New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said security forces should deal with right-wing terror groups "sternly and fearlessly" as they were enemies of the country as much as Indian Mujahideen and SIMI. "...the right wing extremist terrorist groups. That also deserves to be researched and studied. They are radicalizing right wing youths in the same manner that SIMI and IM have been radicalised," Chidambaram said while releasing...
10:31 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Voicing concern over threats posed by indigenous terror groups, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said they are no longer fledgling outfits but are experts in assembling and transporting bombs. The threat from them is pretty high, he said against the backdrop of the July 13 Mumbai blasts in which 22 people were killed. "Pretty high. They are no longer fledgling outfits. They have established several modules and they...
12:34 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: A week since the serial blasts ripped through India's financial capital Mumbai on July 13, killing 20 people and injuring over a 100 and still no arrests have been made yet The blasts took place at three prime locations in the city - Opera House, Zaveri Bazar and Dadar. But the probe has taken a nationwide character with teams panning out to Ajmer, Kolkata, Kishengarh and Hyderabad. The...
10:04 AM, Jul 21, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations into the July 13 Mumbai blasts have spread to several states in India and are fast becoming an information processing nightmare. It's now a well coordinated but discreet nationwide investigation - with information, leads and questioning coming in from 10 different states - with the National Investigating Agency spearheading the probe. Gujarat seems to be the information funnel and the key seems to be Ahmedabad blasts accused Danish...
06:27 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations into the July 13 Mumbai blasts have spread to several states in India and are fast becoming an information processing nightmare. It's now a well coordinated but discreet nationwide investigation - with information, leads and questioning coming in from 10 different states - with the National Investigating Agency spearheading the probe. Gujarat seems to be the information funnel and the key seems to be Ahmedabad blasts accused Danish...
06:27 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Kolkata: Days after three blasts shook Mumbai, killing at least 18 and injuring many others, the investigations have been widened to Kolkata, Bihar and Ajmer. The Kolkata Police detained Indian Mujahideen operative Haroon after specific intelligence input from the Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad. Haroon was arrested almost a month back from Howrah Station on petty charges. The Kolkata Police will probe if Haroon knows anything about last week's Mumbai blasts or...
10:39 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Maharashtra ATS said on Sunday it is very close to finalising the sketch of one of the suspects and is scanning CCTV footage with the help of eyewitnesses. Meanwhile, Prabhakar Bagrao, a constable who allegedly ignored a tip-off by a Kurla resident about a terror plot has been suspended for dereliction of duty. Sources say many Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives are being questioned now. A team of...
01:11 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Mumbai: Seventy two hours after the Mumbai serial blasts, the investigators have made a sketch of a suspect based on an eye-witness account from one spot and from another spot the CCTV footage has caught a suspect whose identity is being verified by technologically enhancing the hazy footage. Confirming a CNN-IBN report, the investigators has now ruled out the involvement of a suicide bomber and concluded that a digital timer...
09:11 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: It has been three days since three serial blasts in the country's financial capital sent shock waves across India. Investigations are on at several levels. Sources told CNN-IBN that there's strong indication that TNT was used along with ammonium nitrate in the bomb that ripped Central and South Mumbai. If confirmed, this means a highly skilled and known terror module would have been involved in the terror attack....
03:02 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: The Maharashtra ATS is likely to question alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) members lodged in Karnataka and Gujarat jails in connection with Wednesday's serial blasts in the city. The ATS has also sought assistance from Kolkata Police asking them to verify if any suspects had travelled to Mumbai from that city and subsequently went underground after the blasts, as part of its probe into the triple bombings, that left 19...
01:01 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: The twelve teams of investigators probing the triple blasts which rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening have reached two clear conclusions and one likely setback. The ownership of the scooter used in Zaveri Bazaar was established and the identification of a dead body with wires jutting out eliminated the suicide bomber theory, but, a shift in the pattern used by homegrown terror modules post blasts is a fresh worry. No...
07:43 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Ranchi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted raids at the house of SIMI activist Manzar in Ranchi. Manzar is a trained SIMI activist with suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) links. Though the Indian Mujahideen is the prime suspect in the Mumbai blasts case, the NIA sources have told CNN-IBN that the raids are not related to the Mumbai blasts. The raids were conducted on a tip-off from another man...
12:46 PM, Jul 15, 2011
Mumbai: A day after three blasts rocked Mumbai killing 17 and injuring 133 people, it is still unclear who was behind the blasts. Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday made it clear that all militant groups targetting India are on the list of suspects. There are first signs of an emerging pattern between three blasts in 2010 at German Bakery in Pune, Jama Masjid in New Delhi and Sheetla Ghat...
09:06 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: A day after three blasts ripped Central and South Mumbai, UK Bansal, Secretary (Internal Security) in the Home Ministry, said that Mumbai Police are carrying out investigations on the fact that a body was recovered with wires. He said there could be a possibility that he was very near to the explosives or there could be a possibility that he was the human bomb as well. Bansal said...
04:59 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said all groups hostile to India were suspects in the Mumbai serial blasts that killed 17 and injured almost 100 on Wednesday. However, the name of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), which recently formed a group called the 313 Squad and has been recruiting youngsters to organise attacks across the nation, once again tops the list of suspects. Sources told CNN-IBN that since...
02:39 PM, Jul 14, 2011
Pune: Three blasts that rocked Mumbai once again made Punekars shudder with memories of February 13 terrorist attack on the German Bakery last year, that killed 17 persons including some foreigners and injuring over 100. Even as the city was put on a very high alert since last night, after the blasts, with thick security blanket covering all sensitive places identified after the German Bakery blast, the numerical connotation of...
11:27 AM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: Three blast rocked the city of Mumbai on Wednesday leaving the country in a state of panic. On the investigation front, the Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad and the Mumbai Police have formed teams to investigate the serial blasts. In a late-night high-level meeting of senior police officials, details of the initial examination of the blast sites were discussed. Home Minister P Chidambaram also visited the blast sites and met...
07:20 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Strategic expert B Raman said that the Mumbai blasts are timed explosions not remote controlled blasts. ...
11:24 PM, Jul 13, 2011
