The police also prepared a list of people who were seen near the spot just before the low-intensity blast occurred on Tuesday with the help of footage taken from CCTV cameras, he said.
Squadron Leader Kanwal Deep Mehra's daredevilry during the 1971 War brought down a Pakistani F-86 Sabre. But he had to bail out of his plane, was badly injured. Then a fierce band of armed guerillas evacuated him to safety at great risk to their lives.
On the night of July 5, the Tigers launched their first kamikaze operation. Miller took the wheels of the explosive-packed truck, smiled at everyone as he turned the ignition key and drove it slowly towards the Sri Lankan military camp. A few moments later all of Jaffna heard a thunderous explosion that brought the complex crashing down in clouds of dust. Miller had given birth to a deadly tactic that Prabhakaran would employ time and again with devastating consequences to Sri Lanka -- and India. A fascinating excerpt from M R Narayan Swamy's must read new book, The Rout Of Prabhakaran.
The SSP said the investigation of the matter and questioning of the infiltrator will be conducted later.
The explosion was the second in New Jersey since Sunday. It came as developments continued moving quickly more than 24 hours after a bombing injured 29 people in Manhattan.
The destructive Travis Head has called his Sunrisers Hyderabad opening partner Abhishek Sharma an exciting talent for Indian cricket after the duo combined to pummel the Lucknow Super Giants bowling attack in a record IPL chase in Hyderabad.
The Chhattisgarh Police is planning to train a new batch of street dogs for anti-Naxal operations after the canines delivered good results by detecting over 350 Improvised Explosive Devices and landmines in the past two years.
The police have questioned multiple autorickshaw drivers, including the one who brought the suspect to the spot before the blast took place.
Officials probing a blast that occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi suspect it was a well-orchestrated plan, knowing that no CCTV camera was installed on Prithviraj Road, police sources said on Wednesday.
A full-fledged training, intelligence and combat module on Taliban, its leadership and their modus operandi is being prepared apart from specific case studies that have taken place in that country and the region, he said.
The Israeli National Security Council has issued a travel advisory for its citizens in India, suspecting that an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday was "a possible terror attack".
Hours after Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje's assertion that the suspect involved in the March 1 blast at The Rameshwaram Cafe was from Tamil Nadu, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader issued a retraction and offered an apology.
Just hours before blasts Andaman Express crashed into a huge boulder on the tracks near another station 20 kms away and police recovered a note at the site threatening of terror attacks.
The Railways Minister said gas stoves carried by some passengers blew up when they were preparing breakfast on the speeding train in violation of rules.
A Bangladeshi national, having links with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami terror outfit, was on Wednesday awarded death sentence by a local court in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh for the 2005 Shramjeevi Express train blast which had killed 12 people and injured scores others.
Mumbai Indians dynamic batter Suryakumar Yadav provided an update on his fitness after his top knock put the Punjab Kings bowlers under pressure in the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024.
Ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil was used as the explosive cocktail in the bombs that went off on in Mumbai on Wednesday. Detonators and timer devices were employed and mobile phones used to trigger the blasts. As terrorists continue to get more and more innovative with their 'explosive' choice, India seems to lag behind as it grapples to counter them with an Explosive Acts dating back to 1884. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Maoists triggered a blast on a stretch of land along the railway track between Midnapore and Godapia Sal stations in West Midnapore district of West Bengal in the wee hours on Monday as the 48-hr bandh called by them began.
Eight days after it was shattered by a blast that left 10 persons injured, The Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru started serving its loyal customers once again on Saturday, throwing open the eatery to the public with heightened security measures.
The Delhi Police said it has conducted a thorough check of all schools that received the bomb threat but found nothing.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reported that its forces are operating in what was described as a targeted manner at Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
The perpetrators of Bhopal-Ujjain train bomb explosion were influenced by Islamic State ideology and the incident was a "trial blast" as the terrorists planned to carry out more attacks, the Madhya Pradesh government said on Wednesday.
Referring to the state's submission that it does not plan to resume regular suburban train services as yet, a bench headed by Chief Dipankar Datta said, "We have to now live with the virus. How long will this go on? It has been six months."
Some of the bodies were so badly blown up that officials feel it may take some time to identity them.
Powerful explosives other than RDX were used in the blast in a coach of the Haldibari-Siliguri passenger train that killed seven persons on Monday, West Bengal Home Secretary P R Roy said in Kolkata on Wednesday.
'Our two (spinners) bowled well but in hindsight, probably should have bowled Moeen in our innings with the way spin was playing.'
The customary naadan or home-cooked meal is rather memorable fare.
The three heavily-armed terrorists killed by the Border Security Force in Samba district had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir to carry out a chain of terror attacks by blowing up running trains and tracks with chained IEDs and hard to detect liquid explosives, a top force official said on Wednesday.
The guard of a goods train had told the Railway Control Room that he had heard an 'explosion-like sound' when the train was between Gidni and Jhargram stations following which the railways suspended services. An Railway Protection Force party along with bomb squad personnel travelled to the spot to ascertain whether any explosion had occurred but found no such thing, sources said.
A suspicious package destroyed by a bomb disposal team after prompting the evacuation of Manchester United's stadium on Sunday was a fake device accidentally left behind after a training exercise, police said.
The world is seeing an "explosion" in seizures of power by force and military coups are back, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told world leaders on Tuesday, lamenting that geopolitical divisions are undermining international cooperation as he called for strengthening global governance and re-igniting multilateralism.
An explosion occurred on a railway track in Udaipur on Sunday, hours before the recently inaugurated Asarwa-Udaipur Express train from Ahmedabad was to pass.
These devices, at this early stage of the investigation, appear capable of igniting an initially small fire when opened, the Metropolitan Police said.
India's tactical and operational response demonstrated its ability to prosecute tri-service operations, even without a formal tri-service doctrine or the higher command structure needed to coordinate it, points out Ajai Shukla.
According to the Nation newspaper, Kiptum was driving his Rwandan coach and a woman in a car near the Rift Valley village where he was born when the accident occurred.
Police suspect that one of the persons who visited the blast site at the Prithviraj Road two hours prior to the incident had come from Jamia Nagar in southeast Delhi.
Police suspects that the packet must have been sent before Kumar's visit to Pune on April 24, when Pathrabe was the director of FTII.
After defusing nine pyro bombs in Gondwana Express on its way to Hazrat Nizamuddin from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Government Railway Police on Monday said they have some leads into the case.
The arrested person was identified as Mohammad Shahnawaz Alam, a resident of Hazaribagh area of Jharkhand.
