Varanasi Blast

Two children died due to suffocation and burning following an explosion in an illegal gas refilling shop in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Tuesday, police said.

A woman died, while three other people were buried under a house that collapsed due to an alleged cylinder blast in the Jangambadi area of Dashashwamedh, informed police officials.

A local court on Monday sentenced terror convict Waliullah Khan to death for serial blasts in Varanasi that killed at least 20 people in 2006.

Sixteen years after multiple blasts in Varanasi, terrorist Waliullah Khan has been held guilty by a Ghaziabad court in two cases on Saturday. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on June 6.

Four people including a balloon seller died and 10 others were seriously injured in two separate incidents of balloon gas cylinder explosions in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara and Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Sunday.

A man and his son were killed in a dynamite blast set off by unidentified assailants in a Varanasi village in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, police said.

Five persons were killed and more than half-a-dozen injured in an explosion in Varanasi, police said today.

An oxygen cylinder blast inside the emergency ward of the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi today injured 12 people including the nursing staff.

A low-intensity blast today rocked Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, police said. No one was injured in the explosion.

An alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami operative was today sentenced to life imprisonment after a district court in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, convicted him for his role in the November 2007 serial blasts that had rocked the court premises of Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad.

A day after serial blasts during Narendra Modi's rally in Patna, Uttar Pradesh government today decided to step up security for the proposed high-profile poll rallies in the state.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was today arrested by NIA Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.

Tunda, around 70 years old and wanted in 21 cases, is accused of masterminding over 40 bomb blasts in New Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Kanpur and Varanasi between December 1996 and January 1998 that left 21 dead and over 400 injured.

The Allahabad High Court has questioned the Samajwadi Party government for seeking to withdraw terror charges against those falsely implicated in terror cases.

The Allahabad High Court today ticked off the Uttar Pradesh government for seeking to withdraw cases against two suspects in the March 2006 Varanasi serial blasts, which claimed 25 lives, asked if this would not encourage terrorism.

Two children died due to suffocation and burning following an explosion in an illegal gas refilling shop in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Tuesday, police said.

A woman died, while three other people were buried under a house that collapsed due to an alleged cylinder blast in the Jangambadi area of Dashashwamedh, informed police officials.

A local court on Monday sentenced terror convict Waliullah Khan to death for serial blasts in Varanasi that killed at least 20 people in 2006.

Sixteen years after multiple blasts in Varanasi, terrorist Waliullah Khan has been held guilty by a Ghaziabad court in two cases on Saturday. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on June 6.

Four people including a balloon seller died and 10 others were seriously injured in two separate incidents of balloon gas cylinder explosions in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara and Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Sunday.

A man and his son were killed in a dynamite blast set off by unidentified assailants in a Varanasi village in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, police said.

Five persons were killed and more than half-a-dozen injured in an explosion in Varanasi, police said today.

An oxygen cylinder blast inside the emergency ward of the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi today injured 12 people including the nursing staff.

A low-intensity blast today rocked Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, police said. No one was injured in the explosion.

An alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami operative was today sentenced to life imprisonment after a district court in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, convicted him for his role in the November 2007 serial blasts that had rocked the court premises of Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad.

A day after serial blasts during Narendra Modi's rally in Patna, Uttar Pradesh government today decided to step up security for the proposed high-profile poll rallies in the state.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was today arrested by NIA Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.

Tunda, around 70 years old and wanted in 21 cases, is accused of masterminding over 40 bomb blasts in New Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Kanpur and Varanasi between December 1996 and January 1998 that left 21 dead and over 400 injured.

The Allahabad High Court has questioned the Samajwadi Party government for seeking to withdraw terror charges against those falsely implicated in terror cases.

The Allahabad High Court today ticked off the Uttar Pradesh government for seeking to withdraw cases against two suspects in the March 2006 Varanasi serial blasts, which claimed 25 lives, asked if this would not encourage terrorism.