NIA's sleuths carried out these searches at 21 locations in Coimbatore, three in Chennai, and one location in Tenkasi -- all in Tamil Nadu.
Police sources have told rediff.com that ammonium nitrate, shrapnel, a digital clock and and improvised explosive device formed Wednesday's Bangalore bomb composition, which injured 16 people. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Three persons were also hurt when militants exploded an Improvised Explosive Device at Tehsil chowk of the district.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday claimed to have made a major breakthrough in the July 13 triple blasts in Mumbai last year that claimed 27 lives, with the arrest of two of the accused hailing from Bihar.
Maoists opened fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Naxal) activists located near camps of the Central Reserve Police Force and police, triggering a gunbattle, and set off an improvised explosive device in Dantewada district on Tuesday. However, there was no immediate report of casualty on either side in the face-off as intermittent exchange of fire continued late into the night, police sources said.
The Maoists on Sunday began their two-day Bharat bandh by blowing up railway tracks in two districts of Jharkhand, even as the death toll in the Naxal attack on the convoy of independent MP and former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari rose to 11.
Drones are a new technology added recently to the weapons used in the violence between the two large ethnic groups -- Meitei and Kuki -- in the northeastern state, which left over 200 people dead since May last year.
The proscribed United Liberation Front of Assam has acquired a new generation of Improvised Explosive Devices, the Army has recovered an IED equipped with double-detonators from a bus at Bilasipara in Goalpara district in Western Assam.
Border Security Force personnel foiled an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir's RS Pura sector late on Wednesday night.
Terrorists blew up a portion of the Anantnag-Baramulla rail track near Galbugh in the south Kashmir Pulwama district late on Thursday night.
A forensics team from Hyderabad and New Delhi and the National Investigating Agency are working in tandem to gather more evidence regarding the explosives. Apart from this they are also looking into CCTV footage to find more clues regarding the terror attack
Amid reports of leak of United States intelligence information about bomb-making factories in Pakistan's tribal areas, a top American senator has claimed that elements in Inter-Services Intelligence were tipping off terrorist outfits.
At least six people were killed and five others injured on Friday when a bus was targeted with a roadside bomb in Pakistan's troubled Mohmand tribal region, the latest in a string of attacks that have shaken the country.
A deputy inspector general of the Border Security Force was killed in a powerful blast near Balad Ramgrah along the international border in Jammu region on Monday morning. Police sources said two guards who were accompanying the officer were critically wounded in the blast.
The yatra was suspended for three hours as explosives experts removed the IED and then checked the entire area all over again, official sources said.
The IEDs exploded adjacent to a police reserve and about 150 mt away from the parade ground where the celebration was on at 8 am, police said.
The conspiracy behind the 2008 terror attacks in Surat and Bangalore has been revealed following the confession of 57-year-old Edapana Thodika Zainuddin alias Abdul Sattar, a resident of Malappuram in Kerala who was arrested by the Hyderabad police for alleged links with the Indian Mujahideen.
Over 10,000 lives have been lost due to grenades, IEDs and landmines since 1990.
The improvised explosive device planted by militants at Badyara Ashtangoo on Sopore-Bandipora road went off when a Central Reserve Police Force vehicle ran over it around 8 am, injuring three jawans and three civilians.
The IED was planted under a bridge at Ganeshpora, 75km from Srinagar, on the Srinagar-Pahalgam Road in Anantnag district.
The interrogation of the four -- three Kashmiris and a Pakistani national -- has revealed that they were planning to make three improvised explosive devices and plant them at busy markets before fleeing to Kolkata.
Jammu Police has busted a terrorist module and arrested five of its members, including a Special Police Officer, in connection with the recovery of Improvised Explosive Device on Friday, police said today.
Indian Mujahideen terrorist Atif Ameen and an absconder were on Thursday charged by the police with planting bombs at posh Greater Kailash market in New Delhi on September 13 following a conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based mastermind and IM founder Amir Raza Khan. In a charge sheet filed before chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the police alleged that Ameen, who was killed in an encounter in south Delhi's Batla House area, had planted bombs.
New leads into the Mumbai terror attacks have revealed that the two bombs that went off at Vile Parle and Wadi Bandar were planted by slain terrorist Ismail Khan and his associate Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, who is in police custody.
A spokesperson of the paramilitary force said troops fired after they heard a "buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming from the Pakistani side to the Indian side" around 1 am in the Panjgrain area of Gurdaspur sector.
Even as India is slowly recovering from a series of blasts and terror alerts, the CRPF recovered 1.5 kg Improvised Explosive Device from the Amarnath yatra route in Srinagar Valley on Thursday.
During a routine search in Baderwah town, troops recovered 40 kg of RDX in a lake in Baderwah town, which is surrounded by mountain.
One police constable was killed and 13 others, including a paramilitary soldier, were seriously injured in a powerful blast at Magam in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Thursday afternoon.
A special court has allowed the police to dispose off approximately 24 kg of RDX recovered from the 26/11 Mumbai attack target spots.The RDX will be burnt in a controlled atmosphere in the presence of a Magistrate, crime branch sources said, adding that the trial court had given permission to go ahead with the disposal.The seized explosive was placed before the court as evidence, according to Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
Posing as civilians under a new intelligence-based operation to target militant leaders, the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Junaid and gunned down another militant from the Pakistan-based outfit and three from Hizbul Mujahideen. Junaid was trapped in a bus by police personnel who posed as passengers when the militant undertook a journey to travel to his area of operation.
Terror struck Pune on Saturday night as a powerful bomb ripped apart a popular bakery near a Jewish prayer house, killing nine people, including five women and a foreigner, and injuring 32 others, in the first major attack since the 26/11 carnage. The improvised explosive device, kept in an unattended packet outside the kitchen of the German bakery, exploded at approximately 7.30 pm, when a waiter attempted to open it.
A major tragedy was averted on Thursday afternoon with the timely detection of a powerful improvised explosive device in Kashmir's tourist hub of Dalgate on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
With 80 percent of US casualties in Afghanistan caused by roadside bombs planted by Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, the Pentagon is creating a department-wide task force to find ways to counter the menace.
The raids were carried out in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh by the NIA as part of a mega operation that began early Thursday morning, a spokesperson of the premier investigating agency said.
Two improvised explosive devices, lobbed at the Consulate in Jalalabad city on Thursday night, exploded outside the mission, the sources said. Some unidentified persons, suspected to be Taliban militia, threw the IEDs at the consulate, they said. All the staffers at the Indian Mission are safe and there was no damage to the consulate building either, they said.
Pakistan's military spokesman said the convoy was targeted with an improvised explosive device when it was traveling from north Waziristan to Bannu, a major city bordering Afghanistan.
Though the identity of the insurgents was not known, police said it suspected that they belonged to the banned United National Liberation Front.
The improvised explosive device, planted in a van in the Railway Colony market at Bamunimaidan, went off at around 11.45 am.
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