A week after the twin bomb blasts at Dilsukh Nagar here, Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Thursday said sketches of suspects were being prepared, and he was hoping for a breakthrough. "There are a lot of eye-witnesses and with inputs provided by those injured in the blasts we are trying to prepare the sketches of suspects, which will be released shortly," the DGP told reporters....
07:55 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The government on Thursday said it will set up a port each at Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal in 2013-14, to effectively handle increased cargo traffic. "Two new major ports will be set up in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said while presenting the Budget for 2013-14. ...
01:09 PM, Feb 28, 2013
A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and personnel of the Andhra Pradesh intelligence bureau investigating the Hyderabad blasts arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday. ...
10:00 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Andhra Pradesh's police chief on Monday made an aerial survey of Maoist-affected areas of Karimnagar district on the new helicopter provided by the central government for operations against the insurgents in north Telangana and adjoining parts of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. ...
01:57 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said the culprits involved in the Hyderabad blasts, which killed 16 persons and left several injured, would be booked soon. ...
02:59 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Six of the injured in Thursday's terror attacks in Hyderabad remained critical, hospital sources said. Three injured each at Care Hospital and Yashoda Hospital are battling for life with critical injuries. ...
05:45 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh further said that the Andhra Pradesh government had assured him that the blast victims would be provided all necessary support. ...
03:41 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Three days after two powerful bombs killed 16 people and injured 117, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited the sites in Hyderabad. The PM, who was accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, said that the Centre would extend maximum support to the state government. ...
12:09 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia reportedly made a hate speech in Bhokar early this month. After a public outcry, the Maharashtra Police has booked the leader. CNN-IBN has learnt that the police has submitted its report to the state government and is awaiting a sanction to prosecute him. ...
08:46 AM, Feb 24, 2013
The ongoing investigations into the Hyderabad twin blasts have now revealed that the cycles that were used to plant the bombs were rented from local shops. The police are scanning the footage from CCTV cameras and are on the lookout for the five men who can be seen moving near the blast site on cycles. The CCTV footage now seems to be the key in the probe. ...
07:34 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Hyderabad police on Saturday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for anybody providing information about the people involved in Thursday's twin blasts, in which ammonium nitrate and timer devices had been used. ...
12:40 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Two days after the twin blasts in Dilsukh Nagar in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh Police on Saturday admitted to having had intelligence since November, but expressed helplessness saying they tried their best. ...
09:12 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a software engineer wanted for allegedly murdering his wife and two children in the US in 2008. According to a statement by Crime Investigation Department (CID), Nerusu Lakshimi Nivas Rao, native of Krishna district and a US green-card holder, is in the wanted list of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ...
08:15 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The twin blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday evening have taken 16 lives and changed many others. Mahesh, who was in Dilsukh Nagar when the bombs exploded, was injured and is now recovering at a hospital. But what he may never recover from, is the deaths of two of his childhood friends, who had gone shopping with him at the market. ...
07:22 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Normalcy is returning to Dilsukh Nagar, the scene of Thursday's devastating twin blasts which left 16 people dead and 117 others injured. After a day of grief and shutdown, people in the busy area resumed their daily activity Saturday. ...
06:35 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The Special Investigation Team will probe the twin blasts that took place in Hyderabad on Thursday evening, said police commissioner Anurag Sharma on Saturday. Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, Sharma said six special teams were investigating the case and he was hopeful that the culprits will be booked soon. ...
05:39 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The investigating agencies have constituted 15 special teams to crack the Dilsukh Nagar twin blasts case even as Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday announced steps to ramp up security including installation of 3,500 CCTV cameras at vital points. ...
04:49 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Abdul Wasey Mirza, a 23-year-old unemployed youth who became the victim of a terror attack for the second time on Thursday during the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts, has been questioned by police which is not treating him as a suspect. "As part of the investigations we only recorded his statement as a witness along with others," Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma told PTI on Hyderabad. When asked if Wasey was being...
01:10 PM, Feb 23, 2013
A Sai Baba temple in Dilsukh Nagar was the initial target of the bombers, police sources said on Saturday. However, a visit by Hyderabad police commissioner Anurag Sharma to the temple just ahead of the blasts forced the attackers to shift the location of the cycle carrying the bomb, as policemen swarmed the temple, the sources added. In fact, the visit by the police commissioner ended up saving thousands of...
12:22 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Police sources have told CNN-IBN that a Sai Baba temple in Dilsukh Nagar was the initial target of the blasts. However, following Hyderabad police commissioner's visit to the temple, the bombers shifted the location of the cycle. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 23, 2013
