The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Wednesday threatened to attack security forces and vital installations in Assam ahead of India’s Republic Day.
‘We are going to step up our offensive and target security forces and other vital installations,’ self-styled ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah said in an e-mailed statement.
Titled ‘new guidelines and instructions’, the [...]
Lahore, Dec. 31 (ANI): Acting on an intelligence tip-off, security agencies have nabbed the Punjab chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khalilullah, along with a trained suicide bomber.
Khalillulah is said to be the [...]
Kochi, Dec 29 (ANI): The Kerala police have arrested Yusuf, a key accused in the 2006 Kozhikode twin blast.
He was nabbed near Ambalamedu in Kochi, claimed police sources.
Yusuf, a native of Parappanangadi is considered to be a close associate of Thadiyantavide Nasir, a [...]
Kochi, Dec 29 (IANS) A close aide of T. Nazeer, the self-styled south India chief of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been caught and has confessed to have planted bombs at to bus stands in Kozhikode in 2006, police sources said Tuesday.
Nazeer’s aide, identified as Yusuf, had been picked up the police from his house [...]
Thiruvanathapuram, Dec 29 (IANS) Kerala’s Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan is angry. Why is the National Investigating Agency (NIA), which has not taken over cases registered in connection with the bombings in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat, showing special interest in Kerala cases, he asked after the NIA announced plans to take over further investigation of the [...]
Guwahati, Dec 20 (ANI): The rebel National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has once again shattered the atmosphere of peace and stability in Assam by claiming responsibility for the two bomb blasts in the state’s Sonitpur District ten days ago.
The blast in the Missamari Army Cantonment area and Rskshasmari claimed two lives and left many [...]
Chennai, Dec 18 (IANS) The Madras High Court Friday upheld the life sentences to 18 of the total 40 people convicted in the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, while 21 others were acquitted. Petitions challenging the acquittal of People’s Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Maudany and seven others were also dismissed.
The bomb blasts that rocked the textile [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 17 (IANS) An Iraqi woman who came to Ahmedabad for academic purposes has vanished without a trace, giving the security establishment in Gujarat sleepless nights.
The burqa-clad woman, who introduced herself as Haula Younis from Iraq had visited the Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute at the Ahmedabad civil hospital campus last month.
Claiming to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi called on Defence Minister A.K. Antony here on Wednesday and discussed insurgency problem in the State.
Gogoi briefed Antony about the recent arrest of top ULFA leaders and the situation arising thereafter in Assam.
He urged the Defence Minister to provide more funds to develop [...]
Peshawar, Dec.15 (ANI): An unheard militant group, Zarqawi, has reportedly claimed that it is being provided arms, ammunitions and finance to carry out terror strikes inside Pakistan.
According to police official, he had arrested a terror suspect named Ismail following a car bomb blast here in October, in which [...]
Lahore, Dec. 14 (ANI): Religious leaders from various schools of thought across Pakistan have termed suicide attacks ‘haram’ or un-Islamic.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that Islam doesn’t allow the killing of “Muslim brothers” by launching suicide attacks and bomb [...]
Kochi, Dec 13 (IANS) The vehicle used by T. Nazeer, the arrested south India chief of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba who is blamed for the 2008 serial blasts in Bangalore, has been seized here, police said Sunday.
The joint investigation team of the Karnataka and Kerala police that is probing the 2008 bomb blasts in Bangalore has [...]
Guwahati, Dec 12 (ANI): Intellectuals in Assam on Friday urged New Delhi to hold talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), after the arrest of its top leader.
Noni Gopal Mahanta, professor, Guwahati University, who has done extensive research on ULFA, said the central government should hold cordial talks without any pre-determined agenda.
“Before [...]
The crackdown on the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), northeastern India’s separatist militants, and its associate groups has partly grown out of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s deep concern to avoid any experience similar to the devastation that Pakistan’s involvement with the Taliban and Afghanistan’s civil war has wrought on that country.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) A special court in Ahmedabad Friday accepted the state government’s application to hear all the cases of the Ahmedabad serial blasts together. The hearing is likely to begin Dec 18.
Special judge Bela Trivedi accepted the special public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt’s plea that the modus operandi in all the blasts had a [...]
