New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday threatened to march to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence on next Sunday if her government does not receive over 10 lakh letters refusing to pay "inflated" power and water bills. In a letter to Dikshit, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal said they will organise a gathering of thousands at Jantar Mantar on April 28 and requested her to sent her officials...
06:29 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Boston: Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs with facts." The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team. Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type," one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his...
07:09 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Boston: The two Boston Marathon bombing suspects had at least six bombs -- three of which exploded, handguns and a rifle when police officers first confronted them in a dark residential street in Watertown, a Boston suburb, police said on Saturday. "A single officer was the first to encounter the two cars that Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev were driving, just before 1 am on Friday," Watertown police chief Edward Deveau...
03:56 AM, Apr 21, 2013
The sole surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings lies seriously wounded in a US hospital. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday after a gunfight with police that ended a daylong manhunt and sent waves of relief and jubilation throughout Boston. His brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed on Thursday in a shootout with the police. CNN's Poppy Harlow gives a timeline of the massive manhunt that ultimately led ...
10:40 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Sunithi Jayakumar becomes a Citizen Journalist to expose how 30% borewells have run dry in Bangalore and residents are being forced to spend money to buy water tankers to meet the shortage. ...
08:03 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Police officers and firefighters stood grim-faced with guns and rifles, lining the street leading to the suburban property where a suspect in twin bombings at the Boston Marathon was believed to be holed up. Reporters and spectators lined up on the other side. The mood was tense, with the few neighbours who ventured out hugging and crying as they heard bangs. Others merely looked on curiously. Then, one officer...
09:48 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says his younger son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a "true angel". He said his son was studying medicine and was an "intelligent boy". "We expected him to come on holidays here," said Anzor Tsarnaev in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala. Dzhokhar was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was...
09:14 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Boston: Police captured the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday night, police and government officials said. Following a tense 24 hours for the Boston area, the manhunt ended with the 19-year-old suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, cornered, captured and taken into custody. Here is a timeline of events: Thursday, April 18, about 5:10 pm - The FBI releases photographs and video of two men suspected of...
08:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: US will find out why and how Boston bombings occurred, said President Barack Obama in his address early Saturday. "We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had...I've instructed (authorities) to continue to deploy all the necessary resources" for investigation," he added. The US President emphasised that the "hateful agenda" of bombing suspects "will not and cannot prevail". Obama said with the arrest of the second suspect...
08:02 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: The estranged uncle of the Boston Marathon terror attacks suspects on Friday asked one of his nephew at large to surrender, saying his brother's children have brought shame to the entire Chechen community. "This family does not know how to share their grief with the real victims," Ruslan Tsarni told reporters outside his home in Montgomery village, a suburb of Washington. "Of course we're ashamed. He put a shame...
01:38 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Boston: Tamerlan Tsarnaev practiced martial arts and boxing, even aspiring to fight on the US Olympic team. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been on the wrestling team at a prestigious high school and won a scholarship from the city to pursue higher education. Neighbors recalled the ethnic Chechen brothers, living on a quiet street in Cambridge, Mass, riding bikes and skateboards. Two brothers, one dead, one alive and at large. After hours...
12:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
The hunt for the second suspect in the Boston bombings case is narrowing, according to reports in Watertown. ...
11:34 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Washington: A US law enforcement official and the uncle of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are confirming that the name of the second suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother of Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, 19. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police in Massachusetts overnight. Three law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, confirmed the bomb...
06:52 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: The surviving Boston bomb suspect has been identified as Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and a law enforcement intelligence bulletin said he "may be armed and dangerous", The Associated Press reported. AP also reports that both the Boston bomb suspects are from Russia region near Chechnya and that they lived in the US at least for 1 year. "In the...
05:26 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: Police in Boston have released a new photo showing the man believed to be a suspect in the marathon bombings, shown in earlier footage in a white hat. In the new photo, he's wearing a gray hoodie sweatshirt pulled up on his head. Police say he's on the loose, and is considered a "threat to "anybody that might approach him". Police have called him a "terrorist". Suspect No. 1,...
03:12 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: Police on Friday said that one of two suspects (Black Hat) in the shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was dead and a massive manhunt was underway for another (White Hat). The two suspects are also believed to be involved in the Boston Marathon bombing, confirmed the police. Describing the suspect 2 (White Hat) as armed and dangerous, the police asked the residents of Watertown to...
02:13 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer is no longer on campus and students have been advised they can resume normal activities, the university said on its website on Friday. "MIT Police have determined that the suspect in this evening's shooting is no longer on campus," the university said on its emergency information site. "It is now safe to resume normal...
12:48 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: There were reports of gunfire and explosions as a manhunt was on for the killer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in the Watertown area near Boston in the United States early on Friday morning. A massive police operation was on in the area following the reports of shooting at MIT campus. The chaos in Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a...
11:34 AM, Apr 19, 2013
While nothing much has changed in Amethi despite Rahul Gandhi's numerous visits and promises, in Narendra Modi's vibrant Gujarat, nearly 4,000 villages face an acute water crisis. ...
11:13 PM, Apr 18, 2013
