21:53
An Egyptian court today ordered blocking of video-sharing website YouTube for a month for hosting an anti-Islam film that triggered deadly outrage across the Muslim world last year.After a complaint by an Egyptian who accused YouTube of being a threat to social peace by putting the US-made film...
20:59
Stating that the drought in the state this year is more severe than that of 1972, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today asked Congress workers to reach out to the people and inform them about the government's efforts to bring relief.This year's drought is more severe than the one...
20:56
According to a survey conducted in Rajasthan, the BJP may win between 110 and 115 seats in the assembly election, scheduled for later this year. The Congress party, which currently rules the state, may win between 65 and 70 seats. It's early days yet; the election is not likely till the winter....
19:45
A massive blizzard that dumped as much as 3 feet of snow in some parts of northeastern US is heading out to sea, as workers across New York and New England struggle to get airports, trains and highways back online.The snowstorm, a product of two converging weather systems, left at least one man...
19:43
China has lodged a strong protest with the Indian authorities after a Chinese woman was raped in Delhi recently.Beijing has also asked Delhi to protect the security, legal rights and privacy of the victim and punish the accused.An Indian man has been arrested and remanded in custody, police say....
19:05
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today took up the brush and canvas for bauls (folk singers) to help them by selling her paintings and announced a package of development programmes for them. I will donate the sale proceeds of these paintings for helping poor baul singers who have...
18:26
Welcoming the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday urged the government to take swift decision on all mercy petitions involving terrorists and rapists.Though the government has taken the decision very late, but I welcome his hanging and demand...
18:12
Actor-director Kamal Haasan has said that demanding ban on films is becoming a trend, which should be challenged, and he is sure people will do it. The film maker whose magnum opus Vishwaroopam was finally released in Tamil Nadu this week after he made truce with some Muslim outfits...
18:06
Amnesty International has strongly condemned the 'top-secret' hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail on Saturday morning.A press release by the human rights organisation stated, Today's execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru indicates a disturbing and regressive trend towards executions shrouded in...
18:03
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, Columbia University, has just tweeted this image of the New York skyline, a photograph taken from his 28th storeyed apartment; https://twitter.com/sree/status/300217519212482561/photo/1
17:53
An alert has been sounded and extensive security measures taken across Mumbai by the city police in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in the national capital, police said today. All the police stations in the city were...
17:51
People's Union of Civil Liberties today condemned the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and alleged that there were 'political considerations' behind the step. The tearing hurry with which Afzal Guru was hanged, accompanied by the...
17:35
A correspondent reports from Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has revealed that he was given a briefing about Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging by the home ministry on Friday evening, but was urged to keep all the information under wraps till the execution took...
17:33
Arunachal Pradesh and Assam have drawn the attention of the Centre for steps to neutralise the impact of the three dams proposed to be built by China on river Tsangpho, known as Siang in Arunachal and Brahmaputra in Assam. We have no objection to...
16:59
Arun Jaitley, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee, when Parliament was attacked by terrorists on December 13, 2001, on the Afzal Guru execution: http://www.arunjaitley.com/en/my-opinion-inside.php?id=175&mode=Read&icatId=13
16:25
Iftikaar Geelani, the son-in-law of Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was detained along with his wife in Delhi on Saturday morning.Syed Ali Shah Geelani was also put under house arrest in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.While Iftikaar was...
16:22
A 38-year-old Sikh woman has been charged in connection with the attack on 1984 Operation Blue Star hero K S Brar in London last September, taking to four the number of people accused in the case. Harjit Kaur appeared in custody at the Westminster...
16:21
The religious head of Ajmer Dargah has welcomed the hanging of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, terming it as a very good decision. This is a very good decision but it should have been taken earlier. It was necessary to send a message...
15:17
Complying with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka today commenced release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, even as the BJP government's action came in for sharp criticism from opposition parties and triggered protests. As per the Supreme Court order, we have decided to release water,...
15:15
The Congress leadership is mulling holding Lok Sabha elections in this year itself after the end of the monsoon session of Parliament, BJP leader M Venkiah Naidu said today. We have reports that the Congress leadership is thinking of early elections to the Lok Sabha and they may be held in...
14:58
RSS today welcomed the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru though it came after some delay and insisted that all Indians should rise above their differences to oppose terrorism unitedly. We welcome the implementation, albeit after a delay, of...
14:56
At least two people were injured today in action by security forces in north Kashmir's Baramulla district when local residents came out to protest the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. While Bilal Ahmad Gojri injured his thigh after...
14:09
Violence was reported from Sopore in southern Kashmir on Saturday afternoon, in the wake of the hanging of Afzal Guru.Curfew was imposed across the valley which remained tense.
14:07
A correspondent from Delhi reports: A group of protesters are being beaten by the goons of the Bajrang Dal at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Police officers standing nearby are watching the incident and not taking any action to stop it.
