Samjhauta Train Blast

Swami Aseemanand, the saffron-robed monk with many aliases and links to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is now a free man. A special court in Haryana's Panchkula on Wednesday let him off in the 2007 Samjhauta train bombing case, making it his third acquittal in a terror case in two years.

A court in Haryana's Panchkula today reserved its order in the Samjhauta Express blast case till Thursday after a Pakistani woman filed a petition claiming she had some evidence relevant to the case. Rahila L Vakeel -daughter of one of the victims of the blast - has filed a petition to summon witnesses from Pakistan as most of the eye witnesses are...

BJP members in the Lok Sabha today alleged that the erstwhile UPA government had allowed LeT and SIMI terrorists to go scot-free in the Samjhauta train blast case and "defamed" the Hindu religion, a reference to the arrest of Hindutva right wingers.

A Hindu can never be a terrorist and there cannot be any term like "Hindu terrorism", senior Haryana minister Anil Vij said today, debunking that the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast was the handiwork of a group having right-wing leanings.

Pakistan had summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner, JP Singh, on Friday to express its concern over the acquittal of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the Samjhauta train blasts case, in a case of terrorism.

Vikash Narain Rai, former chief of SIT tasked to probe the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast case by the Haryana government, today said his team did not get any support from the Madhya Pradesh police after their probe led them to Indore.

NIA today made it clear that its chargesheet in the Samjhauta train blast was final and the agency had found no links of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba terror group to the 2007 incident in which 68 people, including Indians and Pakistanis were killed.

A Mumbai court today dropped charges against eight Muslim men who were accused of carrying out bomb blasts that killed 31 people in Maharashtra's Malegaon in 2006.

The government does not plan to challenge the bail granted to Swami Aseemanand, arrested for allegedly masterminding 2007's deadly attack on the Samjhauta Express, a train headed to Pakistan, in which killed 68 people were killed.

Five years after the twin blasts on the Samjhauta Express that killed 68 people, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the man accused of planting the bomb on the train. Kamal Chouhan was arrested from Indore on Sunday. He has now been produced in a court in Greater Noida outside Delhi.

Five years after the Samjhauta Express blast, there has been a breakthrough in the case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man named Kamal Chouhan from Indore. The NIA says Chouhan has admitted to planting a bomb in the train to Pakistan and the probe agency is verifying his claim.

Pakistan today asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand's confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack.India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (Sout...

Swami Aseemanand, the saffron-robed monk with many aliases and links to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is now a free man. A special court in Haryana's Panchkula on Wednesday let him off in the 2007 Samjhauta train bombing case, making it his third acquittal in a terror case in two years.

A court in Haryana's Panchkula today reserved its order in the Samjhauta Express blast case till Thursday after a Pakistani woman filed a petition claiming she had some evidence relevant to the case. Rahila L Vakeel -daughter of one of the victims of the blast - has filed a petition to summon witnesses from Pakistan as most of the eye witnesses are...

BJP members in the Lok Sabha today alleged that the erstwhile UPA government had allowed LeT and SIMI terrorists to go scot-free in the Samjhauta train blast case and "defamed" the Hindu religion, a reference to the arrest of Hindutva right wingers.

A Hindu can never be a terrorist and there cannot be any term like "Hindu terrorism", senior Haryana minister Anil Vij said today, debunking that the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast was the handiwork of a group having right-wing leanings.

Pakistan had summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner, JP Singh, on Friday to express its concern over the acquittal of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the Samjhauta train blasts case, in a case of terrorism.

Vikash Narain Rai, former chief of SIT tasked to probe the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast case by the Haryana government, today said his team did not get any support from the Madhya Pradesh police after their probe led them to Indore.

NIA today made it clear that its chargesheet in the Samjhauta train blast was final and the agency had found no links of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba terror group to the 2007 incident in which 68 people, including Indians and Pakistanis were killed.

A Mumbai court today dropped charges against eight Muslim men who were accused of carrying out bomb blasts that killed 31 people in Maharashtra's Malegaon in 2006.

The government does not plan to challenge the bail granted to Swami Aseemanand, arrested for allegedly masterminding 2007's deadly attack on the Samjhauta Express, a train headed to Pakistan, in which killed 68 people were killed.

Five years after the twin blasts on the Samjhauta Express that killed 68 people, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the man accused of planting the bomb on the train. Kamal Chouhan was arrested from Indore on Sunday. He has now been produced in a court in Greater Noida outside Delhi.

Five years after the Samjhauta Express blast, there has been a breakthrough in the case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man named Kamal Chouhan from Indore. The NIA says Chouhan has admitted to planting a bomb in the train to Pakistan and the probe agency is verifying his claim.

Pakistan today asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand's confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack.India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (Sout...