'There are 36 foreign tourists from China, Italy, USA, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand and other countries.'
Five minor blasts hit Bodh Gaya Temple within a span of 30 minutes on Sunday morning.
India on Monday raised with Myanmar the incident of bomb blasts in holy town of Bodh Gaya in the backdrop of reports that the attack was a reaction of alleged violence against Muslims in that country.
A year after the holy Buddhist city of Bodh Gaya in Bihar was rocked by serial bomb blasts, the city is gearing up for the three-day International Buddhist Conclave in which 300 scholars, historians and Buddhists from across the world will participate. The conclave will be held in September, officials said on Saturday.
The most basic reality of a dysfunctional enforcement apparatus across India will ensure that coordinated terrorist attacks, like the Bodh Gaya strike, will continue to occur, notes Ajai Sahni.
More than two lakh people from across the globe are attending the 32nd Kalachakra puja led by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the Buddhist holy site of Bodh Gaya in Bihar amidt tight security arrangements. M I Khan reports.
The proposed Indian Institute of Management in Bihar will be set up at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, state Education Minister Brishen Patel said on Wednesday.
The probe into the multiple blasts in Bodh Gaya was handed over to the National Investigation Agency by the Centre following a request from the Bihar government.
The Bihar State Electricity Board has disconnected its power supply to eight foreign Buddhist monasteries in Bodh Gaya in Gaya district for not paying their power tariff dues, an official said. Gouri Shankar Prasad, a BSEB official told rediff.com that the board will disconnect the supply to other monasteries if they don't pay their dues.
Addressing a gathering at Bodh Gaya, the Dalai Lama said he has no ill will against those who provoke anger in him.
Buddhists and Hindus have joined hands demanding that Bihar's twin towns of Gaya and Bodh Gaya be declared vegetarian and a dry area.
Describing Bodh Gaya as the "land of enlightenment", Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government would develop the site as the spiritual capital for it to serve as a civilisational bond between India and the Buddhist world.
'We are happy China has failed to disrupt the Kalachakra Puja by its repressive measures in Tibet; many Tibetans have come to attend the Puja.'
National Investigation Agency sleuths, who are probing the serial blasts at Bodh Gaya, have failed to get any helpful leads from the footage recorded by the CCTV cameras at the spot.
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Bodh Gaya emerged as a centre that encouraged a continuous dialogue of civilisation, it has enabled India to re-forge her age old linkages with countries, who derived inspiration from Buddha's message of compassion. It is this dialogue that was sought to be interrupted by the dastardly attack, says Dr Anirban Ganguly.
The National Investigation Agency has its task cut out as it commences its probe into the Patna serial blasts, which killed five people on Sunday. An officer with the agency told rediff.com that the attack appears to be similar to
Yasin Bhatkal, the arrested Indian Mujahideen founder who has been taken to New Delhi for questioning, has admitted to his role in almost all blasts barring the Bodh Gaya incident which took place last month.
After having failed to make any breakthrough in the serial bomb blasts case in the Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple in Bihar, the National Investigation Agency has released sketches of five suspects including a foreign national, police officials on Tuesday said.
Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, one of Buddhism's holiest shrines, plans to provide a peaceful environment for meditation to 4,000 visiting troops of the Royal British Army, who will start arriving in the second week of January 2013.
Mounting an all out attack against the Nitish Kumar government, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday began a 24-hour fast in Patna to protest against the police firing in Bagaha and the serial blasts in Bodh Gaya "due to security lapses".
The National Investigation Agency has found some important clues in the Bodh Gaya blasts, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Wednesday.
Alarmed over use of small cylinders in serial bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, the Bihar government on Saturday banned the sale of small LPG cylinder in the state.
Thirty-six hours after the serial blasts at the Maha Bodhi temple complex in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, the temple was re-opened on Monday evening for the public, including devotees and tourists, officials said.
Lambasting the Centre and Bihar government for failing to prevent the serial blasts in Bodh Gaya despite intelligence tip off about nine months ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demanded putting in place a comprehensive plan and coordinated effort by various agencies to deal with threat to country's internal security.
It was either an insider job or someone from outside pretending to be Buddhist who carried out the Bodh Gaya attack, the National Investigation Agency has said.
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".
Traders, hoteliers, monks and locals from Bihar's Gaya district are all speaking in one voice. They are protesting against the district administration's anti-encroachment drive where in the world heritage and pilgrimage site Bodh Gaya, which houses the famous Mahabodhi Temple, will be declared a buffer zone.
The Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist will oppose Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to Bodh Gaya in Bihar on February 8, protesting against the 'Tamil genocide' in his country.
A special National Investigation Agency court in Patna on Friday convicted eight operatives of the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh terror group for planting IEDs at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya in 2018, an official said.
Buddhist monks have demanded the arrest of the former chief priest of the Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism's holiest shrine, after recovery of ornaments and jewelry donated by devotees from his room.
China's ruling Communist Party has cracked down on Tibetans who planned to attend the Kalachakra Puja in Bodh Gaya. But the Tibetan people have dared the Communists by listening to the Dalai Lama's sermons on the Internet and sharing videos on social media.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the state governments have been asked to identify Rohingya refugees in their regions and collect their biometric details.
The explosions on July 7, 2013, were carried out with an intention to kill domestic and foreign pilgrims, especially Buddhists in order to create terror at a place of worship.
The attack on the Mahabodhi temple is a precursor before Pakistan-based terror outfits launch a major 'war' in support of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Vicky Nanjappa reveals how the low intensity serial blasts in Bodh Gaya that injured two monks were orchestrated
Asserting that there should be no politics on the Bodh Gaya blasts, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Sunday's terror strike is a lesson for everybody, and urged the Centre to take firm steps to intensify the security of the Mahabodhi temple, which is a symbol of faith for crores of followers of Buddhism all over the world.
A team of the National Investigation Agency will question Anwar Hussain Malik, a West Bengal-based suspected Indian Mujahideen operative in connection with Sunday's Bodh Gaya serial blasts.
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