he powerful blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday underscore why the Federal Bureau of Investigation has spent years refining its “tripwire” system for catching would-be bomb makers before they can build a deadly device. For years, federal agents have asked businesses that sell materials useful in making bombs to alert authorities to any suspicious orders. The types of tripwires in place have shifted over the years. In the […]
Supreme Court today directed the Centre to translocate some lions from the Gir forest in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur sanctuary in the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh. This has to be done within the next six months. An expert committee will now decide on the number of lions to be translocated between the two states/ The Madhya Pradesh government wanted Gujarat to send a few Lions from Gir forest to […]
Teenager Nick D’Aloisio hit the headlines last month when an app he had developed was bought by Yahoo for millions of pounds. I interviewed Nick 13 months ago at his home in Wimbledon in south London and it was obvious he came from a successful, wealthy family who had opted to give him a private education. A day after Nick started counting his millions, an email dropped in my inbox […]
Kannur: A worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was killed when the bike on which he was travelling, allegedly with explosive material, exploded at Maruthayil near Mattannur on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as AV Dileep Kumar (27), son of Ambiloth Sankaran, police said. The incident occurred at 5.30 am as Dileep was coming towards Mattannur. The bike was completely destroyed in the explosion. Three houses within a 50 metre […]
The Taliban are active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The hardline Islamic Taliban movement has proved to be a formidable fighting force in Afghanistan and a major threat to its government. The Taliban also threatens to destabilise Pakistan, where they control areas in the north-west and have been blamed for a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks. Many observers now believe that future peace in Afghanistan can only […]
IT’S THE open secret no one wants to acknowledge: the IPL is not about cricket. The ugly controversy surrounding Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor and IPL chief Lalit Modi — over Tharoor’s friend Sunanda Pushkar owning 4.9 percent free sweat equity in the Kochi team that Tharoor helped put together — is merely a warning sign pointing to a much deeper dirt pit that comprises in equal parts […]
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It’s a real shocker. Mumbai Police, in an internal circular, has asked cops to monitor activities of a Muslim organisation – Girls Islamic Organisation. Their reason: The organisation is “indoctrinating young women and training them for jihad.” First, let us see what this organization is that, according to Mumbai Police, is out to make jihadis out of college-going Muslim girls. Girls Islamic Organisation is a wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. […]
A band of anti-Taliban fighters posed in Andar in September. The group has since splintered and its fighters enrolled in the Afghan Local Police. KABUL—When villagers rose up against Taliban rule in Afghanistan’s Andar district last year, U.S. military commanders billed the surprise rebellion as a potential game-changer akin to the Sunni tribal awakening that helped the U.S. leave Iraq. Now, as the spring fighting season begins, it is increasingly […]
New Delhi – In context of Liaqat Shah’s arrest, claiming that he was conspiring to carry out attacks in the national capital, the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) on Saturday said that “Many of these prize catches of the Delhi Special Cell happened to be either police or IB informers, surrendered militants, or men with whom one agency or the other had a score to settle.” After arresting Liaqat Shah […]
