Seeking support for the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said all political parties and state governments should come together for a collective response to fight against the challenge of terrorism. ...
03:14 PM, Feb 22, 2013
BJP chief Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the nation must unite in its fight against terror. ...
02:06 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The big question after the Hyderabad blasts is whether the time has come for political parties to bury their differences and set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre. ...
02:00 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Hyderabad had been alerted specifically by the Intelligence Bureau and the Union Home Minister about possible terror strikes, sources said on Friday, a day after the Andhra Pradesh capital was rocked by twin blasts in which 15 people were killed and 118 injured. A total of three advisories had been issued for Hyderabad - two by the Intelligence Bureau and one by the Home Ministry. A general alert to all...
12:13 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The death toll in Hyderabad twin blasts climbed to 15 on Friday and 118 people have been left injured, some of them critical. Most of the victims are now being discharged from various hospitals depending on the severity of their wounds. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will make an official statement on the Hyderabad blasts in Parliament on Friday after lunch. ...
11:33 AM, Feb 22, 2013
A trip to purchase books for the exam of sub-inspector in Excise department proved to be the last outing of Vijay Kumar, who was among the five students killed in the twin blasts in the city. Among the other students killed was Rajasekhar, who was pursuing MBA, Harish, an engineering student from Kottapet locality in the city, and Swapna, another MBA student. ...
11:25 AM, Feb 22, 2013
A key figure who may help unravel the plot behind the twin blasts in Hyderabad is Syed Maqbool, a suspected operative of the Indian Mujahideen. Maqbool, who was arrested in October 2012 and interrogated by several agencies, is believed to have admitted to a plot to carry out blasts in Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar nearly four months ago. ...
11:09 AM, Feb 22, 2013
The investigating agencies have searched six places in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra after the serial bomb blasts in Hyderabad. The searches were carried out after the investigators got some information about the people who may have been involved in carrying out the February 21 terror strikes in the Andhra Pradesh capital. ...
11:00 AM, Feb 22, 2013
BJP President Rajnath Singh will visit Hyderabad on Friday to meet the injured and family members of those killed in the twin blasts in the city. Rajnath, accompanied by BJP MP and spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain and party secretary Murlidhar Rao, is likely to visit the Dilsukh Nagar area of Hyderabad where the two blasts took place on Thursday evening. ...
10:49 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Fourteen people left dead and 119 injured as Hyderabad struggles to get back on its feet after two powerful blasts on Thursday evening. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says a general alert was issued for all states but didn't have information on specific targets. ...
09:11 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is not yet ready to blame the police for the twin blasts that rocked Dilsukh Nagar in Hyderabad on Thursday evening. Mentioning that the death toll had risen to 14 and that the list of the injured had increased to 119, the Home Minister said that he doesn't think the police has failed, "at the moment". ...
09:04 AM, Feb 22, 2013
As the first blast occurred near a tea-cum-fast food centre diagonally opposite the busy Konark theatre area in Hyderabad around 7:05 pm on Thursday, everyone first thought it was a gas cylinder burst. By the time the impact was felt, there were at least five to six bodies strewn around in a pool of blood with footwear and other objects scattered all around the place. Many others had sustained injuries...
08:37 AM, Feb 22, 2013
While the death toll has climbed to 14, more than 75 people have been injured in the twin blasts in Hyderabad. The main pressure right now is on doctors who are trying to save as many lives possible. Most victims were taken to Osmania and Yashoda hospitals. ...
08:05 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Every time terror strikes the country, questions over failure of intelligence and information sharing crop up. Thursday's twin blasts in Hyderabad may well be yet another such instance. Did the Home Ministry sit on crucial information? ...
07:43 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs have said that there is no question of ruling out the involvement of Indian Mujahideen in the Hyderabad blasts. According to them, the attack looks like an Indian Mujahideen modus operandi and the module must have planned the attack in advance. They also said that the attack could not have been planned after the execution of Afzal Guru. ...
07:31 AM, Feb 22, 2013
At 7.00 pm on Thursday night, two blasts rocked the crowded area in Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar. The blasts happened near the Venkatadri and Konark theatres, with a crowded bus stand just a stones throw away. Fifteen injured were brought to the nearby Doctor Yashoda Hospital after the blast and admitted in various ICUs. Fourteen people died and over 55 were injured. ...
07:20 AM, Feb 22, 2013
The United States on Thursday strongly condemned the terrorist bombings in Hyderabad that killed a dozen people and offered assistance in investigation if requested by the Indian government. ...
02:44 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Leaders of various political parties on Thursday night visited the Dilsukhnagar area in Hyderabad, the site of twin bomb blasts in which 12 people were killed and scores injured. ...
01:23 AM, Feb 22, 2013