13:31
The legal team representing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on Saturday claimed that they had not been informed about his hanging.They claimed that Guru's family members had not been informed about the execution either, adding that his family members were not being allowed to meet each other.
13:24
Moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today announced four-day mourning for the death of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning following his conviction in the Parliament attack case. We call on people to observe four-day mourning on the hanging of Guru. A...
13:18
Law of the land has taken its course in the 2001 Parliament attack case, the Communist Party of India-Marxist said today, reacting to the execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru. I think, the law of the land with all its provisions has finally been completed as far as the Afzal Guru case and the...
12:57
The Congress party today said the message of zero tolerance against terrorism has been sent through the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, on the heels of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab's hanging. Party spokesman Rashid Alvi said, After Independence, two major acts of terror...
12:54
Vicky Nanjappa reports: The Delhi police on Saturday picked up Professor S A R Geelani in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail. When contacted, Geelani, speaking from the police vehicle, said, The police do not want me to be out at this moment.
12:49
Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani have been placed under house arrest in Delhi. The house arrests took place in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail on Saturday morning.The Hurriyat Conference, led by Geelani and Mirwaiz, has...
12:23
Minister of State for Home RPN Singh has reiterated that the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was not a political move.In an interview to TV channel CNN-IBN, Singh said that the government had responded decisively to terror.When queried if Congress president Sonia Gandhi or vice...
12:04
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key with the cricket World Cup. Australia and New Zealand will host the 2015 World Cup, which India will defend. Gillard tweeted a picture this morning: https://twitter.com/JuliaGillard/status/300083451724435456/photo/1
11:53
A link from Kafila.org asking 13 questions about the attack on Parliament: http://kafila.org/2006/12/08/13-questions-for-december-13/
11:43
Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday morning, has been buried inside the Tihar jail complex, prison officials said.
11:42
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde informed Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah at 8 pm on Friday that Afzal Guru would be hanged in Tihar jail on Saturday morning since the President had rejected his mercy petition. Meanwhile, Rahul Pandita, the author of a well-received recent...
11:37
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday slammed the BJP for politicising the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.I urge the opposition to not politicise each and every issue, said Singh.He was responding to the saffron party's contention that the Congress seemed to have...
11:20
A week or so before his execution, The Week magazine published a cover story on Afzal Guru which you can read here: http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=13367536&programId=1073755753&tabId=13&BV_ID=@@@&categoryId=-195241
11:05
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday declared that the state government has taken every possible precaution in all districts of the state to deal with the fallout of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.Abdullah confirmed that he had been informed on Friday...
10:29
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind. He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed, a top Tihar jail official said.
10:28
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday morning, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind. He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed, a top Tihar Jail official said.
10:15
Vicky Nanjappa reports: The Intelligence Bureau and the Military Intelligence have advised all police stations across the country to remain on high alert. A general advisory warning of trouble in the wake of the Afzal Guru's hanging has been issued.The advisory warns of...
10:14
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's family was informed about his hanging by the Tihar authorities through Speed Post and the Jammu and Kashmir government was taken into confidence before his execution, Union Home Secretary R K Singh said today. The DG (Director General of Jammu and Kashmir...
10:07
Vicky Nanjappa reports: Afzal Guru's body will be buried on the Tihar jail premises itself, according to Delhi police sources. Although there is a provision in the jail manual to permit family members to take his body and perform the funeral, permission would not be granted in this...
09:53
President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 3, Union Home Secretary R K Singh said today. The President rejected Afzal Guru's mercy petition on February 3 and after that we followed the jail manual and his hanging took place...
09:45
Vicky Nanjappa reports: The Intelligence Bureau and the Military Intelligence have advised all police stations across the country to remain on high alert. A general advisory warning of trouble in the wake of the Afzal Guru's hanging has been issued.The advisory warns of...
09:42
Shiv Sena, which has been demanding Afzal Guru's hanging for a long time, on Saturday welcomed his execution.The Sena said it would like to congratulate the people of India and especially the opposition, which had stood united in its demand on this issue
09:27
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's reaction to Afzal Guru's hanging on Twitter: Better late than never.
09:26
Vicky Nanjappa reports that the Intelligence Bureau and the Military Intelligence have advised all police stations across the country to remain on high alert. A general advisory warning of trouble in the wake of the Afzal Guru hanging has been issued. The advisory states warns of possible...
09:25
A major controversy seems to be brewing about whether Afzal Guru's family was informed about the hanging.Some senior lawyers slammed the Union government's reported decision to not inform Guru's family to keep the execution plans under wraps.Eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee, on the other hand, has...
09:22
The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed the hanging of Afzal Guru, stating that it was a much awaited move.
09:21
A security alert has been declared in Maharashtra in the wake of Afzal Guru's hanging. Security has been beefed up at all sensitive locations across Mumbai.
09:20
Mukhtar Ahmad reports from Srinagar that the authorities have ordered the cable operators in Kashmir to suspend their operation immediately following the hanging of Afzal Guru.
