Hyderabad Bomb Blasts

• Hyderabad blasts: Another victim dies, toll now at 17

  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.

• Hyderabad Blasts: No breakthrough in investigations yet

  Four days after the deadly Hyderabad bomb blasts, Andhra Pradesh Police, under immense pressure to nail the culprits, is yet to make any significant breakthrough in its investigations. Police have questioned nearly 30 persons in connection with the explosions but no arrests have been made yet.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Prime Minister arrives, to meet the injured

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached Hyderabad today, where twin bomb blasts on Thursday evening left 16 people dead and more than a hundred injured.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Police announce reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on culprits

  Hyderabad police on Saturday announced Rs.10 lakh reward for anybody providing information about the people involved in Thursday's twin blasts, in which ammonium nitrate and timer devices had been used.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Tragic tale of two mothers

  Along with the 16 people who were killed, nearly 120 more were injured in Thursday's twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar, a suburb in Hyderabad. Among them was 30-year-old Yashoda, who was six-months pregnant with her second child. She was on her way back home from work when she was thrown away by the impact of the blast and landed on her stomach. She not ...

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Prime Minister to visit city today

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Sunday visit Hyderabad, where bomb blasts on Thursday evening left 16 people dead and more than a hundred injured.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Six people detained, CCTV footage may have captured suspect

  Investigators working to unravel the plot behind Thursday's bomb blasts in Hyderabad have reportedly detained six people and questioned many more while close circuit television or CCTV footage has revealed a possible suspect who may have planted the bombs. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Hyderabad on Sunday.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: City police chief says evidence being collected, too early to draw conclusions

  Hyderabad police chief Anurag Sharma today addressed the media about the investigation into the Dilsukhnagar blasts. Here are the highlights from his address.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Survivor, who was also injured in Mecca Masjid blast, questioned; cops say not a suspect

  Hyderabad bomb blasts: A 23-year-old man injured in the Hyderabad bomb blasts - who also survived the Mecca Masjid blast in 2007 - has been spoken to by investigators probing the terror attack. Abdul Wasey Mirza, who suffered shrapnel wounds and injuries to his legs and ribs in Thursday evening's twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar, told NDTV: "The police...

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Did Maharashtra anti-terror squad fail to share crucial leads?

  Investigators attempting to piece together the plot behind Thursday's Hyderabad blasts have reportedly detained six people and have questioned many more. But they are being circumspect about accusing any terror group just yet, as questions are raised on whether a major intelligence failure allowed the horrific death of 16 people this week.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's statement in Parliament

  Soon after his visit to the blast site in Hyderabad, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde updated Parliament on the terror strike with a brief statement that shared the death count and progress in investigations in Thursday's terror attack which killed 16 people and injured more than 100. Here is the full text of the statement made by Home Minister S...

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: why the bombs exploded with such force

  The bombs used in the powerful blasts that ripped through Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar last evening were improvised explosives devices or IEDs built for maximum damage, forensic experts have said.

• Who is the 'bomb-maker' Sayed Maqbool?

  As possible links are seen between the Hyderabad blasts on Thursday evening and the serial blasts in Pune last August, one of the key names to emerge from an intricate network of terror is that of Sayed Maqbool an alleged bomb-maker for the terror group Indian Mujahideen.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: intelligence warning shared with five cities, says Home Minister

  Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde refuted accusations that the government ignored intelligence agency warnings ahead of last evening's terror attack in Hyderabad in which 16 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

• Highlights: Government was aware of security risks, says Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the govt had shared intelligence information immediately - specifically to five cities.