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A device containing low-grade explosives was found on the premises of a private hospital in Pune city’s Hadapsar area on Wednesday (May 13, 2026). A team of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) was immediately rushed to the spot Read More …
Panic gripped the Central Avenue area after a bag containing live explosives was found near Dosar Vaishya Bhavan in the Gandhibag area of Nagpur on Tuesday. Nagpur Police said they recovered 50 detonators, 8 connectors and 15 gelatin cartridges from Read More …
The combat engineering department of the College of Military Engineering (CME) of the Army has conducted a special training session for a batch of Maharashtra Intelligence Academy (MIA) on vital aspects of bomb disposal, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and jamming technology. Read More …
Gadchiroli district’s Superintendent of Police Neelotpal confirmed the development. After getting the information, two teams of Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), one unit of C-60 commando team and Quick Action Team (QAT) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were Read More …
More than 50 detonators were found abandoned in two boxes on platform number one of Kalyan railway station on Wednesday, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said. The official added the boxes were spotted at 11.30am by the GRP officials Read More …
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday raided 19 locations across four states and arrested eight operatives of the Islamic States’ Ballari module, inluding its head Minaz alias Md. Sulaiman. The federal agency claimed to have foiled the alleged plans Read More …
Terror organisation Islamic State (ISIS) has switched to a new tactic of recruiting “roaming trainers” to make improvised explosive device (IED). The trainers shift base continuously and impart explosive-making training to sleeper cells in different states. Questioning of arrested ISIS Read More …
The Ahmednagar district police, in a joint operation with the Military Intelligence (MI) unit of the Southern Command in Pune, arrested a scrap dealer near his house in Karjune Khare on Friday evening for illegal possession of ammunition and explosives. Read More …
An official claimed on Sunday that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched four places in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, and one location in Pune, Maharashtra, as part of an inquiry to uncover a plot by the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) to Read More …
A bag containing 54 detonators with a low intensity explosives were found in front of Nagpur Railway station’s main gate on Monday evening. According to the police, a black bag was spotted by a police personnel lying at the railway Read More …
An abandoned vehicle with explosive material was found near business tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai on Thursday, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said, in a bomb scare just metres away from where India’s richest man lives under high security. Read More …
Gunpowder, nails, glass, wire and other explosive-making materials were seized on Sunday afternoon from a Naxal hideout in Bharnoli forest in Arjuni Morgaon tehsil of Gondia, police said. The operation was carried out by a joint team of local police, Read More …
The Indian Army’s Counter-Terrorism Task Force (CTTF) and Quick Reaction Team (QRT) of Maharashtra police jointly carried out the anti-terror exercise in Pune. The purpose of the exercise was to “harmonize the drills and procedures of both army and police Read More …
The CRPF on Monday said its personnel thwarted a terror strike plot by detecting and seizing 64 IEDs planted in a forested area in Aurangabad in Bihar. The Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were detected during an operation by Commando Battalion Read More …
The Kolhapur police have arrested two brothers and have seized 69 crude bombs from them in the Mudshingi village of Hatkanangle taluka. The police are questioning the suspects to check if they have any link with the explosion along the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway last week, Read More …
Maoist rebels triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) on Wednesday, blowing up a vehicle carrying crack C-60 commandos in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, killing 15 of them and the driver in the deadliest attack on security forces in five years in Read More …
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was critically injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Maharashtra’s Maoist-affected Gadricholi district on Wednesday, a day before voting in the area for Lok Sabha polls. The blast took place in Read More …
The Maharashtra state police are on high alert after a low intensity blast took place on a busy road near Mumbai on Wednesday and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was found on a state transport bus in Raigad district later Read More …