The defamation case against Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will be heard in Delhi's Saket court on Wednesday regarding his remarks on "Saffron terror" last month. The petition to the court had said that Shinde's remarks had given 'oxygen to anti-India elements'. ...
07:30 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Rajnath Singh will start his first day as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President with a nationwide protest against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. He will be accompanied by senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and other party workers at Jantar Mantar. ...
08:16 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at the UPA government for Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remark that the BJP and its ally, the RSS, were promoting Hindu terrorism through their training camps. The BJP demanded that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demand an unconditional apology and also the resignation of Shinde. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The BJP, the RSS and the Congress are yet again involved in a war of words, this time over Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks that the training camps run by them were promoting Hindu terrorism. At the last day of the Congress's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde took to stage and while talking about the security situation in the country, flayed the BJP and the RSS for what "promoting...
02:42 PM, Jan 21, 2013
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday took into custody a person from the district in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. ...
06:23 AM, Dec 29, 2012
The accused in the 2007 Samjhauta blast will be produced in the Panchkula court on Monday. The key suspect Ranjender Chaudhary was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh by the National Investigation Agency. ...
07:13 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Rehman Malik's visit to India ended on a positive note with Pakistan welcoming the breakthrough in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast - a case which has always invited Pakistan's criticism to India from time to time. The man who allegedly planted the bombs on the train was arrested from Ujjain on Saturday evening. ...
09:53 PM, Dec 16, 2012
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a fresh arrest in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast case. The accused, who had allegedly planted the bomb in the Samjhauta Express, was arrested from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. ...
08:54 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Indore: Taking cognisance of a complaint made by an accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case that he was unlawfully detained and subjected to torture, a local court in Depalpur town has issued a warrant directing the Ambala Jail Superintendent to produce him in the court on June 11 next. The accused Kamal Chouhan had alleged that he was kept in illegal custody from February 10-13 and subjected to torture....
02:24 AM, May 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Samjhauta train bombing case accused Aseemanand on Wednesday denied knowing Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled RSS worker arrested by the NIA recently in connection with the case. "I don't know Kamal Chauhan," Assemanand told reporters outside the special NIA Court. Assemanand, who had earlier pleaded that he was not involved in the bombings, when asked if he knew Chauhan, claimed that he does not know who he is. "It's a...
01:51 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blast investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday claimed to have arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the India-Pakistan train in February 2007. The suspect has been identified as Kamal Chouhan, who is a resident of Indore. NIA sources say he is now being interrogated. He is likely to be produced at the Patiala House Court...
07:12 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Panchkula: A special court on Wednesday allowed the National Investigation Agency to re-examine the Samjhauta Express blast samples after the NIA pleaded it wants to compare them with the explosions at other places such as in Malegaon, Hyderabad and Ajmer. The Panchkula court has given its order while hearing the charges against Swami Assemanand and four others in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. As the proceedings in the case...
06:17 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: India and Pakistan on Wednesday made a fresh push for peace announcing new Kashmir-centric confidence building measures (CBMs) and politically affirming that relations were on the right track. But irritants - such as the Mumbai trial, Hafiz Saeed and Hina Rabanni Khar's meeting with the Hurriyat - also figured prominently in the talks. Behind closed doors, India protested against Islamabad for allowing Hafiz Saeed to spew venom, its...
11:55 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Panchkula: Hindu activist Swami Assemanand, arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) for his involvement in the Samjhauta Express blasts case on Monday reiterated that he was innocent and the NIA has no proof against him. "I am innocent. NIA has no proof against me and this arrest is illegal. This is a conspiracy to implicate me. They are torturing and creating pressure on me to give wrong statements," Assemanand...
02:03 PM, Jul 18, 2011
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11:55 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: Four months after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over all terror cases relating to Hindu extremism, the agency on Monday filed the chargesheet in the 2007 Samjhauta blast. The Samjhauta Express was bombed killing 68 people, several of them Pakistani nationals. Swami Aseemanand, who first allegedly confessed to his role and later withdrew his confession - has been named a key conspirator. In an embarrassment to the...
08:08 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Panchkula: Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the Samjhauta Blast case, on Thursday denied any role in the incident before a sessions court which rejected his bail plea and extended his custody till May 26. Assemanand's bail plea, filed on the ground that the NIA failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days, was rejected by the Court of District and Sessions Judge Subhash Gehla. Aseemanand denied having made any...
06:49 PM, May 12, 2011
Panchkula: Hindu activist Swami Aseemanand on Thursday told a court in Panchkula that he had no role in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing that killed 68 people, mainly Pakistanis. Aseemanand told the Panchkula district and sessions judge that he had not made any statement to the National Investigating Agency (NIA) about his supposed involvement in the bomb attack. Speaking through his counsel, he accused the NIA of torturing and...
03:32 PM, May 12, 2011
Islamabad: On the eve of Foreign Secretary-level talks in Thimphu, Pakistan on Saturday came out with a provocative statement saying that India's handling of the Samjhauta Express train bombing case showed that it lacked "courage to unearth culpability of Hindu extremists". "India seems to be lacking courage to unearth culpability of Hindu extremists and their links with some Indian Army personnel," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said in a statement...
06:27 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Davos: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said 'some evidence' has emerged in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case and India will share information with Pakistan once the probe is over. "We have not said that we will not provide evidence. These are early phases of investigation, once the investigation is complete we will share the evidence with Pakistani authorities," he said. Chidambaram said that he had conveyed India's position to his...
12:59 PM, Jan 30, 2011
