Gelatin sticks were discovered near the venue of PM Narendra Modi's programme in Bengaluru, prompting a police investigation and heightened security measures.
Over 1,000 gelatin sticks were among a huge consignment of explosives seized on Tuesday from two persons here, a senior police official said.
At least four gelatin sticks were on Thursday found on the railway tracks near Taloja in Navi Mumbai, a day after a discarded overhead equipment was spotted lying on the rail lines in Raigad
Authorities in Maharashtra's Jalna district seized and destroyed four boats and extracting machines involved in illegal sand mining using gelatin sticks.
Nagpur is on high alert after an anonymous letter claimed radioactive material was planted at key locations, including the RSS headquarters and a BJP office. Police are investigating the threat, with extensive searches underway.
During the Gudhi Padwa festival, Hindus visit Hazrat Sayyad Badshah Dargah near the mosque, a villager said.
Gelatin sticks and detonators were discovered at a bus stand in Bengaluru, prompting a police investigation and raising security concerns.
The agency has not done an "in- depth" investigation, it said.
The court held that though the gelatin sticks planted near Antilia, the Ambani residence, were not connected to a detonator, it was sufficient to create terror in the minds of people.
Three persons including a 23-year-old-woman were injured after suspected militants launched a fresh bomb attack using a drone in Manipur's Imphal West district, police said on Tuesday.
There was no casualty but several houses around the farm developed cracks due to the blast and the structure where the explosives were stocked collapsed, a police official said.
At least 15 people were killed and 20 others injured when gelatin sticks stocked in a house blew up due to a fire triggered by a cylinder blast in a village in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district on Monday.
Security forces on Thursday recovered a massive quantity of explosives including gelatin sticks, detonators and fuse wire from two places in the state.
The arrest of five persons in this connection and their being remanded to its custody led the police to the accused in the murder in August of an employee of a Jalgaon-based jeweller.
Two days after a vehicle with explosives was found near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai, police are looking for the other car which had been seen at the spot, an official said on Saturday.
Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh told news channels that the vehicle, a Scorpio van, was found some distance away from the multi-storey residence of Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries.
CCTV footage shows that suspended police officer Sachin Waze and deceased businessman Mansukh Hiran had met on February 17, the day a Scorpio in Hiran's possession was 'stolen', an official of the Maharashtra ATS said on Friday.
Former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 2006 fake encounter case.
The NIA took over the case following orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The NIA has CCTV footage which shows the presence of Waze at the spot, the sources said.
Mansukh Hiran was subsequently killed as Waze thought him to be the 'weak link' in the conspiracy, the NIA stated.
The NIA is already probing the case related to the recovery of a Scorpio SUV, parked near Ambani's residence 'Antilia', with gelatin sticks and has arrested an assistant police inspector, Sachin Waze.
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.
'It is basically a threat letter calling the planted explosives a 'trailer' and a warning to return with more preparations to assassinate the whole family later.'
The vehicle with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in south Mumbai had been stolen last week, and a letter found inside said this was only a 'glimpse' of things to come, police said on Friday.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse quashed the sessions court's 2013 judgment acquitting Sharma, terming it as "perverse" and "unsustainable".
A sanitary worker noticed the explosives this morning in a sleeper class compartment of the train.
In a joint operation led by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the police forces of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh recovered the explosives after they began a 'cordon and search' operation last evening in the jungles of Gwaldand, Maldogri and Jharikheri in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.
A large quantity of explosives was recovered on Thursday from a vehicle in the capital city where security has been tightened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on November 29.
The Government Railway Police personnel on Wednesday recovered a huge quantity of high power explosives from a person travelling in a general coach of Delhi-bound North East Express at the Guwahati railway station.
A huge cache of explosives, including 40,000 to 45,000 detonators and 10 quintal of ammonium nitrate, meant for Maoists were recovered from Bihar's Naxalite-hit Rohtas district on Saturday.
There was a scare in suburban Andheri on Wednesday when a bomb-like object was sighted outside a popular shopping mall.
The ruling party in Maharashtra also questioned the move of the National Investigation Agency taking over the probe into the explosives-laden SUV found parked near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house last month, saying that the agency generally investigates terrorism-related cases, but there was no terror angle involved in this episode.
A day after terror struck Pune, a huge cache of explosives was today seized from Valsad district of Gujarat and four persons were arrested in this connection.
District Collector Ashish Vachhani, who led the operation, said that based on a tip-off, a special police party conducted surprise raids and seized 18 bags of explosive materials.
The derailment of the Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Deluxe Express in West Midnapore district, which left at least 75 passengers dead on Friday, threw up a number of contradictions on what caused the mishap. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who flew to the accident spot in a helicopter, said the derailment was caused by a bomb blast and indicated that Maoists were behind it.
At least 40 people were feared killed when suspected Maoists blew up a bus in Dantewada in Chattisgarh on Monday.The bus was carrying 50 people, including jawans and civilians, according to reports. The blast was due to a landmine, said reports.On April 6, 75 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed when hundreds of armed Maoists ambushed their battalion in the thick forests of Mukrana in Dantewada.
The seized explosive materials include 38,700 electric detonators, 1,950 gelatin sticks and 50 kg ammonium nitrate.
Maoists blasted a railway station in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh late Tuesday night, the police said on Wednesday. A group of seven Maoists, including three women, went to the Gumada Railway station of Eastern Railways and exploded it after planting gelatin sticks.
The police alleged that the two were involved in the serial blasts that left over a dozen people dead and nearly 50 other injured.
