Yingluck Shinawatra, who rode to election victory on her promise of achieving national reconciliation in Thailand after five years of political turmoil, was on Friday formally chosen by the parliament as the first woman prime minister of the country.
The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa on Wednesday came down heavily on fugitive Paresh Barua, the leader of the outfit's anti-talks faction for trying to make light the ongoing peace talks between Indian government and the ULFA (Rajkhowa faction).
Between April and August, it issued request seeking LoC against 147 individuals to prevent them from leaving the country, the bank said in response to a Right to Information query filed by Pune-based activist Vihar Durve.
Bangladesh's elite anti-terror force has arrested five members of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir in connection with a failed coup attempt, as it launched a massive manhunt to nab key suspect Major Syed Ziaul Haque.
While in custody and until the first hearing in his extradition case next week, Modi is likely to be held in a separate cell but may also have to share a cell with other prisoners given the overcrowding pressures.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
They are the first to be declared terrorists under the new anti-law, a home ministry official said.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday acquitted D K Rao, alleged trusted lieutenant of fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan, in an attempt-to-murder case.
A list of at least 20 individuals has been sent to the immigration department to prevent them from flying overseas.
Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London concluded that she remains unconvinced that he would not interfere with witnesses or fail to surrender before the court for his trial in May 2020.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a nationwide manhunt and alerted Interpol to locate one of its most-wanted fugitives, Indian-origin doctor Gautam Gupta whose ads promising weight loss are well-known, for allegedly defrauding United States insurance companies of $25 million over the last decade.
Following the recent killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an American military raid, the Obama administration has adopted a new strategy towards the chief of the Afghan Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar, which is aimed at persuading the fugitive extremist leader to agree to a negotiated settlement of the decade-long conflict in Afghanistan, writes eminent Pakistani journalist Amir Mir.
The move takes the process of extraditing and bringing back Nirav Modi to face the law in India to the next stage, the sources said.
A close associate of fugitive underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Monday arrested in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in the killing of senior journalist J Dey, police said.
While India still hopes that the end could be in sight for fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, there are indications that the going may not be so tough for the man who still has friends in high places in the Pakistani establishment, reports eminent Pakistani journalist Amir Mir.
In another major embarrassment for the government, two more 'fugitives' in India's most wanted list handed over to Pakistan were found to be in the country, following which a Central Bureau of Investigation inspector was suspended and two of its senior officials transferred.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday called upon Paresh Barua, the fugitive commander-in-chief of the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom, to join the ongoing peace process with his colleagues in the militant outfit, led by 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa. Addressing the people of Assam on Independence Day in Guwahati, Gogoi said his government was sympathetic towards the misguided youth of the state in the ranks of various insurgent groups.
Fugitive IPS officer Bidya Bhusan Mohanti, evading the police for the last several months for allegedly helping his son Bitti, a rape convict, to jump parole on Thursday, surrendered in a local court in Jaipur on Thursday.
In January, Sebi had barred Mallya and six former officials of USL from securities markets in a case related to illegal fund diversions.
A largely behind-the-scene operative, Yaseen Bhatkal is today on the watch list of the Interpol with a red corner alert issued against him.
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
Khalid said that he was informed by Mevani about the threats, and he has not received any call himself till now.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday put off its ruling on a plea by prosecutors to declare Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving attacker involved in the 2008 Mumbai attack, and terror suspect Fahim Ansari as "proclaimed offenders" or fugitives till March 26.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley, who has pleaded guilty to charges of his involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, would testify against his Pakistani handlers Illyas Kashmiri and Sajid Mir, a United States attorney has said.
Paresh Barua, the 'commander-in-chief' of the hawkish faction of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom, has constituted a 16-member new central committee of the outfit dropping all the 'pro-talks' leader thereby formalising the vertical split in the outfit into pro-talks and anti-talks factions.
India needs to take note of China's assertiveness in implementing its national security law as also its recently exhibited sensitivity to criticism of Xi Jinping by the Indian media, says former senior R&AW officer and China expert Jayadeva Ranade.
The government on Friday ruled out recalling the '50 most wanted' list given to Pakistan after two more fugitives figuring in it were traced in India, but said the document is being reviewed. "The entire list is being reviewed. We have no plan to recall the list from Pakistan," U K Bansal, secretary, internal security in the home ministry told reporters."The responsibility has been fixed as it is a matter of internal importance. The issue is being probed," he said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday slammed Home minister P Chidambaram, dismissing his assertion that inclusion of terror accused Wazhul Kamar Khan in the list of most wanted fugitives given to Pakistan was a "mistake" and not a monumental one.
Accepting it as a "mistake" and taking "responsibility", Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the inclusion of terror accused Wazhul Kamar Khan in the list of most wanted fugitives given to Pakistan was a "genuine error" by the Mumbai police and "oversight" by the Intelligence Bureau.
In a new twist, the Mumbai police on Wednesday claimed that fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar was not present when gunmen opened fire on his car in a south Mumbai locality, killing his bodyguard. "Kaskar was not there at the place of firing last night. But this does not mean that he was not targeted," said Joint Police Commissioner (Law and Order) Rajnish Seth.
Two unidentified men made an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Iqbal Kaskar on Tuesday evening, when they fired upon his car in South Mumbai.
Fugitive gangster and drug smuggler Santosh Shetty has been arrested in Bangkok by the Thailand police. Mumbai crime branch officials took him into custody on Thursday.
Notwithstanding Pakistan's denials, India on Thursday said underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the main accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, resides in Karachi where he spends most of his time. A day after the government released a list of 50 fugitives who are in Pakistan, Home Minister P Chidambaram said India will maintain pressure on it to bring all perpetrators of 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice and build international opinion in this regard.
Delivering the verdict, Westminster Magistrates' Court Chief Magistrate Judge Emma Arbuthnot said that there was "no sign of a false case being mounted against him".
That most newsrooms, high on the 'exclusive' interview with a fugitive living overseas, are not able to perceive this distrust is a reflection of the disconnect today's media has with reality
He has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest in March in connection with the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case.
The government is determined to start negotiation with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom sans the participation of its fugitive 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said that dialogue with ULFA will start as soon as the outfit will take a formal decision in its general council meeting.
The description of his career by Ambassador Nazareth in his elegant language, judicious choice of details, without ego or malice to anyone, shows that it had its ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies and lucky and unlucky accidents. Ambassador T P Sreenivasan reviews A Ringside Seat to History.
"Interpol's information security incident response team discovered two Facebook profiles attempting to assume my identity as Interpol's secretary general. One of the impersonators was using this profile to obtain information on fugitives targeted during one of our recent operations," Noble was quoted by British newspaper The Independent as saying.
Even as the government of India and the pro-talks faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam are to sit for a dialogue to resolve the political problem, hardliners of the outfit, led by fugitive commander-in-chief Paresh Barua, are out to create fresh trouble in the state.
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