Washington: India has sought access from the US to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana - both of whom were sentenced by a Chicago court after being found guilty of terrorism charges.
While there was no official word from either side on the issues discussed in particular those with reference to Headley and Rana, officials said it was prominently raised by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde during his meeting with US Attorney General Eric Holder here.
"Shinde and Holder agreed that the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Department of Justice should work together institutionally, so as to ensure the best possible outcomes within the laws of the two countries, to address pending...
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12:27 PM, May 22, 2013
Washington: The US has pledged to collaborate with India on developing global approach to combat increasing terror threats and asked international community to take effective steps to eliminate sanctuaries and infrastructure that support terrorism. After talks between visiting Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, a joint communique said the two countries also agreed to enhance bilateral co-operation to combat terror financing and currency...
11:15 AM, May 22, 2013
Washington: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday met with US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in the United States. Shinde, who is in the US, is likely to press for access to Mumbai terror attacks suspect David Headley, his wife, his girlfriend and Tahawwur Rana. After talks between Shinde and Janet, a joint communique said the two countries also agreed to enhance bilateral co-operation to combat terror financing...
07:59 AM, May 22, 2013
Washington: The United States and India on Tuesday asked the international community to take effective steps towards eliminating sanctuaries and infrastructure that support terrorism. After talks between visiting Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, a joint communique said the two countries also agreed to enhance bilateral co-operation to combat terror financing and currency counterfeiting. The communique, issued after Napolitano and Shinde co-chaired...
12:30 AM, May 22, 2013
Agartala: Normal life was paralysed in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday in response to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by opposition Congress to protest the killing of three employees of 'Dainik Ganadoot', a local Bengali daily. Vehicles remained off the roads and markets, schools, colleges and educational institutions were closed. Official sources said attendance in government offices, banks and financial institutions was also thin. Police said no untoward incident...
01:16 PM, May 21, 2013
Washington: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has visited America's top counter-terrorism center, to have the first-hand experience of its functioning. Shinde, who arrived here on Sunday, visited the centre on Monday. He is leading a high-powered India delegation for the second India-US Homeland Security Dialogue with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. He also visited the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center where he was given a tour and presentation...
09:17 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday allowed CBI to interrogate for two days Sushil Daga, one of the accused in the Rs 10-crore railway bribery case in which the then Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew is among those arrested. Daga, who was arrested on Sunday, was produced before the court and the agency sought his remand, saying it needs to confront him with documents and intercepted conversations of...
05:39 PM, May 20, 2013
Agartala: The opposition Congress in Tripura has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday to protest the killing of three employees of a local Bengali daily. Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath, belonging to the Congress, said on Monday that the killing proved that journalists and newspaper employees were not safe in the state. "This is unprecedented in the state as well as in...
01:59 PM, May 20, 2013
Agartala: Three staff members of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office. The three non-journalist staff members were stabbed by the unknown assailants. According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office of 'Dainik Ganadoot' at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the...
08:19 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Threats from terror groups like LeT and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes will be top on the agenda of the four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart beginning in Washington on Monday. Shinde, who left early this morning for the US, will hold talks with US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on challenges like cyber security, counterfeit currency,...
03:05 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday congratulated Delhi Police for unearthing the illegal practice of spot-fixing in IPL cricket matches which led to the arrest of three cricketers and several bookies. "I congratulate Delhi Police. Whenever they do good work I appreciate," Shinde told reporters here on the sidelines of an event of border guarding force BSF. He said the probe in the case is at...
05:41 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he had not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared...
10:50 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question...
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court has deferred for Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he has not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared the whole...
04:10 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has announced that fast-track courts will be constituted to look into terror cases where Muslim youths are held accused. The move is being looked by many as an act to appease the minority votebank ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Responding to a query on the need to set up fast-track courts to deal with cases of Muslim youths held on...
11:54 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation suit filed against him for his 'hindu terror' remark. The petitioner has alleged that the Home Minister had willfully made the remark to create ill will between communities. The petitioner has also alleged that these statements aimed at polarising votes ahead of the 2014 general...
06:40 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Amidst demand for expeditious trial of terror cases involving Muslim youth, the Union Home Ministry has asked all states to set up fast track courts to take up such cases for speedy disposal. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Centre has sent an advisory to all states and is also trying to find out how many Muslim inmates (involved in terror cases) were in jail and for...
06:50 PM, May 15, 2013
Pune: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday said the resignations of Union Ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal would not pose any danger to the UPA government. "There is no danger to UPA government. The decisions taken by the Prime Minister and the two ministers are right. We are set to complete full term," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Pune. When asked...
02:23 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Just hours after the resignation of Pawan Kumar Bansal as Railways Minister, Ashwani Kumar, the other Congress leader embroiled in a controversy, resigned as Law Minister. On a day of dramatic developments, Congress President Sonia Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and it was decided that both should be asked to put in his papers to contain any further damage to the government that has already been plagued...
09:52 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who succumbed to injuries in a Chandigarh hospital on Thursday, will be handed over to Pakistan. "We will hand over the body to Pakistan," Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said. Shinde said the Ministry of External Affairs is coordinating with the Pakistani authorities to complete the formalities to send back his body home. "Once the formalities are done, we will hand...
09:59 AM, May 09, 2013
