The Bangalore police investigating the blasts case near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in the city say that the explosion was aimed at causing a sensation and also to show in poor light the police department.
The arrested has been identified as Abdul Rehman, the sources added.
The police are now seeking to corroborate certain information given by him, as well quiz him to find if he had a role in the December 28, 2005, attack at the Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore.
At least one person was injured after an out-of-control state-owned Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus ploughed into multiple vehicles on a flyover in Bengaluru, police said on Tuesday.
The sexual assault on a 3-and-half-year-old girl student at a school has been confirmed by doctors, as police on Wednesday intensified the probe into the horrific incident which evoked protest from parents.
The Bangalore police, which busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, on Monday arrested a cyber cafe owner by the name Omar.
Statistics available with the World Health Organisation and the Bangalore Police show that the capital of Karnataka is way ahead of the rest of the cities in India in terms of high suicide rate. The Bangalore city police say that till June 2008, 1,070 cases of suicide had been reported in Bangalore alone.
"Police and bomb squad have carried out their search at Wipro campus and found no suspicious object in the vicinity," Bangalore police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradhkar said.
It had declared Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a FERA violation case after noting that he had failed to appear despite repeated summonses.
Three weeks after the brutal attack on a woman bank official at an unguarded ATM kiosk in Bangalore, the assailant was still on the run even as police said they were making "all efforts" to nab him.
The Bangalore police on Saturday arrested five people in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 21-year old student of the National Law School in the Bangalore University campus. The second-year student, who stays in the university hostel, said the incident took place when she had gone out with her boy-friend, who works with an IT firm.
The probe into the assassination plan against certain right-wing political leaders and journalists, allegedly hatched by some Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, seems to have fizzled out.
Investigations are on to find out if there are any links between the UK terror plot and the attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005, he said.
The Bangalore police have obtained the custody of Buela Sam, the lady from Gujarat who tried to enter the Indian Space Research Organisation on a fake identification card.
The Bangalore police are checking the antecedents of some activists who have been adding fuel to the fire on the exodus of North-East Indians issue. An activist, whose name has been withheld, is under a cloud for sending out emails to North-East Indian students adding to the panic.
Citing violation of party discipline, the state BJP has issued a showcause notice to Munirathna and asked him to clarify the allegations before a disciplinary committee within five days.
When Gujarat chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi takes the stage at Bangalore on November 17, he will be accorded security no less than that for a VVIP.
The Bangalore police, which recently busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, has detained another suspect. The police have seized a cell phone, laptop and Rs 10,000 in cash from the detained suspect -- Dr Nayeem Siddiqui.
The Bangalore police on Sunday arrested a school's skating instructor in connection with the rape of a six year old. The police said that a laptop seized from the accused also contained child pornography and videos of school children being raped.
A couple has been arrested for allegedly ill-treating a 13-year-old domestic help, who is now recovering at a government hospital in Bangalore, police said on Sunday.
Abdul Sattar, a resident of Malappuram in Kerala who was arrested by the Hyderabad police for alleged links with the Indian Mujahideen, was on Wednesday handed over to the Bangalore police for questioning in connection with the bomb blasts there.
The Bangalore ATM attacker has been identified as one Narayan Reddy, a resident of Nallacheruvu Mandal, Cheruvulavadla village in Andhra Pradesh. However, the police have not been able to nab him yet.
The situation is now said to be under control.
Two days after a gunman opened fire at the peaceful precincts of the Indian Institute of Science, killing one academic and injuring four, the sense of unreality was heightened by a bomb hoax.
Thousands of fans who had camped outside Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium to buy just 4,000 tickets for Sunday's World Cup showdown between India and England clashed with police on Thursday, local media reported.
According to officials, Aman Preet Singh is among five people arrested as customers.
A man was tied to a pole and thrashed by the public when he was allegedly trying to steal a stereo system from a car in Bangalore, police said on Friday. He was trying to dismantle the stereo system from a car on Thursday when the owner caught him and raised an alarm. Soon, public gathered around the suspected thief and tied him to a pole, police said, adding he was punched and stripped of his trouser and shirt. The mob also pulled out his belt and whipped him.
The Bangalore police have dismissed any such reports as being rumours.
He is allegedly a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldie Brar gangs, the official said.
After the game, Gill and his sister were subjected to trolling and abuse by some on various social media platforms.
The MP who is seeking re-election from Hassan on a JD-S ticket, shared a letter by his lawyer Arun G to the Deputy Superintendent of Police of the SIT, in which he has sought seven days' time to appear before the official because he is abroad.
A case was booked against Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Bangalore South Candidate Tejasvi Surya for allegedly posting a video on a social media platform and soliciting votes on the grounds of religion, the Election Commission said on Friday.
The high-end car, allegedly driven by real estate developer Vishal Agarwal's teenage son, who the police claim was drunk at the time, hit two software engineers, killing both, in the city's Kalyani Nagar in the early hours of Sunday.
Vidhan Soudha to be out of bounds for public
The Supreme Court Monday termed as 'horrendous' the video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur and sought information about steps taken so far in the first information reports (FIRs) lodged, saying now it will not want the state police to probe the matter as they virtually handed over the women to the rioting mob.
Two men were arrested and two minors were apprehended in connection with Wednesday's incident at Chikkabettahalli
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A skating instructor at a public school was arrested on Sunday in connection with the alleged rape of a six-year-old student even as protests continued for the fourth day against the incident.
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