Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Friday said that the government has failed if it had prior intelligence about terror attacks and did not take any action ahead of Thursday's twin blasts in Hyderabad. Sushma said that terrorists have no religion and that they only follow the code of terrorism. ...
02:47 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Are India's Intelligence capabilities grossly inadequate? Former Head of RAW PKH Tharakan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
02:38 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
The visiting Australian players and officials had expressed concerns but BCCI assured them all safety measures would be in place. ...
01:52 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
Hyderabad: A day after the serial blast, life is back on track again in Dilsukh Nagar area of Hyderabad and people are back at work. Hyderabad residents called the terror strikes horrific and painful but added they would face the situation strongly and not lose hope. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 22, 2013
CA has denied the reports that the team will refuse to travel to Hyderabad for next week's second Test after blasts in the city on Thursday night. ...
11:46 AM, 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
The issue of the Hyderabad blasts on Friday resonated in Parliament with the government facing the flak for "failing" to check such incidents despite having intelligence inputs about them. This even as Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde promised "more firm action" to eliminate terror from the country. ...
11:17 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
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday made his maiden tweet to express sympathies with the people of Hyderabad, the venue of twin blasts that killed nearly a dozen people. "Saw friend/Foreign Secretary Mathai discussed importance of relationship w/ #India, expressed sympathies to brave people of #Hyderabad -JK," Kerry said in his first tweet in his capacity as the top American diplomat. ...
10:59 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
Newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday met visiting Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and stressed that there would be no change in India-US relationship, which he is looking forward to take a step forward during his stint at the Foggy Bottom. ...
10:47 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Sources in the Home Ministry on Friday said that the Intelligence Bureau had issued three separate advisories to all states on February 16 and 19. The sources said that on February 20, the Home Ministry too issued an advisory to all the states. ...
10:24 AM, Feb 22, 2013
They are "concerned" after bomb blasts rocked Hyderabad, which is scheduled to host the second India-Australia Test, but Cricket Australia on Friday said there is "no reason to doubt" that the match would go ahead as planned. ...
10:13 AM, Feb 22, 2013
