There is no end to the controversy surrounding the Centre's proposed move to push for the creation of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) following the Hyderabad blasts. The Bharatiya Janata Party has charged the Congress with politicising the issue of terrorism. ...
11:52 AM, Feb 25, 2013
A 23-year-old engineering student was arrested on Sunday from Kheda in Gujarat for allegedly sending a fake e-mail in the name of his former friend and her relatives to some electronic media houses. The e-mail claimed responsibility for the last week's twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad. According to local police, the student, who appears to be mentally unstable, had even tried to implicate his friend and her family in the...
08:07 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said the twin blasts in Hyderabad could be a "reaction" to the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Mumbai attack convict Ajmal Kasab. Shinde said the government was apprehending some sort of reaction from terror groups following execution of the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attack and Afzal and it had been issuing alerts in this regard....
07:25 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said the culprits involved in the Hyderabad blasts, which killed 16 persons and left several injured, would be booked soon. ...
02:59 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said that the statement issued by Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde expressing regret over his Hindu terror comment was cleared by the BJP before being released publicly. ...
02:24 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Cricket stars like Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag supporting squash's bid for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics has left India's wrestling fraternity distraught. ...
01:17 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Three days after two powerful bombs killed 16 people and injured 117, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited the sites in Hyderabad. The PM, who was accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, said that the Centre would extend maximum support to the state government. ...
12:09 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said that the statement issued by Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde expressing regret over his Hindu terror comment was cleared by the BJP before being released publicly. ...
07:49 AM, Feb 24, 2013
A day after twin blasts killed at least 16 people and injured 117 others in Hyderabad, all eyes are on an under-fire Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, the man in charge of internal security in the country. Shinde is under fire for several ill-judged statements, with many now asking whether the Home Minister is up to the challenge of tackling terror. ...
08:00 AM, Feb 23, 2013
RSS supremo Mohanrao Bhagwat on Friday termed Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's expression of regret for his 'Hindu terror' remark as an attempt to appease a particular section of voters for the next elections. ...
12:57 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Hyderabad blasts probe widens to other states, hunt on for 3 suspects. India high on terror hitlist, but lacks intelligence and investigation capabilities. ...
11:47 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the government for "failing" to prevent blasts in Hyderabad. He said in Parliament that in India "there can be no lowering of guard as we are high on terror radar". ...
11:20 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The Opposition cornered the Home Minister over the Hyderabad blasts, even as he pitched for the NCTC. ...
11:10 PM, Feb 22, 2013
A day after twin blasts killed at least 16 people and injured 117 others in Hyderabad, forensic samples suggest that ammonium nitrate, urea, petrol and shrapnel might have been used to assemble the improvised explosive devices used by terrorists in the attacks. ...
10:14 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Is Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who has been suffering from a foot-in-the-mouth disease since he took over the job, fit to be the in-charge of the internal security in the country? In the summer of 2012, Parliament went powerless, and that was how the country got introduced to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. And soon, India got its Union Home Minister in him. He has also been known...
09:34 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu on Friday attacked Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde over Hyderabad blasts. ...
08:34 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The issue of the Hyderabad blasts on Friday resonated in Parliament with the government facing the flak for "failing" to check such incidents despite having intelligence inputs about them. This even as Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde promised "more firm action" to eliminate terror from the country. While the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that the government had a "casual approach" towards terror, the UPA's former ally the Trinamool Congress...
07:26 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha a day after two blasts killed 16 people in Hyderabad, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the state governments sometimes take intelligence inputs in a lighter vein. He also said that while the government was seriously working towards tackling terrorism in the country, Opposition's support was crucial in controlling the menace. ...
06:09 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The BJP and Shiv Sena have slammed the government on the Hyderabad twin blasts, calling it a failure of the Centre. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut blamed the government for serial blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday evening in which at least 16 people have been killed and 117 injured. ...
04:07 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Investigators have developed some leads in the Hyderabad twin blasts case and are working on three specific names that have been under suspicion by the Hyderabad Police. According to sources one of the suspects belongs to Uttar Pradesh, the second is from Bihar and the third is from Jharkhand. ...
04:02 PM, Feb 22, 2013
