Campus of one of the largest universities in the US, located close to the Mexican border was evacuated after officials received an anonymous bomb threat. Students and staff of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) got a text message around 2 pm on Tuesday, warning of a bomb and telling them to leave campus. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Even as police arrested leaders of Left parties who were on hunger strike for last four days to protest hike in electricity tariff, leaders of the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Tuesday night launched an indefinite fast here on the same issue. ...
03:05 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Afghan police say eight suicide bombers have attacked one of their headquarters in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing five officers and wounding four. Nangarhar provincial police chief Mohammad Sharif Amin says one insurgent in a bomb-laden car detonated his vehicle in front of the Jalalabad Police Quick Reaction Force on Tuesday. ...
09:58 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Arvind Kejriwal, the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party, is on the second day of his indefinite fast, to protest against the "inflated" electricity and water bills in New Delhi. He launched his hunger strike, or what he calls a "civil disobedience movement', from the house of a volunteer of the party in north-east Delhi, urging Delhiites not to pay the "illegal" bills. ...
09:50 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday spoke to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and demanded that the case of arrest of an alleged Hizbul Mujahdeen terrorist by Delhi Police be transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for a "time-bound speedy probe". The Chief Minister took up the matter with Shinde over phone as the latter was away in Maharashtra with President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
07:51 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Accusing Delhi government of not listening to people's problems, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched his indefinite fast and 'Civil Disobedience Movement' from a north-east Delhi home urging Delhiites not to pay "inflated" power and water bills. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Liaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi police on Friday, was allegedly planning terror attacks ahead of Holi in Delhi. The Delhi Police sources insist Liaqat was a senior terrorist named in a 2011 FIR for promoting terror from PoK and he had come to India to carry out recces for fidayeen attacks. ...
08:38 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will begin his indefinite hunger strike from Saturday. Kejriwal intends to launch a "civil disobedience movement", asking Delhi residents not to pay their "illegal" electricity and water bills. ...
07:45 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal will launch an indefinite fast on Saturday to protest against the tariff hikes on electricity and water supply in the capital. The protest, being hailed as a civil disobedience movement by many, will seek to enlist mass support in defying the government by refusing to pay the bills. ...
05:48 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur who revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi in the national capital. The police said the suspected terrorist, identified as Liaqat Shah, was sent by Pakistani agencies and was being trained in Pakistan. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Work was paralysed at the Delhi High Court on Monday after lawyers joined a strike to protest against police action against colleagues in Jaipur and registration of a first information report (FIR) against 20 others in Chandigarh earlier in March 2013. ...
07:30 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Unhappy with the government's new drug pricing policy that will "reduce their profits" and "create hassles", 10,000 chemists across Delhi on Tuesday threatened to go on a strike March 15 if their demands were not met. ...
09:11 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Twenty one more people have been killed in clashes between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) supporters and police taking the toll to about 80 after a tribunal awarded death penalty to Islamist leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for 1971 war crimes. A two-day strike called by JI that started on Sunday coincided with President Pranab Mukherjee's maiden visit to the country. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 04, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly was adjourned on Friday after an uproar over the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demand to discuss parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging. This followed the resolution moved by an independant MLA of J&K seeking the return of Guru's body. ...
01:34 PM, Mar 01, 2013
According to sources, the Centre gave into the demands of state governments opposing the ambitious setting up of NCTC and said the proposed intelligence agency will not have the right to make arrests without the states' permission. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Indian Mujahideen outsmarts security agencies, continues to target India. CBI faces tough task ahead in investigations despite filing Preliminary Enquiry. ...
11:41 PM, Feb 25, 2013
At least seven major terror strikes since 2006 in the country have been linked to Indian Mujahideen, the banned terror outfit. ...
11:34 PM, Feb 25, 2013
At least seven major terror strikes since 2006 in the country have been linked to Indian Mujahideen, the banned terror outfit. Intelligence agencies consider the outfit's leader, Bhatkal brothers, as India's most wanted terror suspects. Agents believe the outfit now virtually works as a BPO unit for its handlers. ...
09:16 PM, Feb 25, 2013
