Four hospitals in Delhi received a bomb threat via email on Tuesday morning, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said.
The Nagpur police's control room received a call around 2 am from a man claiming that a bomb had been planted outside Fadnavis' house.
Justice Subramonium Prasad said though police have filed a status report listing the standard operating procedure for bomb detection and disposal squads and the guidelines to deal with bomb threats in schools, they have not submitted data on several key aspects.
Searches were on Friday conducted at a suburban college here after the authorities received a call of a bomb being planted in its premises, police said.
It was "possibly a Pakistani fishing vessel", but the identity and other details will be ascertained once the boat is intercepted, the official said.
A live bomb was found on Saturday evening in a private nursing home in Dhantoli, police said.The sniffer dog of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad identified the bomb which was wrapped in a plastic bag, police said.
A man, who allegedly made the call in an inebriated state, has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended from there, they said.
Five small crude bombs along with some crackers were found lying along the tracks near Jharsuguda in Orissa on Saturday, triggering a bomb scare and briefly disrupting rail services on the Mumbai-Howrah route.
A high-intensity bomb was found planted between a cave-like structure between the Kasiviswanathanar temple and Sikander dargah at Tirupparankundram hill in Tamil Nadu, the police said on Friday
There was a scare in suburban Andheri on Wednesday when a bomb-like object was sighted outside a popular shopping mall.
Shiv Sena Bhavan at Dadar in central Mumbai, the political party's headquarters, was evacuated on Wednesday afternoon following a bomb scare on the premises, which later turned out to be a hoax, sources told rediff.com.
Rohit Arya, who had released a video statement during the hostage drama that went on for about an hour, was shot dead by the police when he tried to harm the children with an air gun and later died at hospital, an official said.
A Goa Police officer said the flight which took off from Moscow and was supposed to land at the Dabolim airport was diverted to Jamnagar due to a bomb scare.
However, no explosive or nothing suspicious has been found so far in these schools and hospitals.
A suspected explosive device was on Wednesday found under Union Minister V Narayanasamy's car which was parked outside his residence in Puducherry.
A blast reported in a resto-bar in Mapusa in Goa may have been caused by a cylinder as per initial probe, a police official said on Monday.
The school authorities immediately alerted police, who reached the institutions concerned with the bomb disposal squads and anti-sabotage check teams, they said, while indicating the bomb threat could be a hoax.
During the Gudhi Padwa festival, Hindus visit Hazrat Sayyad Badshah Dargah near the mosque, a villager said.
A major tragedy was averted in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday following a timely detection of four powerful improvised explosive devices by the army and local police.
'The caller is a truck driver from Marathwada region of Maharashtra. We have learnt that he has a habit of drinking. He has been detained along with one more person and the process to register an offence is currently on,' Mumbai police said.
Police is taking the seizure seriously since it occurred a day before the 13th anniversary of Mumbai serial bomb blasts.
The explosives were detected on the Srinagar Airport road on Tuesday evening.
A top CISF official said the device resembled a low-intensity IED. It was taken away from the airport in a bomb disposal unit vehicle and defused at Kenjaru ground in a controlled-explosion by keeping the unclaimed laptop bag in sand-packs.
A major tragedy was on Saturday averted with the timely detection of an IED by the Army on the Jammu-Poonch highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch border district, officials said. The IED, planted by militants, was detected at Sheri-Kashmir bridge on the highway at the entry of Poonch town, ahead of the passage of a convoy in the area, an army official said.The device was later defused by the bomb disposal squad, he said.
A major tragedy was on Thursday averted with the timely detection of a live grenade by police at a crowded bus stand in Bandipura district, official sources said.
Yet another live bomb was on Sunday found in the posh Atwalines area in Surat, taking the total number of explosive devices detected in the diamond city to 24, the police said. The bomb, which was found inside a bag near a bus-stand adjacent to the municipal garden (commonly known as Chowpati), was defused by the bomb disposal squad, they said.
An IED stuffed with RDX and ammonium nitrate was found inside an unattended bag at the Ghazipur flower market in New Delhi on Friday morning but it was later defused, officials said.
It was written in the email that the "building will explode as bomb is planted", a police officer said and added that the IP address and other details of the mail are being checked.
The search was carried out for an hour from 1500 hours on Wednesday.
Hours after the serial blasts in Mumbai, an abandoned bag was found in suburban Santacruz and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad rushed to the spot to check its contents, police said.
The dog had served in the squad for eight years and had been admitted to animal hospital at Parel for treatment last month.
An anonymous e-mail threatening to blow up the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges prompted the police to tighten security at the key buildings in Mumbai on Monday. "An NSE official received the e-mail and I asked for security to be beefed up at the buildings immediately after being told about it," Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) K L Prasad said. Prasad said that teams from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad have been posted outside the buildings.
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Security was stepped up at the Rajasthan assembly building after the secretariat received a postcard threatening to blow it up during the winter session, said the police."The bomb disposal squad and the anti-sabotage team were rushed to the spot immediately after the assembly officials informed us about the letter. So far, no objectionable object or explosive has been detected and further search is going on in the assembly building premises," said a police official.
Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh told news channels that the vehicle, a Scorpio van, was found some distance away from the multi-storey residence of Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries.
They were found dumped in the Nawande nullah on the Mumbai-Goa highway, a few kilometres from Karjat town in Raigad district.
A major catastrophe was averted on Tuesday when the Jammu and Kashmir police detected an explosive-laden car in the busy Karan Nagar area of Srinagar, foiling militants' plan to set off a massive blast, official sources said.
A simulated security scare situation was created wherein four "terrorists" entered the RSS building, the official said late night.
'It is basically a threat letter calling the planted explosives a 'trailer' and a warning to return with more preparations to assassinate the whole family later.'
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