Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the blast seemed to be aimed at sabotaging the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore.
The government was making all out efforts to get the Indian national freed from a Pakistani jail.
The Moreh gate in Manipur at Myanmar border was sealed Monday after two persons were killed and four injured in twin blasts in Namphalong, Myanmar, Sunday.
The authorities at the American Mission have been warned of the attack by the US Homeland Security Department.
A bandh called by various organisations in protest against the killing of a 14-year-old girl Purnima Rajak in a bomb blast on Tuesday evening, paralysed life in Dibrugarh city as well as the entire district on Thursday.
While Britain grapples with a hung parliament, EU has warned, 'We don't know when Brexit talks start. We know when they must end.'
While Air India and Jet Airways flights to Kathmandu were grounded at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, no-frills airline AirAsia's Goa flight from Bengaluru also failed to take off on scheduled time due to similar reasons.
Officials lament the lack of proper legislation in the country vis-a-vis such chemicals.
The apex court said it has imposed certain conditions on Purohit while granting bail.
To provide more active support to African countries fighting the Nigerian Islamist militant group.
Two persons, including a woman suspected to be a human bomb were killed and about 16 others, including lawyers, injured in a bomb blast at Ara civil court premises in Bihar on Friday which appeared to be aimed at helping undertrials flee.
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If Team Rajini expected Kaala to carry the superstar's political message off-screen, it may have proved counter-productive. If the not-so-infrequent presence of Muslim residents of Dharavi, including that of Kaala's ex-love Zarina, in many scenes is expected to convey a political message, it is a no-brainer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
A blast in New Jaipaiguri in West Bengal has killed four persons and injured seven. The police and the Intelligence Bureau are suspecting the involvement of the dreaded Inter-Services Intelligence funded, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation. The powerful bomb was planted on a cycle.
When reports last came in, the passengers had been offloaded and the plane was being searched.
Thailand authorities on Tuesday launched a hunt for a male "suspect" who may have left a bomb inside the hugely popular Lord Brahma temple in a crowded area in central Bangkok that killed at least 20 people and injured 123 others.
Maoists in Nepal are protesting the government crackdown on their cadres.
In a breakthrough, Thailand's prime minister announced on Tuesday that a second foreign national believed to be the main suspect in the country's worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that claimed 20 lives has been arrested near the Cambodian border.
North Korea has threatened to go to war against South Korea a day after the latter fired dozens of artillery rounds across the rivals' border in response to what it said were several rounds of Pyongyang's artillery launched at the South.
The Ariana Grande's Sunday Manchester benefit gig was bold. And triumphant. She, and several of the world's top musicians, belted out an evening of song with the unstoppable message: Fight terrorism with music.
Three persons, including husband of a Communist Party of India-Marxist candidate, were killed on Monday and several others injured in violence during the second phase of panchayat elections in West Bengal where 75 per cent polling was recorded.
A device hidden in a plastic bag exploded in the hall last night when people were watching a film at Mingora city, some 150 northeast of Peshawar.
A Public Interest Litigation against bandhs was filed in the Bombay high court by AGNI, theatre personality Alyque Padamsee and former municipal commissioner B G Deshmukh.
Some 35 rocket shells, some of them live, arrived in scrap trucks at Bhushan Steel Factory in Ghaziabad
Showing a photograph of the mishap site published in a newspaper, she said that it looked like a site of bomb blast. There were various aspects which should be looked into.
The Centre on Thursday decided to hand over to the National Investigation Agency the probe into the bomb blast in Burdwan in West Bengal in which the role of terror groups is suspected, a decision which the Trinamool Congress government said was taken suo motu.
The three terror incidents that took place in Patna, Bangalore and Bodh Gaya this year have been solved, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Thursday as he made it clear that government will deal with terrorism with an "iron fist".
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After a massive manhunt, the National Investigation Agency on Wednesday nabbed the elusive Students Islamic Movement of India operative Haider, who allegedly played a key role in the Patna blasts targeting Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi's rally last October.
The mother of nineteen-year-old Gordon Gentle who died in a bomb blast in Basra claims his life could have been saved if the government had invested money in signal jamming equipment.
In June 2002, a suicide bomber blew up a truck in front of the consulate, killing 12 persons.
While the Army says it follows proper procedure to maintain a record of ammunition, it admits that due to the vastness of the firing ranges some fired ammunition may get buried in the ground and remain there without getting detected, reports Prakash Bhandari.
There will be a strong focus on buying uncapped Indian players with eight franchises gearing up to pick a maximum of 76 out of the 350 plus, who will go under the hammer at the auction for the 10th Indian Premier League.
The Delhi government has decided to refer to the Union home ministry a decision on the execution of death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar following a medical board report that he is under severe mental depression.
Most of the houses in this village have been abandoned as the residents have migrated to safer places to save themselves from the ceasefire violation from the Pakistani side.
The admission came after a bomb blast at a Karachi business centre, the Kawish Crown Plaza, which police said was ostensibly owned by Ahmed Jamal but actually belonged to Dawood Ibrahim'.
The exact number of gunmen involved in Monday's deadly attack in a Pakistani court, which claimed 11 lives could not be ascertained as CCTV cameras were not installed and scanning machines were out of order.
The German police had received information about plans to carry out a bomb attack on a gurdwara in Essen by a group of teenagers from one of the suspects' mother some weeks before an explosive was detonated there, media reports have claimed.
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