Committee formed to probe Bhandara Ordnance Factory blast that killed eight

Committee formed to probe Bhandara Ordnance Factory blast that killed eight

Rescue operation underway after a blast at the ordnance factory, in Bhandara district, Maharashtra, on January 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A committee has been constituted to investigate the blast at the Ordnance Factory in Bhandara district, Maharashtra, which killed eight workers and injured five others on Friday (January 24, 2025). The Deputy Commissioner … Read more

Rameshwaram Cafe Blast case: NIA files chargesheet, claims BJP head office in Bengaluru was first target

Rameshwaram Cafe Blast case: NIA files chargesheet, claims BJP head office in Bengaluru was first target

A police official stands guard at the Rameshwaram cafe blast site, in Bengaluru, on March 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (September 9, 2024) filed a chargesheeted against four accused in The Rameshwaram Café blast case. A low-intensity IED explosion shook the restaurant in Brookefield, Bengaluru on March … Read more

One killed, three injured in blast at firecracker unit in Salem

One killed, three injured in blast at firecracker unit in Salem

A worker was killed and three others suffered injuries in an explosion at a firecracker unit in Paruthikadu village, near Ayodhiyapattinam, in Salem district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday (September 4, 2024). The police said at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, four workers were unloading raw materials used for making firecrackers from a vehicle, and as … Read more

Pune German Bakery blast convict seeks bail in another terror case

Pune German Bakery blast convict seeks bail in another terror case

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail application of Mirza Himayat Baig, an accused in the 2010 Nashik terror plot case. He was also convicted for the German Bakery terror attack in Pune. Baig is currently serving a life sentence at Nashik Central Prison for his involvement in the bomb … Read more

Mangaluru blast case: NIA files chargesheet against two accused

Mangaluru blast case: NIA files chargesheet against two accused

ADGP (Law & Order) Alok Kumar inspects the auto-rickshaw in which a blast occured at Padil-Pumpwell main road the previous day, as part of investigation process in Mangaluru on November 20, 2022. | Photo Credit: MANJUNATH HS The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against two accused in the “Islamic State-sponsored” pressure … Read more

NIA arrests one in Manipur bomb blast case

NIA arrests one in Manipur bomb blast case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 19 arrested one accused in coordination with the Manipur police, in connection with a bomb blast in Bishnupur’s Kwakta on June 21, 2023. The explosion had taken place in a Scorpio vehicle parked over a bridge located in the area of Phougakchao Ikhai Awang Leikai and Kwakta along … Read more

All accused in 2004 Assam blast on I-Day acquitted

All accused in 2004 Assam blast on I-Day acquitted

GUWAHATI The Gauhati High Court on August 24 acquitted all six people convicted in a bomb blast in Dhemaji of Assam on August 15, 2004, which killed 13 people including 10 schoolchildren. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had claimed responsibility for the blast during the Independence Day celebration. Twenty others were injured, … Read more

NIA files supplementary charge sheet against five accused persons in Coimbatore blast case 

NIA files supplementary charge sheet against five accused persons in Coimbatore blast case 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a supplementary charge sheet against five accused persons in the Coimbatore car bomb blast case of October 2022. The five men charge-sheeted were identified as Umar Faaruq, Firose Khan, Mohamed Thoufeeq, Sheikh Hidayatullah and Sanofar Ali. The agency had earlier charge-sheeted six suspects in April this year. … Read more

Rajasthan BJP meets 2008 Jaipur blast victims in the wake of acquittal of all accused

Rajasthan BJP meets 2008 Jaipur blast victims in the wake of acquittal of all accused

Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Rajendra Rathore on April 8 met 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blast victims at their residence to express solidarity with them following the acquittal of all accused in the case. The blasts had claimed 71 lives and injured 185 others. BJP in the wake of the acquittal order blamed the … Read more

Bhopal-Ujjain train blast case: NIA court awards death penalty to 7 of 8 convicts

Bhopal-Ujjain train blast case: NIA court awards death penalty to 7 of 8 convicts

National Investigation Agency Special Court on February 28 gave death sentences to seven out of eight convicts in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. | Photo Credit: V. SUDERSHAN National Investigation Agency Special Court on February 28 gave death sentences to seven out of eight convicts in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. Another was … Read more