39-503: The 2010 Pune bombing , also known as 13/7 and the German bakery blast , occurred on 13 February 2010 at approximately 19:15 Indian Standard Time , when a bomb exploded at a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune , Maharashtra . The blast killed 18 people, and injured at least 60 more, including an Italian woman, two Sudanese students and an Iranian student. The German bakery
78-498: A few days back. A Pune court on 18 April 2013 awarded a death sentence to Indian Mujahideen operative Himayat Baig, who was earlier in the week convicted for his involvement in the blasts. Baig's lawyer A Rahman had said that though they respected the verdict, they would appeal against it in the Bombay High Court. Indian Standard Time Indian Standard Time ( IST ), sometimes also called India Standard Time ,
117-714: A glass of water. Since Paras was away from the blast he sustained mild injuries and has become an important eyewitness for the police. Investigators also included other Indian metropolitan cities like Bangalore and Mumbai in the probe. Over 40 people were arrested during the investigation, among them four Kashmiris in Hampi , Karnataka. Pune police arrested two suspects from Pune's suburbs on 16 February 2010. Another two were detained in Aurangabad . The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) identified Yasin Bhatkal , believed to be
156-532: A relative of Indian Mujahideen founder Riyaz Bhatkal , as one of the main conspirators of the blast in a preliminary report submitted to the State Government on 7 April 2010. The investigating agency, in its report, has identified four more suspects involved in the blast, including the planters of the bomb – laden bag which went off in the German Bakery. Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil told
195-528: A return to British-era time zones, but the recommendations were not adopted. In 2001, the government established a four-member committee under the Ministry of Science and Technology to examine the need for multiple time zones and daylight saving. The findings of the committee, which were presented to Parliament in 2004 by the Minister of Science and Technology, Kapil Sibal , did not recommend changes to
234-477: A separate time zone, known as the Chaibagan or Bagan time ('Tea Garden Time'), which is one hour ahead of IST. Still, Indian Standard Time remains the only officially used time. In 2014, Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi started campaigning for another time zone for Assam and other northeastern states of India. However, the proposal would need to be cleared by the union government . In June 2017,
273-529: A student at a madarsa in Darbhanga was also arrested from Madhubani on the charge of recruiting youths from near the Indo-Nepal border for terrorist activities, Abdul Rahman being one of such recruits. This charge was disputed by Jamil's father who billed him as a good orator and an honest, religious man who had lost a bag containing his belongings – including his PAN card, residential proof and photos –
312-697: Is located near the local Jewish Chabad House and the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park , Pune. Both the ashram and the bakery are frequented by foreigners; the bakery was filled with tourists and locals at the time of the attack. Two Islamist groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Indian Mujahideen ( Students' Islamic Movement of India ), claimed responsibility for the bombing under pseudonymous names. According to Indian government agencies,
351-400: Is taken as the standard time as it passes through almost the centre of India. To communicate the exact time to the people, the exact time is broadcast over the national All India Radio and Doordarshan television network. Telephone companies have dedicated phone numbers connected to mirror time servers that also relay the precise time. Another increasingly popular means of obtaining the time
390-563: Is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India , with a time offset of UTC+05:30 . India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time , IST is designated E* ("Echo-Star"). It is indicated as Asia/Kolkata in the IANA time zone database . The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with
429-598: Is through Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Minister for Home Affairs (India) The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister , short-form HM ) is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India . One of the senior-most officers in the Union Cabinet , the chief responsibility of the home minister is the maintenance of the internal security of India;
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#1732772295676468-482: The Department of Science and Technology (DST) indicated that it is once again studying the feasibility of two time zones for India. Proposals for creating an additional Eastern India Time (EIT at UTC+06:00 ), shifting default IST to UTC+05:00 and daylight saving (Indian Daylight Time for IST and Eastern India Daylight Time for EIT) starting on 14 April ( Ambedkar Jayanti ) and ending on 2 October ( Gandhi Jayanti )
507-545: The Bakery was not deemed to be at risk at the time. Initial media reports indicated that a Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder used for cooking had caused the blast, but the Pune City Fire Brigade issued a statement that the cylinders at German bakery were intact. Businessman Bharat Turakhia, who suffered shrapnel injuries from the blast, saved several lives by taking the victims to a hospital and helped
546-492: The Legislative Council that the suspects would be arrested in a few days and more details would be disclosed at a later stage. On 24 May 2010, Maharashtra ATS arrested Abdul Samad Bhatkal, younger brother of Yaseen Bhatkal, as he got off Air India flight 812 at Mangalore International Airport for his alleged involvement in a little-known murder case. However, Home Minister P. Chidambaram later identified him as
