Mumbai: The families of MV Iceberg hostages have said that they want to meet the ship owner and the government is considering facilitating a meeting with the Dubai-based owner. The negotiations between the ship owner and pirates have failed. Six Indian hostages have been in the pirates' captivity for almost two years now. CNN-IBN had first established communication with captive sailors. ...
01:01 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Nairobi: A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south. The car bomb exploded 50 metres from the recently reopened Turkish embassy, near to the Kilometre 4 (K4) junction, a busy intersection in Mogadishu's administrative district. A health official said at least three...
01:27 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Islamabad: Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release. In a video message posted on militant websites, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said Warren Weinstein would be released if the United States stopped airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. He also demanded the release of all al Qaeda and...
03:22 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: The latest Transparency International corruption index is out and predictably India has slipped lower on the list. India is now ranked 95th on the list - worse than China, but better than Pakistan that's ranked way below at 134th. India is perceived to be more corrupt than China which is ranked 75th on the list, but is better off than Pakistan, that is listed at the 134th position....
09:57 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Sana'a: A Yemeni criminal court has sentenced 10 Somalis to 10 years in prison after convicting them of piracy in Yemen's territorial waters, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The court based in Mukalla, the provincial capital city in Yemen's southeast province of Hadramout, said that the convicts were arrested while they were targeting Yemeni and foreign ships in the Yemeni territorial waters in the Gulf of Aden as their...
09:58 AM, Nov 20, 2011
United Nations: UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an India-co-sponsored resolution on piracy in Somalia, taking on board, at India's initiative, the issue of prosecution of convicted pirates not only for acts of piracy but also for hostage taking. Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed attended the Security Council meeting here yesterday for adoption of Resolution on prosecution of pirates, co-sponsored by India and 10 other UNSC...
10:47 AM, Oct 25, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police have submitted an alarming report to the state government on the seizure of 120 mobile phones from the state's prisons. The reports hints that there could be a terror link to Kerala's jails and some prisoners may be orchestrating terror from jail. The report, submitted by Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) Alexander Jacob, gives details of 120 mobile phones sized and the calls made to some ...
01:21 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police have submitted an alarming report to the state government on the seizure of 120 mobile phones from the state's prisons. The reports hints that there could be a terror link to Kerala's jails and some prisoners may be orchestrating terror from jail. The report, submitted by Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) Alexander Jacob, gives details of 120 mobile phones sized and the calls made to some...
01:21 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Mogadishu: Somali militants on Monday threatened to bring down Nairobi skyscrapers after Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia. The threat emanated from the same lawless country in which the al-Qaida masterminds behind 1998 bombings of two US embassies sought refuge. The Kenyan invasion comes at a time when al-Shabab has been weakened by famine in its strongholds, has been pushed from the capital of Mogadishu by African Union troops...
03:58 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Rome: British and the US forces on Tuesday stormed an Italian cargo ship in the Indian Ocean in an operation to free the crew including six Indians that was hijacked by Somali pirates on Monday, an Italian defense ministry spokesman said. The 11 pirates who hijacked the Montecristo have all been arrested, Italian news agency ANSA said quoting sources. The Italian foreign ministry issued a statement welcoming the release which...
07:40 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Rome: An Italian ship came under attack by five pirates off the coast of Somalia on Monday, its owner said, and one pirate said the vessel was under their control. The company, D'Alesio Group, said it had lost contact with the Montecristo after the attack at 6:45 am Italian time (0445 GMT) by five armed men about 620 miles off the Somali coast. "The last we heard from the ship's...
12:47 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Mogadishu, Somalia: Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb on Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia's capital, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens including students and parents who were awaiting the results of scholarships. It was the biggest attack in Somalia's capital since the al Qaeda-linked group known as al-Shabab withdrew most of its forces in August amid an offensive by African Union forces and a...
02:05 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Mogadishu: Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb on Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia's capital, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens including students and parents who were awaiting the results of scholarships. It was the biggest attack in Somalia's capital since the al Qaeda-linked group known as al-Shabab withdrew most of its forces in August amid an offensive by African Union forces and a devastating...
05:13 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Addressing the UN General Assembly, Manmohan Singh also urged the UN to evolve effective response to the problem of piracy. ...
07:57 PM, Sep 24, 2011
Mogadishu: The World Food Program (WFP) said on Saturday that it is expanding its food distribution efforts in famine-struck Somalia, where the UN estimates that only 20 per cent of people needing aid are getting it. Some of those from the outlying regions have walked for days to the capital for help, only for it to be too late. In the pediatric ward in one of Somalia's best-equipped hospitals, a...
07:04 AM, Aug 14, 2011
Geneva: World Health Organization officials said on Friday that famine-hit Somalia faces a cholera epidemic as dirty water and poor sanitation are leading to an increase in outbreaks of the disease. Officials say cases of acute watery diarrhea, an important indicator of the risk of cholera are now at 4,272 in Somalia, an 11 per cent rise on last week's WHO reported figure of 3,839. WHO public health adviser Dr...
02:47 AM, Aug 13, 2011
At least 1 lakh refugees have flooded the Somali capital of Mogadishu as the famine worsens in the countryside. Over 29,000 children have also died in last 3 months due to the famine. ...
12:31 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Somalia, a poor country battered by years of war, is going through the worst of violence and famine. Almost 6,00,000 children could die of starvation in the country. ...
03:15 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Liboi: The whole of drought-and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens, the United Nations said on Friday. In a report for countries sending aid, the UN's umbrella humanitarian agency OCHA said the "crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen through 2011, with all areas of the south slipping into famine". Appealing for a further $ 1.4 billion "to...
04:34 PM, Jul 30, 2011
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday made a plea to the international community to help famine-stricken Somalia, as the drought has affected 11 million people across the Horn of Africa. "To save the lives of the people at risk the vast majority of them women and children we need approximately $1.6 billion in aid," said Ban in an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times. "So far,...
01:41 AM, Jul 23, 2011
