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Eight shot dead at petrol station in Pakistan

Islamabad, Nov 2 (IANS) At least eight people were shot dead by gunmen at a petrol station in Pakistan Friday. The attack took place around 2 p.m.

Militant from Manipur nabbed in Delhi

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) A leader of a banned Manipuri militant group has been arrested in the national capital, Delhi Police said Friday. Ningthoujam Romen Singh alias Nongdrenkhomba, 27, a member of the outlawed Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), was wanted to stand trial in many criminal cases, police said. He was arrested from the Inter-State Bus Terminus at Sarai Kale Khan Thursday

Man jailed for planning to bomb US Capitol

Washington, Nov 2 (IANS) A man in the US has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after he confessed to have planned crashing explosive-laden model airplanes into federal buildings, Xinhua reported. Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, planned to use rigged cellphones to detonate the improvised devices to bomb the Pentagon and the US Capitol. His plea bargain with prosecutors helped him to avoid a much longer sentence

Fasih Mahmood’s custody given to Bangalore cops

New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The custody of Fasih Mahmood, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist involved in blasts in Bangalore and Delhi in 2010, was given to Bangalore police by a court here Thursday. Additional Sessions Judge Asha Menon handed the custody of Mahmood to Bangalore police after investigators in Delhi told the court that his questioning was over. Bangalore police, while seeking custody of Mahmood, told the court that they wanted to interrogate him over his alleged role in the

Saudi Arabia frees detained Indian terror suspect

Bangalore, Oct 31 (IANS) Saudi Arabian police have released Indian doctor Usman Ghani from 20-day detention after their investigation revealed he had no terror links as suspected earlier. "I am grateful to the Saudi police for releasing my son Sunday and clearing him of charges that he had links with terror elements when he was in India four years ago," Ghani's mother Fathima Khan told IANS Wednesday.

Delhi court tells Gujarat cops to present Jundal

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) A Delhi court Wednesday issued a warrant and told Gujarat Police to present before it by Nov 9 Mumbai terror attack suspect Abu Jundal. He is in custody of Gujarat Police till Nov 3. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash issued production warrant against Jundal for Nov

Fourth Pune blast accused in judicial custody till Nov 13

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) A Delhi court Wednesday sent a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, allegedly involved in the Aug 1 Pune blast case, to 14 days' judicial custody. Sayed Firoz alias Hamza, 38, was arrested Oct 1 from the Nizamuddin railway station here. Additional sessions judge Kaveri Baweja sent him to judicial custody till Nov 13.

ISI ‘linking’ to Maoists; Security agencies worried

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Pakistan's covert operations agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has forged deadly links with Maoists through overground radicals and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists not just in West Bengal but the rest of India too, according to Indian security agencies. This information was shared among police and civilian officials from nine Maoist-infested states who met in the national capital earlier this month to review the anti-Maoist security operations and progress of development works in backward areas of their respective states. West Bengal's Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee had reportedly told the meeting that "though Maoists were facing all-round reverses what was emerging were signs of a growing link between them and Pakistan's ISI, with clear evidence in this regard emerging from four districts of the state bordering Bangladesh." Murshidabad, West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura are the four districts, he was quoted as having said at the meet

Syrian general assassinated

Damascus, Oct 30 (IANS) A Syrian army general was assassinated Tuesday by a terrorist group in the capital Damascus, the state-run SANA news agency reported. Gen.

Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

London, Oct 30 (IANS) Two British soldiers were Tuesday shot dead by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform in outhern Afghanistan, the British ministry of defence said. The two soldiers, from the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, were shot and killed at a checkpoint in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, the ministry said in a statement, Xinhua reported.