For two decades after his release in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, Azhar has since been the darling of Pakistan's external snooping agency Inter-Services Intelligence.
Police say the phone connection of the bakery was cut and this could have been the reason why the victims couldn't inform the police on time.
The Maharashtra government has asked Mumbai police to conduct a probe into controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's speeches amid reports that his sermons inspired one of the terrorists involved in the attack on a restaurant in Dhaka.
Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province government has announced a bounty worth Rs 10 million for information leading to the arrest or killing of Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, the mastermind of the Peshawar school massacre that left 150 people dead, mostly students.
Authorities in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were warned of an imminent revenge attack on the army-run school in Peshawar months before a Taliban-sponsored carnage claimed 148 lives, mostly that of children.
Joe Root's unbeaten 149 put England in complete control of the final Test against India and they picked up the wickets of openers Murali Vijay and Gautam Gambhir before lunch on the third day on Sunday.
Bilal Abdul Badam and Rafiq Ahmed Kadir were arrested from Satpole area of Ahmedabad.
Defence lawyer S K Jain said that to most of his questions, Bilkis replied, 'I don't recollect'.
A young Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded government office in Pakistan's restive northwest killing 26.
The examination-in-chief of Bilkis Bano is almost over and the cross-examination is expected to begin on Wednesday.
Limited overs stalwarts Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed scintillating centuries to help India secure a series-clinching 15-run victory in the second one-day international against England.
Sehwag was hailed as "part Houdini, part Superman" for his extraordinary 195-run innings.
Also, the Maharashtra police will not ask the Gujarat police to reimburse the cost for their security, as is the norm.
Friday's trade saw a reversal in the mood, as investors embarked on a buying spree across sectors.
The Gujarat Government has challenged a high court order granting bail to certain accused persons in the Godhra train burning incident.
Special Judge Abhay Tipse directed prosecutor P R Vakil to submit drafts of charges against all the 21 accused by September 13. The trial is on in Mumbai.
Lewis Hamilton took a huge stride towards a fourth Formula One title on Sunday with victory in an incident-packed Singapore Grand Prix after Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel crashed out at the start.
They are residents of the posh Navrangpura area, which did not witness any killing.
But the police had to face stiff resistance as a mob pelted stones when they went to Godhra town to arrest Usman Abdul Gani Coffeewala.
POTA Judge Sonia Gokani passed the order, as the special investigating team did not seek further police remand.
The National Highways Authority of India will this year witness the highest ever growth out of the last decade. But Gadkari himself admits his biggest failure as India's roads minister has been his inability to curb loss of life in road accidents.
French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by the Islamic State group.
Police have found the DNA of a newly-identified suspect on explosives used in last year's Paris attacks, a French source said on Monday.
A railway mobile court at Godhra has further remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.
'What happened in Godhra was wrong and what happened thereafter was even worse,' Vajpayee told the Indian community there.
The VHP and Shiv Sena have planned various programmes to mark the occasion.
Mohammed Sharif Mallik alleged that a man in his locality was stabbed, while his friend's house was torched on February 27 last year.
'I don't think there is a need to order a fresh investigation into the complaint against Modi & Co. As the amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran said in his report to the Supreme Court, the existing material is more than sufficient to prosecute Modi and other high-ups of his regime,' Manoj Mitta, author of the book The Fiction Of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra tells Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore.
Villagers from Shivrajpur, Pavagadh and Kalol who were going to Halol town to attend a function to pay homage to the Godhra carnage victims, raised anti-minority slogans while passing through a sensitive area in Halol.
The victims made this allegation before mediapersons after an in-camera deposition before the two-man inquiry commission probing the post-Godhra riots.
The former president of Godhra municipality and was granted interim bail by a special POTA court in Ahmedabad on May 21, after his wife, Haseena, moved an application seeking a six-day bail for him.
The gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in rural Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland -- the capital of Oregon -- and then went on to other classrooms gunning down his victims, witnesses said.
Godhra municipality councillor Salim Abdul Gaffar Sheikh has been accused of being at the spot, armed with lethal weapons, where the Sabarmati Express was burned down.
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