Nine years after seven RDX bombs kept in Mumbai suburban trains exploded killing 188 people, a Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Friday.
Underworld don and 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim is too precious for Pakistan to let go. And the recent statement by former US ambassador Robert Blackwill further dampens India's efforts to get Islamabad to hand him over, reports Vicky Nanjappa
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings in Kolkata on Friday.
With prime suspect Indian Mujahideen's expert bomb makers are in prison, investigators believe a bomb maker from outside the country was used for Mumbai blasts, says Vicky Nanjappa
'Why should we disclose classified information to satisfy those who doubt our Hydrogen Bomb capability?'
"I think it was a mistake. We should have re-looked at it. I don't know of any other coalition government where the portfolios of Home, Finance and Planning are not with the chief minister," Chavan said.
When greats Sachin Tendulkar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya came together!
A special Prevention of Terrorism Act court on Monday found the three accused in the six-year-old Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar twin blasts case guilty.The accused Haneef Sayyed, 46, an auto driver, his wife Fahmeeda, 43 and Ashrat Ansari, 32, were held guilty by the POTA Court.On August 25, 2003, two bombs left in taxis exploded in south Mumbai --- at the Gateway of India and at Zaveri Bazaar in the busy Kalbadevi area -- killing 52 people and wounding over a hundred.
Additional sessions judge MG Deshpande on Tuesday acquitted Solanki and Gohil of all charges. The detailed order became available on Wednesday.
Images from the WPL 2024 match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
Displaying a washing machine on its press conference dais, the Congress on Saturday taunted the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing a closure report in a 2017 corruption case against Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel and said the ruling party's 'fully automatic washing machine' works on the principle -- 'join BJP, case closed'.
While people voted in a fifth round that will set the tone as this election rounds into the straight, and while Modi on the stump chews the cud of personal grievances and hackneyed promises that have long since passed their use-by date, there is a rogue wave rising -- what damage it will do, we will know 16 days from today, observes Prem Panicker.
A large crowd gathered from different parts of the city at the graveyard for the burial of Yakub Memon.
In cricket, we have something that we can share with our families, neighbours and indeed, the whole country. It is colour-blind, language-neutral, truly secular and transcends all regions, from Kashmir to Kerala and Mizoram to Maharashtra, explains Shreekant Sambrani.
Batters are mauling bowlers this IPL like never before, as the impact player rule effectively gives every team 12 players. Where is it taking the game?
Indian Mujahideen operatives -- Tabrez and Waqas -- involved in the 13/7 Mumbai bombings could be behind the Hyderabad blasts as well, says NIA. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The massive blaze in a high rise in Mumbai that killed seven people and injured 18 others was caused apparently by a blast in an air-conditioner.
Thakur had appeared before the court in June last year after it ordered the seven accused to remain present once a week. She later sought exemption from appearance on various occasions since then.
'Coronavirus is not the only emergency, and it is certainly not the only illness people can suffer from'
A 1990-batch officer of the Maharashtra cadre, Waze, also known as an "encounter cop", was earlier suspended after his arrest by the National Investigation Agency in the SUV-cum-murder case on March 13.
Saying that prison inmates do not cease to be human beings and can't be deprived of the fundamental right to life, the Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government to transfer alleged Maoist leader Nirmala Uppuganti from jail to a hospice for palliative care on account of her terminal cancer.
Ishan Kishan changed the script completely with swashbuckling stroke-play in the middle overs to steer Mumbai past Kolkata in Wednesday's IPL match in Kolkata.
'We shot in minus 8 degrees, and Ranbir and Bobby were bare-bodied. That was very tough!'
Actor Sanjay Dutt, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, was on Monday granted a 14-day extension of his leave of furlough, jail authorities said.
He further said that the "focus is on horizontal drilling" as rock formation has created challenges for vertical drilling.
"India is my country and I will stay here and do business to earn a livelihood," Qayyum said.
Ashutosh Sharma broke Yuvraj Singh's record by scoring the fastest T20 half-century off 11 balls in Railways' 127-run victory against Arunachal Pradesh.
Other measures include installation of close circuit televisions inside the stations for round-the-clock vigil.
Union Minister V K Singh on Saturday targeted JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar for calling Rohith Vemula his inspiration, alleging that the Dalit scholar had organised a meeting in support of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.
Kieron Pollard's blazing 72 helped Mumbai Indians ease past Guyana by 31 runs for their first victory in Group B, in the Champions League Twenty20, in Durban, on Thursday.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in north Bihar, is wanted in several blast cases being probed by the National Investigation Agency and state police forces. His name had come up in connection with the explosion outside Delhi high court on September 7, 2011 in which 12 people were killed.
The email had claimed responsibility for the Mumbai blasts on behalf of Lashkar-e-Ulhak.
Takla fled from India after 1993 Mumbai blasts, following which a Red Corner Notice was issued against him in 1995.
A key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Yakub Khan alias Yeda Yakub, is believed to have died in Karachi in Pakistan, as per information received by Mumbai Police.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government to apprise it about whether compensation has been paid to the legal heirs of 168 people, who were stated to have gone missing during the 1992-93 communal riots in Mumbai.
In more than a decade since 2002, 60 fugitives were extradited or deported by foreign governments to India, which received a major victory in its fight to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice when a US federal court agreed to the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana to the country.
A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar announced his decision to step down as the political outfit's chief, he stuck to his daily routine of meeting people including party functionaries in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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