Shopian: After nearly 30 hours of gun battle, Army and police forces killed two terrorists in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir. The gun battle stopped late on Saturday evening and the forces are now carrying out searches in the area. A joint team of Army and police had cordoned village Mellora on Friday after a tip-off about the terrorists' presence. The slain terrorists have been identified as top commanders of the...
08:44 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Srinagar: The security forces have killed a terrorist in Shopian district of South Kashmir but the gunbattle is still on as another terrorist is hiding in the area. The gunbattle is on from Friday afternoon. An unidentified terrorist was killed in the encounter on Friday. "Acting on a specific information regarding the presence of militants in village Vandena in Zainapora area of Shopian, police and 55 Rashtriya Rifles of the...
08:15 AM, Jun 01, 2013
UK: Drumer Lee Rigby's family on Friday called for peace amidt reports of a rise in anti-Muslim incidents since his murder last week. British soldier Rigby was stabbed by suspected Islamist terrorists on a south-east London street on May 22. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Woolwich barracks on Saturday to pay her respects to Lee Rigby's unit as hundreds of flower tributes were seen laid near the barracks. One of...
07:50 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Karachi: A prominent Shia educationist and his driver on Friday were shot and killed by unknown attackers in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, police said. Syed Azfar Rizvi was in his car with the driver when unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at them. Both Rizvi and his driver succumbed to their injuries on their way to hospital. Their bodies have been shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities,...
07:23 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Paris: A Muslim convert suspected of stabbing a French soldier in a religiously motivated attack was placed under formal investigation on Friday over an apparent act of terrorism, prosecutors said, a move that could lead to a trial. Alexandre Dhaussy, 22, was brought before an anti-terrorism judge who determined there was enough evidence of what prosecutors called a terror-related assassination attempt to proceed with an investigation. Under French law, a...
06:50 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde minced no words when he called the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh a terror attack on Friday. In Chhattisgarh for a review of the security situation in Bastar after the deadly massacre there on May 25 that killed several top Congress leaders, including the state party president, the Home Minister admitted that there had been "some lapses" on part of the intelligence. He, however,...
03:42 PM, May 31, 2013
Pakistan: Pakistani Taliban terrorists have chosen a new deputy commander to replace their previous second-in-command who was killed in a US drone strike in the North Waziristan region, sources in the terrorist group said on Thursday. The previous deputy commander, Wali-ur-Rehman, was killed in an attack by a missile-firing US drone aircraft in the terrorist stronghold of North Waziristan, on northwest Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Pakistani security officials...
04:55 PM, May 30, 2013
London: One of the two main suspects, charged with murdering a British soldier in a terror attack on a busy London street last week, on Thursday appeared in handcuffs in a court here to confirm his name and address. Michael Adebowale, a 22-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, spoke only to confirm his name and address during a short hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London. He was remanded in...
04:49 PM, May 30, 2013
Baghdad: Car bombs and roadside explosions hit mainly Sunni Muslim districts of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people. The bombings were the latest in a wave of attacks since April that has intensified fears Iraq is sliding into the kind of sectarian conflict that killed thousands in 2006-2007. Two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded near busy markets in southwestern and...
03:05 AM, May 30, 2013
Jalalabad: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad came under attack on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Geneva-based organisation said. A large explosion was heard near the ICRC office in Nangarhar province and heavy gunfire was ongoing, a witness said. Black smoke billowed out of the building after the blast at 5:30 pm. (1300 GMT). No further details were immediately available....
10:59 PM, May 29, 2013
Jaunpur: The family of terror suspect Khalid Mujahid, who died in police custody on May 18, on Wednesday refused to accept the Rs 6 lakh compensation offered by Uttar Pradesh government. On May 26, the state government had assured "justice" to Mujahid's family and announced a financial assistance of Rs 6 lakh. On Wednesday, Cabinet minister Paras Nath Yadav went to Mujahid's residence at Mastana locality in Madiyahon to hand...
08:59 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: India may get access for the second time to Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, currently in the custody of the United States, for questioning. The positive indication was given by Washington to New Delhi during a recent bilateral meeting held in America. Government sources said following New Delhi's consistent persuasion, the US has indicated to interlocutors that India could be given access...
07:46 PM, May 29, 2013
Peshawar: A US drone strike killed the number two of the Pakistan Taliban, Wali-ur-Rehman, in North Waziristan region on Wednesday, three security officials said in what would be a major blow in the fight against militancy. Wali-ur-Rehman had been poised to succeed Hakimullah Mehsud as leader of the Pakistan Taliban, a senior army official based in the South Waziristan tribal region, the group's stronghold, said in December. The Pakistani Taliban...
03:38 PM, May 29, 2013
Bhagdad: More than 70 people were killed in a wave of bombings in markets in Shi'ite neighbourhoods across Baghdad on Monday in worsening sectarian violence in Iraq. No group claimed responsibilty for the blasts. But Sunni Muslim Islamist insurgents and al-Qaeda's Iraqi wing have increased attacks since the beginning of 2013 and often target Shi'ite districts. More than a dozen blasts tore into markets and shopping areas in districts across...
06:07 AM, May 28, 2013
Baghdad: Eleven car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad, mostly in Shi'ite neighborhoods, killing 47 people and wounding more than 145 on Monday. No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts. But Sunni Muslim Islamist insurgents and al-Qaeda's Iraqi wing have increased attacks since the beginning of the year and often target Shi'ite districts. More than a dozen blasts tore into markets and shopping areas in districts across the Iraqi...
10:48 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The lid on spot-fixing in IPL matches was blown when police was tracking alleged terror financing, officials say. It all started when police and security agencies were looking into terror financing and they came across this element of spot fixing, official sources said. There are links with terror finance but it will be premature to jump to any conclusions. Individual cases have still not been probed and it...
10:31 PM, May 27, 2013
London: A 20-year-old man has been stabbed in Woolwich here, days after British Drummer Lee Rigby was butchered and beheaded near the same spot, police said on Monday. The victim was stabbed on Sunday evening just 300 metres from where Drummer Rigby was struck by a car and hacked to death. Scotland Yard said officers were called to Wellington Street just around the corner from John Wilson Street where Rigby...
02:20 PM, May 27, 2013
Beirut: A rocket was fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported. The news agency said the rocket was fired on Sunday from a location near the southern town of Marjayoun, about 10 kilometers north of the Israeli border. It was not immediately clear who fired the rocket or whether it caused any damage or casualties. The Israeli military did not confirm that a rocket was...
10:56 AM, May 27, 2013
Paris: The stabbing of a French soldier near Paris by a man who is still on the run bore the hallmarks of Islamist terrorism, the interior minister said on Sunday, and police said it may have been inspired by the murder of a British serviceman in London. Anti-terrorism investigators are hunting for a bearded man aged about 30, possibly of North African origin, who fled into a crowded train station...
06:50 AM, May 27, 2013
London: The British government, facing criticism over the killing of a soldier by suspected Islamists in a London street, is to set up a new group to combat radical Muslim preachers and others whose words could encourage violence. Prime Minister David Cameron's office said on Sunday the group aimed to fight radicalism in schools and mosques, tighten checks on inflammatory internet material, and disrupt the "poisonous narrative" of hardline clerics....
06:18 AM, May 27, 2013
