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LeT South India head arrested for IISc attack

LeT South India head arrested for IISc attack In a major breakthrough in the terrorist attack on Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the Bangalore City police arrested a man who is said to be the head of Lashkar-e-Toiba operations in South India. His name was given as Abdul Rahman, aged about 35. Announcing the arrest at a press conference, City Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh said that Rahman was apprehended from his house in Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh, on Jan 1. On the night of Dec 28, a terrorist had opened fire indiscriminately at delegates participating in an international conference at J

One dead, six hurt in India’s Bangalore shoot

One dead, six hurt in India's Bangalore shoot At least one person was killed and six injured when a gunman opened fire at the Indian Institute of Science in South India's Bangalore on Wednesday. According to New Delhi Television, the deceased, M. C. Puri, was a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology. Scientists were on their way to Tata Auditorium at the institute for an international seminar when firing started, it was reported. Intelligence sources suspect it could be a terrorist attack. The government is trying to ascertain if terrorists carried out the attack. The police have cordoned the area.

IISc terror: Vital installations in India under strict vigil

IISc terror: Vital installations in India under strict vigil Vital scientific and defence installations across the country were on Thursday put under heavy security in the wake of the suspected terrorist attack at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in which a scientist was killed and four others injured. Indian Space Research Organisation has sounded a red alert at all its institutions across the country. Security was beefed up at the space agency’s headquarters in Bangalore after the attack on scientists at IISc last night. Security was tightened at the premier Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, which houses the nation’s

Shock of Air India took years to heal: families

Shock of Air India took years to heal: families It took 20 years -- and a narrow escape from yet another potential tragedy -- for Jayashree Thampi to come to terms with the Air India bombing. Thampi, who lost her husband Lakshmanan and seven-year-old daughter Preethi in the 1985 terrorist attack, recounted Tuesday how the enormity of it all overwhelmed her at the time. I closed my mind to the crash, I concentrated on my work at the Bank of Montreal, she told a public inquiry. I pretended it did not happen to me. In all those years I never cried

Six killed in Maoist attack in India

Six killed in Maoist attack in India Five Maoist rebels were killed Sunday in a gunbattle with security forces in eastern India, a day after guerrillas killed 14 people in the same region, a police officer said. “The incident happened ... when Maoist rebels attacked a police party who were looking for them after they killed a policeman,” a police superintendent, who did not wish to be named, said. Police were looking for the rebels in the jungles of Bijapur district, 50 kilometres from Raipur, capital of Chhattisgarh state, when they were attacked, he said. He said that killing the rebels would