Bangalore: Three days after the bomb blast near the Karnataka BJP office here, police on Saturday said they have obtained "some leads" on the incident that left 16 persons injured. "We have some leads but we cannot share them with you now, it will be done at an appropriate time", City Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar told reoprters. He said they were yet to receive the analysis report of the Forensic...
07:23 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: As details about the suspects in the Boston bombings case emerged, a lot of confusion was created on Twitter when a few users mistook Chechnya to the Czech Republic. The two suspects - Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev - were described by family and law enforcement as "brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya". But while posting information about the Tsarnaev brothers on Twitter, many users linked them to the...
11:53 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Bangalore: The forensic report on Bangalore blast will be submitted on Saturday. Sources said the report mentions that the attack was a high-intensity blast and the explosives were packed in a steel container. The report also mentions that ammonium nitrate and inch-wide pellets were used by the attackers to cause maximum damage but the placement of the bike at the blast site minimised the impact of the attack. Meanwhile, the...
11:20 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Police officers and firefighters stood grim-faced with guns and rifles, lining the street leading to the suburban property where a suspect in twin bombings at the Boston Marathon was believed to be holed up. Reporters and spectators lined up on the other side. The mood was tense, with the few neighbours who ventured out hugging and crying as they heard bangs. Others merely looked on curiously. Then, one officer...
09:48 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says his younger son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a "true angel". He said his son was studying medicine and was an "intelligent boy". "We expected him to come on holidays here," said Anzor Tsarnaev in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala. Dzhokhar was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was...
09:14 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: The 19-year-old Massachusetts college student, who was wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing and was captured hiding in a boat parked in a backyard on Friday night, has been hospitalised in serious condition with unspecified injuries, said police. After a tense, all-day manhunt and house-to-house search by thousands of SWAT team officers with rifles and armored vehicles, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was cornered in a homeowner's yard, where he exchanged gunfire...
08:59 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the wake of the twin bombings in Boston early this week, in which the two suspects are said to be from the Russian part of Chechnya. "President Obama thanked President Putin for those sentiments, and praised the close cooperation that the United States has received from Russia on counter-terrorism, including in the wake of the Boston attack,"...
08:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Boston: Police captured the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday night, police and government officials said. Following a tense 24 hours for the Boston area, the manhunt ended with the 19-year-old suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, cornered, captured and taken into custody. Here is a timeline of events: Thursday, April 18, about 5:10 pm - The FBI releases photographs and video of two men suspected of...
08:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: US will find out why and how Boston bombings occurred, said President Barack Obama in his address early Saturday. "We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had...I've instructed (authorities) to continue to deploy all the necessary resources" for investigation," he added. The US President emphasised that the "hateful agenda" of bombing suspects "will not and cannot prevail". Obama said with the arrest of the second suspect...
08:02 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat on Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gunbattle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an extraordinary dragnet. "We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted. A cheer erupted from a...
06:42 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Gunfire erupted on Friday night amid the manhunt for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, and police in armored vehicles and tactical gear rushed into the Watertown neighborhood in a possible break in the case. The burst of activity came at the end of a tense day in and around Boston, and less than an hour after police announced that they were scaling back the hunt because...
05:32 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: The estranged uncle of the Boston Marathon terror attacks suspects on Friday asked one of his nephew at large to surrender, saying his brother's children have brought shame to the entire Chechen community. "This family does not know how to share their grief with the real victims," Ruslan Tsarni told reporters outside his home in Montgomery village, a suburb of Washington. "Of course we're ashamed. He put a shame...
01:38 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Boston: Tamerlan Tsarnaev practiced martial arts and boxing, even aspiring to fight on the US Olympic team. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been on the wrestling team at a prestigious high school and won a scholarship from the city to pursue higher education. Neighbors recalled the ethnic Chechen brothers, living on a quiet street in Cambridge, Mass, riding bikes and skateboards. Two brothers, one dead, one alive and at large. After hours...
12:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marathon terror attack. The social media and part of the mainstream media was abuzz with rumors that 22-year-old Sunil, who went missing on March 16 and they have still not been able to find him, was the "possible suspect" in...
11:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
The hunt for the second suspect in the Boston bombings case is narrowing, according to reports in Watertown. ...
11:34 PM, Apr 19, 2013
A 5-year-old girl was brutally raped in the national capital, sparking public fury and bringing back memories of events that unfolded after the December 16, 2012 gangrape. ...
10:31 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Boston: The hunt for the second suspect in the Boston bombings case is narrowing, according to reports in Watertown. Reports indicate the police have tracked down a Honda SUV believed to have been used by the two brothers, who attacked the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring 180 people. The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car...
09:07 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Texas: A Texas law enforcement official says 12 bodies have been recovered following a massive explosion that leveled a fertilizer plant. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt Jason Reyes said today that about 200 people were injured in the explosion at facility Wednesday night in the small farming community of West, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Waco. Search and rescue crews have been sifting through the still-smoldering remains...
08:07 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Washington: A US law enforcement official and the uncle of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are confirming that the name of the second suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother of Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, 19. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police in Massachusetts overnight. Three law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, confirmed the bomb...
06:52 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: The surviving Boston bomb suspect has been identified as Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and a law enforcement intelligence bulletin said he "may be armed and dangerous", The Associated Press reported. AP also reports that both the Boston bomb suspects are from Russia region near Chechnya and that they lived in the US at least for 1 year. "In the...
05:26 PM, Apr 19, 2013