Guwahati, Dec 11 (ANI): Mrinal Hazarika, the leader of a pro-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has said that Bangladesh has “betrayed” and “backstabbed” them, after the group’s top leaders recently landed in the net of Indian security forces close to the border.
Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Hazarika said: [...]
New Delhi, Dec.10 (ANI): Few Assamese are drawn to the ULFA these days, as everybody wants to live in peace.
According to Ajai Sahni, head of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, “There’s an enormous sense [...]
Guwahati, Dec 9 (ANI): The People’s Committee for Peace Initiatives in Assam (PCPIA) has urged the central government to hold peace talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
“We have seen the people of Assam are aspiring for peace and the government is reluctant to give in to people’s wishes and we are protesting [...]
Multan, Dec.8 (ANI): At least 12 persons were reportedly killed and more than 18 injured in a powerful bomb blast near the Army Public College in Multan on Tuesday.
The blast was so powerful that it ripped apart several adjacent building in the Qasim Bela area of Multan Cantonment.
Security officials [...]
Lahore, Dec. 8 (ANI): Pakistan Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has blamed India for Monday’s twin bomb blasts in Lahore in which over 38 persons were killed.
Interacting with media persons here, Sanaullah said Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad were responsible for the current wave of terror in the country.
Sanaullah [...]
Guwahati, Dec 7 (ANI): Some youth groups in Assam hope that the Central Government will hold peace talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
Bapon Singh, a youth, said: “Nothing can be achieved through violence. For a solution one needs to talk and negotiate. People of Assam want peace.”
Rajkhowa, self-styled chairman of ULFA [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Well-known advertising professional and lyricist Prasoon Joshi has penned a special poem in Hindi as a tribute to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Joshi, who has written toucing songs like ‘Taare zameen par’, ‘Maa’ and ‘Ru ba ru’ apart from others, has written and recited the poem exclusively [...]
Islamabad, Nov 25 (IANS) The US embassy here has rejected suggestions of secret operations by American security agency Blackwater in Pakistan, terming them false and baseless.
An article in a US magazine alleging Washington’s collusion with Blackwater or any other contracting firm were equally baseless and false, the embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.
‘US government [...]
Islamabad, Nov.25 (ANI): North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has blamed ‘foreign hands’ for the recent wave of terror attacks in Peshawar.
Addressing a press conference here, Hussain said the series of bomb blasts that have rocked Peshawar in the recent past [...]
Bangalore, Nov 25 (IANS) Almost a year has passed since Mumbai was held under siege by 10 terrorists for around 60 hours. Residents of other cities that have also been scarred by terror attacks are mourning the victims of the 26/11 carnage – which had left 166 dead – and are asking some tough questions.
‘No [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The central government had prior inputs about the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) planning new strikes in Assam, but was still unable to avert Sunday’s bombing in Nalbari district, Home Minister P. Chidambaram told parliament.
‘In the past few weeks, we had received intelligence reports about the plans of ULFA [...]
Mumbai, Nov. 24 (ANI): With the first anniversary of the Mumbai massacre approaching, some of the unsung heroes of the 26/11 attacks recalled their experiences.
On the night of November 26, 2008, when reaching home safely was everyone’s top priority, Susheela Pyarelal Sharma, 55, worked [...]
Nalbari (Assam), Nov 22 (ANI): The death toll in Sunday’s three bomb blasts in Assam’s Nalbari District has risen to seven people and 35 injured.
According to the police, two bombs exploded outside a police station in Nalbari at around 10.30 a.m.
The serial bomb blast rocked Assam barely four days before the first anniversary of the [...]
Guwahati, Nov 22 (ANI): Assam Police on Sunday suspected the involvement of nine most wanted United Liberation Front of Assom (ULFA) terrorists behind the Nalbari serial blasts.
Earlier in the day, three-bomb blasts in Nalbari killed five people and left over 30 people injured.
Assam police, insist that the outfit was desperately trying to carry out a [...]
Lahore, Nov 20 (IANS) The Lahore High Court has sought a detailed reply from the
government on an application alleging that US security agency Black Water was indulging in illegal activities in Pakistan and had a hand in the recent bomb blasts in Peshawar.
Holding there was possibility that Black Water was behind the Peshawar terror [...]
