A Chicago court has postponed till Feb 23 a hearing on the status of the case against Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, charged with scouting targets for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The hearing before US Judge Harry Leinenweber in the US District Court of Illinois scheduled for Tuesday ‘has now been cancelled and postponed [...]
Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) visited Himachal Pradesh’s Kufri town to track the footprints of Mumbai terror suspect David Coleman Headley’s estranged Moroccan wife who is said to have made a reconnaissance trip to the state in 2008.
After visiting Manali late December, the investigating team made a stop at Kufri, another popular tourist [...]
There were no specific intelligence inputs that Mumbai terror suspect David Coleman Headley had visited Goa last year, a senior police official has said.
‘We do not know. We have received no specific intelligence input on Headley’s Goa visit,’ Superintendent of Police (CID) Atmaram Deshpande said here Monday when asked about the Pakistani-American terror suspect’s Goa [...]
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The government said Sunday that the scientific establishments have been asked to reinforce their safety standards in the wake of incidents like the laboratory fire at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and radioactive contamination of a drinking water cooler at the Kaiga nuclear plant.
Minister of State for Science and Technology [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor tweeted again Thursday describing the meeting with his boss S.M. Krishna Wednesday as ‘excellent’.
‘Excellent mtg (meeting) w (with) EAM (External Affairs Minister S.M.) Krishna on wide range of fp (foreign policy) issues,’ he said on his twitter account.
Tharoor requested the meeting after [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Wednesday advised his deputy Shashi Tharoor, who had aired dissenting views on the country’s new visa guidelines, saying ‘everyone will have to fall on the same page’ once the policy is formulated.
Krishna conveyed this pointed message when Tharoor came to his residence to offer an [...]
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) The arrest of Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the Mumbai terror assault that left 166 people dead, is the FBI’s second biggest catch this year, says the American agency on its official website.
Headley figures at No.2 in a list of some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has responded strongly to the comments made by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on twitter, a social networking site with respect to India’s new visa rules.
SM Krishna [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Rebuking his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor for airing his opposition to new visa rules, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday said the government will go by the home ministry’s guidelines and stressed that differences over issues should not be discussed in public.
‘We have gone along with home ministry on the [...]
Chicago, Dec 24 (IANS) Mumbai terror suspect David Coleman Headley seems to have deliberately kept out information that could have raised suspicion while applying for an Indian visa.
‘In applying for his visa to travel to India, Headley misrepresented his birth name, father’s true name and the purpose for his travel,’ according to charges filed by [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Saturday said that the missing visa application papers of terror suspect David Coleman Headley, one of two 26/11 Mumbai conspirators in US custody, has been found.
‘Yes, it has been found. It is being looked at. Far more important is to find out [...]
Mumbai, Dec 18 (ANI): Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, whose statement was to be recorded today in the 26/11 special trial Court in Mumbai, has withdrawn from all the confessions made by him earlier.
The prosecution had closed the case on Wednesday, after hearing around six hundred witnesses for a period of [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the Mumbai terror assault that left 166 people dead, used sophisticated tactics of terrorist tradecraft like code language and ‘electronic dead drops’ and called a terror plot the Mickey Mouse Project.
According to Stratfor, that calls itself the world’s leading online resource of geopolitical [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The visa papers of one of two Mumbai conspirators now in US custody have been found and the other’s are being traced, the Indian government said Thursday.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor told reporters in parliament complex that the visa application papers of Pakistan-born Tahawwur Rana given to [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday has rebuffed all reports claiming Pakistani-origin US national David Coleman Headley; accused in the 26/11 terror attacks of being a CIA agent.
CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf denied that Headley had connections with the CIA, when posed questions related to Headley’s links with the CIA.
“I [...]
Mumbai, Dec 17 (ANI): The prosecution in the 26/11 special trial Court in Mumbai finally closed the case on Wednesday, after hearing around six hundred witnesses for a period of over seven months.
Ten gunmen had landed on Mumbai shores by boats at sunset [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has denied that Pakistan-born US national David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the 26/11 terror attacks, was its agent at any point of time.
‘I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong,’ said CIA [...]
Mumbai, Dec 16 (IANS) The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has quizzed Rahul Bhatt, the son of Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, during the ongoing probe into Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley’s links to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Mahesh Bhatt told IANS Wednesday: ‘They quizzed him twice over the past one week at a secret location [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said here on Wednesday that New Delhi was awaiting more information on US terror suspect, David Coleman Headley.
Interacting with the media outside the Parliament, Krishna said : Well we have…the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Indian government Wednesday said it has sought a report from its Chicago consulate on the alleged disappearance of papers related to visas given to Mumbai terror conspirators, David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, and said it will seek access to the duo at some stage.
The government, however, declined to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) India has sought a report from its Chicago consulate on the alleged disappearance of papers related to visas given to David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, accused by US authorities of being part of the 26/11 conspiracy, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said Wednesday.
‘I have sought a factual report from our [...]
Chicago, Dec 16 (ANI): A Chicago Federal Court on Tuesday denied bail to alleged Pakistan-born Canadian Lashkar operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
Rana is one of the two LeT operatives caught by the FBI in October on charges of plotting a major terror attack against India that left 166 people dead in Mumbai.
The court said Rana, [...]
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) A US court has sentenced two Americans linked to two Pakistan-based terrorist organisations to 13 and 17 years in prison for supporting terror groups and providing them with material aid for attacks in the US and abroad.
US district Judge William Duffey Jr. of federal court in Atlanta Monday sentenced Pakistan-origin Syed [...]
Chicago, Dec 15 (ANI): Canadian born Lashkar operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s bail plea will be heard today in a Chicago court.
Rana is one of the two LeT operatives caught by the FBI in October on charges of plotting a major terror attack [...]
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of complicity in the Mumbai terror attacks, ‘is no Gandhi’, say US prosecutors questioning his self-portrayal as a man of non-violence.
‘Ironically, in invoking the name of a man who embodied the principles of non-violence and speaking the truth, Rana seeks to mislead this court [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (ANI): Taliban trained suicide attackers have managed to enter India, with Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat being their prime targets, intelligence sources were quoted by a private television channel, as saying.
Security has therefore been tightened at the Bhabha Atomic Research [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 13 (ANI): The Lashkar-e-Taiba has reportedly been planning one or more additional Mumbai-style attacks on India.
FBI and US Justice Department officials spent last week in India and Pakistan as part of an urgent effort to head off such an attack, sharing a wealth of information from their investigation into the activities of [...]
Washington, Dec.11 (ANI): The arrest of five young American Muslims from Pakistan’s Sargodha region for their alleged involvement in possible terror activities has puzzled the investigators, as none of the five men fit the [...]
Washington, Dec.11 (ANI): The arrest of five young American Muslims from Pakistan’s Sargodha region for their alleged involvement in possible terror activities has puzzled the investigators, as none of the five men fit the [...]
Chicago, Dec.10 (ANI): Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to help the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization, plan the November 2008 attack on Mumbai that killed 170 people.
Federal prosecutors say Headley visited Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps in Pakistan and conducting surveillance in Mumbai for the 2008 attack.
In October, he [...]
