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.
Around 6,000 security personnel will be deployed and a total of 24 help desks will be set up in the New Delhi district for those who attend Republic Day celebrations, the police said.
The plane crashed into the pond in Sarhali Kalan village of Kasur district, 50 km from Lahore, on Monday night.
Bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect package in the Monaco Grand Prix paddock on Thursday evening.
It was found that detonators were connected to a cylinder with a wire, which was around 500 meters long. The material has now been sent to the forensic science laboratory. Only after the tests are conducted can a final conclusion, regarding the material used, be arrived at.
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.
Security forces on Tuesday averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on Srinagar-Kupwara road, official said.
The woman noticed a suspicious-looking, abandoned plastic packet in a pit near her house in Bamunimaidan and informed the police.
The Central Reserve Police Force recovered an Improvised Explosive Device, weighing around four to five kilogram, on the HMT-Narbal Route near Beacon Huts in Lawapora Area in the outskirts of Srinagar on Saturday morning.
The CBI during its probe got inputs of a large cache of arms hidden in Sandeshkhali. On Friday morning, a CBI team started a search operation during which the arms, including foreign-made pistols, were seized, the officials said.
Speaking to rediff.com, police sources hinted that a faulty transformer could have triggered the blast, but no confirmation was available immediately.
Suspected militants made an abortive attempt to hurl grenade at a police party outside a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Srinagar on Friday, officials said.
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured on Wednesday when a bomb exploded near a government office in the Quetta city of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province.
An anonymous caller threatening to blow up two Metro stations, including at the busy Rajiv Chowk in the heart of Delhi, on Sunday triggered a scare in the National Capital Region, prompting authorities to step up security at these installations.
A T-shirt vendor, who was a Vietnam veteran, alerted the police when he noticed smoke coming out of a car at the Times Square.
A bid to blast the India-bound Thar Express has been unsuccessful, as the blast could only result in the derailment of two of its compartments at Dhabeji near Karachi. According to details, a number of explosives had been planted at the up track, aimed at hitting the train en-route from Karachi to India.
The blast in Baldia Town area of the port city appeared to be accidental and bomb disposal squad personnel were trying to determine its exact nature, police officials said. Two Kalashnikov assault rifles, 22 grenades and two suicide jackets were found in the one-room house, which collapsed due to the explosion.
The explosives were found in a haversack that was among the 150 unclaimed baggages at the terminus post the November 26 attack. The haversack was similar to the one carried by the terrorists who attacked the terminus, says acting ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi.
The landmine is believed to have been left there by Naxals.
With New Delhi bracing for Diwali celebrations this weekend, the police have put in place a tight security regime across the city with emphasis on crowded places like markets and malls.
Two children were seriously injured in an explosion that occurred in a garbage dump on Friday afternoon in front of Rajkiya Inter college, Sector 22, Noida. The blast occurred when the children Sonu and Golu, both rag pickers, were scouring the waste
It's a single phase polling in Mizoram while first phase of assembly elections is underway in Chhattisgarh.
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.
Investigators believe that the same persons were behind planting the IEDs within a month.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
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.
The two were arrested barely a kilometer away from Connaught Circus, the central point of New Year celebrations.
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
The constable doubted that the DSP was responsible for his suspension.
Naxalites struck for the second time in three days killing three inhabitants of Hadian village in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district in the wee hours of Saturday.
Security personnel in J&K and the Northeast are increasingly encountering technological innovations in explosives planted by militants.
According to the police, the grenades were discovered by sweepers who were cleaning the area.
Asian held at UK airport under anti-terrorism law
Security was beefed up at all railway stations in Lucknow even though the letter seemed to be a hoax.
The male suspect threw an "explosive wine bottle", and then went on to cut his own throat, Xinhua posted on its Twitter handle.
J&K: 2 IEDs defused, major tragedies averted
There was a scare in suburban Andheri on Wednesday when a bomb-like object was sighted outside a popular shopping mall.
