
Bhubaneswar: Four BSF officers, including a Commanding Officer, were on Friday killed in an IED blast by suspected Maoists in Malkangiri district of Odisha. The BSF squad was targeted at around 1 pm in the Janbai area of the district, under Chitragonda police station area, 465 kms from here, and its jungles are a Naxal hotbed as it touches the borders of two other states - Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,...

04:37 PM, Feb 10, 2012

Guwahati: An improvised explosive device was used to trigger the blast that led to the derailment of the Guwahati-Puri Express in Kamrup district in Assam that left 100 passengers injured, officials said on Monday. Railway PRO Nripendra Bhattacharya said the explosion led to the engine and eight coaches jumping the rails at around 8:30 on Sunday at Dhatkuchi between Rangia and Ghagrapar in the district. Four of the coaches toppled...

01:34 PM, Jul 11, 2011
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The CRPF personnel were patrolling the area when the unidentified militants set off the explosion at about 8:00 am. ...

09:48 AM, Jul 30, 2010

The officer was verifying details of a reported infiltration bid from Pakistan. ...

11:32 AM, Nov 16, 2009

The explosion took place when a CRPF convoy was moving towards Laxmipur. ...

10:20 AM, Nov 13, 2009

The convoy was going from Kupwara to Srinagar when the IED blast took place. ...

07:10 PM, Jul 19, 2008

New Delhi: On a day in which poor light forced an early lunch at 10.40am and returned to curtail play well before the scheduled close, India made hay to rack up a whopping 613 for 7 - their eighth-highest total at home and the first time in 11 Tests they had reached 500 - against a spent West Indian attack. Given the brickbats that most of this Indian side had ...

08:58 PM, Mar 19, 2008

Dubai: Sri Lanka's win over Pakistan in their second one day international has given them a badly-needed confidence boost for the rest of the five-match series, captain Tillakaratne Dilshan said. Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 25 runs at Dubai stadium on Monday to level the five-match series 1-1 and give Sri Lanka their first victory on the tour. Pakistan won the first match, also played in Dubai, by eight wickets...

07:35 PM, Mar 19, 2008