
Delhi Police arrest four people for allegedly firing at Delhi MLA Bharat Singh, say it was personal enmity that made them carry out the brazen crime. ...

09:42 PM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: Four people were arrested on Sunday in connection with the New Delhi MLA Bharat Singh shooting case. The police claims that they are close to cracking the case and all the weapons have been recovered as well. On Saturday morning, Bharat Singh was shot by unidentified men near his party office but survived. Singh was chased and shot at inside his office in Najafgarh's Sarangpur village at around...

12:14 PM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: Six gunmen attacked a Samajwadi Party worker in broad daylight outside a market in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The incident left four people including an eight-year-old boy critically injured. The incident occurred on Monday when six armed men on two bikes opened fire in a busy street. Their target was Pappu Nishaad, a local leader associated with the Samajwadi Party. The shooters then chased Nishad into a crowded...

10:28 AM, May 08, 2012

London: It didn't quite turn out to be a good day for Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang as the two Indian marksmen missed the final after scoring an identical 596 in the Shooting World Cup here on Saturday. In the men's 10m Air Rifle event, Bindra finished 10th while Narang finished 12th in the shoot-off at the Royal Artillery Barracks, the shooting venue for the upcoming Olympic Games. Beijing Olympic...

11:08 PM, Apr 21, 2012

Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police. In a chilling account, the far-right fanatic claimed on Thursday that he sharpened his aim by playing the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" for hours on end. Breivik told an Oslo court he also took steroids to build physical strength and meditated to "de-emotionalize" himself before...

11:58 AM, Apr 20, 2012

The billiards champion said that India would draw heavily from shooting and boxing. ...

11:11 PM, Apr 18, 2012

Oslo: An irritated Anders Behring Breivik refused to answer prosecutors' questions on Wednesday about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to, as his trial on terror charges for the massacre of 77 people entered its third day. Prosecutors have said they believe Breivik's so-called "Knights Templar" group doesn't exist "in the way he describes it." Breivik insists it does, and said police just hadn't done a good enough...

04:01 PM, Apr 18, 2012

Washington: An Indian American student was among the seven killed by a disgruntled college student who carried out an execution type killing spree in a religious college in California that also left an Indian American girl injured. Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38, of San Francisco, was killed when the gunman stole his car outside the school on Tuesday morning. Bhutia was born in Sikkim and lived alone in San Francisco's North...

06:05 AM, Apr 04, 2012

Paris: France said on Monday it was deporting five Islamic militants and Muslim clerics in the latest show of strength by President Nicolas Sarkozy as he clamps down on radical elements after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman last month. Police commandos arrested suspected Islamic militants in raids on March 30 in several French cities including in the Toulouse region, where a Frenchman of Algerian descent went...

02:16 PM, Apr 03, 2012

Oakland: A gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three others after telling former classmates to "get in line ... I'm going to kill you all." A suspect in what was the deadliest US school shooting in five years was later arrested at a shopping mall several miles away from the scene of the shooting at Oakland's Oikos...

06:27 AM, Apr 03, 2012

Actor Nana Patekar, a shooting enthusiast feels that India have lot of talent in shooting, but what lacks is facilities. ...

04:54 PM, Mar 30, 2012

New Delhi: India's ace shooter Gagan Narang bagged his second silver medal, this time in the men's 50m rifle three position at the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix on Saturday. According to reports, Narang shot a total of 1165 (prone 395, standing 385, kneeling 385) along with the prize money of $3000. Narang, who had already won a silver in the 10m air rifle, finished with the tournament...

03:11 PM, Mar 25, 2012

Rome: Italy on Tuesday accused Indian authorities of using trickery to arrest two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen they thought were pirates, and said Delhi's attitude risked undermining the international fight against piracy. Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi told the Senate that Italy was pursuing every possible solution to win the marines' release almost a month after the incident. The marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, were stationed...

05:19 AM, Mar 14, 2012

Washington: President Barack Obama promised on Tuesday that a US soldier's shooting rampage in Afghanistan would be investigated as if the dead were "our own citizens and our own children," and pledged a responsible end to the war in the country. The White House said it was not reviewing options to speed up troop withdrawals from Afghanistan after the shooting and that a decision on troop numbers was not expected...

02:51 AM, Mar 14, 2012

New Delhi: The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Tuesday sought to justify its decision to select Heena Sidhu ahead of Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the 11-member squad for the London Olympics. "We will not deny merit... merit has to be the sole criteria in a measurable sport. Heena has been consistent and yesterday she shot 385 (at practice) which, in our opinion, is an...

08:57 PM, Mar 13, 2012