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A small team of U.S. operatives launched a targeted assault’ on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad where months of intelligence work had established that Mr. Bin Laden was living. Mr. Bin Laden was killed after a firefight, and the troops took custody of his body. The president of America had authorized the [...]

The Supreme Court on Friday, 21st Jan 2010, upheld an Orissa High Court judgment that commuted the death sentence a trial court awarded to Dara Singh to life term. The court rejected CBI’s plea for death penalty to him. The bench comprising justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan delivered the verdict. Lawyer Minakshi Lekhi [...]

Under tight security, thousands of people gathered in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday for the funeral of the slain governor of Punjab province, a chief ally of President Asif Ali Zardari. Salman Taseer, an outspoken liberal in an increasingly intolerant nation, was shot multiple times in this capital city Tuesday by one [...]

A couple of days after he was accorded a hero’s welcome on his release on bail, Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), is facing a lot of difficult questions to which he apparently does not have an immediate answer. While the All Tai-Ahom Students’ Association (ATASU), an influential students’ [...]

Denying reports that it has agreed to allow access to its encrypted corporate data to Indian authorities, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday said unscrambling encrypted email on its devices is simply not “technologically feasible.” India has been seeking access to all encrypted // // communications as the terrorists involved the 2008 Mumbai [...]

Despite strong pleas by the political groups in Jammu and Kashmir, there is little likelihood of the thinning of security forces in the state, government sources said. The highly-placed sources told IANS that the state cannot risk withdrawing troops at this stage when the chances of militancy // // reviving are beaming on the radar. [...]

The designated TADA court here granted conditional bail to United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa on Thursday. Mr. Rajkhowa is now expected to be released from jail on New Year’s Day once his family members complete all the legal formalities. The development is expected to expedite efforts to work out the modalities [...]

 Rights activist Binayak Sen , Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha were today convicted for sedition and sentenced to life imprisonment for colluding with Maoists to establish a network to fight the state. Additional District and Sessions Judge B P Verma held the trio, who were present in the jam-packed courtroom, guilty [...]

After 26/11, the US felt that the removal of “spectacularly inept” Shivraj Patil as home minister was inevitable although he had been “protected” by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi despite being found “asleep on the watch” during earlier terror strikes in various cities. According to a US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks, the then US [...]

BJP has revived its agenda by once again calling for abolishment of article 370 of the Constitution, under which Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) enjoys special status. BJP’s central office bearers, which met here on Thursday, unanimously passed the resolution. “Article 370 has worked against the interests of the people of the state. It has created [...]