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India 'strongly rejects' Pakistan's claim after Balochistan train hijacking

People carry the coffin of a railwayman killed by armed militants who ambushed a train in the remote mountainous area of Balochistan province, during his funeral in Quetta on March 13, 2025.
Updated on Mar 14, 2025 01:20 PM IST

‘Gunmen shot them all…’: Blow-by-blow account of Pakistan train hijack horror

An injured train passenger is being transported following an operation against armed militants who ambushed the train in the remote mountainous area in Mach, southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025.
Updated on Mar 13, 2025 03:44 PM IST

Islamabad’s Balochistan headache

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Reports emerging from the province suggest the latest attack was primarily aimed against the security personnel travelling on the train (REUTERS)
Published on Mar 12, 2025 09:26 PM IST

Who was Andrew Duarte? Officer killed in UPMC hospital shooting

During a hostage situation at UPMC Memorial Hospital, five individuals were wounded, including Officer Andrew Duarte, who later died.
Published on Feb 23, 2025 05:53 PM IST

Mourning two young brothers, the Bibas family of Israel awaits fate of their mother

Mourning two young brothers, the Bibas family of Israel awaits fate of their mother
Published on Feb 21, 2025 09:14 PM IST

Israel's Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for not returning Shiri Bibas

IIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Friday that Hamas' refusal to release hostage Shiri Bibas' body constituted a "cruel and evil" breach of the truce agreement in Gaza.
Published on Feb 21, 2025 02:24 PM IST

Expected release of high-profile male hostages sparks excitement and anxiety in Israel

Expected release of high-profile male hostages sparks excitement and anxiety in Israel
Published on Jan 31, 2025 08:08 PM IST

Israel-Hamas ceasefire at risk? PM Netanyahu issues fresh warning

Israel-Hamas ceasefire: Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved the truce deal early Saturday.
Updated on Jan 19, 2025 04:55 AM IST

Movie Review: ‘September 5’ goes inside a newsroom during the Munich Olympics hostage crisis

Movie Review: ‘September 5’ goes inside a newsroom during the Munich Olympics hostage crisis
Updated on Dec 12, 2024 03:04 AM IST

Kuki militants seek release of ‘secessionist’ in Manipur

The two Meitei youths being held hostage by the Kuki militants (Screengrab from viral video)
Published on Sep 30, 2024 04:39 AM IST

3-year-old American held hostage by Hamas after his parents were killed

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / TOPSHOT - A wounded Palestinian child and other members of the Baraka family arrive at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, following Israeli air strikes that hit their building in the southern Gaza Strip city on November 13, 2023. Israel is facing intense international pressure to minimise civilian suffering amid a massive air and ground operation that Hamas authorities say has already killed more than 11,000 people, including thousands of children. The military campaign came after Hamas fighters broke through the militarised border with Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 240 people hostage, according to the most recent Israeli figures.
Published on Nov 13, 2023 06:13 PM IST

Ukraine president defends movie post to end hostage crisis

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he agreed in a phone-call with the man, identified as 44-year-old Maksym Kryvosh, that “he would release three people, and after that I would record a video.”
Updated on Jul 22, 2020 10:54 PM IST

UP hostage-taker had studied other cases, planned for a month: Police

People gather as police personnel carry the body of Subhash Batham, who had taken more than 20 children hostage inside his house, after he was shot dead during a rescue operation.
Updated on Feb 02, 2020 10:13 AM IST

‘Nine hours of unforgettable nightmare’: UP village shudders recalling the hostage crisis

Police found around 300 crude bombs in search at Subhash Batham’s house.
Updated on Jan 31, 2020 08:26 PM IST

UP hostage taker shot dead, all kids rescued

Police personnel at the hostage site in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad on Thursday night. The hostage taker was killed.
Updated on Jan 31, 2020 01:54 AM IST

Attack: Jacqueline Fernandez confirms film with ‘awesomest’ John Abraham, four years after Dishoom. See pic

John Abraham and Jacqueline Fernandez to star in Attack.
Updated on Jan 15, 2020 11:31 AM IST

Man who held 26-year-old hostage in Bhopal paraded by police, beaten with slippers by women

Rohit Singh, 30, on Friday barged into the fifth-floor apartmentof the 26-year-old woman in Misrod area of Bhopal. He had held the woman, a professional model, hostage at gunpoint. She was rescued on Friday evening by police.
Updated on Jul 14, 2018 11:56 PM IST