The Central Bureau of Investigation Director has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Madras HC order releasing two Sri Lankan nationals who were suspected to have played "key roles" in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
'If he has not achieved 'Congress mukt Bharat' even now, the question of his creating a 'DMK mukt Tamil Nadu' does not arise,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
It is suspected to be a suicide attack of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Following the Balochistan High Court's order, the Dera Bugti police has registered a case against former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in connection with Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti's assassination.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has condemned the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar as a 'senseless murder and vicious act of terror' and urged Sri Lankans not to let it lead to resumed civil war.\n
Clearly, her father hopes that a successful tenure in Lahore will give Maryam the ballast to be prime minister after the next general election.
Accompanied by arms industry and military officials, Kim plans to offer the embattled Russian president weapons for the war in Ukraine in exchange for food, technology and cash.
This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.
One of the allegations against Chandraswami is that he financed the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, CBI told a Delhi court.
2019 was the Bharatiya Janata Party's breakout year, when it stretched the boundaries of what was thought possible and ended up with 303 seats on its own steam. Now it is forced to play defence, on a pitch queered by too many variables, asserts Prem Panicker.
The Manipur police said all personnel of the force from top to bottom are united and any attack on anyone and use of social media to target any officer or unit will be taken seriously and stringent action will be taken.
'If Trudeau chooses to repeat his allegations in his UN speech on Friday, it would create a whole new escalation.'
Investigators of the National Investigation Agency, who have now taken up the investigation of the confusing Bengaluru assassination plot, which involved the assassination of various important persons who they thought were anti-Islam have their work cut out for them. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The police on Friday picked up four men from Hyderabad in connection with the terror module that was recently busted in Bangalore. One of them is Obaid Ur Rehmanan, a BCom student at the Anwar Uloom College and a resident of Baba Nagar in the Old City.
The television network will air a two-hour special on the event on November 20, two days before the 40th anniversary of the assassination.
Former United States President Bill Clinton had escaped an assassination bid by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden in Phillipines, according to a new book. He was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge in Manila where a bomb was planted. The foiled attack came during Clinton's visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city in 1996. The details have been revealed in a new book.
India on Thursday described as 'matter of serious concern' reports that said some members of the Indian community in Canadian province of British Columbia received 'extortion calls'.
The SERT, an autonomous body of the general education department, is considering a decision by its curriculum steering committee to include these deleted portions in the state syllabus.
Russian state television said two suspects had been arrested in the Ukranian Black Sea resort of Odessa and who later confessed on air to acting on instructions from the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov to kill Putin after Sunday's elections.
Held under the aegis of the Sikh Student's Federation at Moti Bagh Gurdwara here, the event saw a bhog (feast) being organised "in the memory" of Gandhi's killers Kehar Singh, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, and recitation of the 'Akhand Path'.
Mohammad Farhatullah Ghori is one of the most wanted men in the list of both the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Interpol. His name has now cropped up during the investigation in the Bangalore Assassination Plot, and this would get the Gujarat police interested in the case too.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has blamed Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and said they are responsible for various other problems.
US federal prosecutors have charged that Gupta was working with an Indian government employee in the foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who holds dual citizenship of the US and Canada.
He had played a major role in the downfall of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's regime.
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948 by Nathuram Godse was not justifiable at all according to Rashtriya Swayayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ideologue and its former spokesman M G alias Baburao Vaidya said.
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which trained a batch of Assam's United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants in 1991-92, considered the rebel group's chief Paresh Baruah a prize catch and did not want to offend him even after he was unwilling to take the agency's commands on conducting operations in the northeastern state, claims a new book.
Barack Obama, who takes office as America's first black President on Tuesday, is the biggest-ever assassination target in US history, a media report said.47-year-old Obama has taken on the most important job. But it is also the most dangerous, and he knows that there are extremists who want him dead, the Daily Star reported.White supremacists have vowed to kill him and the Central Investigative Agency bosses are taking no chances.
Kevin Pietersen has described as 'character assissination', the way media protrayed him in the last one week, when his feud with the then coach Peter Moores hit newspapers headlines.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday handed down death sentence to the police guard who assassinated Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for calling for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law.
India on Tuesday described as 'absurd' and 'motivated' Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation that New Delhi was involved in any act of violence in Canada.
Perarivalan is being treated at the prison hospital, police said.
The spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said they are "coordinating and consulting" with Canada and also "engaging" with the Indian government.
Al-Ittihad's Asian Champions League match with Iran's Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave their dressing-room due to a statue of an assassinated Iranian general being placed at the entrance to the pitch.
United States President Joe Biden is not travelling to India next month to grace the Republic Day celebrations as the Chief Guest, and New Delhi is looking at holding the next Quad summit later next year instead of its earlier plan to host it in January, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The Freelancer has been made with workman-like efficiency, but the subject of Islamic terrorism could do with a break, points out Deepa Gahlot.
The attack surprised political observers, as the JUI is perceived as being pro-Taliban.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Friday appealed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to intervene and save the lives of three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying appeals by Tamils across the world needed to be considered in the spirit of "forget and forgive".
Speaking against Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law has proved costly for another senior lawmaker. Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was shot dead by three militants in Islamabad on Wednesday. His death comes a little over a month after Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was assassinated by his own bodyguard for opposing the law. Bhatti was the only Christian minister in the Federal Cabinet.The killing highlights the poor law and order situation in Islamabad.
Amir Mir, one of Pakistan's foremost investigative journalists, draws from personal anecdotes, meetings and off-the-record conversations with Benazir Bhutto to reconstruct her assassination in his book The Bhutto Murder Trail -- From Wazirstan to GHQ. Mir tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa that it becomes clear that Pervez Musharraf was in the know of the plot and the Pakistan establishment tried to stop Bhutto from returning to the country before getting her killed.
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