Rejecting India's plea, Portugal's top court has questioned its locus standi in challenging the order cancelling extradition of underworld don Abu Salem to this country.
Prashant Pandey, the script and dialogue write of Contract, talks about the similarity between the blasts and a scene from his film.
'There were no stretchers available immediately, so the people who gathered around tore down tarpaulin and cloth from adjoining shops and made them into makeshift stretchers to ferry the injured to the nearby Saifee Hospital.'
Earlier reports had indicated that Hooda is a Bangladeshi national but the DGP said he was a resident of Malegaon.
Security was beefed up in and around the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here for the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rising Pune Supergiant in the wake of a hoax bomb scare, police sources said.
Malik used to criticise the BJP-led Central government and the then opposition leader in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, when he was a cabinet minister in the erstwhile MVA government led by Uddhav Thackeray.
The police also arrested Hasib Zuber Mulla, in jail for the Mulun blast, for his involvement in the Ghatkopar bomb blast.
A witness who is a former army official turned hostile in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast trial in Mumbai on Thursday.
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda was today remanded to 10-day police custody by a Delhi court in connection with a 1997 bomb blast case lodged against him in New Delhi.
The blasts occurred at Mulund, Vile Parle and Mumbai Central between December 2002 and March 2003.
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Eleven others had surrendered before the same court on Wednesday. Eight more convicts, including actor Sanjay Dutt, have been given time by the Supreme Court to return to jail to serve the remaining period of sentence.
A special court also took on record the chargesheet filed by the CBI against co-accused Mustafa Ahmed Dossa alias Majnu Mustafa.
Justifying the Samajwadi Party's move to declare actor Sanjay Dutt's candidature for Lok Sabha polls, party's Mumbai unit president Abu Azmi on Tuesday said that Dutt was not a criminal.Asked about the reason behind his party offering a Lok Sabha ticket to the actor, Azmi said, "The Congress has done injustice to Dutt and therefore Samajwadi Party has announced his name."
A year after a series of devastating bomb blasts ripped through Mumbai's commuter rail network, people in Mumbai on Wednesday paid homage to the victims of the terror attack whose main conspirators are yet to be apprehended.
The case took a twist when the defence lawyer sought to call Indian Mujahideen co-founder Sadiq Sheikh as a defence witness after he told the police in 2008 that IM members were responsible for all the blasts that had occurred in India since 2005 including the July 11, 2006 train blasts.
The police is not ruling out this possibility as militant outfits are known to keep changing their modus operandi.
Over the years, Bollywood has taken to creating powerful content based n Mumbai's tragic encounters with terrorism.
The Maharashtra government will challenge the acquittal of eight persons in the December 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast case in one month in which two people were killed and 49 injured.
McDonald's has said that its air-conditioning and gas piping systems are 'still intact'.
Four persons, accused of planning and executing the bomb blast in a BEST bus on December 2, have been remanded to police custody till January 17.
The Sena said that AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi is more temperate than Khan and that Owaisi has never spoken against the interest of the country.
Former Customs additional collector Somnath Thapa, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, died after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Mumbai on Friday. Thapa (60) was suffering from lung cancer, the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Actcourt sources said. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by special TADA Court Judge Pramod Kode in July 2007.
The Portuguese court sentenced Salem to four-and-a-half years of imprisonment and Bedi to two years, highly placed Central Bureau of Investigation sources in Delhi said.
Khanwilkar said in his chamber that since fellow judge on the division bench Justice P D Kode was recently transferred to the Nagpur bench of the court, the judgement was not yet ready.
The Bharatiya Janata Party walked out in protest when Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar refused to allow former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha who wanted to know whether the statement of external affairs minister S M Krishna had broken the protocol by saying that unless Pakistan government takes action against Hafeez Sayeed, master mind behind the Mumbai bomb blast, there was no point in carrying forward any kind of dialogue with Pakistan.
A policeman carries out a security check on actor Sanjay Dutt as he arrives at the Terrorist And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court in Mumbai on Thursday.
The court said the Criminal Investigation Department had failed to produce substantial evidence against the accused.
Waze was arrested from his Thane residence. The CID will produce him before a court in Ahmadnagar soon.
Community policing and strict control over the sale and distribution of explosives and detonators will go a long way in curbing the menace, says Colonel Anil Athale (retd)
In more than a decade since 2002, 60 fugitives were extradited or deported by foreign governments to India, which received a major victory in its fight to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice when a US federal court agreed to the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana to the country.
Home loan borrowers perpetually worry about the consequences of defaulting. And whether they wish it or not, there could be situations where they are forced to do so. For instance, after the Mumbai bomb blasts on July 11 2006, a large number of affected families found themselves in deep financial trouble leading to difficulties in servicing their home loans
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, accused in 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case, who is on bail, to proceed to Africa after his return from abroad on September 18.
Six of the nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case were on Wednesday released after a trial court in Mumbai granted them bail.
Actor Sanjay Dutt spent a quiet night at Yerawada jail in Pune with prison arrangements remaining unchanged for Sanjay Dutt's second time stay where he is likely to continue cane furniture making.
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