Washington: The Secret Service says it has expanded its security perimeter at the White House following the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the measure was taken "out of an abundance of caution." He says it is not unusual to expand or contract the security perimeters. Shortly after the explosions on Monday, Secret Service shut down Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, cordoning off the...
03:05 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: Boston police said on Monday that an explosion occurred at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston after other blasts in the city near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Police spokeswoman Neva Coakley said "there has been another explosion at JFK." Rachel Day, a spokeswoman for the John F Kennedy Library, located about three miles from the marathon's finish line, said that there was...
02:51 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Washington: The White House says President Barack Obama has called Boston's mayor and the Massachusetts governor to express his concern for those injured in the Boston Marathon explosions. Obama also told Mayor Tom Menino and Gov Deval Patrick that his administration would provide whatever support was needed in responding to the incident, the White House said. The president was briefed on the explosions by Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco shortly...
02:24 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: In a major terror strike on the United States of America, three explosions rocked Boston on Monday, killing three people and injuring at least 140 others. Major US cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Fransisco have been put on high alert following the multiple terror attacks. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon where all the casualties took place in a terrifying...
01:30 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and eight others injured, some of them critically, when one of the fire crackers they were making exploded in a village in Odisha's Puri district, police said on Monday. The incident occurred at Srikanthapur village under Pipili police station area, about 20 km from state capital Bhubaneswar on Sunday when the men were making the fire crackers in the backyard of a house. The crackers...
10:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said that North Korea presents a real and clear danger. The US has also confirmed that even China has mobilised units along its border with North Korea and that the Chinese military is at Level One readiness which is the highest state of alert in China. This comes after Pyongyang has once again warned USA, saying that the moment of explosion is nearing. ...
04:00 PM, Apr 04, 2013
A team of National Investigation Agency and forensic experts today visited the sites of February 21 twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, as a part of the ongoing probe. ...
10:14 PM, Mar 29, 2013
At least five people were killed and two others were critically injured as an explosion brought down a wall in densely-populated area of Sakinaka in Mumbai on Friday. The cause of the explosion was unclear and police said they were still investigating the incident. ...
08:18 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Three more persons today succumbed to their injuries taking the toll in Friday's explosion at a house in Ranga Reddy district's Vikarabad town to six today. One woman succumbed to burn injuries at a government hospital here. ...
01:00 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Seven persons, including some senior officers, have been booked in connection with an explosion at a chemical plant in Boisar in Thane, police said on Saturday. ...
03:37 PM, Mar 23, 2013
At least two persons were killed and 14 injured in an explosion at a house in Vikarabad town of neighbouring Ranga Reddy district on Friday night, police said. The incident occurred at around 8.30 pm in a residential complex at Vikrabad, resulting in the death of a woman identified as Vasantha, (aged about 40) and Karthik (4), while 14 others suffered minor injuries. ...
01:20 AM, Mar 23, 2013
At least 42 people were killed, including a senior Muslim cleric, and over 80 wounded in an explosion at a mosque in downtown Damascus on Thursday. A suicide bomber set off an explosive device at the mosque during a religious lesson being given by Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, a top Sunni Muslim preacher and long time supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, state-news agency SANA reported Thursday. ...
07:40 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Does the SC verdict on the 1993 Mumbai blasts case bring a sense of closure to the victims? Vinay Tewari, managing editor, CNN-IBN joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
07:03 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Seven US Marines were killed and seven people injured during a training exercise at a military ammunition storage facility in western Nevada, US military officials said Tuesday. The explosion occurred Monday at 10 pm PDT (5 am BST Tuesday) during a Marine training exercise at the Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada, said facility manager Russ Collier. ...
07:42 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Two years back, Bashir Usman Ghani, serving life sentence in the 1993 serial Mumbai blasts, came out on parole to marry his lady love who had waited for him for two decades. 45-year-old Bashir, however, had to return to Nashik jail after expiry of parole to undergo the life imprisonment awarded to him by a TADA Court for his role in the bombings, the first in the long list of...
04:59 PM, Mar 12, 2013
There was a minor explosion outside the Sanargaon Pan-Pacific hotel where President Pranab Mukherjee was scheduled to stay during his 3-day Bangladesh visit. There were no reports of any damage or casualty. No one was injured in the blast which took place around 2 pm, said Apoorva Hassan, the officer in-charge of Tejgaon police station. ...
02:18 PM, Mar 04, 2013
One person died and 13 were injured in early hours of Monday after a fire broke out in Mumbai's Mankhurd area. The fire started after an explosion in a gas tanker. ...
08:32 AM, Mar 04, 2013
At least 16 people were killed and 30 injured when two car bombs ripped off a Shiite neighbourhood in Iraq on Thursday night, Xinhua reported. ...
04:03 AM, Mar 01, 2013
A series of bombings struck Baghdad and towns south of the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens in areas that are home to mostly Muslim Shiites - the latest evidence of rising sectarian discord in Iraq. The attackers struck a day before tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims are expected to take to the streets in what have become weekly protests against the Shiite-led government...
11:05 PM, Feb 28, 2013
An Egyptian security official said at least 19 foreign tourists were killed as their hot air balloon crashed near the famed ancient city of Luxor. The casualties included French, British and other nationals. ...
01:22 PM, Feb 26, 2013
