Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday drew flak the Opposition, which demanded that he immediately step down from his post owning responsibility for twin bomb blasts that claimed 16 lives on Thursday. Telugu Desam Party MP T Devender Goud and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao came down heavily on the government stating that it ignored the Centre's warning on terror strikes....
09:26 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Is Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who has been suffering from a foot-in-the-mouth disease since he took over the job, fit to be the in-charge of the internal security in the country? In the summer of 2012, Parliament went powerless, and that was how the country got introduced to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. And soon, India got its Union Home Minister in him. He has also been known...
09:34 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha a day after two blasts killed 16 people in Hyderabad, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the state governments sometimes take intelligence inputs in a lighter vein. He also said that while the government was seriously working towards tackling terrorism in the country, Opposition's support was crucial in controlling the menace. ...
06:09 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer centre. ...
12:04 AM, Feb 17, 2013
The US has said it continues to seek information on LeT founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed that can convict him in the court of law. However, it refused to comment on the detailed interview given by the Mumbai attack mastermind, arguing that it does not want to "dignify" someone on which the US has declared a reward of $10 million for information leading to his conviction. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Terming the sentencing of LeT terrorist David Headley as a "positive example" of Indo-US counterterrorism cooperation, the United States defended the verdict, saying justice has been served as promised. "We promised that justice would be served, that justice is being served in this case," State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland told reporters, when asked about India's reservations over the court ruling. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and 2008 Mumbai attacks conspirator David Coleman Headley has been sentenced to 35 years in jail but India has expressed its unhappiness about the verdict delivered by a Chicago court on Thursday. ...
10:03 PM, Jan 25, 2013
The BJP on Friday demanded death penalty for LeT terrorist David Headley, the plotter of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and asked the Centre to press for his extradition from the US to face trial in India to find out the larger conspiracy by Pakistan-based elements. ...
09:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Terming the 35-year sentence awarded to David Headley as "inadequate and disproportionate", special 26/11 public prosecutor in India Ujjwal Nikam on Friday said he should now be made an approver in the case being tried in Pakistan to punish the perpetrators. ...
04:08 PM, Jan 25, 2013
David Coleman Headley, one of the conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was sentenced on Thursday to 35 years in prison. Headley, 52, whose meticulous scouting missions facilitated the assault by 10 gunmen from a Pakistani-based militant group, which killed 160 people - including children. ...
01:05 PM, Jan 25, 2013
After External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India would have given 26/11 convict David Coleman Headley a longer term in jail, Home Secretary RK Singh has now said that Headley should be given death sentence. "We want death sentence for Headley and those who were involved killing of 165 people in Mumbai. We will keep asking for death sentence," RK Singh said. ...
12:30 PM, Jan 25, 2013
In his first reaction on David Headley's sentencing, Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid told CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview that India would have sought a longer jail term for 26/11 Mumbai attacks conspirator, had he been tried in India. He, however, added that he was satisfied with the prison term extended to him by the US. ...
09:53 AM, Jan 25, 2013
A "remorseful" Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Headley made a last ditch effort to have his sentence reduced by writing an emotional letter to the judge claiming he is a changed man and was sorry of his past doings. However, US District Judge Harry D Leinenweber, in the court room acknowledging the receipt of such a letter, publicly told Headley that he had difficulties sin believing him given his past record....
08:17 AM, Jan 25, 2013
There is still some possibility of extraditing Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Headley to India, if the Mumbai terror attacks convict violates his plea agreement, a US federal Attorney has indicated. Going into rare hypothetical scenario, which a government official normally does not do before the media, the Acting US Attorney Gary S Shapiro told reporters that for this Headley would have to violate his guilty plea by not co-operating the...
07:39 AM, Jan 25, 2013
The United States has said it will continue to bring to justice the other six people named in Mumbai terror attacks case, including Lashkar-e-Toiba leaders. "They are fugitives. If we can ever get our hands on them, we will try to arrest them, or have them arrested depending on what country they are found in and extradite to the United States and prosecute them here in the US," Acting US...
06:58 AM, Jan 25, 2013
A US federal court here has started the sentencing hearing of David Coleman Headley, an LeT operative convicted of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. The hearing started before the court of US District Judge Harry D Leinenweber in downtown Chicago amidst an unprecedented security. ...
10:34 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to attack a Danish newspaper, would appeal against his conviction, his attorneys said on Friday. "I am sure he is pleased that the judge decided not to include the terrorism enhancement. We would appeal the conviction, certainly and we would discuss this with Mr Rana," Peter Blegan,...
11:53 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley, was on Thursday sentenced to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a US court for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to strike a Danish newspaper. ...
11:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013
US federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum 30-year sentence for Pakistan-born Tahawwur Rana for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Although Chicago businessman Rana, a boyhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was acquitted of supporting the Mumbai attacks, he was convicted of supporting LeT and its aborted plot to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten for publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. ...
11:08 AM, Jan 15, 2013
For most of his childhood, Rahul Bhatt did not know a father's unconditional love - a vacuum that the advent of David Coleman Headley filled for a while. David Headley: the dashing, intriguing Pakistani with one brown eye and a green one, a man who could pass himself off as American quite easily, a charmer of men and women alike. Headley inveigled his way into Rahul's simple world and, in...
04:35 PM, Jan 14, 2013
