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A two-minute silence was observed with 'deepdaan' (lighting diyas) on Tuesday during the daily Ganga aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat here to pay tribute to Monday's Delhi bomb blast victims. Sushant Mishra, president of the Ganga Sewa Nidhi, said the blast in Delhi claimed several lives and left...
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Actor Ranveer Singh expressed deep sorrow over the tragic loss of lives in the terror attack that occurred in Delhi near Red Fort on Monday evening.The blast, which ripped through a slow-moving Hyundai i20 near the Subhash Marg traffic signal by the Red Fort on Monday evening, killed at least...
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A woman doctor from Lucknow, who was among eight people arrested after the busting of an inter-state terror module, had married a man from Maharashtra, but the couple got divorced in 2015, a police official said in Mumbai on Tuesday. Citing initial information, the official said Dr...
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh for the families of each of those killed in the blast near the Red Fort on Monday that claimed 12 lives. The chief minister said in a statement that a compensation of Rs 5 lakh will be provided to those rendered...
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A retired school principal in Assam's Cachar district was detained on Tuesday for allegedly trying to politicise the Delhi blast by a social media post, the police said.The police took suo motu cognisance of the matter and summoned Nazrul Islam Barbhuiyan for questioning, Cachar senior...
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Secondary ladder point checking for all flights has been made compulsory at airports as part of enhanced security measures following the blast in the national capital on Monday. Full search of aircraft and catering services of aircraft, strict monitoring of non-scheduled flight operations,...
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A call about the presence of 'RDX' in a car in southeast Delhi's Bhogal area on Tuesday triggered panic in the area, the police said. However, it later turned out to be a false alarm. A local made a police call after noticing a car with a Jammu and Kashmir number plate parked in the...
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A view of the the blast site near Red Fort Metro station in Delhi./Reuters/ANI Photo
Investigations into the terror attack near Red Fort are progressing rapidly. Initial findings indicate that the car explosion was not a typical suicide blast, but was instead triggered in panic by the suspect.Security agencies have been conducting raids across multiple locations linked to terror...
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In the wake of the blast in Delhi, heavy security arrangements have been put in place in and around Kolkata, where the first cricket Test between India and South Africa is set to begin at Eden Gardens this week, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. Amid heightened vigilance, Kolkata...
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Leaders from across the world, including the US, China, Japan, and Israel, on Tuesday expressed grief and shock over the loss of lives after an explosion in the Indian capital killed at least 12 people and injured several others. A powerful blast ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday instructed the Forensic Science Laboratory to match the samples collected from the bodies in the car that exploded near Red Fort in New Delhi, sources said. He also directed the FSL to match and investigate the sample specimens collected from the spot...
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Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday reviewed the security situation and operational preparedness at a high-level meeting in Srinagar.Chaired a high-level security review meeting in Srinagar, earlier today, Sinha said in a post on X.The meeting comes in the backdrop of a car blast outside...
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Many exit polls on the Bihar assembly elections have given the ruling National Democratic Alliance government a clean sweep. The Matrize-IANS exit poll predicts that the NDA will win 147-167 seats, with the BJP and JD-U going neck and neck, while the Opposition Mahagathbandhan has been given...
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A damaged car in blast near Red Fort in Delhi./ANI on X
A 22-year-old man hailing from the Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh is among those who were injured in the high-intensity explosion at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station in New Delhi on Monday evening. According to the police, Shiva Jaiswal, who runs a readymade garment shop in...
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Security checks were stepped up across Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, a day after the Delhi car blast near the Red Fort that left at least 12 people dead and more than 20 injured, as anti-terror agencies and police teams carried out searches in several cities, including Lucknow. In the state...
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Prominent celebrities like Allu Arjun, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karan Johar have condoled the deaths in the bomb blast near Red Fort and asked others to stay alert and informed. At least 12 people were killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic signal...
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Security agencies are focusing on how a sophisticated white-collar terror module managed to acquire and store a huge quantity of explosives, including Ammonium Nitrate, the substance suspected to have been used in Monday's deadly blast near the Red Fort area that killed 12 people. The attack...
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Hours after the bomb blast near Red Fort killing 12 people, the Delhi Fire Services received five calls about unclaimed vehicles and bags, all of which later turned out to be false alarms, an official said on Tuesday. According to DFS officials, the calls started pouring in soon after news...
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Janshakti Janta Dal chief Tej Pratap Yadav on Tuesday said the blast near Delhi's Red Fort, which left 12 people dead, was a result of a major security lapse. It was a major security lapse. The government must take serious cognisance of it and apprehend the perpetrators, the former Bihar...
