It took 40 long years for the killers of former Railway minister L N Mishra to be brought to justice. A Delhi court on Monday held the accused -- advocate Ranjan Dwivedi, Gopalji, Santoshanand Avadhuta and Sudevananda Avadhuta -- guilty of murdering him.
Superintendent of Railway Police (Jamalpur) Vimal Kumar on Tuesday said over 100 ultras detonated dynamites to damage a stretch of track in both up and down lines near the outer signal on Monday night. Rail traffic was disrupted for several hours in the Jamalpur-Malda section because of the explosion, he added.
The massive mushroom cloud over North Korea was due to a planned demolition for a power project, said officials.
Two persons were killed and 31 people, including a child and three women, were wounded in a blast at Ghatkopar on Monday.\n\n\n\n\n\n
Though the run-up to the ULFA raising day this year was violence-free unlike in previous years, the outfit targetted the Kolkata-bound Kamrup Express by planting an improvised explosive devise on a bicycle in Namrup railway station in Dibrugarh district on Monday morning. The IED was detected by the 44 Field Regiment and defused, the sources said.
The blast at Ryongchong Station, 50 km north of Pyongyang, occured hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station returning from from Beijing.
The explosive, probably a crude bomb, went off at around 5 PM behind the old Railway station in the busy Amolapatty area below an electric pole, district Superintendent of Police Rana Bhuyan said
Witnesses said two cross-country vehicles driving from north to south ploughed into people in the market at 7:50 am local time and explosives were thrown out of the cars, one of which exploded, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
At least five people were killed and four others injured in a bomb blast in a New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express in Assam's Golaghat district early Thursday morning.
Lalu, who is leaving for Panipat by a special plane, said that two suitcases containing IEDs have been recovered from the site.
A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed and seven others, including three CRPF men and a few civilians, injured in a powerful grenade explosion at Paltan Bazaar in Guwahati near the Assam State Transport Corporation bus stop on Saturday night.
According to the police, the grenades were discovered by sweepers who were cleaning the area.
Three persons were killed and about a dozen others injured when a train hit a bomb planted on railway tracks in Pakistan's Sindh province early today, police said.
The two were arrested barely a kilometer away from Connaught Circus, the central point of New Year celebrations.
On Wednesday, the special MCOCA court in Mumbai awarded death sentences to Kamal Ahamed Ansari, 37, Mohd Faisal Shaikh, 36, Ehtesham Siddiqui, 30, Naveed Hussain Khan, 30 and Asif Khan, 38, for the role they played in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts, which claimed the lives of 188 people.
The incident took place in Railway Colony in Mundka at 7:25 am when some of the labourers were engaged in cooking, police said.
Nearly two days after over 30 people lost their lives in a fire onboard the Tamil Nadu Express at Nellore, Railways Minister Mukul Roy did not rule out sabotage in the incident.
The guidelines listed several services including government and private offices that will be out of bounds during the period, while exempting establishments such as hospitals, ration shops, dairies, banks, insurance offices, and print and electronic media. Delivery of all essential goods including food, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment through e-commerce has also been exempted from the purview of the lockdown.
There have been contradictory reports on the cause of accident.
Railway Minister Yadav has said that this was deduced on the basis of the blast intensity.
He believes that more than 25 injured were removed from the bombed out compartment.
Wani, who was arrested by Delhi Police in 2001 allegedly with explosives and incriminating materials, is a resident of Peeparkari area of Srinagar
Passengers of the Kamakhya-Puri Express had a close shave after a powerful bomb was found from the train in lower Assam's Goalpara district, where another powerful bomb was also recovered from a house on Friday, official sources said.
A bomb exploded on a rail track in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, damaging a portion of railroad but causing no injuries, the police said.\n
Seven explosions that rocked Patna on Sunday raises serious questions about security arrangements made ahead of Narendra Modi's rally.
In the wake of the recovery of a powerful improvised explosive device from a passenger train ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Guwahati in Assam on November 29, security agencies have been forced to embark on a detailed inspection of all the vulnerable locations including those frequented by VIPs.
Three important trains - Howrah-New Delhi express, Jammu Tawi express and Dehradun express were diverted due to the blast.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday ruled out any security lapses in the arrangements for the Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Patna and said the serial blasts were an attempt to disturb the law and order situation in the state.
Reliance Infocomm, in association with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC), has launched the railway ticket booking service through Reliance India Mobile in 120 Indian cities.
A compilation of results from the Vijay Hazare Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Here is the chronology of major blasts in the country:
a look at the devastation caused by the twin blasts reportedly caused by combustible and explosive goods stored in containers at a warehouse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin
At least seven persons, including the train driver, were injured when five bogies and the engine of the Kolkata-bound Garibrath Express derailed in the wee hours of Thursday after militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland blasted a railway track in Assam's Kokrajhar district. The incident occurred at approximately 2.25 am after militants of the banned group blasted rail tracks at a spot between Gosaigaon and Chowtara in lower Assam, said the police.
Seventy-five bullets and electrical devices used by the Army to make explosives were stolen from Guwahati Express while being taken to the Pune ordnance factory, police said on Monday. The theft was discovered when the train arrived at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus station at suburban Chembur on Friday night, they said, adding that a theft case under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered.
Judge Dinesh Gupta let off the right-wing activist and six others, giving them "benefit of doubt".
General Manager of East Central Railway R S Varsney told PTI that the cause might have been a bomb placed in the luggage of a passenger in one of the sleeper coaches.
