Hyderabad

The eight students injured during the bomb blasts in Hyderabad and admitted to Medicity Hospital in Hyderabad will not return to Sangamner for the next three days. State Agriculture minister Balasaheb Thorat on Monday said, "The students will not return for the next three days as they are in the hospital. Two of them are critical and one of them is showing signs of improvement." Three of the ... [visit site]

Security system in city put up on high alert, habitual offenders detained In the wake of the Hyderabad blasts, the Mumbai Police are going all out to beef up security across the city, and are emphasising the need for private commercial complexes to step up their own vigilance. To this end, the city police on Monday held a meeting with owners of local malls and cinema theatres to sensitise them ... [visit site]

As investigators piece together shreds of information and evidence on the weekend blasts in Hyderabad, one of the few workable clues being looked at is the trigger mechanism which is learnt to be similar to the one used in the Sankat Mochan blasts in Varanasi. While the type of explosives used in both cases is not the same, they are both nitrogen-based commercially available explosive material. ... [visit site]

Forty eight hours after the twin blasts in Hyderabad, investigators are looking at questioning a 40-year-old born in a village in West Bengal, who is now sitting in a Lucknow jail. Going by his startling interrogation statement after he was arrested this June by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF), a copy of which has been obtained by The Indian Express, Jalaluddin Mullah, alias Babu Bhai, ... [visit site]

Forty eight hours after the blasts, it's not lost on anyone why the bombers chose Hyderabad, that living mosaic of people and cultures which now rivals Bangalore as the country's software and services-outsourcing hub. Because the target was not Hyderabad, it was India. The blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chaat Bhandar were directed at all - from a group of 60 tourists from Tamil Nadu to a group ... [visit site]