The arrest of Paravai Badusha will help the police solve many terror cases including the BJP office blast in Bangalore and the 1998 Advani assassination bid in Coimbatore. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The toll in NTPC's Unchahar plant accident has climbed to 34, making it the country's worst industrial disaster in the last eight years.
'The onus is now on China to explain to the world why it feels Pakistan should accompany India on the question of NSG Membership!! China's not so covert help for Pakistan's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes will stand exposed,' says former ambassador G Parthasarathy.
A powerful explosion blew out the outer walls of an unfinished natural-gas plant in Middletown, Connecticut, killing five people and wounding dozen others.
While nuclear engineers cheer KNPP's first full operation, on nine other sites which house atomic reactors, scientists spend sleepless nights.
Two army troopers were injured in a powerful improvised explosive device blast near Chakala village in north Kashmir on Thursday morning.
Although the pact would focus mainly on the Pacific and the South China Sea region, any action designed to deter China with or without New Delhi's active participation is a welcome move, notes Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
One person was killed and six others were injured when suspected militants belonging to the anti-talks faction of United Liberation Front of Assam triggered a powerful bomb explosion in the heart of Sivasagar town in Upper Assam on Monday.
A powerful bomb exploded a few minutes before the celebrations of Independence Day commenced on Thursday in Manipur but no casualty was reported.
Chhattisgarh has witnessed rising incidence of such attacks.
Three people were killed and over 20 others injured in a bomb blast outside the house of the Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed in Lahore on Wednesday, the police said.
A seven-kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) was detected on Sunday near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu, averting a major tragedy and a plan by terrorists to set off an explosion on the second anniversary of the 2019 Pulwama attack, officials said.
Sri Lanka's Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday imposed emergency giving him sweeping powers ahead of the key election on July 20 to pick a new President as he urged the political parties to put aside differences and form an all-party government, with the Opposition dubbing his decision as an 'undemocratic draconian act'.
The army on Tuesday averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing a powerful pre-planted Improvised Explosive Device on the strategic Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway near Parimpora in Srinagar.
The bomb (improvised explosive device), planted near the roadside at Yaiskul bus stand here to attack the security personnel, went off at 6.20 am killing one person on the spot and injuring eight others, they said.
Police said a pre-planted IED near a paramilitary barricade went off on Friday morning.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the blast seemed to be aimed at sabotaging the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore.
A bomb exploded injuring three persons in the Birubari area of Guwahati on Thursday. Official sources said the Improvised Explosive Devise kept in a Gauhati Municipal Corporation dustbin went off at around 1530 hrs.
A powerful time bomb ripped apart a minibus in Pakistan's restive northwest on Monday, killing 18 people and injuring 11 others in escalating violence in the province.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday said migrant workers from other states were responsible for the rapid spread of coronavirus in Maharashtra, which has been reporting a large number of new infections since the last few weeks.
The bomb planted in front of the Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Karnataka on Wednesday contained ammonium nitrate, shrapnel and a timer, according to the forensic laboratory that analysed the explosive.Police officials have compared the ingredients of the bomb with those used in the Hyderabad blasts in February this year. Though the bomb used in Bangalore was a more powerful one compared to the one used in Hyderabad, the damage was lesser.
Frontline militant group Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
The PAF van was headed for the local airbase when explosives planted in a car were triggered by remote control in Badabher area, police officials said.
A powerful bomb exploded near a Border Security Force camp and an unexploded one was removed at Heirok area in Manipur's Thoubal district on Thursday, official sources said.
A powerful car bomb went off in a crowded market on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 12 people and injuring 14 more.
The petroleum ministry has blamed negligence for causing the devastating fire at state-owned gas transporter GAIL India Ltd's gas pipeline in Andhra Pradesh that killed 22 people.
Two persons were killed when a powerful bomb exploded in Imphal West district of Manipur late on Tuesday night, official sources said. A powerful bomb, allegedly planted by unidentified militants, went off at Kamakhya Pemton college campus at Hiyangthang area, 15 km from Imphal.
Security forces on Tuesday averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on Srinagar-Kupwara road, official said.
"This whole incident of Waze's activities and controversies thereafter taught a lesson to the MVA government. It was good in a way that it happened and taught us some lessons," the Sena's chief spokesperson said.
Australian photographer Warren Richardson has won the Photo of the Year 2015 award at the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest, results of which were announced on Thursday.
Bhuj: The Pride of India: Pearl Harbour on a dollar store budget, notes Sukanya Verma.
During a routine search in Baderwah town, troops recovered 40 kg of RDX in a lake in Baderwah town, which is surrounded by mountain.
A joint operation by the army, the Central Reserve Police Force and the police have foiled an attempt of KLO militants.
As Japan's earthquake and tsunami triggers the global nuclear industry's worst crisis, it is time for India to rethink it ambitious nuclear power programme, says Praful Bidwai
The bomb, allegedly planted by militants, went off at 11 pm on Thursday at Ananda Singh Academy, about 2 km from Raj Bhavan, where the President was staying, they said
The chief of the terror group blamed for Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a Dhaka cafe was among the four Islamist militants killed in one of the country's longest anti-terror operations in Sylhet, police said on Tuesday.
The IED was planted under a bridge at Ganeshpora, 75km from Srinagar, on the Srinagar-Pahalgam Road in Anantnag district.
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