Army troops on Monday busted a hideout and recovered Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and grenades in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police said a powerful Improvised Explosive Device concealed in a handcart was triggered off by militants when a paramilitary Border Security Force vehicle neared it on the Srinagar Muzaffarabad road in Baramulla town.
Two policemen were injured when militants attacked a check post in northwest Pakistan. Militants attacked a check post at Poran in Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province early on Monday.
As investigators struggled for a breakthrough eight days after the twin blasts, two suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives, who had allegedly recced the area of the attack, were brought here from Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday and grilled by the National Investigation Agency sleuths.
A paramilitary jawan was injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in Badgam district on Thursday, official sources said.
Pakistan and the United States discussed strengthening prosecution and laws to target illegal shipments of components used to make improvised explosive devices and other terrorism cases, as law enforcement and counter-terrorism officials from the two sides held talks in Islamabad.
Police sources said that four persons have been detained for questioning in connection with Friday's low-intensity bomb blast at The Rameshwaram Cafe.
At least 40 people were feared killed when suspected Maoists blew up a bus in Dantewada in Chattisgarh on Monday.The bus was carrying 50 people, including jawans and civilians, according to reports. The blast was due to a landmine, said reports.On April 6, 75 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed when hundreds of armed Maoists ambushed their battalion in the thick forests of Mukrana in Dantewada.
At least three people have been injured in a minor bomb last in Agra's Jai hospital on Saturday evening. The crude bomb was placed at the hospital's reception. There are no reports of any casualties as yet.
The injured persons were rushed to a private hospital, the officer said, adding that the blast site has been cordoned off.
The explosion in a moving autorickshaw in Mangaluru was an 'act of terror,' Karnataka Director General of Police, Praveen Sood said on Sunday.
The United States House of Representatives has approved a billion dollar defence bill, which, among other things, freezes the $700 million in aid to Pakistan until the country offers greater assurances to Washington to contain the spread of Improvised Explosive Devices.
Eight persons, including six policemen, were killed on Friday in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists near a culvert at Majhaulia village in Bihar's Gaya district.
Terror struck Hyderabad killing 16 people and injuring 83 others tonight when two powerful near simultaneous blasts ripped through a crowded area close to a cluster of bus stands in Dilsukhnagar area.
Heavily armed Naxals on Monday ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force patrol party in the jungles along the Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra border resulting in exchange of gunfire between the two sides.
Maoists had surgically inserted an improvised explosive device inside the body of a Central Reserve Police Force jawan who was killed three days ago in an ambush in Jharkhand's Latehar district. Doctors conducting the autopsy of the CRPF trooper at a government hospital in Ranchi were shocked when they found a 1.5 kg unexploded bomb stitched inside the abdomen of 29-year-old Constable Babulal Patel, who was among those killed in the encounter with Maoists.
Prima facie investigations indicate that 'shrapnel' were used in the bomb that went off outside the Delhi high court on Wednesday morning, killing 11 people and injuring scores others.
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'The US should make clear to Pakistan that, whether or not the attack originated in Pakistan, now would be an opportune time to move ahead with the prosecutions of the LeT members involved in the 2008 attacks.'
An Improvised Explosive Device blast completely damaged a stretch of the railway track and led to derailment of seven bogies of the Guwahati-Puri Express, injuring over 100 passengers in Assam's rural Kamrup district, a senior Railway official said.
The police are on the verge of busting the Indian Mujahideen module, which executed the Pune blasts of August 1.
Police said militants planted the improvised explosive device in a Yamaha motorcycle in front of Sani temple in Fancy Bazar, which is the biggest business centre in the entire North-East.
The Pakistani Taliban on Friday targetted a United States consulate convoy in Peshawar with a car bomb killing one person and injuring over a dozen others, the first attack on Americans in the country since Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death.
Lalu, who is leaving for Panipat by a special plane, said that two suitcases containing IEDs have been recovered from the site.
Frontline militant group Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Police said a pre-planted IED near a paramilitary barricade went off on Friday morning.
Suspected United Liberation Front of Asom militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a Central Reserve Police Force team in Assam's Goalpara district in the wee hours of Thursday but none was hurt.
The list of prohibited items includes liquid, gel and aerosol products, which can be used for improvising explosive devices.
Among the distressed crowd at the venue were senior citizens, including women who had actively participated in the morning prayers.
Jammu and Kashmir police officials were fired upon from across the border as they were returning after collecting the remains of the Pakistani intruder killed in an improvised explosive device blast along the LoC in Poonch sector.
An Afghan police officer, who had earlier survived a series of Taliban attacks, was among five people killed in different roadside bombings in the southern militant stronghold of Uruzgan.
Though the run-up to the ULFA raising day this year was violence-free unlike in previous years, the outfit targetted the Kolkata-bound Kamrup Express by planting an improvised explosive devise on a bicycle in Namrup railway station in Dibrugarh district on Monday morning. The IED was detected by the 44 Field Regiment and defused, the sources said.
It is suspected that the IED might have been carried by a drone and dropped at the wrong site close to the border, sources said.
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