Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday expressed 'full confidence' in the Indian authorities in ensuring the safety of Israelis and Jews in India following a blast close to the country's embassy in New Delhi.
'Assam Rifles have prevented a large number of genocides and killings.'
The world needs to wake up to this new dimension of war at sea and be prepared to face the 'unknown enemy' who have the advantage of attacking at their choice of location and time, cautions Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Special NIA judge Gurvinder Singh Mehrotra, who had on October 27 pronounced the nine guilty, also sentenced two other accused to life imprisonment, besides awarding 10 years rigorous imprisonment to as many and seven years in jail to another convict.
A top CISF official said the device resembled a low-intensity IED. It was taken away from the airport in a bomb disposal unit vehicle and defused at Kenjaru ground in a controlled-explosion by keeping the unclaimed laptop bag in sand-packs.
'The fact that this happened and the fact that we were not able to bring it down, we were not even able to trace from where it came from and where it went, certainly raises questions on our level of preparedness.'
An IED went off at about 9 am near off a BSF camp at Moirangpurel area, injuring a seven-year-old girl Tinoi in Imphal East district.
Investigators probing the minor blast near the Israeli embassy have not come across "anything concrete" yet as most of the CCTV cameras near the site of the explosion were "non-functional"
The explosion took place at around 11 am near Bhuna when the vehicle was on its way from Jakhal to Fatehabad, following which panic-stricken passengers jumped off to save themselves.
A low intensity Improvised Explosive Device explosion shook Imphal on Wednesday ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in the city.
Unless each attack drone can be neutralised, India will be literally deploying elephants to stamp out ants -- and the ants may still survive! points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
A blast took place outside the Israeli Embassy in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi on Friday evening, a fire service official said.
Five persons, including a woman, were injured when a low-intensity bomb went off near a Durga Puja pandal at Japorigog in the heart of Guwahati city at around 8-30 on Wednesday.
AFSPA can be safely lifted from almost 90 per cent of Nagaland, argues Shekhar Gupta.
At least three people have been injured in a minor bomb last in Agra's Jai hospital on Saturday evening. The crude bomb was placed at the hospital's reception. There are no reports of any casualties as yet.
A low-intensity bomb went off at a Sufi shrine in the old quarters of Lahore on Thursday, killing at least one man and injuring 12 others, an official spokesman said.
'It is reasonable to apprehend that the overtures towards the West and India could anger the jihadis.'
The low-intensity bomb used in the blast in Varanasi did not have shrapnel in it and all the injured were hit by pieces of a wall that broke following the explosion, police sources said.
Highly explosive devices and a mobile phone as trigger were used by terrorists in Wednesday's low intensity bomb blasts that rocked the city, police said Friday. Samples collected from the blast sites by a team of the National Security Guard from Delhi along with forensic experts from Kolkata have prima facie revealed that the explosives used were of most recent vintage, DIG, (police control) Nepal Das said.
'All options are there on the table. Yesterday when this terror attack was conducted, we celebrated the 29th anniversary of the full establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and India, exactly yesterday. So, it may not be a coincidence but all options are being investigated'
Was some area in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh the real target of the two bombs that exploded in Chennai Central railway station early today?
At least 17 people were injured after a low-intensity blast on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar local train in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Four persons, including a six-year-old girl, were injured in two explosions that rocked he city's commercial hub Fancy Bazaar on Saturday.
Two persons, including a policeman, were killed and ten more injured in a bombing in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi today, police said.
A low-intensity bomb rigged to a cycle exploded near an auditorium-cum-temple complex in Madurai in the wee hours of Tuesday, causing a security scare ahead of next week's Bharatiya Janata Party state-level conference, which is scheduled to be attended by senior leaders including L K Advani. The explosion of the bomb placed in a box fitted to the cycle damaged the vehicle totally, police said, adding that there were no casualties in the incident.
Four low-intensity blasts took place on Pune's Junglee Maharaj Road on Wednesday evening.
Two members of Hindu right wing group Sanathan Sanstha were on Tuesday sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment by a court in Mumbai for their role in carrying out three bomb blasts in Thane and Panvel in 2008.
The Delhi police on Thursday said the explosion outside the Delhi high court was not aimed at causing any major harm and the motive behind the incident was being probed.
Bomb blasts rocked four major Pakistani cities on Thursday, killing 10 people, including three terrorists, and injuring more than 60 others.
A powerful bomb exploded a few minutes before the celebrations of Independence Day commenced on Thursday in Manipur but no casualty was reported.
At one location, seven bodies of the troops were recovered and the tree trunks bore bullet shots, indicating that a fierce gun battle took place in the area.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri confirmed that the bomb was similar to the one used in the serial blasts on Friday. Bidri added that a man wearing a red T-shirt had planted the bomb near the mall on Saturday morning.
The blasts occurred around the Al-Falah Theatre on Mall Road, located a short distance from the Punjab assembly. The theatre was closed for Muharram though some people had come to the hall to book tickets for a play to be staged on Saturday.
From preliminary reports, one could make the following surmise: firstly, the terrorists did not want to cause mass casualties; secondly, Bengaluru has the largest concentration of foreign businessmen and experts, but they did not want to target them; thirdly, they did not want to target the foreign tourists either.
'The world is reeling under violence, often in the name of religion. This must not happen and humanistic values must be promoted'
"Today, I have the information of 10 blasts. A total of 13 bombs were placed there. I will not go into details where they were kept and all. Two persons have been injured -- 50-year-old Dorji and Bala Sanga (30)," Shinde told media persons.
The low-intensity blast in Pune on Friday that left five people injured was "prima facie" a terror attack, Maharashtra ATS said today and registered a case against unknown persons in connection with the incident.
The Maoists rained bullets from light machine guns and used low-intensity improvised explosive devices to mount the attack that went on till evening.
Seven explosions that rocked Patna on Sunday raises serious questions about security arrangements made ahead of Narendra Modi's rally.
A woman was confirmed dead and another injured in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device on Sunday night in front of a popular restaurant on a busy road in the heart of Bengaluru.
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