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The UK has updated its travel advisory for British nationals travelling to India after the explosion near the Red Fort Metro Station on Monday evening. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office update calls on its nationals in Delhi to follow the advice of the local...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Tuesday directed officials to maintain strict vigil in the state in the wake of the blast in Delhi that killed at least 12 persons. Yadav visited the situation room at Mantralaya (state secretariat) and reviewed the law and order situation...
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The family of the man suspected to be involved in the Delhi blast near Red Fort metro station said cannot believe that he could be involved in terror activities.Dr Umar Nabi was allegedly driving the Hyundai i20 car that was used in the blast near the parking area of the Red Fort Metro Station on...
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A suicide bomber on Tuesday detonated his explosives near a police vehicle outside a court in Pakistan's capital, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27 others, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said. Naqvi, who visited the site of the blast, said the attacker wanted to enter the court complex,...
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NSG at the blast site
President Droupadi Murmu spoke to Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the phone from Angola on Tuesday and enquired about a blast that took place near the Red Fort here. The president is currently on a State visit to Angola and Botswana. Murmu spoke to Shah over the phone from Angola and...
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Amit Shah at the first security meeting after the blast
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in the national capital and other parts of the country in the wake of the blast near the Red Fort. Shah, who chaired a meeting in the morning, has called for a fresh meeting in the late afternoon. The first meeting was...
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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday handed over the probe into a blast near the Red Fort to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), sources said. This is a clear indication that the blast, which has so far claimed 12 lives, is being considered by the government as an act of terror,...
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The son of blast victim Dinesh Misra weeps. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
Body parts lay scattered, with some fragments even reaching the nearby Jain Mandir, leaving locals terrified and sleepless through the night. The powerful explosion near Delhi's Red Fort on Monday killed 12 people and left several injured, rattling one of the city's most crowded and historic...
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Security personnel at the blast site. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Delhi Police and security agencies have narrowed down their investigation into Monday evening's blast near the Red Fort complex to three crucial angles.The Delhi Police is focusing on the movements of the suspect, the suspected network from a university in Faridabad, and the nature of the...
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The Delhi Police on Tuesday found the 11-hour route map of the Hyundai i20 car, in which the blast near the Lal Quila metro station took place on Monday evening.The car blast claimed the lives of at least 12 people, while several others were left injured.During the investigation, it was...
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Relatives of a blast victim wait at a mortuary. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
The Lucknow-based woman doctor, who was arrested in connection with the massive explosives haul in Faridabad near Delhi, was responsible for establishing the women's wing and recruitment for Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), according to Delhi police sources, reports NDTV.The...
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Blast victim being taken to the mortuary. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
Police on Tuesday took the mother of the man who was suspected to be driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort was called for a DNA test in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said in Srinagar. We have taken the mother of the suspect to collect DNA samples in order to...
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Two Indian refiners bought a total of 5 million barrels of crude oil from the United States, Iraq, and the UAE on the spot market as they seek alternatives to Russian crude. Reuters reported, citing unnamed industry sources, that Hindustan Petroleum Corp. had bought 2 million barrels of West...
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A blast victim at a hospital. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
A family in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha lost their son to the ghastly blast in Delhi near Red Fort that claimed at least eight innocent lives and left several injured.In a village of the Amroha district, the family of the deceased Ashok received his mortal remains. The death of Ashok has left his...
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All those responsible for the Delhi blast will be brought to justice, PM Modi says in Bhutan. The prime minister, who is on a visit to Bhutan, added, Our agencies will dig deep into the roots of the conspiracy. The entire nation stands with the families of those affected by the Delhi blast. The...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted Nithari killings convict Surendra Koli in the sole case in which his conviction and life sentence still stood, holding that the 2011 verdict could not be sustained when he has already been acquitted in 12 other connected cases arising from the same set of...
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In a now viral Instagram clip posted by user Noah, an Indian man is seen kneeling beside a paralysed American woman stranded under relentless rain. It's raining pretty hard, where do you want to go? You're not able to walk either, he asks softly, his voice calm against the patter of...
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Delhi Police's initial investigation suggests that the high-intensity explosion near the Red Fort complex may have been a fidayeen (suicide) attack, said sources within the Delhi Police on Tuesday.According to early findings, investigators believe the suspect intended to carry out an explosion....
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FSL officials at the Red Fort blast site
The family of Dr Muzammil Ganaie, who was arrested after 360 kilogram of explosives was recovered from his rented room in Faridabad on Tuesday claimed that there was no indication of the medico's involvement in terror activities. It is being alleged that he is big terrorist. We have no...
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials arrive at the blast site. A high-intensity explosion ripped through a slow-moving i20 car at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, killing 12 people and gutting several vehicles. Delhi Police on Tuesday registered an...
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Amit Shah at the blast site last night
The death toll in the blast near Red Fort rose to 12, with three more people succumbing to injuries, police said on Tuesday. A powerful explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening. Till last night, nine people were...
