Edited by Amit Chaturvedi (With inputs from agencies) | Sunday February 24, 2013
The probe into Thursday's twin blasts in Hyderabad, which killed 16 people and injured over 100, gathered momentum with the police scanning the images recorded on a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera mounted on a traffic signal near a blast site...
Radhika Iyer | Saturday February 23, 2013
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 inju...
After blasts, Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar limps back to normalcy
Press Trust of India | Saturday February 23, 2013
The busy Dilsukhnagar area of the city, which witnessed twin bomb blasts on Thursday, is limping back to normalcy with shopkeepers and roadside vendors resuming their business.
Hyderabad blasts: six detained for questioning
Edited by Amit Chaturvedi (With inputs from agencies) | Saturday February 23, 2013
As the Hyderabad Police continues investigations in the serial blasts case, six people have been detained for questioning. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at various places in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra, looking ...
Hyderabad blasts: CCTV footage may hold vital clues
Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday February 23, 2013
The probe into Thursday's twin blasts, which killed 16 people and injured over 100, gathered momentum with the police scanning the image of a suspect captured on CCTV camera.
Hyderabad bomb blasts: why the bombs exploded with such force
Radhika Iyer | Saturday February 23, 2013
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.
Hyderabad bomb blasts: intelligence warning shared with five cities, says Home Minister
Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta (With inputs from Agencies) | Friday February 22, 2013
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
NDTV.com | Friday February 22, 2013
Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the govt had shared intelligence information immediately - specifically to five cities.
Hyderabad bomb blasts: a survivor's request is 'please don't do it again'
Radhika Iyer | Friday February 22, 2013
From a hospital bed where he is being treated for serious injuries to his legs and ribs, Abdul Wasey Marzey has just this request of the terrorists who killed 16 people and injured more than a hundred in Hyderabad last evening.
Hyderabad bomb blasts: Among the injured, man who survived 2007 Mecca Masjid blast
Radhika Iyer | Friday February 22, 2013
Abdul Wasey Marzey, 23, is at the Yashoda hospital in Hyderabad, being treated for rib and leg injuries. He was injured in the blasts that ripped through the city's congested Dilsukhnagar area last evening. This is not the first time he has been inju...
Deadly bombings hit southern India city
Heather Timmons and Gardiner Harris, The New York Times | Friday February 22, 2013
Two bombs planted on bicycles killed at least 13 people and wounded some 70 in a busy shopping district in the southern India city of Hyderabad at the height of Thursday's evening rush hour, the largest terrorist bombing in the country since Septembe...
Mecca Masjid blast case: NIA gets custody of Tej Ram
Press Trust of India | Saturday December 29, 2012
A local court today granted 18-day police custody of Tej Ram, who was arrested in connection with the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Mecca Masjid bomber arrested from Ujjain
Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Wednesday December 26, 2012
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has arrested the man said to be have planted the bomb at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad in May 2007 that killed more than 13 people.
Wrongly implicated, yet no compensation for former terror suspect
Uma Sudhir | Saturday January 7, 2012
The Andhra Pradesh government has come forward to pay compensation to 60 people after the National Minorities Commission observed that they were targetted by the state police purely on communal grounds. NDTV's Uma Sudhir met Syed Imran, who was among...
Andhra Pradesh government to compensate youths affected in Mecca Masjid blast
NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday December 7, 2011
In what will become an important precedent and will have implications in several other cases, the Andhra Pradesh Minorities Welfare Department has just issued a Government order, saying that as a "confidence-building measure and compensation", it is ...