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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has approved Rs 45.19 crore for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to purchase vehicle-mounted Remote Controller Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED) jammers for use in hyper-sensitive areas especially in Jammu and Kashmir and for Read More …
India has expressed concern on the rising number of children recruited and involved in terrorism-related activities, terming it as a “dangerous and worrying trend” and asked UN member states to demonstrate “greater political will” to hold the perpetrators of terrorism Read More …
Police today recovered 6 kg of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) material on National Highway from a person in Srinagar. A police spokesman said that Srinagar police on technical inputs arrested one person – Zahid Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Aaziz Read More …
To check preparedness of police departments in the national capital, the Delhi Police Special Cell “infiltrated and planted” 30 dummy improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in places with high footfall over the past month, of which only 12 were detected — Read More …
An assortment of more than 600 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and around 500 detonators have been recovered by CoBRA commandos during a recent anti-Maoist operation in Bihar, officials said Wednesday. The recoveries were made last week in the jungles of Read More …
The Jammu and Kashmir Police have seized arms, ammunition and explosives from a hideout of arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Talib Shah in the Draj area of border Rajouri district. The seizures include six sticky bombs, one pistol along with three Read More …
The Uttar Pradesh Police (UPP) will soon get five more bomb detection and disposal squads (BDDS). The new BDDS will be raised to engage them for upcoming vital installations like Metro train services, Ram Janmabhoomi temple and new international airports. Read More …
A crude bomb went off inside the crowded Civil Court premises in Patna, on Friday, injuring a police officer who had brought the explosive for investigation purposes. The sub-inspector of police has hurt his arm but is out of danger, Read More …
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists have been arrested in connection with the recent blasts in Kotranka and Budhal areas of Rajouri district but the police are still looking for Lashkar commander Talib Shah who led them, police said on Tuesday. Additional director Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted on Srinagar-Baramulla highway near Putkha area of Sopore subdivision was recovered and defused by the security forces and police on Saturday morning. A police official said that the security forces from 52 Rashtriya Rifles Read More …
Ahead of the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, police shot down a Pakistani drone carrying three magnetic improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the International Border (IB) in Kanachak sector of Akhnoor in Jammu on Monday night. Police said the drone was shot Read More …
The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and his two associates in connection with the low-intensity IED explosion outside a court complex in Udhampur district in March in which one person was killed and 14 were Read More …
A commando of the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) was injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by naxals exploded in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Friday, police said. The blast occurred around 1 pm in the forest of Read More …
A 59-year-old woman lost all her fingers of her left hand when a crude bomb exploded on Saturday. The injured, Jayamma, is a resident of Bheemagondanahalli on Hogenakkal Road in the vicinity of Bannerghatta National Park. The police said that Read More …
A construction worker was killed and four others were injured when a suspected improvised explosive device exploded at a community hall at Khongjom in Manipur’s Thoubal district on Monday, police said. The injured were rushed to a district hospital, where Read More …
Police today averted major threat to annual pilgrimage of Shri Amarnath Ji, beginning June 30, when it shot down a Pakistani drone near the International Border in Rajbagh area of Kathua district and recovered seven magnetic bombs from it besides Read More …
Kano state Police Command has confirmed that last Tuesday’s explosion that rocked Kano was from Improvised Explosive Device, IED, and not gas cylinder as earlier claimed, even as two suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. This development Read More …
The supplier of the improvised explosive device (IED) used in the Ludhiana court blast was among four persons arrested for their alleged involvement in cross-border smuggling of drugs, explosives arms and ammunition through drones, police said on Friday. The arrested Read More …
The bridge at Khonghampat is also not far off from the Army camp at the old Koirengei airfield and the Central Reserve Police Force headquarters. A plan of some insurgents to carry out an explosion in Manipur’s capital Imphal was Read More …
An unknown terror group ‘Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters’ has released a video claiming responsibility for Katra bus fire which killed 4 Vaishno Devi pilgrims, saying it was triggered by an IED blast. Jammu and Kashmir police has not confirmed Read More …