Washington: While Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks, is unlikely to replace Al Qaeda at the forefront of global jihad, it has the capability to threaten the US, a counter-terrorism expert says. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death has badly weakened the terrorust group and deprived Islamic extremists of their most visible leader, but even with his death LeT is unlikely to take its...
10:39 AM, May 04, 2011
Srinagar: Two Army jawans were injured in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district early Saturday morning. Troops of 55 Rashtriya Rifles launched a cordon cum search operation in Inder village of Pulwama district, 40 kms from here, at around 4.00 am, official sources said. As the troops closed in on the target house, the militants opened indiscriminate firing, resulting in injuries to two jawans. The injured...
09:21 AM, Apr 30, 2011
Nagrota: Around 450 militants staged in training camps and launching pads across the Line of Control (LoC) are waiting to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, Army said on Tuesday. "As per intelligence reports, there are about 42 training camps across the LoC. 450 odd terrorists are lodged in camps and launching pads, and staged for infiltration," General Officer Commanding (GOC), 25 Infantry Division, Maj Gen Om Prakash told reporters at...
05:46 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Srinagar: Militants have allegedly shot dead a woman candidate for panchayat elections in Chrar-e-Sharief area of Budgam district in central Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. Hasina Begum, 40, was shot dead by ultras at Karpora in Pakherpora area of Chrar-e-Sharief on Friday night, the officials said. This is the first political killing in Kashmir since the 16-phase polls began on April 14. Begum, a Panch candidate for the polls to...
08:50 AM, Apr 16, 2011
Islamabad: Three powerful blasts ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan's Punbjab province on Sunday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 100 others, a government official said. The first blast occurred at the main entrance of the Sakhi Sarwar Darbar located about 30 kms from Dera Ghazi Khan. The two other blasts went off inside the shrine just as a rescue operation had been...
07:42 PM, Apr 03, 2011
Guwahati: A security alert was sounded in election-bound Assam on Tuesday, a day after militants bombed the ruling Congress party's headquarters, injuring five party workers, and killed nine Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in separate attacks. "A state of high alert was sounded across Assam with police, army and paramilitary troopers deployed in strength to foil any further militant attacks. We would be dealing with the militants with a very...
01:39 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Srinagar: Militants on Monday night blew up a portion of a railway track at Nowgam in Kashmir Valley following which the train services have been suspended, police officials said. The ultras triggered a blast on the railway track at Soothoo, less than one kilometre from Nowgam Railway station at around 9.00 PM, they said, adding, two metres of the track were damaged. The train services which were started in October...
10:39 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Patna: Union Minister and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said mistakes committed in the past led to the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Jammu and Kashmir as also to the prevailing political uncertainty in the state. "It is our fault as the Kashmiri Hindus have been made homeless and forced to live outside," Abdullah said at an Urdu conference here. He said it hurts him that his Kashmiri...
06:46 PM, Feb 20, 2011
Shillong: Two top NDFB militants, arrested along with three other cadres and a sympathizer in Meghalaya, have admitted their involvement in a number of killings and blasts in Assam, besides links with smaller militant groups, police said. Lachit Boro alias Langana confessed to have killed 26 people, including those in the serial strikes that the outfit carried out in western Assam districts, mainly in Sonitpur, killing more than 20 people...
02:41 PM, Feb 13, 2011
Sopore: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists shot dead two sisters after dragging them out of their house in Sopore in north Kashmir on Tuesday. Seventeen-year-old Arifa and 20-year-old Akhtar were gunned down by three terrorists. The terrorists allegedly barged into the house and forcibly dragged the girls, aged between sixteen to eighteen years, outside their house. Police sources say it could be a case of the girls being targeted on suspicion of being...
09:24 AM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Friday the quantum of sentence against six HuJI militants, including three Pakistanis, who were convicted for conspiring to kidnap cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly in 2002 to secure the release of two jailed terrorists. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Pinki would hear the arguments on sentence against the convicts. Earlier, the court had convicted the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) terrorists under...
07:10 PM, Jan 06, 2011
New Delhi: Just a year after he was arrested and handed over by Bangladesh - ULFA chief Arabinda Rajkhowa walked free on Saturday on a new path. Within the next few weeks, ULFA's Chairman is expected to sit for peace talks with New Delhi along with most of the top ULFA leadership. The bail was expected, the government did not oppose it. And as if on cue, just after the...
10:23 AM, Jan 01, 2011
Shimla: Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, masquerading as labourers, were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police in Kotla area in Kangra district of the hill state in the wee hours today. The two, hailing from Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, were identified as Jameed Ahmed, aged 35 years, and 20-year-old Gulam Nabi, ADGP (CID) ID Bhandari said. The two ultras were posing as labourers when they were caught by...
08:11 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Srinagar: Two militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit were gunned down on Tuesday by the security forces in an encounter in Shopian district, police said here. Acting on a tip off, the police assisted by army launched a search operation in village Trenz, 60 kms from here, in Shopian district of south Kashmir in the wee hours of Tuesday to flush out the hiding militants, a police spokesman said. The hiding...
02:55 PM, Nov 02, 2010
Jammu: More than 12 hours after it started, the dramatic encounter in Bandipora, Kashmir is finally over. The forces had to re-strategise after a militant jumped from his hiding, firing indiscriminately on their positions. In the end two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were killed while a security person civilian and a mediaperson were wounded. "Encounter was very difficult but we ensured that no civilian was killed. We have recovered two bodies. Encounter...
06:37 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Gronzy, Russia: Islamist rebels killed at least four people on Tuesday as they tried to seize Chechnya's parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia has failed to quell insurgency on its southern flank. Three rebels burst into the Parliament compound in the Chechen capital of Grozny at 0845 local time (0445 GMT) as deputies arrived for work and began the attack, which lasted until government forces stormed the...
05:21 PM, Oct 19, 2010
Jammu: Two militants of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a gunfight on Saturday with a joint army and police team in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri area, police said. Police said the operation had started early on Saturday morning and lasted for several hours. "Two Pakistani terrorists of the LeT were killed in the encounter in Budhal area," a police spokesman said. "One of the slain terrorists has...
09:41 AM, Oct 17, 2010
Rangapara: There has been a rise in activity by Bodo militants in Assam, with more abductions being reported in the Sonitpur district of Assam. Heartbreakingly for the families of two railway drivers, even two months after their abduction, there's no rescue or help coming in from any quarters. The families have been left to prayers and no concrete help from anywhere. Sabita Singh Phukan, the mother of two, has been...
08:49 AM, Oct 12, 2010
Islamabad: Suspected Taliban militants on Wednesday attacked and set afire 20 oil tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in southwest Pakistan, killing one man in the third major assault on supply vehicles in two weeks. The NATO tankers, on their way to Afghanistan, were attacked on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, early morning, Deputy Inspector General Police Hamid Shakil said. A group of gunmen opened fire...
01:02 PM, Oct 06, 2010
