There was no explosive in the shells, Punjab Police's Deputy Inspector General (Patiala range) Mandeep Singh Sidhu said.
The flight, which was scheduled to depart at 8.20 pm, had to be grounded following the hoax threat, they said.
A Pakistani gangster, Shahzad Bhatti, has claimed responsibility for an attack on the residence of Jalandhar-based YouTuber Rozer Sandhu, alleging the YouTuber used derogatory language against the Muslim community. A "grenade-like object" was hurled at Sandhu's residence on Sunday, but it did not explode. Police are investigating the incident and have taken a suspicious metallic object into custody. The attack follows a recent trend of violence targeting police posts and religious places in Punjab, with authorities expressing concern about attempts to disrupt the ongoing campaign against drugs in the state.
The 10-day Ganesh festival has begun in Maharashtra, with devotees welcoming Lord Ganesha into their homes and public pandals. The state government has declared the celebrations a state festival for the first time.
Police as also dog and bomb disposal squads rushed to the spot after an alert from a resident about an object near a transformer near Cauvery theatre on one of the busiest traffic junctions in the city.
Parents rushed to the school after receiving a message on the school WhatsApp group to receive their children as soon as possible.
The explosives were detected on the Srinagar Airport road on Tuesday evening.
The deceased personnel, Bhailal (30) and Jairam (30), were in the bomb disposal squad vehicle of the Gujarat Police had taken a halt near Nathgram Ashram on Malkhanpur road under Sirsaganj area, when a speeding truck rammed into their vehicle, Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh 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.
A powerful explosive device was defused on Wednesday on board a train in Pakistan that had passed through Lahore railway station at the time of a bomb blast that killed three persons and injured over 50 others.
The police said the bomb is of high intensity and the damage would have been more had it exploded.
Three bombs, placed in containers, were found on the road near Marwar in Pali district on Tuesday afternoon, the police said.
Panic gripped Surat as the police on Tuesday recovered nine live bombs, one after another within a span of four hours, from different parts of the Varacha area where most of the diamond units are located.
A bomb disposal squad and dog squad were rushed to the Vadodara station to search the train, sources said, adding that no bomb was found.
One more live bomb was defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) in Varacha area of Surat on Monday, a senior police official said.
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.
The police on Thursday evening thwarted a deadly car bomb attack on the busy Jammu Srinagar national highway by-pass near Chanpora in capital city.
In a faux pas, NSG Chief R C Tayal on Tuesday claimed his men defused an Improvised Explosive Device recovered from high-security DRDO Bhawan after "no other agency" could handle the situation, but it later turned out to be a bomb of World War II vintage.
The bomb was kept in a bag in front of the gate of the refinery in Noonmati area of the city, police said.
"The emails were sent from 'mail.ru' domain, in which a man impersonating himself as Tauheed Liaquat sent them to all the schools with the aim of spreading fear among voters and Indian citizens," the Ahmedabad crime branch said in a press statement.
A bomb disposal squad and fire tenders were rushed to the complex where a meeting to review security in Parliament was on, police said.
Around 18,000 employees were evacuated from International Tech Park Ltd at Whitefield in Bangalore Rural district on Monday following a bomb scare, police and ITPL sources said.
A cloth merchant from Kaul Bazaar in Ballari has been detained by the National Investigation Agency and Central Crime Branch in their joint investigation of the March 1 blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, sources said on Friday.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri confirmed that the bomb was similar to the one used in the serial blasts on Friday. Bidri added that a man wearing a red T-shirt had planted the bomb near the mall on Saturday morning.
A policeman was killed and four others including two civilians were injured while defusing bombs seized from a village in Odisha's Puri district.
The police believe it was left behind by Maoists on Sunday night.
The police launched a massive search operation across Hyderabad following four bomb threat calls on Tuesday morning.
Earlier on Wednesday, a bomb squad rushed to the spot after the airlines received the threat call and the plane was taken to an isolated area and the passengers were asked to de-plane the aircraft.
However, no explosive or nothing suspicious has been found so far in these schools and hospitals.
An anonymous caller informed the hospital staff on Sunday morning that a time bomb was planted underneath a scooter and would go off within 15 minutes, Kakinada Deputy Superintendent of Police Surya Rao told PTI.
This year's calendar has images including night combat operations, enhanced anti-hijack operations.
The IITF attracts thousands of visitors every day and the Pragati Maidan is cloaked in unprecedented security for this year's event in view of the October 29 serial blasts.\n
A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore on Thursday created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax.
A fifth bomb has been found in Dharwad in north Karnataka, a city which is around 400 km from Bengaluru. All the five bombs have been found around the Singanahalli bridge and the police now say that the main intention was to blow up the bridge and cause panic in the area.
The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) on Sunday said Manoj Kumar, 42, who was scheduled to fly from Cochin to Mumbai by an Air India flight on Sunday morning made an 'alarming' comment to a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer at the x-ray baggage inspection counter.
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.
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.
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