09:20
A tight security vigil was put in place across Delhi today to ensure that no untoward incident takes place in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. All the police stations in the city were put on high alert, police sources...
09:17
Professor S A R Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, told Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa that he is shocked and devastated with the manner in which Afzal Guru has been hanged. It is nothing but sheer mobocracy and the procedure has not been followed, Professor Geelani said. It...
09:16
In 2007, the Amiya and B G Rao Foundation had published The Afzal Petition: A Quest for Justice. A British Web site had posted it, here:
09:16
Professor S A R Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, spoke to rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa about Afzal Guru's hanging, here's an excerpt from what he said:Afzal Guru's hanging is surely going to derail peace in Kashmir. There are bound to be issues over there....
09:12
A tight security cordon has been put in place across Delhi today to ensure that no untoward incident take place in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. All the police stations in the city were put on high alert, police sources said. Additional deployment of...
09:06
Mukhtar Ahmed points out from Srinagar that the ruling National Conference and other major political parties in Kashmir had earlier sought Presidential clemency for Afzal Guru, citing the sensitive situation in the Kashmir valley.
08:58
Speaking to NDTV's Barkha Dutt on Saturday morning, senior Supreme Court lawyer Kamini Jaiswal condemned the manner in which the execution was conducted. 'Are we such a bloodthirsty nation?' she asked, condemning the way the government had not informed Afzal Guru's wife in advance about her...
08:50
Afzal Guru's execution comes almost 29 years to the day after the Indira Gandhi government hanged Maqbool Bhat, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front in Tihar jail on February 11, 1984. Separatists in the Kashmir valley had already called for a bandh on Monday,...
08:50
Mukhtar Ahmad reports from Srinagar:A valley-wide curfew was imposed early on Saturday morning. Police and paramilitary troops were deployed across Kashmir to maintain law and order following the hanging of Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru in Tihar jail in New Delhi. Early on...
08:38
The execution occurred at 8 am. He is likely to be buried in Tihar jail. Members of Afzal Guru's family were reportedly present when he was hanged.
08:22
Afzal Guru's mercy petition was rejected a few days ago,Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson Venu Rajamony told PTI. The home ministry had recommended Afzal Guru's execution last month.
08:19
Afzal Guru, the fruit-seller from Sopore in the Kashmir valley, has been hanged in Tihar jail.
08:02
Afzal Guru, who was sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001, attack on Parliament case, will be hanged in Tihar Jail today. The President rejected his mercy petition this week. Curfew has been imposed in all towns in the Kashmir valley, to prevent protests against the execution. Guru is...
03:43
The White House today said it had been motivated by considerations of shielding Syrian civilians, Israelis and its own security, when President Barack Obama nixed an administration plan to arm Syrian rebels. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said during a congressional hearing yesterday that he...
03:43
Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while demonstrators clashed with riot police in cities across the country in marches against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.The protests are part of a...
02:53
Nine female polio vaccinators have been killed in two shootings at health centres in northern Nigeria, police have told the BBC.In the first attack in Kano the polio vaccinators were shot dead by gunmen who drove up on a motor tricycle.Thirty minutes later gunmen targeted a clinic outside Kano...
02:06
The US today strongly condemned the ongoing violence in Egypt, saying that it is extremely disturbed by the incidents in particular those against women. We strongly condemn the recent violence and the attacks that have taken place in Egypt; that we are extremely disturbed by these incidents,...
01:19
Aam Admi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal today lambasted the recently amended Goa Lokayukta Act alleging that chief minister Manohar Parrikar was trying to protect corrupt people. Parrikar is said to be an honest person. Then why is he trying to protect corrupt people, he observed while talking to...
00:35
A blizzard blew into the northeastern United States on Friday, cutting short the workweek for millions who feared being stranded as state officials ordered roads closed ahead of what forecasters said could be record-setting snowfall.Authorities scrambled to prepare for the storm, which had...
00:21
A hacker broke into the Bush family email accounts and accessed all their private family photographs along with their private emails. The Secret service has confirmed that it is investigating reports that a hacker broke into the email accounts of Bush family members and accessed private photos...
00:21
Minister of state for HRD Shashi Tharoor today took a dig at politicians resisting passage of bills relating to education in Parliament, saying some are in that business and so tend to resist reforms that might threaten their privileges. Some of the bills have been held up by their resistance....
00:20
Another earthquake, this one reading7.0 on the Richter scale, hit off the Solomon Islands, thelatest massive aftershock following a 8.0-magnitude quakewhich sparked a tsunami three days ago, US seismologists said.The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at 2:26A.M. (1526 GMT) near the Santa...
00:15
Fresh cases of swine flu reported in DelhiVHP, BJP can say anything, but they can't build Ram temple'There are 3000 more like Hafiz Saeed walking free in PakVote-greedy people behind cases against me: TogadiaP J Kurien rules out resignation over rape chargesPained at my name being floated for PM...
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