Terror Accused Dies

Twenty-three years after he was accused of terror attacks in Delhi and Rajasthan, branded a terrorist and left to rot in prison, 48-year-old Ali Mohammad Bhat returned home to Srinagar, only to find his parents had died of heartbreak while he languished in jail for a crime he never committed

Fourteen years after a terror attack in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, a special court in Prayagraj has today sentenced four of the accused to life imprisonment and acquitted one. Two civilians had died in a cross fire that followed the attack.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the comments made by BJP candidate from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, against Mumbai terror attacks hero Hemant Karkare were "extremely wrong" and advised her to be "careful". Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, had said Hemant Karkare had died because of her curse, a sta...

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the 2008 Malegaon blasts accused contesting the national election as a BJP candidate, has boasted that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him.

Forty-nine people died and at least 20 were injured in a terror attack in New Zealand's Christchurch during Friday prayers today. Three persons have been arrested. One of them, an Australian national in his late 20s, has been accused of murder and will be presented in court tomorrow. The police said the attacks were racially motivated. Nine Indians...

Australian police on Friday said they are now treating a deadly knife attack in Melbourne as an act of terror, adding that the suspect was originally from Somalia and was known to intelligence authorities.

Thirteen people died and around 50 were injured in widespread violence that swept across Bengal, centering the panchayat elections. Instances of violence -- bomb attack, booth capture, ballot boxes set on fire and attacks on journalists -- were reported from at least eight districts. By 5 pm, the turnout was 72 per cent, but voting continued becaus...

Keeping up the pressure on the Congress government in Karnataka in an election year, the BJP today said it would launch a statewide protest tomorrow over the murder of one of its workers.28-year-old Santosh died in hospital after he was stabbed in the JC Nagar area of Bengaluru around 7.30 pm on Wednesday. Police say all four accused -- Wasim, Phil...

Swami Aseemanand, accused in three of the worst terror cases around a decade ago, has been acquitted in one of them - the Ajmer Dargah blast of 2007, in which three people had died and 15 were injured. The 65-year-old had caused political ripples in 2014, when his alleged interview to a news magazine, Caravan, had upset the group and the BJP. His l...

In what is being seen as a setback for the Delhi Police, only one of the three men accused in the 2005 serial blasts case in Delhi -- in which more than 60 people died - has been convicted. But Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Tariq Ahmed Dar, accused of being the mastermind of the blasts, has been convicted only for belonging to the banned terror organis...

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj gave an unequivocal response to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today, accusing his government of "the unabashed embrace of terrorism", the use of "dirty money" and the unleashing the recent violence in Jammu and Kashmir where nearly 50 people have died and 3,000 been injured in clashes after the shooting of 22-...

Even before the nationwide outrage over the abduction and gangrape of two sisters in Badaun could die down, father of one of the victims today alleged that close associates of the accused, all belonging to the dominant caste of their village, had threatened to unleash another wave of terror once media attention on the case subsided. "They say, once...

An accused in a serial blasts case in Uttar Pradesh, died today while he was being brought to Lucknow from a Faizabad court in a police van.

Twenty-three years after he was accused of terror attacks in Delhi and Rajasthan, branded a terrorist and left to rot in prison, 48-year-old Ali Mohammad Bhat returned home to Srinagar, only to find his parents had died of heartbreak while he languished in jail for a crime he never committed

Fourteen years after a terror attack in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, a special court in Prayagraj has today sentenced four of the accused to life imprisonment and acquitted one. Two civilians had died in a cross fire that followed the attack.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the comments made by BJP candidate from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, against Mumbai terror attacks hero Hemant Karkare were "extremely wrong" and advised her to be "careful". Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, had said Hemant Karkare had died because of her curse, a sta...

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the 2008 Malegaon blasts accused contesting the national election as a BJP candidate, has boasted that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him.

Forty-nine people died and at least 20 were injured in a terror attack in New Zealand's Christchurch during Friday prayers today. Three persons have been arrested. One of them, an Australian national in his late 20s, has been accused of murder and will be presented in court tomorrow. The police said the attacks were racially motivated. Nine Indians...

Australian police on Friday said they are now treating a deadly knife attack in Melbourne as an act of terror, adding that the suspect was originally from Somalia and was known to intelligence authorities.

Thirteen people died and around 50 were injured in widespread violence that swept across Bengal, centering the panchayat elections. Instances of violence -- bomb attack, booth capture, ballot boxes set on fire and attacks on journalists -- were reported from at least eight districts. By 5 pm, the turnout was 72 per cent, but voting continued becaus...

Keeping up the pressure on the Congress government in Karnataka in an election year, the BJP today said it would launch a statewide protest tomorrow over the murder of one of its workers.28-year-old Santosh died in hospital after he was stabbed in the JC Nagar area of Bengaluru around 7.30 pm on Wednesday. Police say all four accused -- Wasim, Phil...

Swami Aseemanand, accused in three of the worst terror cases around a decade ago, has been acquitted in one of them - the Ajmer Dargah blast of 2007, in which three people had died and 15 were injured. The 65-year-old had caused political ripples in 2014, when his alleged interview to a news magazine, Caravan, had upset the group and the BJP. His l...

In what is being seen as a setback for the Delhi Police, only one of the three men accused in the 2005 serial blasts case in Delhi -- in which more than 60 people died - has been convicted. But Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Tariq Ahmed Dar, accused of being the mastermind of the blasts, has been convicted only for belonging to the banned terror organis...

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj gave an unequivocal response to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today, accusing his government of "the unabashed embrace of terrorism", the use of "dirty money" and the unleashing the recent violence in Jammu and Kashmir where nearly 50 people have died and 3,000 been injured in clashes after the shooting of 22-...

Even before the nationwide outrage over the abduction and gangrape of two sisters in Badaun could die down, father of one of the victims today alleged that close associates of the accused, all belonging to the dominant caste of their village, had threatened to unleash another wave of terror once media attention on the case subsided. "They say, once...

An accused in a serial blasts case in Uttar Pradesh, died today while he was being brought to Lucknow from a Faizabad court in a police van.