Mumbai: Two of the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives behind bars in connection with 13/7 bomb blasts case were on Monday arrested in a motorcycle theft case, a senior ATS official said. Terror suspects Naquee Ahmed and Nadeem Shaikh were on Monday arrested for stealing two motorcycles from VP Road and Dongri areas days before the 13/7 bomb blasts, the official said. Both of them were in judicial custody in...
10:50 PM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: Do you think you can elude the cops by getting rid of your glasses? Twenty six-year-old Wakas Ibrahim Shaikh, an accused in the 13/7 terror blasts case, definitely thinks so. He allegedly underwent a laser operation to get rid of his glasses, in a bid to disguise his look three months after the terror attack which occurred at the Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar, and Dadar (west). The 4,000-page chargesheet,...
07:22 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be visiting Guwahati on Saturday to attend the first anniversary celebration of the third consecutive term of the Congress government in the state. Meanwhile, ULFA hardliners have called for a 12-hour bandh in the state in protest against the visit. On Friday night, one person was killed in a bomb blast allegedly by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district....
08:29 AM, May 26, 2012
Guwahati: Barely a few hours ahead of the scheduled visit of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to Assam, a blast rocked the state's Tinsukia district late on Friday night, killing one person. Police said the blast took place at Philobari in Tinsukia district, over 500 km away from Guwahati. Police said that the bomb was planted in front of the house of a Congress leader and that it killed one person...
01:48 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: Almost a year after three bomb blasts shook the city killing 27 people and injuring many others, ATS on Friday filed a 4000-page chargesheet in a special MCOCA court against four accused in the case. The four accused, Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik, are facing trial under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), IPC and other laws. A copy of the confession...
06:29 PM, May 25, 2012
Allahabad: An explosion took place at a slum cluster in Allahabad on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring over 15 others. Around six people are said to be seriously injured in the blast which took place in the Kareli slums. According to reports, most of the deceased are children. An eyewitness said that several children were playing near a garbage dump when the blast took place. He...
04:49 PM, May 23, 2012
Sanaa: A suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an al Qaeda affiliate threatened more strikes if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. The attack, which also wounded more than 200 people, underscored the threat Yemen faces in its fight to dislodge Islamist militants entrenched in the south and threatening vital...
01:39 AM, May 22, 2012
HYDERABAD: In view of the fifth anniversary of the Mecca Masjid bomb blast on Friday, police have beefed up security in various parts of the old city Police said they were stepping up the security at the mosque, Charminar, other monuments, places of worship and other public places.Vehicle-checking and patrolling will be intensified. Stern action will be taken against history-sheeters and extremists. Some Muslim organisations are planning to organise protest...
08:57 AM, May 18, 2012
Beirut: Two suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago. The blasts further shredded a ceasefire that was declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12 but which has failed to halt bloodshed pitting Assad's security forces against peaceful demonstrators and an array...
01:39 AM, May 11, 2012
Damascus (Syria): Two strong explosions ripped through the Syrian capital on Thursday, killing more than 40 people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in an assault against a center of government power, officials said. Syria's state-run TV said 170 people were wounded in what one official said may have been the most powerful of a series of blasts that have hit the capital this year. The explosions, which...
03:32 PM, May 10, 2012
Indore: Taking cognisance of a complaint made by an accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case that he was unlawfully detained and subjected to torture, a local court in Depalpur town has issued a warrant directing the Ambala Jail Superintendent to produce him in the court on June 11 next. The accused Kamal Chouhan had alleged that he was kept in illegal custody from February 10-13 and subjected to torture....
02:24 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday vented his anger on way Karnataka police arrested a suspect terrorist from Darbhanga in Bihar, without formally informing the state police. Bangalore Crime Branch officials arrested Kafil Akhtar from Darbhanga for his alleged involvement in the M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium blasts. "I have got information from police officials in Bihar that Karnataka police have arrested a person in Darbhanga. We have...
02:30 PM, May 08, 2012
Bangalore: In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch officials on Tuesday arrested two terrorists belonging to terror outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in Bangalore. The two suspected terrorists have been identified as Mohd Kafil Akhtar and Syyed Abdul Rehman. The former belongs to the IM and is wanted in the M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium blasts case of April 2010 in Bangalore, while the latter is said to be...
12:47 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the blast in 2011 at Delhi High Court say freelance terrorists, those without affiliations to terror outfits, are posing a grave threat and different brand of terrorists are now emerging. Terror groups from across the border, home grown red terror and now another challenge - freelance terrorists or what the National Investigation Agency calls leaderless jihadis. The NIA investigating the Delhi High Court blast of 2011...
06:36 AM, May 06, 2012
Islamabad: At least 19 low-intensity bomb blasts targeted ATM machines of state-run banks and railway tracks in Sindh province of southern Pakistan on Wednesday, injuring six persons, including two policemen. The explosions occurred in cities and towns across Sindh, including the capital city of Karachi, early on Wednesday morning. A private security guard was injured in a blast at a bank in Kotri town while two policemen were wounded in...
04:43 PM, May 02, 2012
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