Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Sunday met Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and said that he would not resign from his post. Patil, after meeting Deshmukh at his official residence 'Varsha' in south Mumbai, said that there is no possibility of his resignation.
Sebastian D'Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus.
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The Maharashtra government is under political pressure to act against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray. Police already have a non-bailable arrest warrant against Raj, but are yet to take any action against him. The MNS chief, too, dared the Maharashtra government to arrest him after his party activists on Sunday attacked young North Indians students appearing for a railway recruitmen
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The home department has dashed off a letter to BMC officials asking them to find out if buildings in the city can be structurally designed in such a way as to efficiently absorb shock waves following an explosion.
A meeting with structural engineers was organised in the BMC's building proposal department last week to zero in on such "shock-absorbing' ' material.
वाढत्या दहशतवादाच्या निमित्ताने 'पोटा'सारख्या कायद्याच्या गरजेविषयी सुरू झालेल्या चचेर्त, अडाणी पूर्वग्रह, प्रचारकी अभिनिवेश आणि दहशतवादी कारवायांमागील मानसिकतेच्या आकलनाचा अभाव किंवा ते असूनही त्यावर राजकारणाची पोळी भाजून घेण्याची रणनीती, या सर्वांचाच प्रत्यय येतो आहे.
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अहमदाबाद, दिल्लीपाठोपाठ मुंबईला लक्ष्य करण्याच्या इराद्याने निघालेल्या 'इंडियन मुजाहिदीन'च्या कट-कारस्थांनाना सुरुंग लावत मुंबई क्राइम ब्रँचने पाच खतरनाक दहशतवाद्यांना अटक केली आहे.
हे पाचही उत्तर प्रदेशच्या आझमगढचे असून २००५ सालापासून देशभरात विविध ठिकाणी झालेल्या सर्व बॉम्बस्फोटांमध्ये त्यांचा सहभाग असल्याचे सांगण्यात येते!
The state Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) investigating the planting of improvised explosive devices at auditoriums in Thane, Vashi and Panvel earlier this year is expected to file a chargesheet in the next couple of days against the members of sanatan sanstha.
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दहशतवादी कारवायांशी संबंध असल्याच्या संशयावरून पुण्यातून सिमीच्या कार्यर्कत्यांना पकडल्याच्या पार्श्वभूमीवरच सोमवारी पोलिस आयुक्त डॉ. सत्यपाल सिंग यांच्या पुढाकाराने 'मिशन मृत्युंजय'ची स्थापना करण्यात आली आहे. दहशतवादाचा सामना करण्यासाठी या माध्यमातून शहरातील शाळा आणि कॉलेजच्या विद्यार्थ्यांचे मृत्युंजय क्लब स्थापन करण्यात येणार आहेत.
They are the ones who risk life and limb in the line of duty but the rewards for doing so are virtually nil for members of the bomb detection and disposal squad.
For instance, a member of the BDDS is insured for Rs 1.25 lakh in the eventuality of death. The corresponding amount for his counterpart in the anti-terrorism squad is Rs 10 lakh. In addition, the ATS staffer gets a house rent allowan
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In what’s sure to rub salt into old wounds, the railways is approaching victims of the July 11, 2006 train blasts to 'recover' interest charges paid along with the compensation.
Bhayander resident Raju Kamble, one of the hundreds who sustained serious injuries on that fateful day, received a meagre compensation of Rs 28,000 from the railway tribunal in January.
Mumbai, June 18: Hitting a new controversy, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has called for setting up suicide squads to ward off terrorism.
Thackeray has written a controversial editorial in the Sena's mouthpiece -- Samanaa, in which the editorial calls for the formation of Hindu suicide squads. Thackeray says, "The thre
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The special court hearing the 1993 serial blasts case has given its verdict after what came to be known as 'the world's longest terrorism trial, a book has been written on the explosions and a film too screened in theatres across India.
Yet, all is clearly not over for the Mumbai police in the case. On Tuesday, 15 years after the blasts, the crime branch arrested one of the accused, Abbas Mo
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The eight franchisee owners and sponsors of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have decided to donate Rs. 60 million for the victims of the serial bombings that rocked the city on Tuesday.
"The eight franchisees and five sponsors of the league would come together to donate Rs. 6 crores towards the Rajasthan chief minister`s relief fund, as aid towards the victims of the terror attacks in Jaipur.
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Constables in the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) have complained that the state government has not fulfilled its promises of offering them bigger salaries, medical cover, insurance and housing facility.
They alleged that only senior ATS officers enjoyed these perks. The squad was formed four years ago to combat terror outfits.
In a dramatic breakthrough in the investigations into the terror attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, the UP special task force on Sunday arrested six alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists.
Three of them were bound for Mumbai on Sunday morning to carry out strikes on key installations in India’s financial capital, police said.
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