Moscow: Security services in Russia and Ukraine said on Monday they had foiled a plot to kill Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but his opponents ridiculed the announcement as a campaign stunt six days before he runs in Russia's presidential election. Russia's pro-government Channel One television said two men arrested belonged to a group seeking an Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus. A computer seized contained numerous video files showing Putin's...
03:36 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The fate of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case may be decided on Tuesday. The Madras High Court will hear their petitions to commute their capital punishment. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. This trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
08:07 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Washington: US authorities broke up an alleged plot to bomb the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies in Washington and assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, court documents and a US official said on Tuesday. The alleged plotters were identified as Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, both originally from Iran, in the criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in New York City. Arbabsiar, a naturalized US citizen, was arrested...
01:24 AM, Oct 12, 2011
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11:18 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Dubai: The controversial killing of a top Hamas leader in a five-star hotel here in January 2010 is set to become a Hollywood movie soon, news reports said. Sony Pictures has picked the pitch for the upcoming movie titled 'Shadow Runner,' which is loosely based on the events leading to the murder of Hamas military commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh by a 17-member gang, the Gulf News daily reported. However, no...
02:37 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani intelligence agencies have uncovered a plot to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari and arrested several persons, TV news channel reported. The agencies conducted raids over the past few weeks in Islamabad and Punjab and arrested up to 42 persons, the reports said. GEO News channel quoted its sources as saying that 42 people had been arrested while Express News Channel reported that eight have been arrested. The reports...
10:52 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Colombo: The assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was a big mistake by the LTTE, former Tamil Tiger commander Karuna Amman has said. Vinyagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, who is also the deputy minister of resettlement in the Sri Lankan government, today told a top panel looking into events during the ethnic war, that he received arms training in India in early 1980s when he was with the...
08:10 AM, Dec 14, 2010
Chennai: Senior Congress leader Era Anbarasu today filed a petition in the Madras High Court, seeking to implead himself in the review petition by Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, pleading for her premature release. In his petition, he said the Supreme Court had stated in a number of cases that 'life imprisonment' means sentence of imprisonment for whole of remaining period of the convicted person's...
04:14 PM, Nov 29, 2010
![Nalini's phone used for calls to Sri Lanka]( "Nalini's phone used for calls to Sri Lanka")
Prisoner in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case threw in phone in jail toilet. ...
12:47 PM, Apr 23, 2010
Nalini was arrested on June 14, 1991 along with her LTTE husband. ...
10:07 AM, Jan 21, 2010
The families are still held in high regard by some in the Sikh community. ...
08:22 AM, Oct 31, 2009
A search for a future of a generation that came after the 1984 riots. ...
11:30 PM, Oct 23, 2009
They invoked memory of assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. ...
12:49 AM, Jul 22, 2009
A Canadian comedy skit has turned out to be racist in nature. ...
10:53 AM, May 26, 2009
The police haven't even bothered to file a case. ...
05:12 PM, May 20, 2009
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