Over two decades since the first major terror attack India witnessed, the Supreme Court will on Thursday deliver its verdict on the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. ...
09:27 AM, Mar 21, 2013
It has been two decades since a series of 13 blasts shook the maximum city. Over 200 killed, more than 700 injured and a nation shocked, as Mumbai witnessed terror like never before. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 100 people were convicted out of which 12 were awarded death penalty and 20 were given life sentence by a TADA court. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan will also decide the appeal of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt challenging his conviction and six years imprisonment awarded to him for being in...
07:45 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Security analyst and senior journalist Praveen Swami joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on 20 years of Mumbai blasts & whether there is any possibility that India can bring Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon to justice. ...
07:19 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Twenty years on, there is fresh controversy over the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Former Mumbai Police chief MN Singh has claimed that the then union home minister SC Chavan did not give permission for a police team to go to Dubai and get Dawood Ibrahim before he got refuge in Pakistan. ...
08:51 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Catch the day's top stories with Rajdeep Sardesai on India @ 9. India-Italy diplomatic row intensified on Tuesday after marines, who are accused of killing Indian fishermen, refused to return and face trial in India. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was unacceptable, the BJP cried conspiracy. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 12, 2013
March 12 is the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, a frightening event that shocked the nation and is also known a Black Friday. On the 20th anniversary of the dastardly attack in which 257 people were killed and 713 others injured as 12 blasts rocked Mumbai, security agencies are yet to apprehend the conspirators of the March 12, 1993, serial bomb blasts including Dawood Ibrahim. ...
11:48 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Two years back, Bashir Usman Ghani, serving life sentence in the 1993 serial Mumbai blasts, came out on parole to marry his lady love who had waited for him for two decades. 45-year-old Bashir, however, had to return to Nashik jail after expiry of parole to undergo the life imprisonment awarded to him by a TADA Court for his role in the bombings, the first in the long list of...
04:59 PM, Mar 12, 2013
It has been two decades since a series of 13 bomb blasts rocked Mumbai and left 200 people dead. The March 12, 1993 blasts were one of the worst attacks on the maximum city. The Mumbai blasts investigation spanned months, but the trial has dragged on for years. There's still no verdict from the Supreme Court yet. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 12, 2013
In a veiled attack on Pakistan, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday said the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai were the result of a neighbour's envy to India's economic progress and vowed to bring back all terrorists, including Dawood Ibrahim, to face trial in New Delhi. ...
02:24 PM, Dec 07, 2012
The CBI is likely to seek from the Supreme Court withdrawal of charges of organised crime against 1993 Mumbai blast accused Abu Salem after receiving legal opinion on the issue. ...
10:01 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Ministry on Tuesday recommended the rejection of the mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist and 26/11 lone survivor Ajmal Kasab. Senior lawyer Ujjwal Nikam has welcomed the development, saying "President has to study the recommendation of MHA. It's a positive phase in the case. It's a good development." K Unnikrishnan, NSG martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan's father, said, "I am happy that we did not make a mistake....
05:16 PM, Oct 23, 2012
India and Pakistan have identified eight areas, including agriculture, education and IT & Telecom for mutually beneficial cooperation. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Tuesday told Supreme Court that he had attended a dinner hosted by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai before the 1993 blasts in Mumbai but denied any relationship with him. "I have only attended a dinner at Dawood's house along with two film producers which was before the blast. Other than that I do not have any relationship," senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing...
07:11 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Extradited underworld don Abu Salem on Saturday moved a Delhi court seeking a stay on his trial in an extortion case in the wake of Portugal's constitutional court turning down India s appeal against the cancellation of his extradition. In his application filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Prakash, Salem sought that his trial be stayed as "continuation of his trial after termination of the authorization granted for...
07:34 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Mumbai: With a two-year-old daughter in tow, Rinku Vishwakarma is still struggling to cope with the loss of her husband Mankeshwar, who fell victim to the blast at the crowded Zaveri Bazar on July 13 last year. "Last year, on the same day I saw my husband for the last time... a year has passed but still the pain lingers...its yet to heal..what is beyond my control is to explain...
06:26 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Mumbai: Two of the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives behind bars in connection with 13/7 bomb blasts case were on Monday arrested in a motorcycle theft case, a senior ATS official said. Terror suspects Naquee Ahmed and Nadeem Shaikh were on Monday arrested for stealing two motorcycles from VP Road and Dongri areas days before the 13/7 bomb blasts, the official said. Both of them were in judicial custody in...
10:50 PM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: Do you think you can elude the cops by getting rid of your glasses? Twenty six-year-old Wakas Ibrahim Shaikh, an accused in the 13/7 terror blasts case, definitely thinks so. He allegedly underwent a laser operation to get rid of his glasses, in a bid to disguise his look three months after the terror attack which occurred at the Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar, and Dadar (west). The 4,000-page chargesheet,...
07:22 PM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: Almost a year after three bomb blasts shook the city killing 27 people and injuring many others, ATS on Friday filed a 4000-page chargesheet in a special MCOCA court against four accused in the case. The four accused, Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik, are facing trial under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), IPC and other laws. A copy of the confession...
06:29 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: India has got a breather with the Constitutional Court of Portugal staying the order of its Supreme Court on violation of extradition agreement of underworld don Abu Salem by New Delhi by slapping new charges invoking death penalty. CBI sources said that the Constitutional Court, while admitting India's plea, stayed the order of the Supreme Court of Portugal. India in its plea had also mentioned the recent order...
12:28 PM, Mar 19, 2012
