba's his interrogation, it was learnt that a carpenter had created storage spaces in two houses in Srinagar and that weapons had been stored in one of them. A team led by Dubey went to the second house, only to find Ghazi Baba hiding in the storage space. He opened fire at the BSF personnel. Dubey was injured and evacuated from the building. Other injured BSF personnel were also shifted out, after which the building was blown up, killing Ghazi book mentions that Ghazi Baba was eventually positively identified by an India Today photographer. In the film, however, Ghazi Baba is shown to have been eliminated by Dubey. Raman mentions in his book that he had proposed the Ashoka Chakra (the highest peacetime gallantry award) for Dubey, but it did not book contains vivid accounts of Raman's tenure in Kashmir, in the Special Protection Group (SPG) where he worked with four prime ministers, and also in Chambal, where he led the operation to eliminate Paan Singh Tomar, also the subject of the eponymous 2012 film starring the late Irrfan to India Today MagazineMust Watch
India Today
20-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Madhya Pradesh Police forms special team to probe Minister's Col Qureshi remarks
Madhya Pradesh Police constituted a three-member SIT late on Monday night to probe state minister Vijay Shah's remarks against Col Sofiya Qureshi in compliance with a Supreme Court order, an official Special Investigation Team comprises Inspector General of Police Pramod Verma, Deputy Inspector General Kalyan Chakravarty and Superintendent of Police Vahini Supreme Court on Monday chided Shah for his "crass" remarks on Col Qureshi and constituted a three-member special investigation team to probe the FIR lodged against The top court asked the Madhya Pradesh director general of police to constitute a three-member SIT headed by an IG-rank officer by Tuesday 10 am, also comprising a woman officer, to probe the FIR registered following an order of the Madhya Pradesh High order to constitute the SIT was issued by the Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Kailash Makwana with a direction to ensure compliance with the apex court IPS officer Pramod Verma is currently posted as Inspector General (IG) Sagar range, Kalyan Chakravarty is posted as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) SAF, Bhopal, and Vahini Singh as SP Dindori, the official came under fire after a video, which was distributed widely, showed him allegedly making objectionable remarks against Col Qureshi, who gained nationwide prominence along with another woman officer, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, during media briefings on Operation Madhya Pradesh High Court rebuked Shah for passing "scurrilous" remarks and using "language of the gutters" against Col Qureshi and ordered the police to file an FIR against him on the charge of promoting enmity and drawing severe condemnation, the MP minister has expressed regret and said that he respects Col Qureshi more than his InMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Madhya Pradesh#Operation Sindoor#Supreme Court
India Today
13-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Fact-check for Pakistan: Minister shares video of PM's Adampur air base visit
The surrounding air echoed with chants of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and 'Vande Mataram' as Prime Minister Modi visited Punjab's Adampur air base early this morning. Hours after the visit, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw took a dig at Pakistan, which had claimed to have destroyed the Adampur air base during its attack on the night of May 9–10, in response to India's Operation Prime Minister's visit was significant as it demonstrated the air base was in fine condition, refuting reports of any Union Minister posted a video of the Prime Minister meeting jawans at the Adampur air base on X and said, 'Fact-check for Pakistan, which claims to have attacked the Adampur Air Base. PM Narendra Modi interacted with our brave jawans.' In a post on X, the Prime Minister shared a few photos with the jawans and called it a 'very special experience'.'Earlier this morning, I went to AFS Adampur and met our brave air warriors and soldiers. It was a very special experience to be with those who epitomise courage, determination and fearlessness. India is eternally grateful to our armed forces for everything they do for our nation,' the Prime Minister said. advertisement Adampur was one of the four key Indian Air Force stations that Pakistan claimed had suffered major damage after being targeted on the night of May 9–10, in response to India's Operation Today's Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) team reviewed medium-resolution satellite imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA for at least 10 air bases and imagery did not show any visible damage to the runway, administrative buildings, or aircraft hangars for Avantipur and Udhampur air base in J&K, Pathankot, Bathinda, Adampur in Punjab, Suratgarh air base in Rajasthan, and Sirsa in Haryana.
India Today
08-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Leave safely: US advisory for personnel, citizens in Lahore after drone explosions
The United States has directed all its consulate personnel in Pakistan's Lahore to seek shelter-in-place after "reports of drone explosions, downed drones and possible airspace incursions in and near Lahore"."The Consulate has also received initial reports that authorities may be evacuating some areas adjacent to Lahore's main airport," the US advisory citizens who find themselves in an "area of active conflict" have been advised to leave if they can do so safely. "If it is not safe to leave, they should shelter-in-place," the US asked its citizens in Lahore and Pakistan's Punjab The US has also mentioned action that US citizens in the conflict zone should take. This includes:Seek secure shelterHave evacuation plans that do not rely on US government assistanceHave travel documents up to date and easily accessibleMonitor local media for updatesCarry proper identification and cooperate with authoritiesThis comes amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan. India targeted terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7. The attacks-- codenamed Operation Sindoor-- on terror infrastructures were in response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack that claimed 26 has said it has no intentions to escalate but is prepared to retaliate resolutely should Pakistan decide to do FOILS PAK ATTACKThe armed forces on Thursday targeted air defence radars at a number of locations in Pakistan and destroyed the system in Lahore after Islamabad attempted to strike 15 military targets in India in response to Operation government said on the intervening night of May 7-8, Pakistan attempted to target a number of military installations in Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and the drones and missiles were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and the Russia-made S-400 'Sudarshan Chakra' air defence Watch
