In the backdrop of an attack on a top separatist leader, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and reviewed the ongoing peace process and security situation in the state.
Hours after the arrest of his close aide Balkrishna, Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday alleged that the government was taking such steps to scare him and break his resolve in the fight for bringing back black money stashed abroad.
Seen by political watchers as the favourite to retain power for a third straight term, the Bharatiya Janata Party has set itself an ambitious target of winning 370 Lok Sabha seats, a goal aimed as much at projecting its strength as at diminishing the opposition in popular imagination.
The Lahore police closed the main road leading to the Zaman Park residence of Khan by placing containers. Riot police and water cannons are currently present near Khan's residence.
'There is no way what is happening, in terms of stopping me from taking private cars or using tinted windows or giving jammers or four police mobiles to cover all sides, could happen without him.' After the October bombing, she accused elements in the government and security services of trying to kill her and asked President Musharraf for 'basic security.'
Will BJP campaigners start using the term 'Ram Rajya' to refer to the nation under Modi's rule, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
In an interview with the Financial Times following an assassination attempt this month, Khan said he no longer 'blamed' the US and wants a 'dignified' relationship if re-elected.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi in a Maharashtra court over his remarks linking the saffron organisation to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Iraqi Sunnis have been outraged by the executions and international human rights groups have also expressed concern.
Jameel (23), a hardcore Jaish-e-Mohammed militant, had been handed over to Pakistani security agencies by Afghanistan soon after the ouster of the Taliban.
The accused have been identified as Rajpreet Singh, Virender Singh, Sachin Bhati, Arpit Dhankar and Susheel Pradhan, the police said.
President Abdul Kalam and Union Home Minister L K Advani will call on him on Friday.
Amjad Farooqi was wanted in connection with an assassination attempt on president General Pervez Musharraf last December, and was indicted in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, described as the 'Operational head of Al-Qaeda', was caught in Dubai on Friday after he was tracked down by Pakistani intelligences officials.
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Acting on a tip off, a joint team of the Federal Investigation Agency, the Special Services Group and FBI left for Bannu, bordering Afghanistan on Sunday in search of Amjad Farooqi, who is believed to have planned the attacks.
They had trained Mohammed Jamil, the suicide bomber who carried out one of the attacks, according to investigators.
Wali, who returned from Sri Lanka a week ago, alleged that the attack was carried out by RAW to begin a proxy war in a third country.
A triumphant Khan returned to his Lahore home on Saturday after having locked himself in the Islamabad high court premises for hours for fear of re-arrest despite being granted bail on Friday.
"... The conspiracy to murder Mahatma Gandhi was not the handiwork of a lone wolf or a few fanatic members of the Hindu Mahasabha. Most importantly, it was not conceived just a few weeks before 30 January 1948," reveals The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, authored by Appu Suresh Esthose and Priyanka Kotamraju.
A Pakistani judge on Saturday cancelled former premier Imran Khan's arrest warrants in the Toshakhana corruption case and allowed him to go home without indicting him, amidst clashes between his supporters and police outside the court complex in Islamabad.
Seen by the West as a symbol of market changes in the Yeltsin era, Anatoly Chubais is now chief of Russia's powerful Unified Energy System (UES) and a leader of right-wing forces.
To understand Modi, listen to what he does not say -- vide NRC, suggests Prem Panicker.
The drones were destroyed using electronic warfare measures and caused no casualties or damage, the press service added.
The U.S.-led security drill covered 77 scenarios, among them a poisoning attempt on Games chief Gianna Angelopoulos, a leading newspaper reported.
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.
Her lawyer alleged torture by jail officials and urged the authorities and Tamil Nadu chief minister to transfer Nalini to another prison anticipating a threat to her life.
Subhas Ghising has been called to New Delhi for tripartite talks.
He was accompanied by his wife N Bhuvaneswari and mother N Ammanamma.
Milton Wainwright claims Hitler was administered penicillin after an assassination attempt.
'If Trudeau chooses to repeat his allegations in his UN speech on Friday, it would create a whole new escalation.'
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