I would like to assure the Sikh Community that their places of worship will be protected at all costs, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said. ...
05:47 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New York: The man suspected of shooting and killing six people at a gurudwara near Milwaukee in Wisconsin, USA, has been identified as a former Army soldier Wade Michael Page, say US media reports. Sources say he was an Army veteran who may have been a white supremacist. Page was reduced in rank before his discharge about 12 years ago, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of...
04:58 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New York: 1:50 pm: Reports from CNN say that the gunman who killed six people and was then himself shot dead at a US gurudwara may have been an Army veteran. Quoting sources, CNN says the gunman, who was killed by police, may have been a white supremacist. His name has not yet been released. 12:20 pm: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed shock on the deadly shooting in a...
10:54 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New York: The shooting incident at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin that left seven people dead, including the gunman, and three injured is an act of "domestic terrorism", police authorities have said. Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told reporters outside the Gurudwara that the police is "treating the incident as (an act) of domestic terrorism". He said domestic terrorism is when somebody "does active terrorism within the US." He said...
08:07 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Washington: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said that it is investigating whether the shooting at a Gurudwara in the US is an act of "domestic" terrorism. "While the FBI is investigating whether this matter might be an act of domestic terrorism, no motive has been determined at this time," the FBI Milwaukee Special Agent-in-Charge Teresa Carlson said in a late night statement, hours after the local police termed...
08:04 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New York: A deadly shooting in a gurudwara in Oak Creek in the state of Wisconsin has left six people dead. The gunman identified as a white male was killed by a police officer who responded to the 911 call. Three people including the police officer were critically injured and rushed to hospital. The shooting happened at around 11 am (US time). The police recovered two semi-automatic handguns from the...
07:40 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Atlanta: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating after needles were found in turkey sandwiches on Delta Airlines flights from Amsterdam to the United States. Delta says what appear to be sewing needles were found in five sandwiches on Sunday. One passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured. The other needles were on two flights to Atlanta and one to Seattle. FBI Special Agent Stephen Emmett in Atlanta...
08:14 AM, Jul 18, 2012
New York: Delta Air Lines Inc said it was working with federal authorities after what appeared to be sewing needles were found in food on four US-bound flights that left on Sunday from Amsterdam, injuring one passenger. The needles were found in sandwiches made by the airline's Amsterdam caterer, Gate Gourmet, Delta spokeswoman Chris Kelly said in an email on Monday. The FBI and Netherlands officials are investigating, as are...
08:05 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: On Wednesday, police arrested Nikhil Pable (29) in Andheri. Pable would hack into websites of well-known software companies, illegally download their software and then make multiple copies of them for sale in India. The FBI had been monitoring Pables activities for some time. "The agency sent a request through the Ministry of External Affairs (MOEF) in Delhi, which in turn got in touch with the Mumbai Police. The case...
01:29 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New York: On Monday, the FBI turned off servers that had allowed thousands of malware-stricken computers to continue using the Internet. The personal computers - both Windows PCs and Macs - are corrupted by a virus known as DNSChanger. Without the servers, the machines wouldn't know how to locate websites and send email. Q. What happened? A. Years ago, scammers managed to trick millions of people into installing the DNSChanger...
06:28 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Boston: About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that the US authorities shut down in November, 2011. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential "blackout" and describing the Alureon malware as the "Internet Doomsday" virus. Yet experts said only a tiny...
04:22 AM, Jul 06, 2012
New Delhi: Making some headway in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI has been told by the FBI that the bones recovered from a canal in Rajasthan were of the auxiliary nurse. Official sources said the American agency has conveyed to the CBI that the bones, which included the teeth and parts of skull, that were found from a canal in Jodhpur earlier this year, were that of 36-year-old...
11:46 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: India has asked the US to provide statements of 13 people associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley and his accomplice in Mumbai terror attack case Tahawwur Hussain Rana as they could be potential witnesses. Highly placed government sources said during the third Indo-US strategic dialogue held in Washington last week, India actively pursued the issues related to the 26/11 attack, involvement of Headley and Rana in it and...
07:21 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New York: Using FBI wiretaps, email, phone records and the testimony of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, US prosecutors drew a picture for jurors on Thursday of events that led to the insider-trading trial of onetime corporate star Rajat Gupta. 63-year-old Gupta is accused of providing now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with boardroom secrets between March 2007 and January 2009 while he was a director of Goldman Sachs...
09:17 AM, May 25, 2012
New York: Former Goldman Sachs director and McKinsey & Co executive Rajat Gupta was on a list of "important people" that now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was willing to be disturbed to take their phone calls, his onetime secretary testified at Gupta's insider-trading trial on Tuesday. The former Galleon Group employee Caryn Eisenberg also told the Manhattan federal court jury that she saw Gupta "many times" in the firm's...
09:52 AM, May 23, 2012
New York: Indian-American corporate leader Rajat Gupta has been warned by a US judge that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his history of philanthropy any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges. "If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery," US District Judge Jed...
06:35 PM, May 18, 2012
Washington: FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday the bureau has started an investigation into who leaked information about an al Qaeda plot to place an explosive device aboard a US-bound airline flight. In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller said a leak like this one threatens continuing operations, "puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it much more difficult to recruit sources" and damages relationships with...
11:42 PM, May 16, 2012
Sanaa/ Yemen: Al-Qaeda militants staged a surprise attack on Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a US drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. It was not immediately clear if the pre-dawn attack on the military base in the southern Abyan province...
04:36 PM, May 07, 2012
Kolkata: A multi-tier security ring was thrown around each floor of the city hotel, where visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is staying with a 40-member delegation, with elite US security personnel from the FBI entirely looking after the dignitary's security. Starting from the reception counter to the upper floors, banquet hall and other rooms, FBI teams have taken over providing complete security, police sources said. Nearly 100 rooms...
06:14 PM, May 06, 2012
Washington: Five suspects have been arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge in Ohio state, media reports said on Tuesday. The arrests were, however, not connected to the one-year anniversary of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's death. Instead, the suspects were described as anarchists, Xinhua reported citing local TV station WKYC. The FBI said the suspects had plotted to blow up the Cuyahoga Valley...
03:51 AM, May 02, 2012
