The police are investigating whether Al Ummah chief Abu Bakr Siddique, the mastermind of the 2013 Bangalore BJP office blast, was involved in the Chennai train blasts or not. The police have also noted similarities between the Chennai blasts, Bangalore BJP office blast and the Patna rally blasts. Vicky Nanjappa reports on the latest leads into the case.
With the Apollo Hospitals chairman saying that she has recovered, the party can go back to business as usual.
Readers reminisce their bitter sweet experiences of ordering meals in the Indian Railways.
A historic railway service flounders for an inflexible privatisation policy.
Life in Mumbai was on Wednesday slowly coming back on tracks as rains subsided and hundreds of stranded commuters headed home with the partial resumption of suburban train services.
International travel guide Lonely Planet has just released its list of top ten cities to visit next year. And Chennai made the cut!
Here are some of the worst terror attacks in recent history with trains and passengers as intended targets.
8,000 asylum-seekers reach Germany in a single day amid deepening refugee crisis
Three bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid uproar with members from Left parties trooping into the Well to protest against rising prices of onion while other members raised the Telangana issue.
Over 250 passengers have been rescued, a railway official said.
The Simulia madrassa, on the outskirts of Bardhaman town in West Bengal, allegedly had links with Gulshana Bibi and Amina Bibi, the women arrested after the October 2 blast in the town. The NIA alleges the madrassa trained poor Muslim women in jihad. The madrassa had an unwritten convention: The women trained there would be married only to men who were on the same 'mission.'
As Cyclone Hudhud is closing in on the Andhra Pradesh coastline and is expected to make a landfall near Visakhapatnam by Sunday afternoon, about 1.11 lakh people in five coastal districts have been shifted to safer places.
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