585-655: The Maharashtra government's Anti Terrorist Squad , along with the National Investigation Agency in Delhi. Maharashtra ATS Chief K P Raghuvanshi is heading the blast probe. The agency has crucial closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) footage of the alleged bombers. Investigators first focused their attention on the possibility that the attacks were carried out by a Pune jihad cell known to have existed since at least since 2006. This came out from
624-615: The Miramshah or Bannu district in North Waziristan . Ilyas Kashmiri was believed to have masterminded the attack, his 313 Brigade had claimed responsibility through an email. He was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on 3 June 2011. The Maharashtra Police had announced a probe was under way to establish the cause of the explosion, while a Central Bureau of Investigation team was sent from New Delhi to Pune to assist in
663-627: The additional portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister . As of February 2020, three Home Ministers have gone on to become the Prime Minister: Lal Bahadur Shastri , Charan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao . L.K. Advani, serving from 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004, has held the office of the Home Minister for the longest continuous period, as of February 2020. On several occasions, the Prime Minister also held
702-470: The additional portfolio of the Minister of Home Affairs. Jawaharlal Nehru briefly acted as home minister in 1950 following the demise of Vallabhbhai Patel, Indira Gandhi briefly served as home minister in 1966 following resignation of Gulzarilal Nanda , Morarji Desai held the portfolio from 1978 till 1979, Chandra Shekhar throughout his prime ministerial tenure and H. D. Deve Gowda briefly served as home minister in 1996. P. Chidambaram who served as
741-457: The attack could be part of a project by Lashkar-e-Taiba to use the Indian Mujahideen in what Headley apparently called the 'Karachi project' during his interrogation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The attack occurred just a few days after an agreement was reached between India and Pakistan to resume dialogue at a meeting on 25 February in New Delhi. The incident added to
780-535: The attack could have been part of a project by Lashkar-e-Taiba to use the Indian Mujahideen in what is called the " Karachi Project". David Coleman Headley , a Pakistani−American terrorist who co-plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks , has been accused of involvement in the project and bombing. The site of the bombing was the German Bakery, a two-decade-old popular establishment in Pune. The bakery, situated on
819-431: The country's large police force comes under its jurisdiction. Occasionally, they are assisted by the Minister of State of Home Affairs and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Home Affairs. Ever since the time of independent India's first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel , the office has been seen as second in seniority only to the Prime Minister in the union cabinet. Like Patel, several Home Ministers have since held
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#1732772295676858-730: The government's vulnerability, with the opposition asking for suspension of the bilateral talks. A little known group calling itself the Laskhar-e-Taiba Al Alami claimed it was behind the bomb attack in Pune in a phone call to the Islamabad office of the Indian daily The Hindu . The caller appeared to be educated, and said the group had split from the Lashkar-e-Taiba due to its affinity to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence . The call appeared to originate from
897-518: The ground floor of a corner building in the Koregaon Park area of Pune, was reduced to rubble, though the rest of the building was left intact. At the time of the explosion, the bakery's limited seating areas were full of students and foreign visitors from the nearby Osho Ashram. A security alert had been issued in October 2009 for a Jewish Chabad house in the vicinity of the German Bakery, but
936-465: The investigations. Consequently, the entire country was put on high alert, especially Mumbai and Hyderabad . After a detailed review of the internal security situation in the wake of the attack, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directed the Union and Maharashtra governments to take coordinated and effective action to speedily investigate the terror attack. Investigation in the blast was carried out by
975-520: The perpetrators of the 2010 Pune bombing, the Chinnaswamy stadium blast and the 2010 Jama Masjid attack . One Pakistani national was also reported to have been arrested. Two of the seven people were arrested in Chennai and were identified by the special cell as Mohammad Irshad Khan (age 50) and Abdul Rahman (age 19), hailing from Madhubani district of Bihar . Another individual – Ghayur Jamil –
1014-625: The phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), and after Independence in 1947 , the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time ) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. The Central observatory was moved from Madras to a location at Shankargarh Fort in Allahabad district , so that it would be as close to UTC+05:30 as possible. Daylight Saving Time (DST)
1053-455: The police in their investigation. Security agencies confirmed shortly thereafter that the explosion was a terrorist strike. Nine people were killed instantly. The rest of the victims succumbed to their injuries a few days later, while undergoing treatment. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra , Ashok Chavan , announced: "Regarding the compensation payment to the dead, the families will be paid ₨. 500,000 ( US$ 11,000) per person who has died in
