
TIRUNELVELI: The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) on Tuesday received three bomb threat letters. Two threat letters addressed to a contract worker working at KKNPP and another letter send to KKNPP administration were received at the plant on Tuesday, Police sources said.The sender, Tirunelveli Pothunala Kuzhu (Tirunelveli Public Welfare Committee), said that the contract worker and another worker were sent for planting bombs at KKNPP.The letter instructs them to plant...

10:29 AM, May 17, 2012

Beijing: A bomb threat delayed a flight from Chinese city of Shanghai to Chengdu, airport authorities said on Saturday. Shanghai Pudong International Airport received an anonymous phone call saying that a bomb was on board flight CA406, according to police at the airport. Police evacuated the passengers and inspected the plane, but no bomb was found, Xinhua news agency reported. The flight took off after a delay of about 5...

12:30 PM, Apr 28, 2012

Washington: The bomb threat to the Indian Embassy in Washington was made by a caller from the western US state of Utah speaking in "Hinglish", indicating that he was apparently of South Asian origin, sources said in Washington. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of the Embassy premises, chancery and Ambassador Nirupama Rao's residence. Giving more details about the threat, police and US Secret Service said a suspicious object was...

08:02 PM, Apr 11, 2012

New Delhi: A Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight on Tuesday night landed under emergency condition at the airport in New Delhi following a bomb threat. Soon after AI-888 took off from Mumbai at 7:00 pm, the Air India call centre there received a phone call from an anonymous person saying the aircraft was carrying a baggage which had a bomb. The pilot of the Airbus A-319, carrying 117 passengers and six...

10:32 PM, Jan 10, 2012

Chennai: An anonymous call stating that a bomb has been placed in a 16-storey building housing IT major Tata Consultancy Services and other business units here sent authorities into a tizzy but it turned out to be a hoax. The call was received by a staff at private power firm in the building complex in Ambattur, an industrial hub, around 0830 hrs on Friday, police said. Police and bomb squad...

04:05 PM, Dec 16, 2011

Chennai: Police on Tuesday conducted a drill at shopping malls in the city to check the preparedness of security agencies to deal with emergencies in the backdrop of last week's bomb blast at Delhi. The drill was conducted due to a 'general alert' issued by the Home Ministry, top officials said. Various wings of the city police such as its security division, Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad and sniffer dogs...

03:42 PM, Sep 13, 2011

New Delhi: On Tuesday there was a bomb threat in Chennai at Temple Towers building at Mount Road. Chennai Police are conducting checks on the ninth floor of the building post the threat. Chennai Police Commissioner also issued a statement saying there was no need to panic. ...

01:54 PM, Sep 13, 2011

Karachi: Two flights operated by Pakistan's state-owned airline received bombs threats on Wednesday, and both landed safely, one in Turkey, the other in Malaysia. The first flight was headed for Manchester, England, when it was notified of the threat near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, and contacted the control tower in Istanbul to seek permission for the landing, state-run state-run Anatolia news agency reported. PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar confirmed the...

09:52 PM, Sep 07, 2011

New Delhi: An anonymous call received at an airline call centre threatening to explode a bomb on Tuesday sparked a security alert at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here with police sanitising the facility. The call centre of national carrier Air India received the telephone call at around 7 pm in which the caller threatened to trigger a bomb blast. A senior CISF official said the call was "not...

09:23 PM, Apr 05, 2011

Kolkata: A Singapore-bound flight from Moscow with 262 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport here on Sunday night following bomb threat in the aircraft. The Singapore Airlines flight was close to Delhi when Moscow police contacted the pilot and informed him that a bomb could have been planted in the plane, airport officials said. The pilot sought permission from Delhi airport to...

10:10 AM, Oct 04, 2010

Police searched the aircraft and luggage after the flight landed at Vancouver International Airport. ...

09:35 AM, May 16, 2010

An anonymous caller threatened to blow up around half a dozen targets. ...

12:24 PM, Jan 06, 2010

Passengers disembarked after phone call to airline. ...

11:56 AM, Oct 25, 2009

The police are trying to track the caller who had called the IndiGo call centre. ...

08:06 PM, Aug 12, 2009

A postcard warned bombs would go off on Sunday when classes are on. ...

10:31 PM, Nov 01, 2008