New Delhi: To shore up its ties with India, Myanmar government has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10. Quoting intelligence inputs, official sources said the Myanmar Army's order was issued on May 24 -- three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit to the neighbouring country -- and the move is considered as a goodwill...
04:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama was personally making all decisions about a top-secret and expanding "kill list" of terrorists belonging to al Qaeda and its affiliates hiding in Pakistan and Yemen to be eliminated in stepped-up drone attacks, according to a media report. "He (Obama) is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go," said Thomas E Donilon, his national security adviser....
09:04 AM, May 30, 2012
Washington: "Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour the social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged. The intriguing list, released by the US Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act, also includes obvious choices such as "attack", "al Qaeda", "terrorism" and "dirty bomb", the 'Daily Mail' reported. Department...
06:52 PM, May 27, 2012
Islamabad: India on Thursday said it has provided additional evidence against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and other perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to be used by Pakistani authorities to prosecute them, while expressing concern at the tardy pace of proceedings in the case. Home Secretary RK Singh said that Indian authorities had provided their Pakistani counterparts additional proof against Saeed while the Pakistani judicial commission that visited Mumbai in...
12:50 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Talks between India and Pakistan at the Home Secretary level will begin in Islamabad on Thursday. This is the second such meeting of Home Secretaries since the 26/11 attacks in 2008 in Mumbai. A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, on Wednesday left for Pakistan on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators...
09:50 AM, May 24, 2012
Sanaa: A suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an al Qaeda affiliate threatened more strikes if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. The attack, which also wounded more than 200 people, underscored the threat Yemen faces in its fight to dislodge Islamist militants entrenched in the south and threatening vital...
01:39 AM, May 22, 2012
On May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi reached Chennai by an afternoon-evening flight. After two hours, he was bound for Sriperumbudur, an industrial centre in Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu and just 40 km from Chennai. Rajiv was busy campaigning for the mid-term elections which had been announced after the VP Singh-led Janata Dal government had collapsed in October, 1990. The Congress was keen to avenge...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has reportedly put up a poster in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir urging the surrendered terrorists to join back to fight for the 'Kashmir' cause. It also issued threats to its overground workers to "return the money of the outfit which they have gobbled". The poster on the letter of Hizbul Divisional Commander Mohammad Amin Butt Jahingir Saroori has warned people against...
10:52 AM, May 19, 2012
Paris: Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in Paris on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan. Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah's Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission in Paris....
12:11 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveyed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that India's concerns on terrorism have to be addressed and anti-India activities have to be stopped there if the people of India were to support and sustain progress in bilateral relations with Islamabad. During the visit of Zardari to India on April 8, Singh and Zardari had discussed the issue of terrorism and the Prime Minister told...
03:48 PM, May 16, 2012
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday indicated that the ball was in the Central governments court as far as the demand for setting up of a sub-committee of chief ministers to examine the provisions of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is concerned.She was addressing the media with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after a 45-minute discussion with him after he called on her at her residence.When asked for...
09:11 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday again advocated the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying the risk for the country is increasing each day as the project is getting delayed. He said, "Given the gravity of the situation, everyday we delay NCTC, we increase our risk." The Home Minister further said that the threat perception continued to be high in the country. "The threat perception of terrorism...
06:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Cairo: Terming terrorism as one of the greatest scourges of the times, India has said the fight against it must be directed not only against the terrorists, but also against those who "sponsor, abet or support them". "We need to enhance international cooperation against terrorism and plug the gaps in the legal framework, including through the adoption of a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) in the UN," Minister of...
08:32 PM, May 10, 2012
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said Hafiz Saeed was one of the principal architects of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
11:51 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: India and the US voiced their concerns over Pakistan's continued support to terror outfits in the meeting between US secretary of State Hillary Clinton and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday. Spelling it out, Hillary finally answered India's questions on the US's position on Hafiz Saeed. She said Hafiz Saeed was one of the principal architects of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. "We wanted to make it...
09:37 PM, May 08, 2012
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