Mumbai Blast Victims

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast who has been fielded by the BJP in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, should not be allowed to contest, the father of one of the victims told the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Thursday. The application was filed by Nisar Sayeed, who lost his son i...

The Bombay High Court today directed Maharashtra government to submit details of compensation accorded to victims of blasts and other terror attacks in the state and file an affidavit in two weeks.

Nine years after being in coma, Parag Sawant, who was injured in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai suburban train serial blasts, died here early Tuesday, officials said.

The death toll in the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai rose to 25 on Thursday as another injured died of his injuries at a hospital in Mumbai, officials said.According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's Disaster Control Centre, 48-year-old Vallabhbhai Gadhiya died at Saifee Hospital.Injured in the blast at Opera House in south Mumbai, Gadhi...

Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts who was admitted to the J J hospital, Mumbai, succumbed to his injuries today, taking the death toll in the terror attack to 22.

Shekhar Kapur says a memorial should be built at India Gate in memory of all those who die in the country as a result of terror acts.

Producers of ZNMD have decided to donate tomorrow's box office collections for the relief of bomb blasts victims' families.

"He wanted to name her Arpita, but she will never hear her father call her by that name," said an inconsolable Ashwini, who was sitting outside J J Hospital's morgue with her month-and-a-half old unnamed daughter. Ashok Bate (35) died at the JJ hospital yesterday after 50 per cent burns and serious injuries to his abdomen and left arm.

Touts and hearse operators seem to be sounding the death knell for Mumbai's famed 'spirit'. After several stories emerged of a private agent duping the kin of the dead in last week's blasts by issuing certificates for the transfer of the bodies outside city limits for a charge which were actually supposed to be issued by the BMC for free comes a sh...

India's government showed extraordinary restraint after Pakistani terrorists killed more than 160 people in Mumbai in 2008. The fear ever since then has been that another attack could spark a war between India and Pakistan, rivals with nuclear weapons.

Chaos continued to reign at hospitals on Thursday as doctors scrambled to treat the victims severely injured in Wednesday' s blast. While treatment was in its final stages for some, others were yet to be operated upon owing to their severe burn injuries.

The day had rolled out uneventfully like any other. On her way back from work to her Dadar residence, accountant Varsha Kariya (25), a resident of Dadar, decided to pay a visit to Siddhivinayak temple with her friend Blossom Rodrigues (28).

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi have arrived in Mumbai. They are scheduled to visit those injured in yesterday's blasts at JJ Hospital. Seventeen people are dead; 133 were hospitalised with injuries after three blasts within 12 minutes at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House on Wednesday. 13/7 got added to Mumbai's tragic terror cale...

An electric circuit has been found on one of the bodies recovered after the serial bombings, a top doctor at the JJ Hospital said here Thursday.

Amitabh Bachchan has sympathized with the families of the victims of the serial blasts that rocked Mumbai, terming them a "dark night" for the city.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast who has been fielded by the BJP in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, should not be allowed to contest, the father of one of the victims told the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Thursday. The application was filed by Nisar Sayeed, who lost his son i...

The Bombay High Court today directed Maharashtra government to submit details of compensation accorded to victims of blasts and other terror attacks in the state and file an affidavit in two weeks.

Nine years after being in coma, Parag Sawant, who was injured in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai suburban train serial blasts, died here early Tuesday, officials said.

The death toll in the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai rose to 25 on Thursday as another injured died of his injuries at a hospital in Mumbai, officials said.According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's Disaster Control Centre, 48-year-old Vallabhbhai Gadhiya died at Saifee Hospital.Injured in the blast at Opera House in south Mumbai, Gadhi...

Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts who was admitted to the J J hospital, Mumbai, succumbed to his injuries today, taking the death toll in the terror attack to 22.

Shekhar Kapur says a memorial should be built at India Gate in memory of all those who die in the country as a result of terror acts.

Producers of ZNMD have decided to donate tomorrow's box office collections for the relief of bomb blasts victims' families.

"He wanted to name her Arpita, but she will never hear her father call her by that name," said an inconsolable Ashwini, who was sitting outside J J Hospital's morgue with her month-and-a-half old unnamed daughter. Ashok Bate (35) died at the JJ hospital yesterday after 50 per cent burns and serious injuries to his abdomen and left arm.

Touts and hearse operators seem to be sounding the death knell for Mumbai's famed 'spirit'. After several stories emerged of a private agent duping the kin of the dead in last week's blasts by issuing certificates for the transfer of the bodies outside city limits for a charge which were actually supposed to be issued by the BMC for free comes a sh...

India's government showed extraordinary restraint after Pakistani terrorists killed more than 160 people in Mumbai in 2008. The fear ever since then has been that another attack could spark a war between India and Pakistan, rivals with nuclear weapons.

Chaos continued to reign at hospitals on Thursday as doctors scrambled to treat the victims severely injured in Wednesday' s blast. While treatment was in its final stages for some, others were yet to be operated upon owing to their severe burn injuries.

The day had rolled out uneventfully like any other. On her way back from work to her Dadar residence, accountant Varsha Kariya (25), a resident of Dadar, decided to pay a visit to Siddhivinayak temple with her friend Blossom Rodrigues (28).

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi have arrived in Mumbai. They are scheduled to visit those injured in yesterday's blasts at JJ Hospital. Seventeen people are dead; 133 were hospitalised with injuries after three blasts within 12 minutes at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House on Wednesday. 13/7 got added to Mumbai's tragic terror cale...

An electric circuit has been found on one of the bodies recovered after the serial bombings, a top doctor at the JJ Hospital said here Thursday.

Amitabh Bachchan has sympathized with the families of the victims of the serial blasts that rocked Mumbai, terming them a "dark night" for the city.