Mumbai: Abu Jundal, an alleged operative of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key handler during the 26/11 terror attacks, has approached Bombay High Court seeking that he should not be kept in solitary confinement in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab once stayed. Jundal has been lodged in Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai. His cell was earlier occupied by Kasab, the lone arrested terrorist of 26/11 attacks,...
07:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Toronto: The two men accused of plotting a terror attack targeting a passenger train in Canada denied the allegations made against them after they appeared before a court. Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto and Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal who face charges of conspiring "with each other to murder unknown persons for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group," denied the allegations made...
11:00 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Tripoli: French embassy in Libya was hit by what appeared to be a car bomb on Tuesday, injuring two guards in the first such attack in the capital Tripoli since the end of the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. Residents living near the embassy compound, in the capital's Hay Andalus area, said they heard two blasts early in the morning around 7 am (0500 GMT). "We think it was...
12:55 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Bangalore: The forensic report on Bangalore blast will be submitted on Saturday. Sources said the report mentions that the attack was a high-intensity blast and the explosives were packed in a steel container. The report also mentions that ammonium nitrate and inch-wide pellets were used by the attackers to cause maximum damage but the placement of the bike at the blast site minimised the impact of the attack. Meanwhile, the...
11:20 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marathon terror attack. The social media and part of the mainstream media was abuzz with rumors that 22-year-old Sunil, who went missing on March 16 and they have still not been able to find him, was the "possible suspect" in...
11:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
CNN-IBN's Bangalore Bureau Chief Deepa Balakrishnan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Bangalore blast probe. Q. How safe is it for people to go and exercise their franchise on May 5th? Asked by: julietthomas1969 A. Yes people are bound to be scared since this blast happened very close to a polling booth too - a school that's a polling booth is nearby.. but I'd say, some lessons are...
06:14 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said on Thursday there was no specific information or alert "from anybody" about the bomb blast near the BJP office that left 16 persons injured. Speaking to reporters after visiting the injured persons at government-run K C General Hospital in Bangalore, he maintained that there was no intelligence failure. Shettar said the government had taken all steps required and beefed up the security in...
02:30 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Federal officials are denying that a suspect is in custody in the Boston Marathon bombings. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Wednesday a suspect was in custody. But the FBI and the US attorney's office in Boston dispute that. The official who spoke to The Associated Press did so on condition of anonymity and stood by the information even after it was...
12:45 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Law enforcement sources on Wednesday said an arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon twin blasts case. However, the motive behind the bombings, which killed three people and injured over 170 others on Monday morning, is still not known, sources added. Earlier, officials had said they have identified a dark skinned male who is a suspect in the blasts case, CNN sources had informed. Officials had also believed...
11:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: Officials on Wednesday said they have identified a dark skinned male who is a suspect in the Boston Marathon twin blasts case, CNN sources said. Officials are also believed to have a clear facial image of the suspect placing the package and leaving the site, the sources added. The suspect was identified from a video of a departmental store, sources said. They added that video from a TV station...
10:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Bangalore: A loud bang and the next moment three cars went up in flames and a bike blown to smithereens, recounted witnesses to a terror strike outside the Bharatiya Janata office in Bangalore buzzing with activity ahead of the May 5 Assembly polls. "All of us were sitting in a police van in front of which the cars and a motorbike were parked. I heard a deafening sound and when...
05:14 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Ahmedabad: An alert has been sounded across Gujarat in the wake of the blast near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Bangalore on Wednesday, a top police officer said. "We have sounded alert to police commissioners and district police heads in the state following the bomb blast in Bangalore," state police chief Amitabh Pathak said. When asked whether security at state BJP office in Ahmedabad and other offices in...
05:00 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday termed as unfortunate the bomb blast outside its office in Bangalore and maintained that this "terror act" appeared to be the job of some sleeper cells active due to "lack of efforts" in fighting terror by the Centre. BJP President Rajnath Singh refused to react to Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed's contention that the blast would help the right-wing party in the forthcoming Assembly elections in...
04:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Islamabad: Terrorists targeted senior politicians campaigning for Pakistan's upcoming General Election in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Tuesday, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more and triggering concern about security for the landmark polls. Six persons were killed and about 30 injured when PML-N leader Sanaullah Zehri's motorcade was targeted with a bomb in Khuzdar district of the restive southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday afternoon. Zehri escaped unhurt but...
08:55 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: A day after twin blasts rocked Boston killing three and injuring over 180 people, the FBI is working hard to look for those responsible. CNN has reported that a Taliban or al Qaeda hand has been ruled out and the FBI made a public announcement seeking help into any clues. Law enforcement officials have reportedly said that they have recovered forensic evidence that suggests the two explosive devices may...
08:46 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: Neighbors and friends remembered 8-year-old Boston bombing victim Martin Richard on Tuesday as a vivacious boy who loved to run, climb, and play sports like soccer, basketball and baseball. Family friend Jack Cunningham spoke of how as a pint-sized preschooler, Martin had insisted on getting out of a stroller his mom was pushing during a 5K race in South Boston about five years ago. But once she let him...
12:14 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Washington: The explosives used in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing were contained in 6-liter pressure cookers and hidden in black duffel bags on the ground, a person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Tuesday. One of the explosives contained shards of metal and ball bearings, and another contained nails, the person said. A second person briefed on the investigation confirmed that at least one of the explosives...
10:28 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: US President Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday that the twin bombings in Boston were an "act of terror" and that the country's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the incident. Obama, who had refrained from using the word "terror" in his earlier address after the blasts, said the "Americans will not be terrorised" and that justice will be done. In the biggest attacks on the US soil since...
09:21 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: FBI and Homeland Security agents carried out searches at a high-rise apartment building in Boston seeking clues to unravel the plot behind the twin blasts, suspected to have been carried out by home-grown terrorists, which killed three people and injured over 150 during the Boston Marathon. Early on Tuesday, investigators descended on a high-rise apartment building in Revere and conducted a search, for nearly nine hours, related to the...
06:32 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Following the twin bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday, we take a look at the 10 sporting events that faced the ghastly acts of terrorism. 1972: Munich Olympics The darkest hour in the Olympics history arrived at the 1972 Games in Munich. Black September, a Palestinian militant group, killed 11 athletes of the Israeli team in a 16-hour hostage drama. Following that, competition was suspended at the Olympic...
11:28 AM, Apr 16, 2013
