Lucknow: Haunted by the spectre of cheating in the MBBS entrance exam for those aspiring to be doctors, the Uttar Pradesh Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT) organisers have come up with unprecedented security measures in 2012. These include carrying answer sheets on a chartered flight, keeping secret the forward route of the sheets and closing all photocopying shops around the test centres. Other steps include taking fingerprints, having handwriting experts on...
02:32 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A new study by the Centre for Science and Environment has found that at least 16 major food brands may label themselves as 'healthy' but are in fact not so. Most junk foods contain very high levels of trans fats, salts and sugar, leading to obesity and diabetes. This is something people well know. But what does one do when food companies label their food as healthy which...
10:48 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Srinagar: Two militants of HuJI including its dreaded commander made a dramatic escape from police custody near Patnitop while they were being driven from Kishtwar to Udhampur to attend a court case. Sher Khan and his associate Jameel alias Abdullah were escorted by policemen in a vehicle when they fled away apparently after stopping for tea at a shop near Patnitop. Security forces have cordoned off the various exit and...
08:45 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the Feb 13 bombing on an Israeli embassy car are tracking a possible Bangladeshi terror link to the attack blamed by Israel on Iran, sources said Tuesday. Highly placed intelligence and diplomatic sources said two calls were made to a cellphone in New Delhi from a suspected satellite phone in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. They said the cellphone, which received the satellite calls on the day of...
07:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: A suspected Pakistan-trained militant, arrested in 2008 for allegedly planning a strike in the city, has been let off by a Delhi court, which found fault with the police probe and raised doubts over the authenticity of the intelligence information on which he was nabbed. Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain acquitted suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militant Abdur Rehman of charges of being found in possession of explosives, saying,...
09:19 AM, Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: The investigation into the Delhi High Court blast is possibly in the final stages. According to sources, Dr Wasim Akram has been identified as a prime suspect and the NIA will produce him in court on Friday. Wasim is from Kishtwar and had allegedly sent emails to media houses claiming responsibility for the blast on behalf of banned terror outfit Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI). Other conspirators have also...
10:36 AM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed a a breakthrough in the Delhi High Court blast case blast after arresting a medical student belonging to Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA arrested the medical student, identified as Wasim Akram, on the basis of interrogation of the two suspects arrested in Kishtwar. While Wasim Akram Malik will remain in police custody till October 21, Abid Hussain has been...
01:05 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir native Abid Hussain, arrested for his alleged role in the September 7 bomb blast in the Delhi High Court premises, was on Wednesday sent to Tihar Jail with a city court remanding him in judicial custody till October 7. Special NIA Judge HS Sharma remanded Hussain in judicial custody as National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths, while producing him before the court after expiry of his...
06:39 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) brought two boys arrested in Kishtwar for allegedly sending the terror e-mail claiming that Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) was behind the Delhi High Court blast on transit remand on Wednesday. The two boys who are in NIA detention, have been brought to Delhi by the NIA team led by DIG Mukesh Singh, for further questioning. The due was taken on a transit remand after which...
01:27 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Jammu: Security agencies have detained a suspected HuJI operative Hafiz Aamir for allegedly sending a terror email in the aftermath of the September 7 blast outside the Delhi High Court. Hafiz Aamir is understood to have told the investigators that an email claiming responsibility on behalf of the HuJI was sent on his directions, sources said on Thursday. Aamir, who has been detained in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, is...
09:53 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Kolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested a 14-year-old student for allegedly sending a 'mischievous' e-mail to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blasts. The student, Sunny Shukla of Pakur in Jharkhand, sent two e-mails to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blasts posing as a member of the Indian Mujahideen, Additional Commissioner of Police (STF), Rajiv Kumar told reporters....
06:24 PM, Sep 14, 2011
A family member of Delhi High Court blast victim said instead of fighting, we have just accepted terrorism. ...
10:06 AM, Sep 14, 2011
London: Home Minister P Chidambaram has indicated that the blast in the Delhi High Court could have been carried out by home grown militants groups. "We can no longer point to cross-border terrorism as a source of terror attacks in India," Chidambaram told the BBC in an interview. He said the authorities were still trying to verify emails allegedly sent by two groups claiming responsibility for Wednesday's attack. The two...
10:55 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Jammu: Two more youths have been detained in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town in connection with the HuJI e-mail claiming responsibility for the blast outside the Delhi High Court, police said on Monday. Sadiq Ahmed and Abid Hussain were being questioned in connection with the HuJI e-mail, they said. The two are close relatives of surrendered militants Irshad Ahmed and Farooq Ahmed who have also been detained, the police said....
04:57 PM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: More than three days have passed since the Delhi High Court was rocked by a deadly bomb blast but the investigators have not yet got any concrete evidence in the case. Even though several people have been detained and questioned in connection with the terror strike, there is no clear evidence about the organisation or people involved in carrying out the bombing. Sources in Delhi Police have told...
05:28 PM, Sep 10, 2011
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