Thiruvananthapuram: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that there was Pakistan's involvement in the 26/11 attacks. Speaking at Thiruvananthapuram, the Home Minister said that key 26/11 conspirator Abu Jundal has confirmed Pakistan involvement in the 26/11 attacks. However, he said that there was no pinpointing to any particular agency yet. "There was state involvement in 26/11 attack. Jundal has confirmed that to us. No pinpointing to any particular agency," Chidambaram...
01:21 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Mumbai: After Mumbai Crime Branch, the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad has also produced a production warrant in Delhi's Tis Hazari court for key 26/11 conspirator Abu Jundal's interrogation. An ATS team will soon go to Delhi for other procedures. The ATS wants to question him regarding the Aurangabad arms haul case of May 2006 and the German Bakery blast case of February 2010. The ATS also wants to question him regarding...
10:56 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Abu Jundal, a key planner and director of the deadly 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai, who is in the custody of Delhi Police after being deported from Saudi Arabia, continues to spill more secrets. Sources say he has now given inputs about the Lashkar-e-Toiba's sleeper cells in the country to the police. Based on which, police teams will be carrying out raids across Maharashtra. Police say Jundal used...
07:19 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will release 315 Indian fishermen at the Wagah land border crossing on Thursday, official sources said on Tuesday. The fishermen are currently being held at a jail in Karachi, and they will be freed and sent to Lahore to be handed over to Indian authorities, sources told PTI. Pakistan and India arrest scores of fishermen every year on charges of violating territorial waters. Pakistani officials say over 150...
11:13 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Beijing: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is back form his trip to Bejing for the Shanghai Summit where he had an informal meeting with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Krishna said that Pakistan should act against those accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks cases. "I find that there is total warmth from President Asif Ali Zardari's side. At the same time, we should keep reminding Pakistan that...
08:02 AM, Jun 08, 2012
Mumbai: There was a scare on Jet Airways' flight 9W 523 from Mumbai to Riyadh on Monday. The flight was asked to return to bay by the ATC just before take-off. Reports say the flight was asked to return to bay after smoke was spotted in one of the engines. The fire was extinguished and the passengers were evacuated. There were around 115 passengers on the flight and all of...
09:40 AM, May 28, 2012
Islamabad: India on Thursday said it has provided additional evidence against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and other perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to be used by Pakistani authorities to prosecute them, while expressing concern at the tardy pace of proceedings in the case. Home Secretary RK Singh said that Indian authorities had provided their Pakistani counterparts additional proof against Saeed while the Pakistani judicial commission that visited Mumbai in...
12:50 AM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Even as aviation authorities are making a bid to revive the Juhu aerodrome, certain officials, it appears, are taxiing in the opposite direction. MiD DAY is in possession of documents that indicate an unholy nexus between some Airports Authority of India (AAI) bigwigs and the builders lobby, endeavouring to shut down one of the runways at the aerodrome for furtherance of building projects. The records suggest the officials attempted...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Islamabad: India is likely to thin out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according to a media report on Monday. The two countries reached an understanding on withdrawing troops during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to New Delhi on April 8, 'The Express Tribune' quoted unnamed military and diplomatic officials as saying. The withdrawal of troops to...
01:58 PM, May 14, 2012
Hillary Clinton ends the American flip-flops on Hafiz Saeed, saying he masterminded the 26/11 attacks. ...
10:33 PM, May 08, 2012
Washington: Hundreds of internal al Qaeda documents embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk have revealed plots of carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Terrorist training manuals in PDF format in German, English and Arabic were among the documents found, according to intelligence sources cited by CNN, which said it had obtained details of the documents. The German newspaper Die Zeit was...
09:54 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The trial of the seven Pakistani suspects, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks is set to take place on Saturday in Islamabad. The prosecutors will submit a report on the Pakistan judicial commission's visit to India. The anti-terrorism court, which is conducting proceedings behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, is unlikely to proceed in the...
10:34 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan slams the US bounty on Hafiz Saeed, says the charges must be first proved in a court of law. ...
11:17 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Washington: The 26/11 Mumbai attack was carried out by highly trained terrorists who were given training into paramilitary courses by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a US attorney has said. "...this (Mumbai attack) was, in fact, the handiwork of highly trained terrorists who had gone through the LeT paramilitary courses," US Attorney Neil H MacBride said in a submission to a US District court in Virginia, which sentenced 24-year-old Pakistani national Jubair Ahmad...
01:48 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: A Ahmedabad-Chennai SpiceJet flight made an unscheduled landing at the Mumbai airport on Friday after the plane reportedly developed a technical snag. SpiceJet authorities said the flight made an emergency landing after a technical snag was discovered and was likely to take off shortly. The local authorities were, meanwhile, put on standby. The flight had 112 passengers on board. ...
08:52 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will continue hearing Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death sentence in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. Kasab had pleaded with the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. The lone surviving gunman of the 26/11 attacks has been sentenced with death penalty. The sentencing was awarded by a trial court in May 2010 and upheld by the Bombay High Court in February...
09:50 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Mumbai: An alert Air Traffic Controller prevented a mishap at the Mumbai airport on Thursday evening by directing an incoming JetLite flight to stay airborne, as another Jet Group flight took a little longer than expected to clear the main runway. The incident also delayed the departure of another JetLite flight from the city, a Jet Airways spokesperson said. "At 6:07 pm, a JetLite flight from Nagpur was to land,...
11:46 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Mumbai: A former starlet went missing from the Mumbai airport leaving her two children stranded on their way to London. However, 24 hours later, the police tracked her and reunited her with her two teenage sons. Cops found Vaishali Hazare, 41, near a temple in Vile Parle after her husband registered a missing persons complaint with the Versova police. The authorities suspect that marital discord between Vaishali and her husband...
10:16 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana has told a US court that his friend David Headley, convicted in 26/11 Mumbai attack, was an "unrepentant terrorist" and he had knowledge of latter's "link" with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). In his latest submission before a Chicago court, Rana, however, has challenged the Government's assertion that he does not require a fresh trail. Last year, a grand jury in Chicago had found Rana guilty of providing material...
12:36 AM, Mar 05, 2012
