Mumbai: Lady officer of the American agency accused of sexually harassing Mumbai terror attack suspect, Fahim Ansari. Fahim with his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi filed a court application before an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate alleging that a lady FBI officer, one of the three who had interrogated, had “sexually harassed him all through the night.” Obscene [...]
Bangalore: An austere warning has been given to Sri Ram Sene by Bangalore Police to not interrupt in Valentine’s Day celebrations. Anyone upsetting the Valentine’s Day celebrations will be punished, said the Bangalore Police Commissioner Shanka Bidari. The Riot Act says “The celebration of Valentine’s Day by some individuals, groups or associations is in conciliation [...]
HOW long must the traumatized, battered and starving people of Gaza remain under siege? How long must they be punished for their democratic choices? How long will the international community put up with Israel’s cruel refusal to open these people’s lifeline to the outside world? The homes of an estimated 30,000 residents of the tiny [...]
Bangalore: Shri Ram Sene unmarked after Mangalore pub assault, now invigorating up for the Valentine’s Day. The chief of Sri Ram Sene, who is at present out on conditional bail in the Mangalore Pub attack case, said that he would protest and disrupt any Valentine’s Day celebration on February 14 in Karnataka as it is [...]
Mumbai: It appears to be a goof-up by the Air Traffic Control in Mumbai which allowed a helicopter of President Pratibha Patil’s fleet to land on the runway of the Mumbai airport even as an Air India plane was about to take off for Delhi from it. However, a possible tragedy was avoided by the [...]
Israel, not Hamas, violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in return, Israel was to ease its throttlehold on Gaza. In fact, during the truce, it tightened it further Henry Siegman [Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University [...]
The UN said that thousands of people in Gaza still are homeless and the hospitals have a large number of intensive care patients. The UN office the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that “at this stage the first response is focusing on the re-establishment of basic eminities for the population of Gaza, including water, [...]
New Delhi: According to Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor, terror infrastructure in Pakistan is “existing and active”. He puts the number of terror camps there in between 30 and 50. Pakistan seeks to convey an impression that it is taking action against terrorists and their infrastructure but the infrastructure was still active, Kapoor told PTI. [...]
BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Thursday informed the government that he has received a death threat posted on his website reportedly by a Pakistan-based group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The post threatened harnessing of new technology weapons to be used against public personalities. Sources said Advani was informed about the threat on Wednesday while he was in [...]
GAZA CITY: Israel killed a Palestinian in a missile attack yesterday after bombing a Hamas police station and tunnels late Sunday night. The UN said it would launch a probe into Israeli attacks on UN facilities in the 22-day war on Gaza and the Red Cross chief called for an “honest” Middle East peace process. [...]
