A 69-year-old Catholic nun was found dead in her convent room at Pala near Kottayam on Thursday morning, police said.
A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore on Thursday created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax.
'Should the new ISIS leadership opt for a consolidation, the Afghan-Pakistan border would be an attractive place,' warns Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
The call was received by police at around 2:30 pm and extensive checks were conducted.
The cause of the blast is being investigated.
The police on Monday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for information about the person who planted the bomb that killed a woman and injured three others outside a restaurant in Bengaluru on Sunday night.
Delhi Police has been directed by a court in New Delhi to register an FIR in a complaint filed by a medico against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi and others for forcibly taking away his eight pet dogs from his residence.
An unclaimed laptop bag found near an army hospital in New Delhi on Monday sparked security alert and securitymen went into a tizzy with reports of abandoned vehicles in two separate incidents.
An anonymous caller threatening to blow up two Metro stations, including at the busy Rajiv Chowk in the heart of Delhi, on Sunday triggered a scare in the National Capital Region, prompting authorities to step up security at these installations.
Workhorse 'Thunderbolt' and female dog 'Sophia' will be awarded the special medals.
The police and a dog squad will check the chief minister's house twice a day. His security will be supervised by a superintendent of police, two assistant commissioners and an inspector.
Police officials said the police control room received the call at 10:55 am.
The country's largest paramilitary force -- the Central Reserve Police Force -- is literally going to 'school' as the force has recently created six new institutions to hone the operational and intelligence gathering skills of its troops.
'Teaching lessons is the objective behind every school.' 'For the moment, a state seems intent to teach a lesson -- that students of Classes 4, 5 and 6 can wage war against the mighty Indian nation,' says Krishna Prasad.
From restoring railway tracks to rescuing a drowning mother and her baby, and even a dog, the Indian Army and air force officers have come handy in the flood-hit areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
A first information report has been lodged against suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt for allegedly slapping his gunman outside his residence, police said on Friday. However, Bhatt has denied the charge.
An anonymous phone call to the Delhi police on Saturday afternoon, threatening to blow up a metro station, triggered panic at the facility.The Hauz Qazi police station received the threat call at approximately 2.30 pm, saying that bombs were placed near the Chawri Bazar metro station and it would be blown up, a senior police officer said."We are conducting searches and simultaneously trying to identify the caller," said the police.
Niall O'Brien, the sturdy batting backbone during Irish cricket's meteoric rise, owes much of his World Cup success to the timely arrival of a pet dog.
Panic was triggered at the Sai Baba Temple in South Delhi on Thursday evening after police received an anonymous telephone call threatening to blow up the shrine, but it later turned out to be hoax.A temple administration official said that they came to know about the threat call after police teams reached the spot and started carrying out searches. The temple, which is very popular among the denizens, was immediately evacuated.
The footage of a camera installed outside a house opposite the residence of the family showed that the elder daughter-in-law of the house, Savita, along with her daughter, Neetu, could be seen bringing five stools that were later used for the members to be hanged.
With New Delhi bracing for Diwali celebrations this weekend, the police have put in place a tight security regime across the city with emphasis on crowded places like markets and malls.
Two medical students, who hurled a dog from a terrace, and filmed the incident, were on Wednesday arrested after the shocking video went viral drawing outrage. But they got bail in less than five minutes because the law lacks bite, says T S Sudhir
A multi-layered security cover has been thrown over the national capital ahead of Independence Day with over 40,000 security personnel deployed across New Delhi to keep a hawk-eyed vigil against any possible terror strike.
A Sikh couple were struck and killed by a car driven by a suspected drunk driver on Thursday night in Menlo Park, California.
The 74-year-old real estate mogul-turned politician, who radically changed politics in the corridors of power in Washington, DC over the past four tumultuous years, was impeached for a second time on the charges of 'incitement of insurrection' for the violent storming of the United States Capitol by his supporters just days before the end of his four-year term.
Doctors examined the house-owner's 45-year-old son and sole living family member Partho De, who had been living with the skeleton of his sister and those of two dogs for the past six months.
The CBI suspects that an area around the Steel Authority of India Limited guest house in Shantiniketan was the place where the planning of the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize and other articles had been made.
Two persons, including the main accused Sumit, who is also a Dalit, have been sent to seven days in police remand.
England's star all-rounder Ben Stokes says the Bristol bar brawl and the ensuing chain of events, which dogged his career for 15 months, may be the 'best thing that could have happened' to him.
An anonymous call on Saturday claiming that a bomb was planted in the high-security Vidhan Soudha, the state secretariat in Bangalore, turned out to be a hoax, police said.
Security at the PCA stadium in Mohali was tightened on Monday as the Pakistan cricket team went through the grind during a practice session ahead of Tuesday's ICC World Twenty20 match against New Zealand.
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The scene of the blast along the B C Road was sealed off by police and a massive hunt has been launched to nab the grenade thrower, Inspector General of Police, Jammu, M K Sinha said.
According to police sources, Bharti is believed to be hiding somewhere near Agra.
The home minister asserted that one could not escape by saying that they had been misquoted and needed to ensure that what they were saying was accurate.
A French secret agent planted a "bomb" at the French ambassador's residence in London in 1984 to test British security and the plot left Scotland Yard "extremely annoyed", according to declassified documents.
The massive combing operation at the sprawling Air Force station in Pathankot ended on Friday, seven days after six terrorists struck.
The death toll in Assam's Udalguri and Darrang districts, dogged by clashes between Bodos and illegal Bangladeshi migrants, rose to 40 today with the violence spreading to neighbouring Chirang district.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal may not have succeeded in getting the two policemen shifted for allegedly patronising a drug racket. But in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, theft of seven buffaloes belonging to state's powerful minister Azam Khan led the authorities to promptly punish three cops.
Officials said a high alert has been issued to the three facilities after Mumbai Police received an e-mail on Saturday night from a woman living there. The e-mail mentions that the woman overheard six boys talking about a possible aircraft hijack attempt at these facilities, they said.
