Facing heat over Assistant Police Inspector Vaze's alleged link to Hiran's mysterious death, the government earlier in the day announced his transfer from the Mumbai crime branch.
Here are the things we know about Osama and his terror group from the documents.
Her comments came days before the 15th anniversary of the twin towers attack in New York that killed more than 3,000 people.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence had held Osama Bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the United States in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in a new controversial account of the Al Qaeda chief's death.
Five years after Operation Neptune Spear took out Osama bin Laden, US President Barack Obama relives the historic night with television channel CNN's Peter Bergen at the Situation Room of the White House.
US President George W Bush says Osama bin Laden is "still alive" but regrets making his infamous edict to get the 9/11 terror mastermind "dead or alive" saying that it had sent a "wrong signal" to the Muslim world.
The news of the United States elite forces eliminating Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden brought the entire country together as "an American family", President Barack Obama said on Monday night.
Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership knew about Osama bin Laden's presence in the country much before the US Navy SEALs killed him in a raid in 2011, the nation's then defence minister has claimed.
A round up of all the latest that is known about the operation in which Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday night.
Leading Islamic clerics in Lucknow on Monday hailed the elimination of Osama Bin Laden as a "major blow to terrorism" and a sigh of relief for billions of peace loving people.
Osama bin Laden's family had entered into Pakistan way back in October/November 2001, just around 9/11 while the then Al Qaeda chief joined them in Peshawar in mid-2002, a media report today said quoting the findings of the Abbottabad Commission Report in Islamabad.
With Osama bin Laden dead, the control of the Al Qaeda will now wrest with the outfit's Shura (consultation committee), which is expected to call the shots in the days to come.
'He is not tired, is not running and is not worried,' Newsweek quoted a Taliban official as saying.
Crocker said he did not know whether al Zawahiri was leading al-Qaeda now.
Jaitely's statement comes amidst the escalating tension between Indian and Pakistan.
Post Osama, Lashkar-e-Tayiba's clout is expected to grow with the support of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence and fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Harkatul Jihad al-Islami chief Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed in a United States drone attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, had reportedly convened a meeting in North Waziristan last month to constitute a special squad that would be tasked with avenging the death of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
The success of Al Qaeda chierf Osama bin Laden in evading detection and arrest by the Pakistani security agencies for nearly six years since 2005 when he lived in a house near the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad was the result of a comprehensive intelligence failure by all agencies responsible for the collection of intelligence inside Pakistan and not the result of a failure by the Inter-Services Intelligence ISI alone.
The elite unit of US Navy SEALs, which killed Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, had a specially-trained explosives-sniffing dog for the surgical strike.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday said the American operation against Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil was a 'violation of our sovereignty' and felt the Gilani government should have been kept in the loop.
Former NSA Brajesh Mishra told rediff.com, "One knew that the US was in Afghanistan to kill Osama. If they would get him, then their operation will be over. But, I believe the Taliban in Afghanistan is as dangerous as Osama's Al Qaeda. They are having a presence outside Afghanistan as well in Europe and even in the US."
In a contradiction of the official version of Osama bin Laden's killing, a firsthand blow-by-blow account claims that the al Qaeda leader was shot in the head by a SEAL bullet when he looked out of his bedroom door into the hallway, and not killed inside the room.
The White House on Tuesday said that it was weighing whether to release pictures of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's corpse to put at rest speculation and disbeliefs in some quarters about the death of world's most wanted fugitive.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a "watershed moment" in the war against terrorism, expressing relief that "justice" had been done.
The compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by the United States special forces last year was demolished by Pakistani authorities on Saturday night amidst tight security, local residents said.
'This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions -- whether intentionally or unintentionally -- and about the action we must take,' the Al Qaeda chief said.
Ties between the United States and Pakistan will soon be back to how they used to be before Osama bin Laden's killing. Knowing this, India should let a message radiate that we want peace with Pakistan, but we are prepared to act on our own in our own way and through our own capabilities should covert action on the ground become necessary, says security expert B Raman
What was Osama bin Laden planning before he was killed by United States forces? According to reports from the intelligence agencies, he had planned a 9/11-styled attack which would emerge from Asia.
Omar Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, has been banned from entering Britain to live with his new wife because of fears that his presence would cause 'considerable public concern'.
The Phenom 300 jet which was arriving from Italy crashed during an attempt to land at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, some 65 kilometres from London, killing all four persons on board including the pilot on Friday.
A bar owner in Brazil who looks like Osama bin Laden is expecting business to boom when the crowds come for the World Cup.
The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-United States Navy Seal has claimed.
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has issued a threat against European countries, asking them to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, or face blasts similar to the Madrid and London bombings.In a video posted on Islamic militant websites, Osama's warning, though addressed to Europeans generally, seemed to be directed at Germany, since it had both English and German subtitles and the timing coincides with the country's parliamentary elections.
Experts also questioned the wisdom of pumping in billions of dollars into the Iraq war.
Al Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a 'nuclear hellstorm' on the West if their leader and world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is nabbed.
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