Pakistan on Thursday blocked cellular services in over 50 towns and cities, including Islamabad, to prevent terror attacks on Shia processions to commemorate the slaying of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered Shia figures. Officials of the Interior Ministry have contended that mobile phones are used to trigger improvised explosive devices. ...
04:37 PM, Jan 03, 2013
A 42-year-old worker was killed and two others were seriously injured in a blast at a firework factory near Alangudi here, police said on Thursday. The victims were packing chemicals when the blast, caused by friction, ripped through the godown of the factory at Annanagar near Alangudi here Wednesday evening, they said. ...
01:04 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Two women and a child were charred to death and four others injured in an explosion in a firecrackers manufacturing unit in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh Sunday afternoon. The explosion occurred at around 2 pm when 12 persons were working inside the premises of the Bhavani fire crackers manufacturing unit located at Komarrepalem village under Rayavaram mandal of the East Godavari district, police said. ...
05:12 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Imphal: A labourer was killed and two others seriously injured when militants exploded a powerful grenade at the house of a government contractor in Imphal West district of Manipur, officials said today. While chasing the militants, police fired at them in which a man, who was driving a car, was injured. Hospital sources said his condition is out of danger. Two militants, who came on a two-wheeler, lobbed a powerful...
02:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Islamabad: At least 15 people were killed and several others injured when a powerful car bomb went off in a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said. The explosives-laden car was parked at Fauji Market in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency. It went off when the market was crowded, witnesses and security officials told TV news channels. Footage on television showed a...
12:52 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Baghdad: Iraqi authorities say a car bomb has killed five people and wounded eleven others in the country's north, the second day in a row in which blasts have targeted disputed regions there. Police officials said the explosion Monday morning was in al-Mouafaqiyah, a village inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group. The region near the city of Mosul, 360 kilometers northwest of Baghdad, is claimed by Arabs, Turkmen...
12:21 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Kabul: Ten young girls were killed when a bomb exploded as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning, an official said. It was not clear what triggered the explosion outside Dawlatzai village in Nangarhar province's Chaperhar district, said Mohammad Seddiq, the government administrator for the district. The girls ranged in age from 9 to 13 years old and all came from different families, he...
11:25 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Nashik: An explosion took place at an electrical switch gears manufacturing company in Nashik on Tuesday, police said. Though police did not disclose any details, according to a worker at the Crompton Greaves facility, a 52-year-old labourer was killed and three others injured during the testing of a switch gear of 400 kv capacity at around 4.30 pm. When contacted, the company officials said they were busy gathering details of...
10:17 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Beed: The police claim they have cracked the transistor explosion case in Maharashtra's Beed district. They say there is no terror angle involved and have blamed it on personal enmity. Days ago, a bus conductor and his family were injured in a blast triggered from a radio he found abandoned. For days, the police remained tight-lipped, concerned that there could be a terror hand in the explosion. But now the...
08:26 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Beed: The police on Sunday evening claimed to have cracked the Beed transistor explosion case, arresting one person in connection with the incident. Speaking to reporters, IG Aurangabad, Ritesh Kumar said that personal enmity was the motive behind the blast and ruled out a terror angle. Four members of a family were injured in the blast that occurred after bus conductor Om Nimbalkar took the radio, that he had found...
09:56 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: A family of four was injured when a transistor exploded in Maharashtra's Beed district. Reports said a bus driver found an abandoned radio at a bus stop and took it home which exploded when he tried to put in batteries. Police is yet to confirm if there were any explosives in the radio. The driver and three members of his family have been hospitalalised. Bus conductor AR Nimbalkar, who...
08:01 AM, Dec 01, 2012
Aurangabad: Four members of a family, including a minor boy, were seriously injured when a radio set exploded at their residence in Koregaon village of Kaij tehsil of Beed district this afternoon, police said. Bus conductor AR Nimbalkar (35), his wife Usha (30), mother Kusum (53) and two-year-son old Kunal were seriously injured in the incident, police said. Nimbalkar, who was on duty in Mumbai-Ambejogai bus, noticed a radio set...
09:42 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Springfield: A natural gas explosion in one of New England's biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen other buildings but didn't kill anyone, authorities said. Firefighters, police officers and gas company workers in the area because of an earlier gas leak and odor report were among the 18 people injured in the blast, authorities said. "This is a...
04:53 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Israeli aircraft struck crowded areas in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior militant with a missile strike on a media center on Monday. ...
11:50 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: One person was killed and three others injured during an explosion at a thermal power plant in Panipat, Haryana. The injured and the dead were workers at the plant. The cause of the explosion is yet unknown. More details on the incident are awaited. ...
10:03 PM, Nov 06, 2012
London: Bottles and cans are largely unaffected by radiation and items like beer and soft drinks are still drinkable if an atomic bomb went off nearby, a US government study has found. The experiment was conducted as part of Operation Teapot, a sequence of nuclear weapons assessments by the US Military in 1950s, the Daily Mail reported. Documentation of the 1957 experiment has now been made available by science historian...
06:18 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Kannur: With four more persons succumbing to their burns on Saturday, the toll in Monday's LPG tanker explosion here rose to 15, police said. One victim died at a private hospital in neighbouring Kozhikode district, another at Manipal medical college hospital in Karnataka while others at the medical college hospital here, police said. Seven more persons with severe burns were battling for life at different hospitals, they said. Thirty five...
10:02 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Kannur: The devastating gas tanker lorry explosion at Chala bypass road here on Monday night claimed the lives of two persons, even as nearly a dozen people with severe burns are battling for their lives at three hospitals here. Sreeni layam Veetil Sreelatha, 47, of Chala and Abdul Azeez, 55, are the deceased. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of the...
12:20 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Reports say a child was injured in a minor low-intensity explosion near Pune on Friday. ...
05:50 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Pune: A minor explosion took place at Laxmi Tara Complex in Dange Chowk of Pimpri Chinchwad in Pune on Friday afternoon in which one child has been injured. According to the police the explosion took place at 3.30 PM. Police official have ruled out a terror attack and say that the situation is under control. The blast happened when a five-year-old boy Piyush Santosh Walunj spotted a packet and lifted...
04:42 PM, Aug 17, 2012
