National Investigation Agency team visits Hyderabad twin blasts sites
Press Trust of India | Friday March 29, 2013
A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and forensic experts on Friday visited the sites of February 21 twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, as a part of the ongoing probe.
Hyderabad blasts: Victim's kin gets Rs 6 lakh
Press Trust of India | Monday March 18, 2013
Andhra Pradesh government handed over a cheque of Rs 6 lakh as compensation amount to the family of a Dilsukhnagar twin blasts victim in Karimnagar today.
Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday March 16, 2013
A Delhi court Saturday remanded two alleged operatives of banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), lodged in a jail here, to NIA custody for four days for questioning over the Feb 21 Hyderabad blasts that killed 16 people.
Hyderabad blasts case: National probe agency files two FIRs
Press Trust of India | Thursday March 14, 2013
The Hyderabad branch of National Investigation Agency (NIA) today lodged two first information reports (FIRs) in connection with the February 21 twin blasts.
Hyderabad blasts: police release sketches of bicycle used
Press Trust of India | Monday March 11, 2013
The Andhra Pradesh police has released sketches of a bicycle used in the twin bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad last month which killed 17 and injured more than 100 people.
CCTV cameras captured one of the suspects of Hyderabad blasts say police
Press Trust of India | Saturday March 9, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Police has said the face of one of the suspects of February 21 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case in Hyderabad was clearly captured by CCTV cameras and efforts were on to identity the person.
Hyderabad blasts: Another victim dies, toll now at 17
Reported by Uma Sudhir, edited by Samira Shaikh | Wednesday March 6, 2013
The toll in the Hyderabad blasts of two weeks ago is now 17, with the death late last night of 25-year-old Amrutha Ravi at the city's Yashoda Hospital.
After Hyderabad blasts, a problematic phone call for National Security Guard (NSG)
Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen; edited by Mala Das | Tuesday March 5, 2013
India's counter-terror force, the National Security Guard or NSG, has ordered an inquiry against one of its officers for sharing information over the phone about the recent blasts in Hyderabad last month.
David Warner says Australian team feels safe in Hyderabad
Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday February 28, 2013
The road that leads from the team hotel to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium was completely sanitised. Some 2,000 security personnel have been deployed at the stadium.
India, Australia teams arrive in Hyderabad for 2nd Test
Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 27, 2013
Meanwhile, tight security arrangements are being put in place in the wake of the twin bomb blasts that rocked Hyderabad last week.
For anti-terror hub, NCTC, a revamp to win states over
Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Tuesday February 26, 2013
Days after the twin blasts in Hyderabad killed 16 people and injured more than 100, the government is determined to revive the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which was abandoned last year after unequivocal criticism by state...
Hyderabad police asks malls, theatres to install CCTVs
Indo-Asian News Service | Monday February 25, 2013
In the wake of Thursday's terror attacks, Hyderabad police have directed all theatres, shopping malls, major hotels, business establishments and large government and private buildings to install metal detectors and CCTVs.
Cricket Australia, BCCI officials in Hyderabad to review security
Indo-Asian News Service | Monday February 25, 2013
The terror attacks had cast a shadow on the match but the BCCI ruled out shifting it to some other venue. The HCA would take care of gate and crowd management and would be deploying additional personnel for the purpose.
Blog: SMS at 7.15 pm said "blast at Konark Theatre"
Radhika Iyer | Monday February 25, 2013
21 February, 2013: Text message from a friend in Hyderabad on my cell phone at 7.15 pm: "Blast near Konark theatre." At 7.17 pm, another message, from the same friend: "Dilsukhnagar area, not cylinder blast, this is something else". And then minutes ...
India is No. 4 on list of countries hit by terror
Written By Miloni Bhatt | Monday February 25, 2013
In a world dotted with conflicts of all kinds, raging civil wars, bloody sectarian violence and terrorism, South Asia emerges as the worst affected. According to the Global Terrorism Index, that profiles data on terrorism from across the world, Ind...