Bhopal: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has issued notices to five telecom companies in the state for not following due procedure while issuing SIM cards. The notice comes after some SIM cards were allegedly procured by five members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) on fake identities. The members of the terror outfits were arrested in June 2011 from Bhopal and Jabalpur. ...
12:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Islamabad: Three senior officers of the Pakistan Navy have been penalised after a court martial found them guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty during a deadly Taliban attack on a key naval airbase in Karachi last year which also destroyed two US-made surveillance aircraft. The navy's media arm confirmed that the three officers were tried "under the naval law and were accordingly penalised." It did not identify the officers...
12:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Srinagar: Terrorists hurled a grenade at the Sopore police station in Baramulla district on Saturday, leaving three persons, including two policemen, injured. The grenade exploded at the main gate of the police station, 52 kms from Srinagar, at 9:55 AM, official sources said. Two policemen and a civilian were injured, they said. Security forces have launched a hunt for the terrorists, the sources said, adding no terror outfit has claimed...
11:14 AM, May 19, 2012
London: No effort was spared by the US military before its Navy Seals raided al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, shows a detailed scale model of his Abbottabad city-located compound. Every tree and bush was mapped out identical to those surrounding his home and even the rubbish bins were included, The Sun reported Thursday. The model was built months ahead of the operation by the...
11:17 PM, May 17, 2012
Beirut: In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar al Assad insisted on Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising. The interview with Russian TV showed Assad is still standing his ground, despite widespread international condemnation over his deadly crackdown on dissent. "There are foreign mercenaries, some of them still alive," Assad...
02:43 AM, May 17, 2012
The United States on Tuesday slapped sanctions against Dawood Ibrahim's two top aides, Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon, for their role in drug trafficking in the region. ...
09:46 AM, May 16, 2012
Damascus: Syria accused the United States and Western countries on Saturday of colluding with al Qaeda-linked militants to target the country, in the wake of a string of explosions in Damascus and Aleppo the government has blamed on foreign-backed fighters. "Western countries and the United States, which made alliances to wage wars using the pretext of fighting terrorism, are now making alliances with the terrorists which Syria has been facing,"...
03:28 AM, May 13, 2012
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday adjourned till May 16 the final hearing in the alleged fake encounter case involving Lt General Bikram Singh, the Army Chief designate. Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir adjourned the case for final disposal of the petition. A woman from Macchil area of Kupwara district last year filed a writ petition before the High Court, alleging that her son Abdullah Bhat was killed...
04:24 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Indian independent cinema is on all-time high. A lot of Indian indie filmmakers are receiving accolades all over the world, but filmmaker Ashvin Kumar is among those people who had brought the initial acceptance for the independent cinema in India. His films 'Little Terrorist' and 'Inshallah, football' were acclaimed throughout the world. The storyteller has again come up with a feature film 'The Forest' starring Javed Jaffrey, Nandana...
03:35 PM, May 10, 2012
Mumbai: Two months after it de-brainwashed a youth, Maharashtra ATS has reformed five more young terror recruits, who received advance training at a camp in Pakistan where the 26/11 lonely captured terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab underwent terror exercise, police said. In March, a 20-something youth had approached the anti-terror unit seeking 'redemption', just a few months after completing training in making explosives, reconnaissance and brainwashing others to expand the...
04:50 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: With the government's move to set up NCTC facing stiff opposition from non-Congress states, the Congress on Monday said they should first answer whether they will able to tackle the challenge posed by terrorism without the Centre's involvement. "The fundamental thing is that whether terror is a local issue. If the argument rests on a premise that the central government in a federal set up should not have...
12:46 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the blast in 2011 at Delhi High Court say freelance terrorists, those without affiliations to terror outfits, are posing a grave threat and different brand of terrorists are now emerging. Terror groups from across the border, home grown red terror and now another challenge - freelance terrorists or what the National Investigation Agency calls leaderless jihadis. The NIA investigating the Delhi High Court blast of 2011...
06:36 AM, May 06, 2012
Lucknow: Buoyed by the Uttar Pradesh government's moves seeking dropping of charges against terrorists involved in bomb blasts in Faizabad and Lucknow courts, a young Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist is "trying to work out a way to surrender" in a Delhi court. And pitching for him is Samajwadi Party legislator Wasim Ahmad, also the minister of state for basic education, who is reported to have put up his case with...
01:53 AM, May 06, 2012
Washington: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
08:20 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda's core organization is likely incapable of carrying out another mass-casualty attack on the scale of September 11, 2001, US intelligence and counterterrorism officials said on Friday. US government experts also believe that the likelihood of an attack using chemical, biological, atomic or radiological weapons over the next year was not high, said Robert Cardillo, deputy director of US National Intelligence. Cardillo and other US officials, who spoke...
03:52 AM, Apr 28, 2012
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