Indian Air Force requires three systems to protect bases from attack by multiple swarm drones

With the threat posed by unmanned aerial systems growing by the day, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has chalked out the requirement for different mobile systems to counter such threats in different operational scenarios, particularly that from multiple swarm drones. Read More …

India: Allahabad University student injured in explosion while making bomb in hostel room

An MA student at Allahabad University in Uttar Pradesh got injured when a bomb that he was making in his hostel room exploded on Wednesday. Another student also suffered minor injuries in the incident. The ACP stated that the injured Read More …

India: Two security personnel injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma

Two security personnel were injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites exploded in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Monday, police said. The blast occurred at around 10.15 am in Kistaram police station area, where a joint Read More …

India: Suspected Improvised Explosive Devices seized in Sonitpur

The police on Tuesday recovered three suspected handmade Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the Sonitpur district, which borders neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. The police informed that a person was arrested in connection with the recovery. According to the sleuths, acting on Read More …

India: 13-yr-old boy mistakes bomb for ball, sustains severe injuriesies

A 13-year-old boy was injured while trying to play with a bomb, mistaking it for a ball, in Deganga of North 24-Parganas on Sunday afternoon. He mistook the contents of the packet for balls. He picked up one in his Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: Drone drops box containing 9 grenades, 1 pistol, IED in Akhnoor

The Jammu and Kashmir police in a joint operation with the Indian Army, on Thursday, recovered a box that was dropped by a drone in the area of Palanwallah village near the LoC (Line of Control), said the police. According Read More …

India: Militants plant IED, attack Assam Rifles troop in Tengnoupal

Militants in Manipur ambushed a troop of Assam Rifles after planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Saibol area of Tengnoupal district on Thursday morning when the soldiers were conducting a regular patrol. None of the soldiers were injured because Read More …

India: 35-year-old man injured in IED blast in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum

A 35-year-old man was injured in an IED blast in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Wednesday. The incident happened in a forest near Boipaisasang village in Goilkera police station area on Tuesday, they said. The victim, identified as Read More …

Landmines: New Use Despite Global Ban

Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing Landmine Monitor 2023, the annual report about the international treaty to Read More …

India: CRPF commando injured in an IED blast

Voting began for 20 assembly segments in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday morning in the first phase of assembly elections under heavy security blanket comprising police and paramilitary personnel. As many as 12 constituency segments in Tuesday’s polls are in Maoist-hit Bastar Read More …

India to raise Khalistani threats issue with Canada, seek heightened security for Air India flights

India will raise the grave threats, issued by Canada-based Khalistani terrorist outfit Sikhs For Justice’s chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, with Canada. In an unsettling and alarming video message, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the head of Canada-based Khalistani terrorist outfit, has issued Read More …

India: Kerala’s Ernakulam district blast caused by IED or IID

The blast during a Christian prayer meeting in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Sunday, which killed one person and injured 36 others, was caused by an improvised explosive device, or IED, said the state police chief. But, according to highly placed Read More …

India: Man arrested for hurling crude bomb outside Tamil Nadu governor’s residence

A man was arrested on Wednesday (Oct 25) from India’s southern Chennai city after he hurled a crude bomb outside the Tamil Nadu state governor’s residence. Police said that upon reaching the main gate the alleged perpetrator pulled out a Read More …

India: Army holds CBRN disaster management drill

Exercise Vajta Sahayata, a two-day chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) disaster management drill was conducted by the Vajra Corps under the aegis of Western Command Headquarters on October 16 and 17, along with the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: IED destroyed in Baramulla

A major tragedy was averted by troops on Friday by timely detecting and defusing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along the Handwara Baramulla Highway. An army official said a high-powered IED connected with three 10-kilogram LPG Cylinders was spotted by Read More …

India: Border Security Force recovers bombs, foils major attack plan

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Tuesday recovered bombs dumped in a forest in Odisha’s Malkangiri district during an anti-Maoist operation, thus averting a major explosion. The explosives were randomly placed underground reportedly by Maoists to cause extensive casualty at Read More …

India: Two injured, including CRPF Jawan, in grenade attack near Manipur minister’s house

A CFPF Jawan was among two persons who were injured in a hand grenade explosion near the residence of Manipur minister Khemchand Yumnam in Imphal West district, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred at Yumnam Leikai, at around 10 Read More …

India: Five children injured in bomb blast at Bengal’s Duttapukur

Five school kids in Duttapukur of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district were injured as a crude bomb they were playing with detonated on Friday afternoon, police said. According to the local police, the blast occurred while the kids were Read More …