A criminal complaint was on Saturday filed in a court in Chandigarh, accusing Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone of waging a war against the country by making 'seditious' statements. The complaint was filed by a non-governmental organisation in the court of Judicial Magistrate Paramjit Kaur who fixed December 1 as the date for hearing evidence in the case.
At least 75 people were killed and 115 others injured in the attack.
The Srinagar police detained chairman of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq along with other senior leaders of the group in Srinagar on Thursday.
Mohammad Abdul Khwaja, the man whose arrest was made public on Monday has turned out to be a prized catch for investigating agencies.
Nothing substantial was found about the role of two alleged Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives in the Bengaluru twin blasts after their questioning, the Anti-Terrorism Squad said on Thursday. On Tuesday, the ATS arrested Mirza Himayat Baig, 29, who allegedly heads the LeT's operations in Maharashtra, from Pune and his aide Shaikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain alias Bilal, 27, from Nashik.
Over the past year, the IB, police and also the Researh and Analysis Wing have collected material in connection with this blast and they reveal a foreign hand in this attack.
Two persons have been arrested from Pune and Nashik by Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism Squad in connection with the German Bakery blast case in Pune that left 16 people dead, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil said on Wednesday.
'By convention, the prime minister is technically kept in the loop for the DG, ISI's appointment.' 'It remains to be seen if Prime Minister Imran Khan is able to indicate any preference by then,' says Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan Desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Three suspected Lashkar-e- Tayiba terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir have reportedly sneaked into Delhi and the police have launched a massive manhunt for them.The Delhi police was informed about the presence of the three terrorists in the capital by the Intelligence Bureau 'three-four days' ago and its elite anti-terror wing special cell has launched an operation to nab the trio. Posters have come up at places like Pragati Maidan.
Debutant spinner Ajaz Patel claimed five wickets in the second innings as New Zealand beat Pakistan by four runs on a dramatic fourth day of the opening Test in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
Uzbekistan grabbed the point they needed against China and hosts Qatar thrashed Kuwait 3-0 as both booked places in the Asian Cup quarter-finals on Sunday.
Curfew was re-imposed on Sunday in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley, where the death toll in the ongoing unrest has risen to 102 with three more persons, including a youth leader of opposition PDP, succumbing to injuries.
After their acquittal, the people demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the incident. After lot of deliberations, the case was finally handed over to the CBI. It was decided that the FIR pertaining to the exploded bomb would be handled by the CBI and the other FIR would be probed by the Hyderabad police.
Even as the investigations into the firing incident has just commenced, the Hyderabad police is suspecting the involvement of a man named Viqaruddin, who has been on the run for the last three years, in the Friday attack.
The 13,500-page chargesheet names Masood Azhar, his brothers -- Abdul Rauf and Ammar Alvi -- and his nephew Mohammed Umer Farooq, who had infiltrated into India in 2018 and was subsequently killed in one of the encounters in South Kashmir.
Roberto Firmino scored twice and Marquinhos and Philippe Coutinho also got goals as Brazil hammered Bolivia 5-0 in their opening World Cup qualifier in Sao Paulo on Friday.
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Carl McHugh scored ATK's 100th goal of the ISL in only the sixth minute of the game but the home side, egged on by a vociferous crowd of more than 35,000, hit back with two goals from their new signing Ogbeche to begin their campaign on a winning note.
Saeed pleaded that the Indian film has "venom against Pakistan and JuD".
In order to seal the place in the squad, the duo will have to cancel their league tours in South Africa and Bangladesh.
According to the order, all security and vehicles provided to the separatists will stand withdrawn by Sunday evening. No security forces or cover will be provided, under any pretext, to them or any other separatists. If they have any other facilities provided by the government, they are to be withdrawn forthwith.
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The Border Security Force has apprehended a Pakistani youth, who had crossed over to India, and handed him over to Pakistani Rangers at Octroi post in Jammu division, paramilitary officials said on Saturday.
England head coach Andy Flower rejected on Tuesday any suggestion that his team had engaged in deliberate time wasting during the drawn first Ashes Test against Australia on Sunday.
Federation Cup champions East Bengal suffered their second consecutive defeat in the AFC Cup after going down 0-3 to formidable Lebanese side Al Nejmeh in a lop-sided football match in Beirut.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday acquitted alleged serial killer Ravindra Kantrole in a 2007 murder case, reversing the judgment of a trial court, which had convicted him of the crime. A division bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi on Thursday acquitted him in the case, after Kantrole filed an appeal in the high court. Kantrole, who was charged with three murders, was earlier acquitted in two of the cases, but was convicted in one by the Sessions Court.
About 100 vehicles destined for the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze on Monday by heavily armed pro-Taliban militants in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the second such attack in as many days.
A batting-friendly track, which is also expected to assist spinners, awaits India and Bangladesh in the first Test of their two-match series starting at Chittagong on Sunday.
After Steve Waugh, now Shane Warne begs to differ with Ricky Ponting on the alleged time-wasting tactics of England during the Ashes opener in Cardiff, saying the hosts played within the spirit of the game.
Manuel Onwu scored a hat-trick for the hosts, while Bartholomew Ogbeche netted twice to lead the Golden Boot standings with 15 to his name.
Having dismissed Australia for a paltry 145 in their first innings, Pakistan stretched their lead to a daunting 281 by stumps on day two with Zaman's 66 and an unbeaten 54 by Ali taking them to 144-2.
Naveed Musharraf, the president's brother, and Irum Bilal Musharraf, his daughter-in-law, have reportedly given donations to Obama instead of Bush's Republican Party's presumptive candidate Senator John McCain.
A Pakistani court has issued a notice to the Jamat-ud-Dawah, led by the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, for running a Taliban-style parallel judicial system in Lahore.
Sania Mirza and her Pakistani cricketer husband Shoaib Malik seem to have finally got the time to celebrate their respective recent victories.
The case dates back to January, 2007 when the man was arrested with an AK series assault rifle, 200 bullets, five hand grenades and a satellite phone by the Karnataka Police.
An Iraqi doctor, who along with his Indian accomplice attempted to set off massive car bombs at the Glasgow airport and a London nightclub, was on Wednesday jailed for a minimum of 32 years after he was convicted of trying to kill hundreds of people in the botched attacks in June 2007.Bilal Abdulla, 29, was found guilty on Tuesday by the Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
British nationals-- Duncan Grant and Allen Waters and the Indian William Desouza--were acquitted on Wednesday by the Mumbai high court of charges of molestation and indulging in paedophilia at Three Children's Shelter Home run by them.
