With one more person succumbing to his injuries, the toll due to the blast in German Bakery in Pune has risen to 16, hospital sources said on Wednesday.Sudanese student Anaj Alfateh Sulamian succumbed to his injuries at the Jehangir Hospital today morning.Suleman, who was a first year BA student of Pune College, is the fifth foreign victim of the blast.The blast also wounded 57 people, and is seen as the first major attack on India since the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The police has registered an FIR and would look at who was at fault.
A designated Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court will decide on Wednesday on a plea filed by Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt in which he has sought that he be allowed to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court in south Mumbai.
A wanted accused in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, who had planted one of the bombs that went off that fateful evening, had enrolled himself at a gymnasium owned by the family of underworld don-turned-politician Arun Gawli, the Anti-Terrorism Squad said on Friday.
One of the prime conspirators of the blasts, Shabbir Batterwalla, had received training at a camp near Karachi in Pakistan in 2003.
Zaheed Yusuf Patni was booked under POTA on Thursday.
Playwright-director and actor Santosh Pawar has found himself in the spotlight ever since the bomb blast took place at Gadkari Rangaytan, Thane, Maharashtra, where his new play, Aamhi Pachpute, was scheduled to perform.
'Hindus have never been polarised across Maharashtra in any state election.'
The Supreme Court's refusal to stay execution of Yakub Memon on Wednesday drew sharp reactions from legal experts.
A bomb squad was rushed to the spot. There was no prima facie evidence to suggest any terrorist angle in the incident, police said.
The National Investigating Agency has raised questions over the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad's handling of the Malegaon blast case.
RDX and timer were used in the explosion that ripped apart a taxi at Wadi Bunder in central Mazgaon during the November 26 Mumbai terror attack, sources said."Samples from the blast tested at forensic science laboratory in Mumbai showed that RDX and timer were used in the explosion," sources said, adding that the explosive used was similar to that used in Vile Parle taxi blast.
Top CIA officials met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Monday and are understood to have discussed evidence of Pakistani involvement in the July 11 Mumbai blasts.
Mumbai Meri Jaan follows the lives of people from all strata of Mumbai's bustling society as they tackle the aftermath of a fatal incident that brings out the best and sometimes the worst in them.
The probe into the blast in Goa, which was triggered in October, has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency for a thorough enquiry as it was emerging that links to the crime, alleged to have been carried out by Hindu extremists, were found in other states as well.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
'I am proud of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai, that this is a state which has done more number of tests than any state in India.' 'The more you test, the more number of cases you will pick up.' 'If you do not do the tests, then you are groping in the dark.'
Chaos reigned at various hospitals in Mumbai with over 80 injured people being rushed for treatment after serial bomb blasts rocked the metropolis on Wednesday evening.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to seek from the Supreme Court withdrawal of charges of organised crime against 1993 Mumbai blast accused Abu Salem after receiving legal opinion on the issue.
Security expert B Raman say that the blasts in Mumbai show the continuing deficiencies in our counter-terrorism capability.
The bail plea of nine persons accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts has been rejected by a special MCOCA court in Mumbai on Tuesday. The nine accused had moved the special MCOCA court in February seeking bail on the basis of the confessional statement of Swami Aseemanand, a key accused in the Samjhauta Express blasts case. Aseemanand had alleged that right-wing groups were involved in the 2006 bombings.The anti-terrorism squad of the Maharashtra police had investigated the case
The government is bound by the assurance given by the then deputy prime minister L K Advani to the Portugal government that the maximum sentence handed out to gangster Abu Salem will not exceed 25 years, the Union home secretary has told the Supreme Court.
'There were no stretchers available immediately, so the people who gathered around tore down tarpaulin and cloth from adjoining shops and made them into makeshift stretchers to ferry the injured to the nearby Saifee Hospital.'
'We have gathered what we needed and are examining it,' sources said, adding that traces of ammonium nitrate have been found among other material, which are currently under observation.
The exercise is going to be seen as a test of the new joint mechanism against terror.
The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday criticised the increase in airport development charges imposed by Mumbai and New Delhi, saying the burden on the already beleaguered global airline industry is a 'wake up call' for the Indian government.
Politicians on either side of the secular fence should tell people that Pakistan has now attacked the heartland and peninsular India after targeting the northeast, Punjab and Kashmir, says former IB official Maloy Krishna Dhar.
A police statement issued Wednesday night said that after completion of interrogation, it was found the youths had visited Tripura for preaching the tenets of Islam.
Investigation into the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai has made 'important progress' and the probe was on right track, Union Home Secretary R K Singh said on Thursday.
Images from Tuesday's IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders, in Chennai.
Images from Friday's IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians, in Abu Dhabi.
Malik said he did not buy any property from anyone who is linked to the underworld or is a convict in a bomb blast case. He said by trying to link him with the underworld and bomb blast convicts, Fadnavis is maligning his image.
Anju's husband Krishna Kumar, a bank officer, who was killed in the Mumbai train blasts said that she has decided to immolate herself before Nitish Kumar to protest against forcible occupation of her flat by a leader of ruling party JD(U).
Stung by the criticism from all quarters to their lackadaisical reaction to 26/11, Mumbai police reacted with alacrity to the serial blasts that hit southern Mumbai on July 13 last year.
Images from Sunday's IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, in Dubai.
The arrest of Manzar Imam, a resident of Ranchi, in connection to the twin Hyderabad blasts appears to have given a positive momentum to the probe into the terror attack.
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