1092-551: The preliminary report from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), stated that RDX explosive had been used. Ball bearings together with nuts and bolts were used in the bomb. He added, "According to the FSL report received last night, the material used for the explosive was a combination of RDX , ammonium nitrate and petroleum hydrocarbon oil ( ANFO ). However, the quantity used has not been determined yet. Also
1131-546: The prime suspect in the German Bakery blast. Bhatkal had left for Dubai shortly after the blast and was returning after his visa expired. He was arrested using a Lookout Notice that was issued by the Mumbai police. Samad was trying to slip into the country through the Bajpe Airport by taking advantage of the situation that prevailed following the 22 May 2010 crash at Mangalore of flight Air India Express Flight 812 . Bhatkal
1170-505: The questioning of Mohammad Peerbhoy, an Indian Mujahideen operative held in the course of a national counter-terrorism operation that targeted the Lashkar-linked group in 2008. Just moments before the explosion, Paras Rimal, a waiter at the German Bakery had noticed the bag (containing explosives). When Paras moved in to investigate the bag, he was called out of the bakery by an unknown motorist who paid him ₹ 200 (US$ 2.40) to fetch
1209-502: The sun rising and setting almost two hours earlier on India's eastern border than in the Rann of Kutch in the far west. Inhabitants of the northeastern states have to advance their clocks with the early sunrise to avoid the extra consumption of energy after daylight hours. In the late 1980s, a team of researchers proposed separating the country into two or three time zones to conserve energy. The binary system that they suggested involved
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1248-505: The trigger mechanism is still subject to investigation." It is not known whether a remote detonator or a timer was used to set off the blast. On 14 February, the Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram stated that responsibility for the blast had not yet been determined, but that Indian authorities were making attempts to interview David Headley , a Pakistani-American businessman, accused of involvement with terrorism who
1287-488: The unfortunate incident. And whatever the medical expenditure is for the people who have been admitted to the hospitals the costs will be entirely covered by the government." About 60 people were injured in the bombing; 46 were men and the rest were women. 12 of the injured were foreigners: five were Iranian , two were Sudanese and two were Nepalese , and one each from Italy , Taiwan , and Yemen . List of victims: Commissioner of Police , Satyapal Singh, after receiving
1326-595: The unified system, stating that 'the prime meridian was chosen with reference to a central station, and that the expanse of the Indian State was not large.' Though the government has consistently refused to split the country into multiple time zones, provisions in labour laws such as the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 allow the union and state governments to define and set the local time for a particular industrial area. In Assam , tea gardens follow
1365-629: Was apprehended based on investigation of CCTV footage from the German Bakery. In September 2010, the ATS arrested Mirza Himayat Baig (29) for his involvement in the attack, as well as his aide Shaikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain alias Bilal (27), both believed to be members of Islamist militant terrorist organisation LeT . Baig was said to have taken bomb-making training in Colombo in 2008. On 30 November 2011, Delhi Police special cell arrested six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives whom they claimed to be
1404-697: Was chosen as the standard meridian for the whole country as it is located centrally between western India ( local time UTC +05:00 ) and northeastern India ( local time UTC +06:00 ). Currently, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL) maintains the Indian Standard Time with the help of the Allahabad Observatory . The country's east–west distance of more than 2,933 kilometres (1,822 mi) covers over 29° of longitude, resulting in
1443-668: Was submitted to DST for consideration. Official time signals are generated by the Time and Frequency Standards Laboratory at the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi , for both commercial and official use. The signals are based on atomic clocks and synchronised with the worldwide system of clocks that support Coordinated Universal Time . Features of the Time and Frequency Standards Laboratory include: IST
1482-638: Was then undergoing trial in the United States. In connection with the bomb blast, the Indian Home Secretary , G. K. Pillai also referred to Headley. News organisations have reported that Headley had visited Pune in July 2008 and March 2009 to scout the area near the blast and described him as a suspected member of Lashkar-e-Taiba , one of the largest and most active South Asian Islamist terrorist organisations. G. K. Pillai also said that
1521-602: Was used briefly during the China–India War of 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971 . Indian Standard Time is calculated from the reference longitude of IST at 82°30'E passing near Mirzapur Clock Tower . In 1905, the meridian passing east of Allahabad was declared as a standard time zone for British India and was declared as IST in 1947 for the Dominion of India . This longitude of 82°30'E
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