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India Has 15M Broadband Connections; 712.5M Active Mobile Connections

India’s broadband connection base decreased 0.12% to 15 million at the end of February 2013, from 15.01 million at the end of January, according to the Indian Telecom regulaton. TRAI Meanwhile, the country’s mobile operators continue to clean up their act: the total number of mobile connections in the country (including multi-SIM and inactive connections) has dropped to 861.66 million in February, even as the active mobile connection base increased: […]

A short history of terrorist attacks involving Canada

Canadians have been the targets – and sometimes the perpetrators – of terrorist attacks in the modern era. Here’s a brief look at some major events: 1985 June: Air India flight 182 is blown up off the coast of Ireland, killing 331 people, mostly Canadians. One person, Inderjit Singh Reyat, a militant Sikh nationalist, is convicted for manslaughter related to the attack. 2001 September: 24 Canadians are killed in the […]

Canadian police: 2 arrested in al Qaeda-supported terror plot

Canadian authorities have arrested two men accused of plotting to attack a passenger train in an al Qaeda-supported plot, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, are accused of conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway train, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. While the suspects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was […]

Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's last call to his mother

After last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva phoned her son Tamerlan in Massachusetts to make sure he was safe. “Mama, why are you worrying?” Tamerlan replied from Boston, laughing. Days later, it was the son who phoned his mother. The two, in recent years, had shared a powerful transformation to a more intense brand of Islam. “The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us,” Mrs. […]

As Boston reeled, younger bombing suspect partied

As the world hunted him, the younger brother suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings acted like any other college sophomore. Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, was on the campus of University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth every day after the attack until late Thursday, a university official told CNN. Tsarnaev attended classes and dorm parties while the rest of Boston came to a tense standstill. A student at the school told The Boston Globe  that […]

Police Say Boston Marathon Suspect in Custody and Alive

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive Friday after a standoff in boat in a Watertown backyard, police said. Police converged on a home at 67 Franklin Street and surrounded a boat in the driveway where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding. This came after a tip from a resident that she had seen blood on the boat and in the grass and noticed a ladder. Earlier, officials revealed that Dzhokhar […]

The FBI released photos of two suspects in the Boston bombings.

FBI releases footage of Boston Marathon bombing suspects. FBI tip line: 1-800-225-5324. Link to video: Boston Marathon bombing suspects The FBI has released photographs of two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170, calling upon the public to help them track down the men. At a dramatic press conference in the Sheraton hotel in Boston, just a couple of blocks away from […]

 
 
 

Reporter films 'horrific' Boston explosions

David Abel of the Boston Globe has spoken to the BBC about the scene he filmed at the finish line of the Boston marathon as two blasts erupted.   He was filming runners as they finished the race when he heard the “boom” and “immediately knew it was an attack”.   Two people were killed and at least 23 injured in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston […]