A Delhi court on Thursday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Shahzad in the September 2008 serial blasts case in which 26 persons were killed in New Delhi.
The Bengaluru police are probing the involvement of controversial People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani in the serial blasts that rocked the city in July 2008.The police are waiting to interrogate the PDP leader, who has been admitted to a hospital at Kannur in Kerala, to get more information.Sources in the Bengaluru police told rediff.com that they suspect a strong link between the PDP chief and terror suspect Nasir alias Haji Umar, who also hails from Kannur.
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'Dawood and Tiger Memon will neither come on their own nor we will ever bring them back,' says Suresh Walishetty, who investigated the March 1993 attacks.'
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will visit Bihar on November 2 to meet the kin of the six people killed in Patna ahead of his Sunday rally.
Here is the chronology of major blasts in the country:
Shoaib Pottanikal, 49, was arrested by a team of Ahmedabad Crime Branch sleuths
From enjoying beer sessions with Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray on the terrace of his Matoshree residence to going on vacations with Nationalist Conress Party chief Sharad Pawar and his family, the late thespian Dilip Kumar enjoyed warm relations with leaders belonging to different political hues, even though the ties strained later.
Three people who had been detained Ranchi in connection with the Patna serial bomb blasts have been released after interrogation, even as raids continued in several areas of Jharkhand in connection with the blasts.
Cyanide Mallika is serving a life term for killing seven women by giving them cyanide capsule in temples. Her motive had been to decamp with gold jewelries that unsuspecting victims wore.
But the superstar hopes to 'catch up on all that' later.
The NIA arrested Tariq Ahmed Shah and his daughter Insha Jan after investigation led to their house at Hakripora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, where a video was filmed by Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar, who rammed an explosive-ridden car into the CRPF convoy. The video was released from Pakistan after the attack.
Abhay 2 is a definite watch if an investigative thriller is your scene, says Moumita Bhattacharjee.
As of now, there is nothing to suggest that the 'Michaelpatti episode' has the potential to polarise Dravidian Tamil Nadu on religious lines, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Luck is once again favouring Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The Modi government was facing a difficult time due to inadequate rainfall in the state. But today's rains will help the economy in general and Modi's regime in particular.
Iqbal Mirchi, the right hand man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody by a British court after he was charged with threatening to kill a man, police sources said.
In the backdrop of alleged involvement of a 'Ranchi module' of Indian Mujahideen in the October 27 serial blasts near a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Patna, police on Monday recovered nine live bombs matching those found in Patna from a lodge at Hindpiri in Ranchi.
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.
Footfairy is a must watch for anyone who enjoys a psychological crime thriller, feels Moumita Bhattacharjee.
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Raja Sen can't wait to see Raman Raghav 2.0.
SRK's persona and brand power has been built over nearly 30 years of public acclaim and love. Brands perhaps believe that his troubles are transitory and that as a human brand he has long legs capable of striding over controversies, explains ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh said on Monday there was a "security lapse" at the venue of Narendra Modi's rally in Patna, which witnessed serial blasts that left six persons dead, and extra precautions should have been taken.
The judge observed that although they were not part of the inner circle of the conspiracy, their participation in training camps and their consent to go to Pakistan for arms training suggested their active involvement.
Sanjay Dutt is among the 123 accused in the case.
Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says players are being hounded like 'serial killers' and demanded proof of the match-fixing allegations that have rocked the sport at the Australian Open.
The Maharashtra authorities would go ahead with hanging of Yakub Memon, the sole death row convict of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on July 30 as scheduled, highly placed sources in Mumbai said on Thursday.
Saturday's terror blast in Pune comes almost 15 months since the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai
Uttam Potdar and Salim Mira Shaikh were held guilty of facilitating landing of arms and RDX at Dighi coast in Raigad in February 1993.
The court, taking into account the report of medical experts filed by the Tamil Nadu, said that the accused had been repeatedly refusing to get examined for his ailments by expert ayurveda doctors and declining to take medicines.
Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli, who has been sentenced to death for the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl, will be hanged here on September 12, Jail Superintendent S H M Rizvi said.
After the government was left red-faced for its contradictory reply in Parliament on the whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim, junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju said the underworld don lives in Pakistan and the Centre would continue to pursue the case very seriously.
Two decades after serial blasts rocked Mumbai killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of one and conviction of several others including Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt. Following is the chronology of events in the case.
Eleven out of thirteen accused, arrested so far in the July 2006 serial train blasts that killed 188 people, on Wednesday submitted their written statements before the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court claiming they have been falsely implicated in the case.
The sociopath serial dog killer who was spotted slaughtering puppies and dogs in the national capital was finally arrested by the Delhi police on Saturday.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist warned the Pakistan government not to release Sarabjit Singh because he was sent on a mission to conduct bomb blasts, reports Amir Mir.
Stung by the criticism from all quarters to their lackadaisical reaction to 26/11, Mumbai police reacted with alacrity to the serial blasts that hit southern Mumbai on July 13 last year.
Strongly condemning the Mumbai serial blasts, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has expressed his outrage at the killing of innocent civilians in the terror strike. "These attacks against innocent civilians are outrageous and on behalf of the Alliance, I want to express my sincere condolences to the Indian authorities and especially to the families of the victims," Rasmussen said.
