
Cuba: The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night. The court hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants should have taken a couple of hours at most. Instead it lasted almost...

05:58 PM, May 06, 2012

New Delhi: If all goes well, Bollywood diva Isha Sharvani will soon make her debut in Malayalam. It is learnt that the gorgeous actor-dancer has been roped in by debutant director Pramod Payyannur to play the role of Suhra in his upcoming movie 'Balyakalasakhi'. Isha will pair up with Mammootty, who will be enacting the role of Majeed in the movie. According to sources close to the production crew, Isha...

03:21 PM, May 05, 2012

New Delhi: Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Monday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two leaders reportedly discussed the political situation in the atoll nation and its future, as Nasheed's party has been pushing for early polls following his ouster in February. Nasheed, who is in New Delhi for the last five days trying to drum up support for his demand for establishing a popular government in...

08:29 PM, Apr 23, 2012

President Waheed is still facing daily protests from Nasheed's MDP party members in Parliament, and on the streets, Nasheed's followers are out on at least five of the eleven islands in Maldives. ...

04:12 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Suhasini Haider: Hello and welcome to Worldview with me Suhasini Haider. It's an island in the Indian Ocean that has seen turbulent times and tonight we're talking to two big men locked in battle for the Maldives. In the studio we're pleased to welcome President Mohamed Nasheed, in fact, the ousted President for the moment and we have an exclusive interview with President Mohammed Waheed Hassan as well as we...

07:48 PM, Apr 21, 2012

New Delhi: The judicial custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who was arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, ends on Saturday. Kazmi on March 30 moved a Delhi court for bail. Court sources said Kazmi had sought bail on the ground that the police had told the court earlier, at the time he was sent to the judicial...

06:48 AM, Apr 21, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan is expected to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term for illegally entering and living in the country, their lawyer claimed on Friday. Lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media that the 45-day jail term given to the widows and two grown-up daughters will end on April 17 and all members of the slain Al...

12:41 AM, Apr 14, 2012

Ailing Pakistani scientist Mohammed Khaleel Chishty was released on bail from Ajmer jail in a two-decade-old murder case. ...

11:05 PM, Apr 11, 2012

Ajmer: Ailing Pakistani scientist Mohammed Khalil Chishty was on Wednesday released on bail from Ajmer jail in a two-decade-old murder case and said he was hopeful that Sarabjit Singh and other prisoners languishing in each other's country would get justice. Freed after over 14-month incarceration, 80-year-old Chishty said he was thankful to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for taking up his case with India. "Zardari made efforts for me, I...

07:52 PM, Apr 11, 2012

Lahore: The Defa-e-Pakistan Council, a conglomerate of hardline groups, on Thursday asked President Asif Ali Zardari to cancel his trip to India to protest the USD 10 million bounty offered by the US for Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. The DPC, a conglomerate of over 40 hardline and extremist groups cobbled together by Saeed last year, had made a similar demand at a news conference addressed by its top leaders...

09:46 PM, Apr 05, 2012

London: It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan. When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the al Qaeda leader was 'noncommittal' and refused to give his backing. It was not until three years later before he could be brought around and another five years before...

09:51 PM, Mar 30, 2012

New Delhi: Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, resulting in critical injuries to her, on Friday moved a Delhi court for bail. Kazmi's bail plea, filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, is to come up for hearing on Saturday. Court sources said Kazmi has sought bail on the ground that...

07:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Police was specifically told on Wednesday by a court in New Delhi not to permit any other probe agency to interrogate journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bombing of an Israeli diplomat car. The court directed the police in the wake of allegations that Israel's intelligence agency Mossad was interrogating him. "This is expected that the Special Cell...

04:51 PM, Mar 21, 2012

New Delhi: The explosive material used to carry out the blast in a car belonging to the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi could have come through diplomatic channels. Sources have told CNN-IBN that embassy officials and diplomats are exempted from security checks and could have been used to smuggle in the explosives into India to carry out the terror strike. Three Iranian nationals are suspected to have carried out the...

01:45 PM, Mar 21, 2012

New Delhi: Israeli intelligence Mossad has not questioned Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested in connection with last month's Israeli diplomat's car bombing, the Delhi Police told a local court on Tuesday, refuting the journalist's claim. However, the investigators said if any request is made by foreign agencies, including from Israel, they can be allowed to interrogate the accused if they are part of the international convention of which India is...

06:12 PM, Mar 20, 2012