Tag: blasts

Supreme Court stays death penalty of 1996 Rajasthan blast case convict

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice BR Gavai, and Justice Surya Kant stayed the order of execution against Abdul Hameed until further orders and agreed to hear his appeal against the Rajasthan High Court judgment upholding his death penalty in the 1996 terror attack case.

December 3, 2019

Maoists trigger two blasts to target CRPF in Kalahandi

While one blast was close to a CRPF camp, the other hit a security team which was dispatched on an immediate combing operation.

May 12, 2019

Week after blasts, Sri Lanka bans all face coverings including burqa

A ban on all face veils was proposed by MP Ashu Marasinghe at a recent meeting of Sri Lankan cabinet.

April 29, 2019

Soyuz capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off for space station

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a team of three astronauts from the US, Russia and Japan blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The capsule with the three crew members — NASA’s Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of...

December 17, 2017

UP: Man held in connection with 1993 Mumbai blasts

The Uttar Pradesh police Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) along with Gujarat police on Saturday arrested a man accused of smuggling arms and ammunition used in the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai, officials said. Twenty four years after the blasts rocked India's financial capital, Qadeer Ahmed was arrested from UP's Bijnore district, the police officials said. "TADA accused...

July 8, 2017

Twin blasts rock market in Pakistan’s northwest, 15 killed

Fifteen persons were killed and 70 others injured as twin blasts rocked a market on Friday in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency, Geo News reported. The first explosion took place as people were busy shopping for Iftar and Eid in the Turi Bazaar area of Parachinar.  The second explosion occurred as people rushed to rescue...

June 23, 2017

Triple explosions kill 18 in Kabul

At least 18 people were killed in three blasts that were reported in Khair Khana area of Afghanistan on Saturday. Three blasts reported at a cemetery in the Khair Khana district, where people gathered for the funeral of Salim Ezadyar, the son of a senior Afghan politician. He was among protesters shot dead by police...

June 3, 2017

29 killed in Istanbul explosion

At least 29 persons were killed and 166 injured in twin explosions that rocked central Istanbul on Saturday night, officials said on Sunday morning. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said a moving car was detonated targeting riot police on duty near a stadium in the district of Besiktas, where a football match ended about one and...

December 11, 2016