India and Pakistan have identified eight areas, including agriculture, education and IT & Telecom for mutually beneficial cooperation. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) sources on Tuesday said that July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blast accused and Indian Mujahideen member Haroon Naik met slain terrorist Osama bin Laden in August 2001 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. "Naik was part a group of operatives who were addressed by Osama in Bhawalpur," said the sources about the Indian Mujahideen member who was arrested for possessing fake currency notes. The sources said that...
07:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Mumbai: The toll in the July 13 Mumbai triple blasts climbed to 27 with one more injured succumbing on Thursday evening, an official said. The victim has been identified as Prashant H Joshi, 34, and he breathed his last around 2.50 pm, at Sir JJ Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the past two months, the hospital dean TP Lahane said. The triple blasts, at close intervals, shook the...
08:38 AM, Sep 16, 2011
Mumbai: A 34-year-old man, who had sustained severe burn and head injuries during one of the three blasts in the city on July 13, died on Thursday at a local hospital, taking the death toll to 27. "Prashant Joshi, injured in Zaveri Bazaar blast, died this afternoon while undergoing treatment," TP Lahane, Dean of J J hospital said. Splinters used in the explosion had pierced into Joshi's body. Besides, he...
10:10 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Mumbai: Moments after the blast outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, Mumbai which has several times been the target of terror - the most recent being the serial blasts on July 13 this year - went on a high alert. Mumbai Commissioner of Police Arup Patnaik said, "We've tightened up security levels. I went to high court and various courts and reviewed positions. We have increased security, more frisking...
09:14 AM, Sep 08, 2011
Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy in a telephonic conversation with CNN-IBN said Congress is behind the attack. ...
09:46 PM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: A small group of unidentified persons attacked the compound of the house of Janata party leader Subramanian Swamy in Nizamuddin East on Sunday, police said. There was no major damage in the incident on Sunday evening, police said. Swamy alleged the persons were "rowdy Congress persons." Swamy was not at home at the time of the incident which was reported to the police by his grand-daughter. Police said...
07:32 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Mumbai: Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts in the city succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Mumbai on Satuday, taking the toll in the terror attacks to 26. Chandrakant Wankar, 42, who was undergoing treatment at the Harkisandas Hospital in Mumbai died at 6:20 am, police said. He had sustained severe burn injuries at the Opera House blasts. Earlier this week, 48-year-old Vallab Gadia, who was wounded...
01:41 PM, Jul 30, 2011
On Talking Point Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Should Harvard sack Swamy for his anti-islam comment?' ...
11:54 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Subramanian Swamy is the newsmaker of the day for for his inflammatory comments. ...
10:48 PM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorties is incensed with a hate article by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy in a national newspaper. The controversial analysis piece penned days after the Mumbai blasts that prescribes how India should deal with Islamic terror. They are now contemplating legal action against Swamy for his inflammatory comments against minorities. "We get it checked by our legal advisor. It's a violation of article 153a,...
09:38 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations are still on into the July 13 serial blasts which rocked India's business hub Mumbai - but more important than that is the post-traumatic care for the victims at this point. However, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) reveals that the government agencies have not maintained a follow-up with victims post the major terror attack. One such person is 66-year-old Anantrai Gandhi whose life...
09:38 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN says that the fight against terror is in Pakistan's own interest. ...
07:56 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Congress-NCP government on Tuesday came under fire from the Opposition in the Legislative Council over the July 13 serial bomb blasts in which 24 people were killed. Moving a proposal to hold a debate on the triple blasts, Leader of the Opposition Pandurang Phundkar said the government has once again failed to prevent a terror attack and even after 13 days of the bombings police were yet to...
10:17 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Nepal Police have detained a 40-year-old man, Mohammad Zahir, under the suspicion that he was in touch with the Mumbai blasts suspects. He was heard having conversations about the Mumbai blasts and has sent text messages, sources said. The Union Home Ministry has received the input regarding Zahir's detention from the Government of Nepal on Tuesday. Sources said, Zahir is a resident of Sarlahi district near the...
05:24 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Voicing concern over threats posed by indigenous terror groups, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said they are no longer fledgling outfits but are experts in assembling and transporting bombs. The threat from them is pretty high, he said against the backdrop of the July 13 Mumbai blasts in which 22 people were killed. "Pretty high. They are no longer fledgling outfits. They have established several modules and they...
12:34 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Mumbai: Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts, who was admitted to KEM Hospital in Mumbai, succumbed to his injuries on Monday taking the death toll in the terror attack to 24. Mankeshwar Vishwakarma (48) who was undergoing treatment at KEM Hospital, died early on Monday morning, hospital sources said. According to sources, Vishwakarma, who was a carpenter by profession, had sustained severe head injuries during the blast at...
12:37 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: There has been no breakthrough in the 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts case. But India is not going to talk about it in the upcoming Foreign Minister level talks with Pakistan. The focus will instead be on 26/11 when the two sides meet this week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that India will seek an expeditious probe into the 26/11 attacks and that India is categorical that terror must end...
08:15 AM, Jul 24, 2011
Thimphu: Investigation into the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai has made "important progress" and the probe was on right track, Union Home Secretary RK Singh said on Thursday. "There is important progress in Mumbai," he told PTI when asked whether there was any breakthrough in the probe into the three blasts in the metropolis in which 20 people lost their lives. The Home Secretary said the investigation was on...
05:47 PM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: No lessons have been learnt after 26/11 terror attack and the recent Mumbai blasts. CNN-IBN finds out why is it taking so long for authorities to install CCTVs in Maximum City and why so few people have been trained to monitor India's most attacked city Mumbai. CNN-IBN gets details of the state of CCTV installations in Mumbai after the 26/11 terror attack. Installing CCTVs across the city was...
05:38 PM, Jul 21, 2011
