The Bengaluru police has said that the crude bomb on Kingfisher Airlines may have been planted by an employee of the airline.
Delhi Police are investigating a series of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges, sent via encrypted networks. The threats have caused panic and disruption, prompting increased security measures and a police investigation into the source and motives behind the emails.
An anonymous telephone call claimed that a bomb had been placed at Dadar railway station in central Mumbai, but it turned out to be a hoax.
Two buildings in Delhi's busy ITO area, Ghulab Bhavan and Milap Bhavan, were evacuated following a call that bombs had been placed there.
'They are saying that there is a pilot shortage which is not correct, but if it was true, did they suddenly come to know this on December 5?' 'If they didn't have crew, why did they seek approval for a winter schedule? To get the approval, the operator has to show crew strength and also a buffer of crew available.' 'If they had a crew crunch, why did they ask for extra flights? Or was it something else that made them so sure that they would get away with this exemption and bans?'
Pathankot Senior Superintendent of Police R K Bakshi said that sleuths found that the bag contained uniform, shoes and other articles of an Army jawan who had left it behind.
The guard of a goods train had told the Railway Control Room that he had heard an 'explosion-like sound' when the train was between Gidni and Jhargram stations following which the railways suspended services. An Railway Protection Force party along with bomb squad personnel travelled to the spot to ascertain whether any explosion had occurred but found no such thing, sources said.
The Indian embassy in Washington received a bomb threat call on Tuesday following which its premises, the chancery and Ambassador Nirupama Rao's residence all had to be temporarily evacuated and searched.
An anonymous call threatening to blow up the Election Commission's office in New Delhi on Sunday triggered panic, but it turned out to be a hoax.
Police made an appeal to people to not believe in the audio messages that have surfaced on WhatsApp groups making false claims about the bomb threat that schools in Delhi-NCR received on Wednesday morning.
Security agencies searched over 100 hospitals and malls in the national capital after they received bomb threat emails on Tuesday. However, it turned out to be a hoax as nothing suspicious was found, officials said.
"A passenger named Sanjay Mallik on Indigo flight 6E181 from Delhi arrested by CISF on landing at 1145 hours," a spokesperson for the Mumbai International Airport Limited told PTI.
An anonymous phone call to the Delhi police on Saturday afternoon, threatening to blow up a metro station, triggered panic at the facility.The Hauz Qazi police station received the threat call at approximately 2.30 pm, saying that bombs were placed near the Chawri Bazar metro station and it would be blown up, a senior police officer said."We are conducting searches and simultaneously trying to identify the caller," said the police.
It is not yet clear if the threat was real or a prank.
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.
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.
Security agencies went into a tizzy after the police control room received a call about a bomb at the Parliament premises this evening but it turned to be hoax.
Thousands of tourists, residents and theatre-goers were evacuated by police from the heart of Times Square on Sunday on suspicion that a parked vehicle contained a bomb. Police closed down a section of Times Square around 6:30 pm local time Saturday evening (4:00 am IST Sunday) after receiving reports about smoke coming out of a car parked in the crowded area.
The girl, a resident of Rajbagh in Srinagar city, was taken for questioning after the security staff at the airport informed the police.
Delhi Fire Services on Sunday said eight city hospitals and IGI Airport received bomb threats through emails, 11 days after over 150 schools in Delhi-NCR received a bomb scare of unprecedented scale.
A reported bomb threat on a Delhi-bound Air India plane from Kochi, with 164 people on board, which landed under emergency conditions at the airport in Bangalore, was a hoax, police said on Tuesday.
Panic was triggered at the Sai Baba Temple in South Delhi on Thursday evening after police received an anonymous telephone call threatening to blow up the shrine, but it later turned out to be hoax.A temple administration official said that they came to know about the threat call after police teams reached the spot and started carrying out searches. The temple, which is very popular among the denizens, was immediately evacuated.
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi demands a Parliament debate on Delhi's air pollution crisis, criticizing Prime Minister Modi's silence and lack of action.
More than a thousand Juventus soccer fans watching the Champions League final on screens in one of Turin's main squares late on Saturday were injured when loud bangs created panic and mayhem.
Mansukh Hiran was subsequently killed as Waze thought him to be the 'weak link' in the conspiracy, the NIA stated.
Airports across the United States were put on high alert on Friday after suspicious packages originating from Yemen were found, on a plane in UK, even as the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether it is a part of a terror group's rehearsal for a mail bomb attack.
Concerned about the security situation in Bangalore after minor explosions and the discovery a few live bombs outside the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Saturday, the Indian Premier League shifted the two semi-finals of the Twenty20 tournament to the DY Patil stadium in Mumbai.
Officials said passengers on board the two aircraft -- Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar) -- were evacuated.
Beauvais airport near Paris said that it was evacuated "following an anonymous threat received by several French hubs."
'We have come to the point in civilisation where emotion seems to be something you hide or you have to be discreet about, or to be ashamed of.'
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday that police officer Sachin Vaze will be removed from the Crime Branch and posted in some other department.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said the National Investigation Agency taking over the case of a vehicle laden with explosives being found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in Mumbai suggests something was 'fishy'.
A Mahindra Scorpio car with gelatin sticks was found parked near "Antilia", the multi-storey residence of Ambani, in south Mumbai on February 25.
Mansukh Hiren, who was in possession of the car that was found with explosives outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister and Home Minister had alleged that he was being harassed by police and media. He had also claimed that in spite of being a victim, he was treated as an accused.
Opinion on likely cause of the death of Mansukh Hiren, who is said to be the owner of the vehicle with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in Mumbai last month, is reserved in his post-mortem report on Saturday, a Thane police official said.
'She was brave. She didn't care a hoot. And India was not the strongest of nations as it is now.'
'She was brave. She didn't care a hoot. And India was not the strongest of nations as it is now.'
An organisation named Jaish-ul-Hind has claimed the responsibility of placing an explosives-laden SUV near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in south Mumbai, police said on Sunday.
A private school in Delhi's Rohini received a bomb threat via email on Friday, but it was later declared a hoax after a thorough search of the premises. The threat came just a day after a low-intensity blast took place in Prashant Vihar, near the school. Police are investigating the incident.
