Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that government forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack on parliament and buildings of the intelligence agency and other federal institutions last month.
Warning that the situation in Pakistan is 'very serious', Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said terrorism is spreading in that country and asserted that India is prepared to meet any challenge from Taliban militants. Asked if the Taliban's threat to carry out attacks on India was a cause of concern, Antony said, "We are always prepared to meet any challenge to our territorial integrity and national security from any quarter. Our security forces are vigilant."
A suicide note purportedly written by Sainath was found from his wallet, which blamed ragging by seniors as the reason for his death, the officer said.
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International Cricket Council's chief executive David Richardson said security will remain an 'absolute priority' going into the World Cup.
Officer in-charge of Sheoraphuli GRP S Bhattacharya said that it was prima facie a case of suicide by Arindam Manna. Manna's relatives, however, suspect foul play in the incident.
Coast Guard DIG B K Loshali has been sacked following a Board of Inquiry over his comments that contradicted the government's stand on the sinking of a Pakistan fishing boat last year.
The woman, aged about 50 years, was found hanging from a wooden structure in 'Koili Baikuntha' area inside the temple, police said, adding that the case was suspected to be of suicide but the exact cause could be ascertained only after postmortem.
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Driven from its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State is down but not out. Where once they confronted armies, the extremist Islamist group's adherents have now staged hit-and-run raids and suicide attacks. In some cases, the group has claimed responsibility for atrocities, including the bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed at least 253 people. Its involvement is not always proven, but even if the link is ideological rather than operational, Islamic State still poses a security threat in many countries.
The three-member team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who performed a second autopsy on the body of Dalit youth E Ilavarasan on a directive from the Madras high court, on Monday submitted the report in a sealed cover.
The arrest of an Indian Army Major for allegedly killing a fellow officer's wife he was "obsessed" with is not the first incident of alleged inappropriate conduct in the history of the country's armed forces. In the past, a number of such cases have hogged the limelight at different points in time. Here are some of such cases.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the IS extremist group was the "likely perpetrator" of the bomb attack in Gaziantep.
The founder of the dreaded terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed undergoes regular dialysis at an army hospital in Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
Police have identified the suspect as 28-year-old Usman Khan, inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda terror group, was previously sentenced to 16 years in prison term for his role in the London Stock Exchange bombing in 1990.
When he wants the attention of New Delhi, the Sri Lankan president or his administration dials Beijing and Islamabad and vice versa. So petrified is New Delhi at the prospect of Beijing or Islamabad consolidating its grip on the island nation that in the last two years India has given in to every whim and fancy of the Rajapaksa government.
Following are their brief profiles and roles as alleged by the NIA.
Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bhutto, 54, was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi shortly after she had addressed an election rally on December 27, 2007.
Salah Abdeslam possessed documents about Juelich Nuclear Research Centre located near the Belgium-Germany border and being used for the storage of atomic waste, Redaktions Netzwerk Deutschland media group reported.
Maharashtra government has transferred the case of alleged suicide of Tata Steel's former head of corporate communications, Charudatta Deshpande to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Deshpande, 57, a former journalist and Tata Steel's former chief of corporate communications, was found hanging at his Vasai home on June 28 last year.
Militants armed with automatic weapons, grenades and wearing suicide vests tried to storm two heavily-guarded airbases in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, but the attacks were thwarted by security forces which killed 10 attackers suspected to be foreigners.
"Nyay ki jeet hui hain (truth has triumphed)," Kumar said soon after the apex court's verdict upholding a CBI probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide.
Bomb blasts rocked four major Pakistani cities on Thursday, killing 10 people, including three terrorists, and injuring more than 60 others.
Opposition parties continued their dharna for the third day on Thursday in the state assembly, demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the mysterious death of an upright IAS officer, forcing its adjournment till March 23, as protests over the death persisted across the state.
The probe into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was today transferred to the elite Crime Branch of Delhi Police, a week after she was found dead in a luxury hotel in the national capital
Ten people, including six security personnel, were killed and five others injured on Wednesday in two separate attacks on army and police vehicles in Pakistan, which officials suspect could be a fallout of the crackdown on Lal Masjid clerics.
Though the state officials denied any possibility of a fidayeen attack, sources maintained that the suicide bombers were planning to target a particular VVIP, reported to be Chief Minister Mayawati.
A suspected woman Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber blew herself up in front of the office of a Sri Lankan minister and senior Tamil politician in Colombo on Wednesday, injuring three persons, a defence ministry official said.
Pakistan on Monday launched a massive military operation in Punjab province in the wake of the deadly Taliban suicide bombing in Lahore, conducting raids and making several arrests.
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'We were scared about what would happen if these terrorists managed to enter the building.'
He is widely regarded as the mastermind of increased military operations in recent months -- including ground shelling and aerial bombing -- against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
At least three huge explosions were reported from the Dakshina naval facility, located 117 kilometres south of the capital Colombo.
Police said the bombs recovered were found in southwestern Khulna and northern Sirajganj districts among other places.
India handed over the dossier to the acting high commissioner of Pakistan in New Delhi on February 27 with specific details of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed's complicity in the Pulwama attack that killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel on February 14 and the presence of JeM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan.
Canada's town of Edmonton was rocked on New Year's Eve when police announced that seven adults and two children had been killed in what they called a 'senseless mass murder'.
A three-member team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday performed the second autopsy on the body of Dalit youth E Ilavarasan, whose death is shrouded in mystery.