11:26
Pt Nehru was 69 years old when he made the arduous trek
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Bhutan, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday highlighted former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's 1958 trek to Bhutan, which marked a turning point in the countries' relations.Today, as PM Modi visits Bhutan, Ramesh sees this as a...
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PM Modi shares this image from Bhutan: Landed in Bhutan. Grateful to Prime Minister Tobgay for the warm and gracious welcome at the airport. This visit reflects the deep bonds of friendship and cooperation shared between our two nations. India and Bhutan enjoy a time-tested partnership anchored...
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Condemning the Delhi blast that claimed at least eight lives, senior Congress leader Nana Patole on Tuesday held the Narendra Modi government in the centre accountable for the country being unsafe.Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, Patole lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that 56 inch...
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Delhi woke up to its worst air quality of the season on Tuesday, with the AQI plunging to into the severe category at 423. The Centre invoked stricter anti-pollution measures under Stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in the wake of the deteriorating air quality. On Monday,...
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Delhi Police registered an FIR on Tuesday into the blast near the Red Fort under the UAPA and conducted raids at multiple locations in the national capital as preliminary findings suggested a link to the terror module uncovered in Faridabad. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to...
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A total of 14.55 per cent of the 3.7 crore voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of voting in the second phase of assembly elections in Bihar on Tuesday, an official said. Gayaji district recorded the highest polling percentage so far at 15.97, followed by Kishanganj...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level security review meeting on Tuesday following the blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that left nine people dead, sources said. The meeting, to be held at 11 AM, will be attended by Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Director, Intelligence...
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Dharmendra's daughter Esha Deol on Tuesday said the veteran actor is stable and recovering, urging the media to stop circulating false news about his health as the 89-year-old star remains under observation at a Mumbai hospital. The media seems to be in over-drive and spreading false news. My...
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Esha Deol's Instagram post
Actress Esha Deol, daughter of actor Dharmendra, has refuted the rumours of his father's demise on Tuesday. While addressing the media reports which stated that the actor Dharmendra has passed away, actress Esha Deol refuted the same, stating he is stable and recovering and asks for the...
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The man driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort killing at least nine people allegedly also had links to the Faridabad terror module where huge cache of explosive material was seized, Delhi Police sources said on Tuesday. According to sources, Umar Mohammad, a Pulwama resident and a...
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Delhi Police's initial probe in the high-intensity explosion outside the Red Fort suggests i20 car's trail to Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, said Delhi Police's sources. According to the sources, the I-20 car, in which the blast occurred, was allegedly purchased by a resident of...
09:23
High security at CSMT in Mumbai. Pic: Sahil Salvi
A high alert has been issued in Maharashtra following a blast in a car near the Red Fort metro station in New Delhi, and security has been stepped up at vital installations in Mumbai and major railway stations, police said. A precautionary alert has been issued for Mumbai, a senior police...
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The US is pretty close to reaching a fair trade deal with India, President Donald Trump has said, adding that he will lower the tariffs imposed on New Delhi at some point. We're making a deal with India, much different deal than we had in the past. So right now, they don't love me, but they'll...
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Delhi Police on Tuesday registered an FIR under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosives Act in connection with the blast near Red Fort that claimed nine lives, officials said. Raids are being conducted at multiple locations by Delhi Police.The national capital has been...
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Delhi police at the car explosion site
Bihar Director General of Police Vinay Kumar has issued a high alert in the state after a car explosion near Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi, just a day before the second phase polling in Bihar. Speaking with ANI over the phone, Bihar DGP said that police teams have been put on alert at all...
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Hungarian British author David Szalay was named the winner of the Booker Prize 2025 for his novel Flesh', beating Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' at a ceremony in London on Monday night. Szalay, 51, was presented with 50,000 pounds and a trophy by last year's Booker winner...
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The car involved in the Delhi blast
After at least nine people were killed and many were injured in the high-intensity explosion outside Red Fort on Monday evening, the Delhi Police have obtained CCTV footage showing the suspect's car entering and exiting the parking area, sources said. According to the Delhi Police sources,...
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President Droupadi Murmu has conveyed heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the blast that took place in a moving car near Red Fort in Delhi. I convey my heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the blast...
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A view of Mumbai airport./File image
Customs officials have seized narcotics and gold valued at Rs 13.84 crore during operations conducted between November 6 and 9 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in Mumbai. Six passengers arriving from various international destinations were arrested in connection...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives at the spot of the blast in Delhi/Reuters/ANI Photo
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said a detailed analysis of the blast near the Red Fort on Monday evening will be conducted with top security officers on Tuesday. Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, we will hold a detailed analysis of the blast with senior officers at the home ministry, Shah told...
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