A massive fire in a Kolkata market left 19 people dead and many more injured on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out in the tightly packed Surya Sen market near Sealdah. Around 20 fire engines battled the blaze but the cause of the fire is still unknown. The injured have been admitted to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Death toll rises to 18 in a massive fire that broke out at a market near the Calcutta University campus in the wee hours of Wednesday. ...
11:12 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Nearly two years after the daring US commando raid that killed the 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a US Navy SEAL who pulled the trigger has recounted his role for the first time. Breaking his silence on the May 2011 raid on Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the commando told the Esquire magazine in an interview published Monday that he shot the Al-Qaeda leader three times. ...
01:02 PM, Feb 12, 2013
A liquor factory of slain and controversial industrialist Ponty Chadha was on Friday sealed by Punjab Pollution Control Board here and a case was also registered against its management for violating norms. The board took action as the factory was violating pollution control norms, officials said in Gurdaspur. ...
12:37 AM, Dec 29, 2012
Patna: Bihar's first Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet has been sealed after it was found to be running without a licence, state Food Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said on Friday. "KFC's newly opened outlet was sealed by concerned officials after the franchisee failed to produce a licence to run it," Sanjay Kumar said. "Now, action would be initiated for violating the rule," he said. The outlet, which opened in Patna in...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Washington: Indian-American doctor Dilip Joseph, who was rescued from Taliban's captivity in a military operation in Afghanistan, is doing well, but will continue to receive precautionary examinations and debriefing before he returns home, his employers have said. "I have not spoken to him yet but I hear that he is physically doing OK," said Lars Peterson, executive director of Morning Star Development for which Joseph worked. "Although he was reported...
08:23 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Washington: After being rescued in a daring military operation from Taliban captivity, an Indian American doctor who was involved in training local medical professionals in Afghanistan, is set to return home. Dilip Joseph's employers, Colorado-based Morning Star Development, insisted that it did not pay any ransom to the Taliban for the release of the doctor, who worked with it for the last three years and has been a frequent traveller...
12:51 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Washington: In a daring rescue operation, elite American commandos have rescued an Indian-American doctor who was in the custody of the Taliban in Afghanistan, losing one Navy SEAL and killing seven insurgents. Colorado-based Dilip Joseph had been abducted on December 5 along with two Afghan colleagues as they left a rural medical clinic in Sorobi district in Kabul province. He was rescued in an early Sunday morning operation ordered after...
11:04 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Washington: Internal emails among US military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were released on Wednesday by...
08:12 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Washington: Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy officials said on Thursday. Four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said. The SEALs are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game called "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." Each of...
12:42 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Washington: Seven members of an elite US Navy SEAL team, including one who participated in the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, have been reprimanded for disclosing classified material while helping produce a videogame, officials said on Thursday. All seven of the special operations forces who were punished were members of the elite SEAL Team Six, according to CBS News, which first reported the reprimands. CBS said...
12:32 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Just in nick of the time for US Presidential elections, the first film on US commando raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 was premiered on the US cable channel. Titled SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, the 90 minute film was apparently watched by 2.7 million viewers just two days before the presidential elections. Buzz has it that the film...
01:59 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Washington: The flight path taken by two American MH-47 Chinook helicopters to Abbottabad in Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May, 2011 has triggered a controversy with questions being raised as to whether they flew over the Indian air space. A just-published book, containing a first-hand account of the raid on the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the Pakistan garrison town near Islamabad, contains a map showing the flight...
08:48 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Los Angeles: Singer Seal has hinted his former wife, supermodel Heidi Klum, had cheated on him with her bodyguard. Klum, 39, was recently on a family getaway to Sardinia, Italy, where she was spotted getting close to her bodyguard of four years, Martin Kristen, reported TMZ online. When Seal was asked to comment on the new development, he said, "Look, that's what happens when two people separate. They move on...
01:04 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: A former Navy Seals commando, against whom the Pentagon has threatened legal action for writing a first-person account of the Osama bin Laden raid, breached the military's non-disclosure agreements because of "bad blood" with his unit from which he had been "ostracised." A new e-book written by other Special Operations veterans reveals that Matt Bissonnette, author of the book on the May 2, 2011, raid that killed Bin...
12:34 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Washington: The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has claimed. Matt Bissonnette, 36, in his tell-all account of the operation titled 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden', has...
05:33 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Washington: A former Navy SEAL at the center of a brewing battle with the US government over his book worried about security after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden to the point that he questioned signing his real name on a framed flag from the mission which was being presented to President Barack Obama. He wrote about his concern that others would see his name. "How many hands does...
02:10 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New York: A former Navy SEAL, who has written a tell-all insider account of the raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, faces threats to his life as well as legal action after his identity was disclosed by media reports. The book, "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," is set to hit the stands on September 11, the 11th...
08:03 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Washington: The author who has ruffled feathers of many in the Pentagon and CIA by writing a tell-all insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has been identified as a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL from Alaska. The book, 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden', is set to hit shelves on September 11, later this year. It is...
09:30 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Washington: A US Navy SEAL commando, involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, has written an inside account of the May 2011 mission, raising hackles in the Pentagon and CIA. The author, who uses a pseudonym, "was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist leader's hideout and was present at his death," The Washington Post quoted a statement...
05:10 PM, Aug 23, 2012
