Senior Taliban leader held in northwest Pakistan

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday. K.V. Balakumaran, described as a 'special member' of the LTTE, suffered injuries in an attack by the army at Udaiyarkattu in Mullaitivu Monday and is in a hospital, puthinam.com reported.

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of the Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday. 'A senior leader and special member of the LTTE K.V.

January 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the Mumbai attacks, belongs to Pakistan, The News reported in its website Wednesday, quoting official sources. '(The) Initial probe has proved that Ajmal Kasab is a Pakistani national,' The News added.

June 1st, 2009 US military Tweets to counter TalibanKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

February 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - To promote its prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani, the tech savvy Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has put out five ad campaigns on 2,000 websites, including those of the US, British and Pakistani media, which are frequented by Indians.

January 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Jan 1 strike from an unmanned US drone in Pakistan killed four top al-Qaeda operatives, including a suspect in both last year's Islamabad hotel attack and the 1998 truck bombings against US embassies in Africa, the Washington Post reported on its website early Friday. The report cited US counter-terrorism officials with access to secret reports, speaking on condition of anonymity.

June 1st, 2009 APNEWSBREAK: US military tweetsKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

March 29th, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian researchers have reportedly uncovered a Chinese cyber plot that hacked the websites of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and systems in the embassies of India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany and Pakistan. They claimed that the operation has been successful in stealing documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world.

August 14th, 2009 KANNUR - The cyber cell of the Kerala Police has traced down an e-mail threat from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) warning of serial bomb blasts in the state, if a separate Muslim state, comprising districts of north Kerala, is not created. Inspector General of Police Tomin Thachenkery said on Friday that a few media offices in the state had received the e-mail threat on Thursday.

September 30th, 2009 AOL hires senior VP for advertisingNEW YORK — AOL LLC said Tuesday it has hired Shashi Seth from software maker Cooliris Inc. for the position of senior vice president of global advertising.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hackers, purported to be from Pakistan, once again targeted an Indian portal, attacking the websites of the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), the premier wire agency and media house headquartered in the national capital. The hackers also sought to identify themselves, saying they were called the 'PakBuGs.OrG Heross' and posted stories with abusive and anti-India content early Wednesday.

March 3rd, 2009 Though it has nothing do with technology, still we just couldn't let this bewitching incident not happen to our site. India had pulled out from a Cricket series in Pakistan after the 26/11 attack on Mumbai.

January 24th, 2009 BERLIN - A mysterious short film which showed up on the YouTube video website threatened terrorist attacks on three German cities, Germany's interior ministry confirmed Saturday. But officials remained unsure if it was not a hoax.

September 7th, 2009 AOL taps exec who famously warned Yahoo of troubleSAN FRANCISCO — AOL LLC has tapped former Yahoo Inc. executive Brad Garlinghouse for a key position that is meant to beef up the struggling Internet company's presence in Silicon Valley.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Contrary to the general perception that India had forced US IT giant IBM to exit the country in 1977, evidence shows that the government was not only keen to retain the company but had also held secret parleys for that with the company's top brass in the US, says a new book. The closed-door talks with IBM were piloted by the then Electronics Commission led by senior technocrat N.