At least seven persons were injured in a bomb blast at Thangmeiband area in Imphal West district of Manipur on Tuesday afternoon, as suspected militant attacks continued in the run up in the assembly poll-bound state.
A trooper was killed as army foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in north Kashmir Kupwara sector.
Recalling the scenes that followed the attack on 'Nirankaris', the eyewitnesses said they were panicked, shocked and scrambled through a thick blanket of smoke.
Security forces on Saturday busted a Lashker-e-Tayiba module in Sopore in north Kashmir with the arrest of four militants.
Three persons were injured in a low intensity blast that took place inside the Congress head office in Guwahati, on Monday evening. A grenade was thrown into the office on GS Road in Tarun Nagar in the heart of Assam's capital.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is quite active in fomenting trouble in Punjab and the grenade attack in Amritsar was a pure act of terrorism, Singh said.
At least five people were shot dead on Wednesday in different incidents of target killings in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi.
The Bangladesh police have pressed charges against 21 militants of the outlawed Harkat ul Jihad e Islami and a former Bangladesh Nationalist Party minister for the grenade attack on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's rally in 2004 that left her injured and killed 24 others
While it is too early to assess as to who might have been responsible for the attack and why, one has to recall past instances of contacts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the Harkat ul Mujahideen (known as the Harkat ul Ansar before 1997), a member of the International Islamic Front of the Al Qaeda and the role played by the commercial ships of the LTTE in the 1990s in facilitating heroin smuggling from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
A large number of women from Malom in Imphal West district blocked the road to the airport in protest against the killing of the policemen in Moreh.
The terrorists attacked a police station in Handwara area of Kupwara by resorting to firing and also lobbed a grenade, a police officer said.
Seeking the support of India in its action against Palestinian armed group Hamas, the consul general of Israel to South India Tammy Ben-Haim on Tuesday said the Jewish State needs the support of like-minded countries and people around the world to understand that they need to fight against terrorism together.
Security forces on Tuesday averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on Srinagar-Kupwara road, official said.
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But if you carefully touch the glass of the window you realise it isn't there. It probably cracked, or was blown away, during a grenade attack or gunfire on November 26, or in the hours after that, when 31 people, including 12 Taj staffers, including seven chefs, were killed. It is a small scar, still visible in the newly re-opened hotel.
A Bangaldesh court has remanded Sheikh Abdus Salam, founder of banned Harkatul Jihad al Islami, to six-day police custody after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in the 2004 grenade attack on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Indirectly blaming the militant groups for the attack, Khan said it seems to be the work of the forces opposed to the ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan.
Bangladeshi officials said after questioning HuJI chief Mufty Hannan, they were 'almost sure' that the duo behind several terror attacks in the country had fled to India. The twins were arrested with explosives from New Delhi railway station in February 2006.
Bangladesh's two former ministers, who aided banned extremist group the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami in its botched attempt to kill Premier Sheikh Hasina in 2004, also helped the outfit procure arms for use against India, a Dhaka court was told.
Shazia, who had suffered multiple splinter injuries, died on Saturday evening.
Two to three terrorists lobbed a grenade and opened firing on the water pump house located outside the Air Force Station at Malangpora in Awantipora area of Pulwama district," a defence spokesman said.
Doda is in Udhampur constituency, where polling will be held on Monday.
Date, a 1990 Indian Police Service officer of the Maharashtra cadre who once sold newspapers in Pune to financially support his family, was honoured with the President's Police medal for gallantry for his role in what has come to be known as the 26/11 attack.
The six terrorists formed an active Hizbul module involved in a series of pistol shootings, IED blasts and grenade attacks in the civil line area of Srinagar last year.
The police have began patrolling on Dal Lake, which is close to the conference centre where the PM will meet Kashmir's leaders.
A mayor from southern Philippines, his wife and two others have been fatally shot in a daring attack at a Manila airport terminal that also wounded four other people.
In their continued attacks on Congressmen, insurgents on Thursday hurled grenades in the houses of two candidates and several partymen in various areas of poll-bound Manipur, but none was injured.
"There is a need for stage-wise progress in the process and the first step would be to withdraw all army and paramilitary troops from the state," he said.
Tourism to Kashmir has survived at full strength after a weekend hotel attack that killed 5 Indian visitors, as thousands of people flock to the scenic Himalayan region, an official said Monday.
Strict security measures were imposed across Srinagar on Friday to foil anti-poll protests by the separatists while a senior police officer was injured in a powerful militant grenade attack at Sopore in north Kashmir on Thursday night.Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in the city and roads in the old city have been sealed to restrict the movement of people.The separatist coordination committeehad urged the people to observe 'shutdown'
The camp had been set up recently with a view to enhance security in this militancy-infested district due to the ongoing Panchayat elections.
Wajed has gone deaf in her right ear after suffering an injury in a grenade attack at a rally last year.
At least seven persons including a 10-year-old girl were killed and about 35 others injured when three explosions rocked Assam on Monday with the most powerful one causing devastation in the Guwahati city just a day ahead of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit to the state.
'The terrorists will allow only those who practice their tenets to live in Kashmir,' argues Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
A 10-year-old girl, who saved several lives during a grenade attack in Imphal, and a 13-year-old boy, who rescued over 50 people during a stampede in Himachal Pradesh are among the 21 children conferred with the National Bravery Awards for 2009.
'We began hitting Kasab hard.' 'In the melee it struck me that the man we were beating to pulp should remain alive.'
Reza told reporters that the attackers were armed with firearms and bombs as they entered the restaurant and took customers and staffers hostage at gunpoint.
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