March 15, 2015
March 15, 2015
A flight bound for the northwest Chinese city of Dunhuang was delayed on Saturday due to a terror threat, which later turned out to be a hoax.China Express Airlines flight G52689 delayed its takeoff at Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, after receiving a terror threat that was later proved to be ...
As a Pakistani court ordered the release of an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack, the US asked Pakistan to follow through on its pledge to bring its perpetrators and sponsors to justice.The U.S. was “monitoring reports that an Islamabad High Court judge suspended detention orders for the alleged M...
Islamabad: Mumbai attacks mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi is likely to be released soon as Islamabad High Court on Friday termed his detention as illegal and void.According to media reports, the court said that he cannot be kept in prison anymore and ordered his release.Justice Noorul Haq accepted 55-year-old Lakhvi's...
BENGALURU: Three African nationals were allegedly attacked by a gang of around 20 members in Byrati, near Hennur Road, northeast Bengaluru on Monday night. One of them sustained serious injuries while the other two managed to escape.Though accusations have been made that the attack had racial undertones, police blamed ...
Nearly a year after her arrest, Balendran Jeyakumari of Kilinochchi — an activist at the forefront of a campaign against involuntary disappearances — was released by a magistrate court here on Tuesday.Human rights activists had been demanding her release, pointing out that she was being detained witho...
The rift in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is widening with the party now accusing senior leaders Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and Shanti Bhushan of working towards party's defeat in the recent Delhi Assembly elections."During Delhi elections, three senior AAP leaders were working towards our defeat- Yogendra Yadav...
Mohan babu attacked Timesnow Journalist in Manchu Manoj engagement which was held at Hayath hotel today in a grand fashion in Hyderabad. As per the sources, When asked about giving permission to journalists to shoot Nirbhaya documentary, former home ministry Sushilkumar Shinde threatened the reporter. Thereafter, Telug...
Veteran actor Mohan Babu's actor son Manchu Manoj got engaged to his girl friend Pranathi Reddy, today at a grand ceremony at Park Hyatt in Hyderabad. During this ceremony, Mohan Babu pushed aside a TV reporter while he was interviewing former UPA home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. Minister Shinde is seen trying to sto...
YSRCP Leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who has began his tour to visit the AP Capital regions with Undavalli village to know the farmer’s troubles, took a jibe at Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.After visiting the villages and interacting with defiant farmers who are not willing to part with their l...
Telangana police have sent a proposal to the Union ministry of civil aviation offering to deploy anti-terror unit Organization for Counter Terrorist Operations (Octopus) on the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) premises as the airport is a probable terrorist target, besides assigning it 'preferential' roles dur...
Sydney: Australia will strengthen immigration laws and crack down on groups that incite hatred under a raft of counter terrorism measures intended to combat the threat from home-grown terrorists.Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the nation's new anti-extremism strategy on Monday following the release of a government...
MALE: Maldives police have arrested former president and current opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed under anti-terrorism laws.A document signed by the prosecutor general seen by Associated Press said that Nasheed was arrested on Sunday to stand trial for his 2012 order as president to arrest a senior judge. It said he w...
President Barack Obama has said the United States and its allies are not at war with Islam but with people who have perverted the religion, asserting that groups like ISIL and al-Qaeda are desperate for legitimacy by portraying themselves as holy warriors in defence of religion.“We are not at war with Islam. We a...
Kano, Nigeria: Two suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria killed at least 38 people Tuesday, after Boko Haram razed a town and as violence raged across the embattled region less than six weeks from elections.The Islamist insurgency has already forced a delay in the vote, initially scheduled for February 14, and off...
Over 60 countries including India will participate in a White House summit on "countering violent extremism" beginning today in the backdrop of alarming growth of ISIS and recent terrorists' attacks in France and Denmark, senior administration officials have said.While the first two days of the three-day summ...
In the wake of recent attacks on churches in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached out to the Christian community. He attended a function organised to celebrate elevation of Indian saints, Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphasia.Modi did not mince any words when he said his government will e...
After former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Shiela Dixit, her son Sandeep Dikshit on Friday unleashed a fusillade on the way the Congress is being run, saying that its “elitist” culture produces “arrogance” and it does not have “genuine” leaders.The former MP from East Delh...
New Delhi: In a bid to choke terror funding, India and the US on Thursday pledged to jointly target financial networks and fund raising by Pakistan-based terrorist organisations like LeT and JuD, as also the D-Company of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.The two nations vowed to work together to check illicit mone...
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Australian police on Wednesday said it thwarted an imminent attack linked to the Islamic State after arresting two men from a house in Sydney during anti-terror raids.The duo, aged 24 and 25, were on Tuesday arrested in a raid carried out by NSW Police and Australian Federal Police at a house in the western Sydney subu...
Cracking down on the protest against attacks on churches in the national capital, the Delhi police on Thursday detained some agitators and said that the legal process will follow."We have detained some protesters, the legal process will be followed," said Mukesh Meena, Joint Commissioner of Police. The protes...
HYDERABAD: Information technology (IT) companies in the city may soon be snooping on their employees' surfing habits to check if they are accessing terror-related information on the internet. This follows the Cyberabad police's advisory to the companies in view of several software professionals emerging as closet sympa...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday hit out at the AAP on the issue of malpractice in donations received by the party.Addressing an election rally in Rohini in north Delhi, Modi said the Aam Aadmi Party had been till now talking about who was more corrupt -- the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party. "Now w...
Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that he will complain to the Election Commission against the BJP for allegedly attacking his community in an advertisement."BJP in the past few days has been giving few advertisements personally attacking me. They attacked me and my children, I kept quiet becaus...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is confident that Delhi will get a Chief Minister from Krishna Nagar. Addressing a poll rally in Karkarduma, East Delhi, the PM asked the people of Delhi to vote for a BJP government as it can work in tandem with the centre."Elect a government with whom I can work shoulder to shoulder ...
The new law will allow anyone suspected of being involved in a terror plot to be detained without charge for up to seven days.Canada announced a new anti-terror law that will allow anyone suspected of being involved in a terror plot to be detained without charge for up to seven days.The law announced Friday will also m...
A girl, from Hyderabad, attracted to the idea of fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The girl was identified by the Hyderabad police in the city, yesterday. As per the reports, the girl joined ISIS through a facebook friend. After reaching Syria, she was allotted a duty of servant which was very hard. She was no...
The US has said that the tactics adopted by the Taliban are akin to terrorism but those terror tactics have principally been focused on Afghanistan unlike al-Qaeda or ISIS which have worldwide network.Justifying its stance of dubbing the Afghan Taliban as "an armed insurgency" and fighting the group, White Ho...
