Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the top-most target for all four major terror outfits in India, according to Indian Mujahideen's recently-arrested chief Yasin Bhatkal.
After two failed attempts to strike Mumbai in September and October 2008, Pakistani handlers of the 26/11 accused David Headley began planning the attack on India's financial capital "more closely than ever" in early November that year.
In his last surveillance trip to India before 26/11, David C Headley, the Mumbai attacks terror accused, at the instruction of his Pakistani handler Major Iqbal bought 15 red bracelets to be worn by the attackers so that they can disguise as Hindus, according to released unsealed court documents.
Even after SC directions, the administration has not restored mobile internet services for Kashmir division. It said misuse of data services by anti-national elements has the potential to cause large-scale violence and disturb public order.
In the wake of the current unrest in the country, the panic-stricken family of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has reportedly fled Egypt for the luxurious refuge of their London townhouse. According to reports circulating in Britain's Egyptian community, President Mubarak and wife Suzanne are planning to head to their London townhouse.
A suspected Pakistani spy was on Thursday arrested from Indo-Pak international border in Rajasthan, police said. The arrested, identified as Ismail Khan, used to work as an Inter-Services Intelligence agent, a senior police officer said.
There will be only three ground handlers at each of the six metro airports in the country.
Terrorists are using the internet as the "most potent tool" to rope in youths and carry out espionage operations in the country, Home Secretary G K Pillai said on Monday.
The arrest of four militants, including two young suicide bombers, in Karachi has once again highlighted the dangerous trend of how the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is using local maulvis and handlers to poison the mind of innocent youngsters and send them to the tribal Waziristan mountainous region to become suicide bombers.
The much hyped-up trial of Pakistani-Canadian 26/11 terror accused Tahawwur Rana has finally come to a close in the United States and one could say with confidence it did not end the way in which many, especially in India, would have expected it to be.
Mumbai attack co-accused David Headley on Thursday told a US court that a Pakistani Navy man was present during discussions with his ISI handler Major Iqbal on landing sites and arrival of Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists by sea.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba had initially scheduled the Mumbai terror attacks on September 29, but abandoned its plan as attackers got stuck on a rock and the boat in which they were travelling was destroyed, according to unsealed court documents.
International pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks led Lashkar-e-Tayiba to abandon its plan to attack a Danish newspaper in retaliation to the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed, David Coleman Headley told a court on Wednesday.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thakckeray was on Tuesday night dismissive of Mumbai terror attack accused David Headley's testimony in a Chicago court that a plot was involving his handlers in Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI and terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba was hatched to kill him.
The Class XI 'highly intelligent' student belonging to a good family was planning to exit the country to join the IS and become a suicide bomber.
Infamous 26/11 reconnaissance operative David Coleman Headley will be questioned again between March 22 and 25.
Three security establishments in Nashik including army's Deolali camp were recceed by arrested Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror suspect Shaikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain for a Lahore Police Academy-type attack, Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad said on Monday.
The American-made robot housed in Moscow's Robo Station predicted a few hours before kickoff that France would beat Belgium in Tuesday's semi-final in St Petersburg.
Five years after his arrest during the 26/11 strike on Mumbai and over a year after he was hanged to death after a much-publicised trial, Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab continues to inspire myriad conspiracy theories.
With 40 officers and 260 men, INS Kochi sailed into the eye of a cyclonic storm and rescued 125 men who had jumped into the sea from a sinking barge. It was one of the Indian Navy's greatest rescue operations.
Oberoi hotel, one of the sites attacked during the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, was not originally on the list of targets for surveillance given to David Headley by his Inter Services Intelligence handler. But the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative made a video of it after filming Chabad House as he had an hour to spare before he could catch a movie.This was revealed by the LeT operative in his testimony before a Chicago court during co-accused Tahawwur Rana's recently-concluded trial.
Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and his companions were instructed by their Lashkar-e-Tayiba handlers on telephone to hold as many hostages as possible during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to demand from the Indian government the creation of a "separate state for Muslims".
Working on a plot more sinister than the Mumbai attack, David Headley and his Pakistani handlers, Illyas Kashmiri in particular, were to behead the heads of the hostages and throw the heads out of the window for their planned terrorist strike in Copenhagen.
While Pakistani handler Sajid Mir and ISI's Major Iqbal are both in the dock in the Chicago court where Tahawwur Rana is being tried for his role in the 26/11 terror attacks, Mir remains Pakistan's biggest worry. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The damaged drone was recovered in Mahawa village based on the information given by one of the four people the state police arrested on Sunday.
Labelling the 26/11 terror attacks as 'deceptively simple and highly coordinated with little money expended', the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said the crippling flaw in the Mumbai police's defence against the initial assault was that its officers didn't even carry weapons.
While Sajid Mir, the chief handler of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, continues to pose a big security risk, India has started to raise concerns about Rashid Abdullah who is said to be planning a series of attacks on Indian soil.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rahman Malik underlined the need for India and Pakistan to put in place a proper system of information sharing to combat the menace of terrorism jointly. Describing the recent meeting between the two sides as "excellent" and "a step forward" for relationship, Malik said he had assured his Indian counterpart P Chidambaram that his country will positively look into the requests for voice samples of Mumbai attacks' Lashkar-e-Tayiba handlers.
Pakistan termed as "presumptuous" India's contention that enough was not being done in the Mumbai attacks case on Sunday, saying the two countries would understand "each other's challenges and difficulties" only through engagement.
Rohan Sippy and Abhishek Bachchan discuss books, Bollywood and their latest film Dum Maaro Dum.
Vicky Nanjappa finds out why the Indian government is so keen to access e-mails sent via the BlackBerry.
Asian Games medal winner Fouaad Mirza called for financial help in popularising equestrian in India, saying the government can take a cue from European nations such as the United Kingdom and Germany.
Complimenting the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Central Reserve Police Force for successfully eliminating two terrorists in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar on Wednesday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the terrorists were in communication with their handlers outside the country.
'While Kasab was helpful in the investigation of the 26/11 terrorist attack, he was of no use in detecting and neutralising Lashkar's sleeper cells and the Indian Mujahideen.'
Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley on Thursday exposed how Inter-Services Intelligence and Lashkar-e-Tayiba majorly funded terror operations in India.
Testifying before a Mumbai court for the second day on Tuesday, Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley said LeT had planned to attack Indian defence scientists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai and that he was asked by Pakistan's ISI to recruit Indian armymen to spy for them.
'Is it okay for you to have a government that does nothing? A chowkidar (referring to himself) who sleeps?'
Police in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi claimed to have nabbed a potential teenage suicide bomber, along with his Taliban handlers, who he said told him that he was promised paradise if he carries out a bombing. Muhammad Saleem, 16, was arrested by the CID along with two Taliban operatives, Sher Rehman and Zainullah from Sohrab Goth area on the outskirts of the city.
India has provided Pakistan further details about involvement of Jamaat-ud-Dawaa chief Hafiz Saeed in Mumbai terror attacks on the basis of disclosures made by Pakistani-American Lashker operative David Headley and made it clear that action against him and other handlers would be a major confidence building measure.
India on Friday asked Pakistan to expeditiously bring to justice all those behind the Mumbai terror attacks, including Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and handlers of terrorists, including some Pakistani army personnel. Home Minister P Chidambaram said he will 'politely' tell Pakistan that the time has come to address issues concerning the deadly Mumbai terror attacks with the seriousness that they warrant.
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