Dubai: Osama bin Laden led a frugal life, spending all his personal wealth on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video posted online on Sunday. In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the imam, Part Two" a bespectacled Zawahiri, who took up the reins of al Qaeda after bin Laden's killing just over a year ago, fondly recalled...
02:36 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Trang Bang: In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for Associated Press photographer...
12:56 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Sringar: Suspected militants fired at a CRPF patrol group on Wednesday morning, injuring six personnel. The incident took place near Sheeraz cinema in Khanyar. The suspected militants fired indiscriminately at the patrol camp. Two militants riding a motorcycle fired on the CRPF personnel of 82nd Battalion as they were leaving their headquarters at Shiraz Cinema for law and order duty at around 7:15 am, Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Aashiq...
09:12 AM, May 30, 2012
Islamabad: New ISI chief Lt Gen Zahir-ul-Islam has put off a scheduled visit to the United States due to "pressing commitments" within Pakistan, the military said on Monday. A spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media arm, said Islam's visit to the US had been "postponed due his pressing commitments here". The spokesman did not give details about the commitments. "There is no other reason for postponing the...
11:26 PM, May 28, 2012
Lahore: A seven-year-old girl and two women were attacked with acid by two men at a busy market in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, witnesses and police said. The women and the girl were emerging from the Sunday Bazar in Sanda area when the two men, who were riding a motorcycle, threw acid at them and fled. The trio was rushed to Mayo Hospital. Salman Kazmi, a doctor at the hospital,...
08:02 PM, May 27, 2012
Rohtak: A teenage girl, who is a junior national volleyball player, was hospitalised with serious injuries after two motorcycle-borne youth threw acid on her while she was going for practice on Saturday evening, police said. Ritu Saini, 17, was taken to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak with burn injuries on her face and chest. The youth managed to escape from the spot after the attack near...
11:27 AM, May 27, 2012
Bangalore: Another vigilance officer was attacked in Bangalore on Friday by unidentified assailants. The attack came just days after an auditor, SP Mahantesh, was murdered in the city. Chief Engineer Vigilance (Technical) N Devaraju was attacked after he allegedly did not give the suspects a favourable report in a case. Devaraju is employed with the Bangalore Mahanagar Palika. He has now written a complaint to the corporation commissioner. In his...
06:53 PM, May 25, 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
The heart cells created from patients' skin are at the same stage of development as those of a newborn baby. The study is exciting for ...
04:47 PM, May 24, 2012
An unidentified toxic powder was used to contaminate the air in the classrooms by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. ...
11:11 AM, May 24, 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
Three judges from the Saket court were attacked by two men on a motorbike following an accident on Thursday evening. ...
02:24 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Three judges from the Saket court in Delhi were allegedly attacked by two men on a motorcycle following an accident. In fact, the motorcyclists threw bricks on the car when they were asked to drive safely. Both have now been arrested. It's one of the most shocking cases of road rage on Delhi's roads. Additional CP Ajay Choudhary said, "It's a clear case of road rage because the...
08:02 AM, May 18, 2012
Washington: The Mumbai attack perpetrated by Pakistan-based LeT was an example of how terror outfits use latest available IT tools for their decisive motives, a top US commander said, highlighting the role of cyber space in such events. "All the mission planning (for Mumbai terrorist attack) was done via Google Earth. There was no investment in technology of (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) platforms or anything like that," US Marine Corps...
03:18 PM, May 16, 2012
Islamabad: India is likely to thin out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according to a media report on Monday. The two countries reached an understanding on withdrawing troops during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to New Delhi on April 8, 'The Express Tribune' quoted unnamed military and diplomatic officials as saying. The withdrawal of troops to...
01:58 PM, May 14, 2012
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