A probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the Coimbatore explosion case would be recommended to the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government said in Chennai on Wednesday.
At a media briefing, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi asked Pakistan to focus on setting its own house in order in containing terror networks and said that the international community is well aware of that country's credentials when it comes to terrorism.
The explosions took place within minutes of each other.
I am staying here for the last five years. The situation is really bad there (in Afghanistan). The people staying there are far from the normal situation. People are trying to come out and move to either Iran, Tajikistan or India just to save themselves.
A disgruntled ex-convict, arrested for the recent serial bomb blasts targeting China's ruling Communist Party's provincial headquarters in Taiyuan, carried out the attack to "take revenge on society", police said on Friday.
A powerful car bomb exploded outside a Shiite imambargah at a busy market.
Police confirmed the explosion, near a shrine at a major Bangkok road, was from a bomb but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Preliminary reports into the composition of the bomb show the presence of magnetic pieces and sulphur, reports Vicky Nanajappa
Among the dead were several women and children, the sources added.
Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has claimed that controversial American security firm Blackwater was behind the deadly bomb attack on a market in Peshawar that killed 105 people on Wednesday. In an interview with BBC Urdu, he claimed that Blackwater and 'Pakistani agencies' were involved in attacks in public places, in an attempt to discredit the militants. Reports in the Pakistani media have claimed that Blackwater has established a presence in the country.
At least nine persons, including four policemen, have been killed and 20 others injured in a powerful blast near the ancient pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad had planned to attack four other targets if his bid to detonate a car bomb near Times Square in New York was successful, according to a television channel. Other locations that he intended to attack were Rockefeller Centre, Grand Central Terminal, the World Financial Centre and the Connecticut headquarters of defence contractor Sikorsky. Sikorsky manufactures helicopters for the US military, including the Black Hawk.
According to the preliminary information, it was an LED-linked instrument, the chief minister told reporters in Ballari.
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At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday and over a hundred injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters, an attack blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood aimed at derailing Egypt's democratic transition.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
A blast took place outside the Israeli Embassy in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi on Friday evening, a fire service official said.
The death toll in the deadly suicide car bombing -- on a popular five-star hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar -- on Wednesday rose to 16 with the recovery of five more bodies from the rubble of the devastated building. Among the dead were at least three foreigners, including two United Nations employees.Police and rescue workers scoured the burnt out rooms of the Pearl Continental hotel for survivors and clues after the attack.
According to officers who were part of the probe, detecting a crime that was committed with proper planning, involving different modules working separately for a common cause, was a challenging task.
BJP workers depend on Annamalai's popularity to emerge victorious. He has has made 100 promises to be fulfilled in 500 days and assurances include cleaning up rivers, an international airport and food vans named after former Chief Minister K Kamaraj.
The death toll in two suicide car bombings in northwest Pakistan today rose to 25 with the recovery of five more bodies from the debris of a police station that was destroyed in one of the attacks.
The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded life sentence to four convicts in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case for the remainder of their lives without remission, citing the severity of the offence. Thirteen people were killed and nearly 40 injured in the explosion.
An explosion was reported in the capital city of Afghanistan. Sputnik reported citing local sources that the blast was the result of a rocket landing on a residential building near the Kabul airport and that it had killed a child,
Seventeen others were injured in the car bomb explosion.
The worst terror attack in Iran this century occurred when Iranians marked the fourth anniversary of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander General Qassem Soleimani's death. Soleimani was killed by a US drone on January 3, 2020.
The Delhi police have launched a massive hunt for the biker who was following the car which was carrying the Israeli diplomat who was injured in a bomb attack on Monday at New Delhi.
At least two persons were killed and over 10 injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered a blast at a market area near the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) headquarters at Maligaon at around 6:30pm on Friday.
India on Saturday said no one from its High Commission in Dhaka was injured after crude bombs were hurled near a parked car hired by the mission, which has been assured of "all security" by Bangladesh authorities.
A man, one of the six accused in the explosion case in Coimbatore, confessed during interrogation that he met two men in a Kerala prison who had links with an ISIS group involved in the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, police sources said on Friday.
The explosion, according to a police officer quoted by a news agency, was caused by a car bomb.
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Rescuers scrambled to remove the rubble of over 20 houses that collapsed due to the impact of the suicide car bombing at a playground in northwest Pakistan as the toll in the devastating attack rose to 95 on Saturday.
A car carrying 40 kg of RDX exploded outside a school, barely 50 metres from a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Pulwama town at around 1130 IST on Monday, killing 14 people including two students and three CRPF officers.
