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Tension prevailed in Shankar Nagar on the outskirts of Tirunelveli city after two suspected ‘pipe bombs’ were recovered from the premises of a private cement factory around Tuesday midnight. Police suspect that it was the handiwork of a few terminated Read More …
A Chrisitan Engineer from Kerala, who had recently converted to Islam to join Islamic State’s (IS), has been killed in a suicide bombing terror attack in Libya, reports New Indian Express. According to the reports, the intelligence officials have gathered Read More …
Seven people were injured in an explosion in Tral town of Pulwama district on Sunday. Apparently a grenade blast, it took place in the bus stand of Tral. “Seven persons were injured. They have been shifted to sub-district hospital in Read More …
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Saturday detected and later defused a suspected improvised explosive device (IED), police said. A suspicious IED planted in a steel container weighing approximately 10 kg was detected near the government quarters in Read More …
A joint team of the police, the Army and the CRPF today defused an improvised explosive device (IED) detected in a container, which was approximately 10 litres in capacity, at Panzgam village in Awantipora area of Pulwama district, officials in Read More …
Chhattisgarh – Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Kadenar in Narayanpur, found two pressure cooker IEDs near Chikhpal village today. ITBP later neutralized the IEDs. Chhattisgarh | Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Kadenar in Narayanpur, found two pressure cooker IEDs near Chikhpal village Read More …
A head constable was killed and another policeman injured when Naxals detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place around 9.30 am under Kutru police station area, located around 450 Read More …
An 11-year-old boy was killed when a crude bomb exploded in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Sunday, police said. The bomb was kept in a box near a canal in Khatipur village and the boy accidentally came in contact with Read More …
In a major seizure, security forces seized 40 kilograms of high explosive material along with several improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during a joint search operation in Doda district, the Army said on Saturday. “The timely recovery thwarted the nefarious designs Read More …
Security forces detected and destroyed two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts on Friday, police said. One IED was detected today morning at Circle Road in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district and was subsequently destroyed by Read More …
Researchers at the National Center of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security (NCETIS) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, have designed a hand-held explosive detection device that can detect explosives. Director, Subhasis Chaudhuri, on Tuesday, announced that some Read More …
As much as 1,600 metric tons of unexploded ordnance was disposed of by the Southern Command of the Indian Army to help civilian authorities in Mumbai and several other locations, a defence release said today. In Mumbai alone, over 800 Read More …
Chhattisgarh police on Wednesday dismissed Maoist allegations regarding an airstrike/drone attack in Gudem village under police station limits of Bijapur. The state police said the Maoists’ claims are totally baseless and an outcome of fear and confusion in the rank Read More …
A 12-year-old boy suffered injuries after he picked up a crude bomb, mistaking it for a ball, from a garbage heap and then threw it away, causing an explosion. The incident took place on Tuesday evening when the boy, Sachin, Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) and explosives were recovered and defused by the police and security forces in different incidents. One IED was recovered and defused in the Khanyar area of Srinagar after the police found a suspicious steel box Read More …
The Charla police on Thursday claimed to have seized a pressure cooker bomb from a Maoist militia member and defused another pressure cooker bomb allegedly planted by the local militia members of the outlawed organisation near a stream in Rallapuram Read More …
At a time when the number of Maoists is reducing, guerrilla militants are increasingly preferring to use ‘booby traps’ to ensure maximum damage to the security forces without losing even a single comrade. Booby trap, a mechanism often used during Read More …
A seven-year-old boy was killed and another child injured in a crude bomb explosion in Burdwan city in West Bengal on Monday, triggering tension in the area ahead of the elections amid a political war of words over the law Read More …
Five police personnel have been killed and 14 injured after Maoists targeted a bus carrying 27 DRG (District Reserve Guard) troops in Chhattisgarh’s Naryanpur district. The bus, which was travelling between Kadenar and Kanhargaon, was hit by an IED (improvised Read More …
Over seven tonnes of explosives seized 15 years ago were from steel melting plants in Gummidipoondi Sipcot is being destroyed under the supervision of experts from the Indian Army. “On Friday, some 10 explosives were destroyed on trial basis and Read More …