Topic: Mumbai

Manila says arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people over a hacking operation that targeted customers of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based militant group.Those arrested on Wednesday in Manila were paid by the same ...

Philippines say arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.The Philippines' Criminal ...

Indian bomb probes wrongly target Muslims: judge

A recently retired judge from the Indian Supreme Court has launched a blistering attack on the country's police, accusing them of falsely implicating local Muslims in bomb attacks.Markandey Katju, who retired from the top court last month, said Indian police were poorly ...

U.S. looks for links between Kabul, Mumbai attacks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the September 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.Current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials told Reuters ...

Several injured in blast near India's Taj Mahal

A suspected bomb exploded at a hospital in the northern Indian city of Agra on Saturday injuring several people, witnesses said, though no deaths were immediately reported.The blast came less than two weeks after a powerful bomb in a briefcase ripped through ...

Blast e-mail suspect detained in Indian Kashmir

Police in Indian Kashmir on Friday detained a man suspected of sending an e-mail claiming responsibility for a bomb at New Delhi's High Court that left 13 dead.The unverified e-mail, which said the Pakistan-based militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) carried out Wednesday's ...

Rival claims to Delhi bomb blast

Indian federal investigators examined Thursday two unverified claims by militant groups that they were behind a deadly bomb blast at New Delhi's High Court that left 12 people dead.One emailed claim purportedly sent from Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant group, ...

Analysis: Blast another blow for "clueless" India government

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A spate of audacious and deadly terrorist attacks on high profile targets in India is unlikely to be stopped anytime soon because the response by the government, slammed by one tabloid as "clueless," has been half hearted and ...

Delhi High Court 'terror' bomb kills 11

A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd outside New Delhi's High Court on Wednesday, killing 11 people and injuring 76, many of them petitioners waiting for legal hearings.The device was placed near an entrance gate reception area, where ...

India ramps up security for independence day

Police and soldiers were out in force across India on Monday as security was ramped up for Independence Day celebrations held in the shadow of blasts last month in Mumbai which killed 26 people.A senior home ministry official said security measures were ...
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