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NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday drew a parallel between the ghastly 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai by Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Taiba in 2008 and the recent one launched by Hamas militants in Israel. Speaking at the UN Security Council ministerial meeting on the situation in the ...

In this Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Tahawwur Hussain Rana appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. File | Photo Credit: AP The Biden administration has urged a court in California to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the joint meeting of Congress as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy look on at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on June 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said there can be "no ...

U.S. President Joe Biden is honouring PM Modi with a state visit this week. File | Photo Credit: AP Dozens of U.S. lawmakers ask Biden to raise democracy, rights concerns with ModiMore than 70 American Senators and Representatives have written to U.S. President Joe Biden on the eve of ...

WASHINGTON: A federal court in the United States has agreed to extradite Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian businessman of Pakistani-origin, to India. Rana is sought by India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The court's order, issued by US Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian, certifies Rana's extradition under ...

Anjali Kulthe, the brave staff nurse who saved many lives during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has said that the Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab did not have an “iota of remorse” when she saw him in jail after he was captured alive. Addressing the ‘UNSC Briefing: Global Counterterrorism Approach: ...

Taking a pledge to safeguard Mumbai from terror attacks, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Saturday offered floral tributes at the Martyr’s Memorial in the CP Office on the anniversary of the 26/11 terror attack. Fadnavis, who also holds home and finance portfolios, said: “The 26/11 attack on Mumbai ...

India has said its efforts to sanction perpetrators and facilitators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks have been blocked in the past for “political reasons” that enabled them to organise further cross-border assaults against the country, an apparent reference to China's repeated moves to block New Delhi's efforts to ...

NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba commander and the main handler of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks Sajid Mir is likely lodged in Lahore Central Jail, aka Kot Lakhpat Jail, at present after being sentenced for eight years by an "anti terrorism court" in Pakistan earlier this month on charges of terror financing. ...

On the evening of November 27, 2008, a day after the heinous terror attacks in Mumbai referred to as 26/11, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) secretary Ashok Chaturvedi met then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and offered to resign for his failure to prevent the multiple terror strike that led ...