New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments for denial of a medical certificate to a non-resident Indian victim of the 2011 bomb blast outside the court complex, which was preventing him from visiting his family in Toronto, Canada. Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report published in a national daily, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and...
01:57 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court is all set to hear the appeals filed by Yasmeen Shaikh and 9 others convicted in the 2002 Best Bakery case on Tuesday. Shaikh filed the appeal saying she was 'lured and misguided' into giving false testimony against the 17 accused by social activist Teesta Setalvad. Of the 17 accused, nine have been convicted and are serving life sentence. The court might rule either...
09:19 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Saturday said he is expecting Congress to win a minimum of 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly, voting for which continues peacefully across the state. "I am expecting that the Congress party would secure around 45 seats. But 35 is the minimum number we are winning," Okram Ibobi Singh told IANS after casting his vote. Along with his legislator wife Landhoni Devi,...
12:02 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Voters on Saturday lined up before 2,357 polling stations across nine districts of Manipur as elections began in 60 assembly constituencies amid tight security. An electorate of 17,40,576, including 8,82,236 woman voters, are eligible to exercise their franchise to choose their representatives from among 279 candidates in the 10th Assembly polls. Incumbent Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh, who is contesting for a third term, cast his vote at...
07:03 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Islamabad: At least 29 people were killed and over 40 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said. The bomb was planted in a pick-up truck that was parked at a stand for trucks and buses at the market in Jamrud, one of the main towns of Khyber Agency. All persons...
01:51 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Damscus: Thousands of regime backers massed at a mosque in the Syrian capital on Saturday for funeral prayers for policemen killed in a Damascus bombing, as the government vowed to respond with an "iron fist" to security threats. Coffins bearing 11 policemen, covered with Syrian flags, were brought into the Al-Hassan mosque for the prayers, a day after the explosion ripped through a Damascus intersection, killing 26 people and wounding...
12:06 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Beirut: A suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus, Syria's interior minister said, vowing an "iron fist" response to Friday's carnage in the heart of the capital after similar attacks two weeks ago. Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said Syria was not implementing a deal with the Arab League aimed at halting violence in the country and that League monitors could not stay there...
01:29 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Beirut: A suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus on Friday, Syria's interior minister said, vowing an "iron fist" response to the carnage in the heart of the Syrian capital after similar attacks two weeks ago. The blast came two days before an Arab League committee was due to discuss an initial report by Arab observers who are checking Syria's compliance with an Arab plan to halt...
01:29 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and 21 injured on Friday evening in a powerful car bombing in Pakistan's Quetta city, media reports said. The blast took place on Arbab Karam Khan Road near Raisani Chowk, Geo News reported. The Balochistan Liberation Army has taken responsibility for the bombing. While Dawn News put the toll at 13, Geo News said 10 people were killed. The explosion in the capital...
12:02 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Taloqan: A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people, including a member of parliament, and wounded 50 in Afghanistan's northern city of Taloqan on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks in a once-peaceful region. The attack occurred while prayers were being read at the funeral of an influential tribal leader. All victims were civilians. "People were gathering for a funeral when a suicide bomber detonated himself,"...
10:49 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Imphal: Three persons were injured when a powerful timer bomb exploded in the high-security office of the Manipur Public Works department in Imphal on Wednesday. The bomb smashed window panes and damaged doors during peak office hour, police said. All the injured were admitted to hospital. The building has been heavily fortified by securitymen after government officials faced frequent extortion demands by various militant outfits. "It was a very powerful...
04:09 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Abuja: A bomb blast and gunfire on Tuesday killed at least 10 people and injured many others in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri, according to eyewitnesses. The eyewitnesses said the deaths resulted mainly from the action of the soldiers who burnt houses and shot sporadically after a man was killed while trying to throw a bomb at them. The man died while detonating the bomb following which soldiers started firing....
05:36 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to give its ruling on Monday on confirmation of death sentence, awarded to three convicts including a woman, in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. Ashrat Ansari (32), his aide Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were held guilty on charges of planting powerful bombs in two taxis which exploded at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on...
07:11 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Kabul: In Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughtered 56 Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 160 others on Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in the capital. The body of a woman, clutching a dead child in each arm, was sprawled along a dirt road littered with shoes, bloodstained clothing, hats and body parts after the blast, which...
02:21 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Nairobi: A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south. The car bomb exploded 50 metres from the recently reopened Turkish embassy, near to the Kilometre 4 (K4) junction, a busy intersection in Mogadishu's administrative district. A health official said at least three...
01:27 AM, Dec 07, 2011
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