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At least four people have been killed and eight others injured in two separate explosions in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, officials said.
Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag on Wednesday visited the Nagrota-based 16 Corps headquarters and was briefed about Tuesday's terror attack in which seven officers and jawans were killed, even as combing operation to flush out any remaining militant continued.
Bharat Kumar is the second Indian to be killed in two months by the Taliban.
His answer to every question was, "I am politically victimised", the CBI said.
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.
Chauhan, in his petition filed through lawyer Farhana Shah, claimed that the IG (prisons) had cancelled the remission granted to him 'without applying his mind and with a malafide intention'.
The authorities at the American Mission have been warned of the attack by the US Homeland Security Department.
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda and three others, who were accused of helping Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists sneak into India in 1997 to carry out terror strikes, were on Saturday discharged in the case by a Delhi court which cited lack of evidence.
German national football team manager Joachim Low has admitted his side were 'scared' ahead of Friday night's friendly with France due to an earlier bomb threat in the capital.
Drone aerial cameras are being used by city police for the first time to monitor New Year celebrations in the central business district where a bomb blast killed a woman and injured three others on Sunday.
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
A woman was confirmed dead and another injured in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device on Sunday night in front of a popular restaurant on a busy road in the heart of Bengaluru.
The Pakistan army on Monday launched an all-out offensive using jets and tanks in the restive North Waziristan, killing nearly 184 Taliban fighters including foreigners, while six soldiers were killed in an IED blast, the first military casualties in the operation.
On the run for over 10 years, Sikh militant Jagtar Singh Tara, convicted for life in the then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassination, has been deported by Thailand.
A suspicious package destroyed by a bomb disposal team after prompting the evacuation of Manchester United's stadium on Sunday was a fake device accidentally left behind after a training exercise, police said.
The perpetrators of Bhopal-Ujjain train bomb explosion were influenced by Islamic State ideology and the incident was a "trial blast" as the terrorists planned to carry out more attacks, the Madhya Pradesh government said on Wednesday.
When reports last came in, the passengers had been offloaded and the plane was being searched.
During interrogation, 17-year-old Tolga did not reveal the background or motive for targeting the Sikh temple, which hosted a wedding ceremony attended by over 200 guests.
The blast occurred in a general coach of the train between 9.30am and 10am when it was on its way to Ujjain from Bhopal, Railway PRO, Indore, Jitendra Kumar Jayant said.
A Syrian amputee swimmer ran with the Olympic flame through a refugee camp in Athens on Tuesday to highlight the plight of the million people who fled their homes for Europe since last year.
Maoists in Nepal are protesting the government crackdown on their cadres.
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.
The Rajput Karni Sena, the Sarv Samaj Sangathan and some other outfits have a problem with the movie -- calling it disrespectful.
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.
Officials lament the lack of proper legislation in the country vis-a-vis such chemicals.
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.
In a faux pas, NSG Chief R C Tayal on Tuesday claimed his men defused an Improvised Explosive Device recovered from high-security DRDO Bhawan after "no other agency" could handle the situation, but it later turned out to be a bomb of World War II vintage.
Some 35 rocket shells, some of them live, arrived in scrap trucks at Bhushan Steel Factory in Ghaziabad
Two powerful blasts triggered by Islamic State in two churches packed with worshippers celebrating Palm Sunday in Egypt's Tanta and Alexandria cities.
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.
As Congress President Sonia Gandhi turns 70, here's recalling her extraordinary life in pictures.
'Mulk gets a lot of things right, including its vision of the country as a place where underneath the punctilious, forced-secular surface there are volatilities waiting to go off,' says Sreehari Nair.
'Before my scene with Amitabh Bachchan, my father asked me, "You are acting opposite Amitji. Are you scared?"' 'I foolishly said, "No. He is an actor and so am I. He will say his lines and I will say mine. Why should I be scared?".'
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.
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