Baghdad: Bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least 20 more people on Friday at the end of a week of bloodshed that prompted a United Nations envoy to warn Iraq was "at a crossroads". More than 160 people have been killed since Tuesday, when troops stormed a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk, triggering clashes that quickly spread to other Sunni areas in western and northern provinces. Although well below the...
06:41 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Boston: The surviving suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombing was moved to a prison medical center outside Boston on Friday, while the body of his older brother who died in a shootout with police remained unclaimed, officials said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen charged with the bombing that killed three people and wounded 264, was moved from the hospital where he was kept under guard since he was...
06:10 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Washington: A powerful American lawmaker has accused Russia of not co-operating with the US on the Boston Marathon bombings. Congressman Mike Rogers, who has been briefed several times by the intelligence community on the Boston bombings, believes that the Russians have information that will be incredibly valuable on the two Chechen brothers, the suspects in the case. "The Russian government is not quite cooperating yet to the extent that I...
03:13 PM, Apr 26, 2013
The body of the missing Indian-origin student Sunil Tripathi, mistakenly linked to the marathon bombings, has now been identified in Boston. His family recalls their ordeal in trying to prove his innocence. ...
09:37 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Washington/New York: The two men accused of carrying out last week's bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York's Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday. The brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's original intent when they hijacked a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night was to drive to New York with bombs and detonate them in Times Square,...
12:47 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh's senior Cabinet Minister Azam Khan on Thursday alleged that he was stopped at the Boston Airport and frisked by airport authorities. He also claimed that US authorities misbehaved with him. Azam Khan, who is accompanying Chief Minister Akhilesh Uadav for a Harvard University event in the US, was detained briefly for questioning at Boston International Airport. According to sources familiar with the incident, Khan was detained...
11:18 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Boston: The Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects used a remote-control device from a toy car to set off the pressure-cooker bomb and apparently learnt to build it from an al-Qaeda online magazine, a key US lawmaker has said. Maryland Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, confirmed the details after a closed-door briefing with three senior national security officials on Capitol Hill. Two Chechen-origin brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev,...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Washington: US officials say the surviving suspect in last week's attack on the Boston Marathon has told investigators he and his brother were angry about US wars in Muslim countries. Two officials said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acknowledged the anti-US motive while being questioned by investigators last weekend. One official on Thursday said Tsarnaev cited the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as the motive for the Boston attack. The official...
08:35 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Washington: Two US officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour on Friday evening before they were able to subdue him. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing...
06:18 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday withdrew the case aggainst Tariq Qasmi, prime accused in the Gorakhpur bomb blasts of May 22, 2007 which left six people, including a woman, injured. The move followed a recommendation from the district administration to the state home department that the case against Qasmi, resident of Azamgarh, be withdrawn. Following this, the home department on late Wednesday issued orders for the withdrawing the...
04:49 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: The political debate over the execution of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar remains charged, but there is a new twist, his doctor and one of the judges who ruled in his case, say there is a case to grant him pardon. While the Supreme Court has shot down his plea for death sentence to be commuted, his doctor says his condition is worsening. Bhullar has been undergoing...
09:47 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: The two Chechen brothers - one a naturalised resident and other a lawful resident - allegedly constructed sophisticated weapons inside the US, a top American Senator has said. "They constructed the weapons inside the United States. Did they have some sort of training or inspiration or coaching inside or outside the United States? That's all still under investigation. "We don't have the answer to it yet, but it's pretty...
09:10 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: US lawmakers grilled top security officials on Tuesday about the handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation and why one of the suspects flagged as a possible Islamist radical was not tracked more closely. FBI officials briefed members of Congress behind closed doors in Washington about the investigation into the April 15 blasts that killed three people and injured 264 others. Authorities say the ethnic Chechen brothers, who immigrated...
09:01 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Islamabad: Seven persons were killed and over 60 others injured in five bomb attacks in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Karachi on Tuesday, including one that was carried out by a suicide bomber who was trying to target the minority Shia Hazara community. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives-laden truck when he was stopped by Frontier Corps personnel at a check post near Alamdar Road, an area in Quetta...
07:59 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said. Under the tutelage of a friend known to the Tsarnaev family only as Misha, Tamerlan gave up boxing and stopped studying music, his family said. He began opposing the wars in Afghanistan...
06:59 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Bangalore: Investigators have claimed a breakthrough in the Bangalore blast case and three people were arrested from Chennai earlier on Tuesday in connection with the case. Tirunelveli residents Peer Mohideen and Basheer were picked up from a lodge in Chennai. The third person is a resident of Madurai. Police sources say that the trio is suspected to have provided the motorbike used in the blast. Strong leads have also emerged...
07:59 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Boston: The 19-year-old charged with the Boston Marathon bombing, his throat injured by a gunshot wound, wrote down answers to the questions of investigators about his motives and connections to any terror networks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's answers led them to believe he and his brother were motivated by a radical brand of Islam without major terror connections, said US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized...
05:14 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Bangalore: Three people have been arrested in Chennai for their alleged involvement in the bomb blast near the Karnataka BJP office in Bangalore. The suspects are believed to have provided the motorcycle on which the bomb was placed. Police is also probing the involvement of a sleeper cell from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Police arrested Peer Mohideen and Basheer on Monday night, where as the third accused Kitchen Buhari was...
12:01 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Washington: The high profile case of prosecuting Boston Marathon bombing suspect - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - has been entrusted to two noted American attorneys one of whom is an Indian-American. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Emory Law School, Aloke Chakravarty is an Assistant US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Announcing the charges against Tsarnaev, who has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction...
10:15 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Washington: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property in the US and could face the death penalty if convicted, the Attorney General's office said on Tuesday. The charges came as the White House said on Monday that Tsarnaev is not an 'enemy combatant' and as a US citizen cannot be tried under military laws. "He is...
09:43 AM, Apr 23, 2013
