Panama: A Panama-flagged merchant oil tanker, the BW Rhine, has been hijacked. Indian sailors are among the 21-member crew that has been taken hostage. The incident occurred off the east coast of Africa on April 28. The exact number of Indians on board is, however, not known as of now. Sources in the DG Shipping have called it a looting incident on the high seas. They are monitoring the situation....
09:56 AM, May 03, 2012
Karachi: A Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport after a passenger allegedly threatened to hijack the aircraft. PIA flight PK-586, which was flying from Karachi to Bahawalpur in Punjab province, turned back to the port city after an air hostess alerted the captain about the passenger's threat, TV news channels reported. The passenger who made the alleged threat was arrested by commandos...
04:35 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Srinagar: Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines Srinagar-Jammu flight to Lahore on January...
08:59 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: In Turkey, suspected Kurdish militants hijacked a ferry near Istanbul on Friday. There are 25 passengers and crew on board. Authorities have said that at least one of the hijackers is armed. There was no information on his identity or his motive. Mayor of Izmit Ibrahim Karaosmanoglu said the men were demanding to speak to the media. State-run TRT television said coast guard boats were shadowing the ferry...
10:29 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Ankara: A group of Kurdish militants on Friday hijacked a ferry with 19 passengers near Istanbul, the country's transport minister said. The minister, Binali Yildirim, said "four or five" hijackers claiming to be members of the armed wing of the Kurdish rebel group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, commandeered the ship after it set sail from the northwestern port city of Izmit. The rebels have been fighting for autonomy in...
02:13 AM, Nov 12, 2011
New York: US authorities on Wednesday charged seven people living in Estonia and Russia with using malicious software to hijack millions of computers worldwide to redirect Internet searches toward online ads. Starting in 2007, the suspects created fake companies that contracted with legitimate advertiser websites to drive Internet traffic toward their Internet pages, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment. About 4 million computers in 100 countries including the United...
08:28 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Rome: British and the US forces on Tuesday stormed an Italian cargo ship in the Indian Ocean in an operation to free the crew including six Indians that was hijacked by Somali pirates on Monday, an Italian defense ministry spokesman said. The 11 pirates who hijacked the Montecristo have all been arrested, Italian news agency ANSA said quoting sources. The Italian foreign ministry issued a statement welcoming the release which...
07:40 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: Somali pirates hijacked a chemical-oil tanker with 21 Indian sailors on board on Saturday from near an Omani port, although the exact location was unconfirmed. India's Directorate General of Shipping said the MV Fairchem Bogey, an chemical-oil tanker managed by Mumbai-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, was hijacked while anchored in Salalah port. Oman lies at the mouth of the Gulf, a strategic, heavily patrolled waterway which channels a bulk...
11:29 AM, Aug 21, 2011
New Delhi: A UAE-based vessel carrying 16 members on board including five Indians were hijacked by Somali pirates off an Island which forms part of Yemen. Sources in the Ministry of Shipping on Thursday said they were trying to ascertain the details of the Indians who were part of the 16-member crew that has been hijacked by pirates on July 16. Vessel MV Jubba of Juba General Trading was on...
08:58 PM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI has conclusively established that the person detained in Chile is not the man it was looking for in connection with the conspiracy in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and that he was just a visa offender. The person - Abdul Rauf - who was detained by the Chilean Police way back in January this year had entered the South American country along...
04:25 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Mumbai: Though Indian navy has caught at least 100 pirates, at least 53 Indians are still in Somali pirates' captivity. These pirates are mere foot soldiers of a thriving multi-million dollar piracy industry in Somalia. And this industry has well-entrenched international connections too. Somali pirates are not just brute buccaneers, but part of a thriving business model with international connections. CNN-IBN reveals how the business of piracy is conducted in...
06:58 PM, Apr 17, 2011
New Delhi: The man detained by Chilean authorities on an Interpol Red Corner Notice was not involved in the 1999 hijacking of Air India flight IC-814. Government sources have told CNN-IBN that the Pakistani man identified as Abdul Rauf detained in Chile is not Mufti Abdul Rauf, named as one of the hijack conspirator in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chargesheet in connection with the case. Sources said that...
03:52 PM, Apr 14, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan media said on Wednesday that the man held in Chile is not the 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 Kandahar hijacking suspect. Reports quoting Pakistan police said that Mufti Abdul Rauf, named as the conspirator in CBI chargesheet, is in Rawalpindi. The reports have also called it an ugly Indian plot to discredit Rauf. The Chilean police have arrested someone else because Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Azhar,...
05:41 PM, Apr 13, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Serdesai asks 'Who will rescue our captive sailors?' ...
11:04 PM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: Chile police arrested a man named Abdul Rauf in January 2011, who may be one of the conspirators in the hijacking of Air India IC-814. Rauf was arrested in a case of fake visa but during investigations Chile police found that Interpol had issued a notice against a person named Abdul Rauf who was involved in the hijacking. Rauf is the brother-in-law of dreaded terrorist Maulana Azhar, who...
11:39 AM, Apr 12, 2011
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