delhi bomb blast

The sentence review board of the Delhi government is likely to meet next week to decide on the remission plea of the 1993 delhi bomb blast convict Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar.

A new security set up would be put in place at the District Court here with more policemen on guard and installation of metal detectors in view of the delhi bomb blast.

A day after delhi bomb blast, Union home minister P Chidambaram defended the police force highlighting workload, staff shortage and long working hours.

A Delhi court trying suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) militants for their role in the September 2008 serial blasts in the capital, on Wednesday recorded the statements of six prosecution witnesses.

Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Salman might claim he was a juvenile at the time of the 2008 delhi bomb blasts but the medical board of AIIMS on Monday declared he was - going by an ossification test - between 25-26 years of age.

It is a tale of two images. Depicting despair and joy, the photos were captured 12 years apart, but the subject has remained the same — Simran. Now a young woman, Simran, who became the face of tragedy after losing her father in the delhi bomb blasts in 2008 when she was a child, is all set to marry on June 25.

A low-intensity blast took place near the Israel embassy in New Delhi around 5pm on Friday, coinciding with the anniversary of India and Israel establishing full diplomatic relations on January 29, 1992. No one was injured, but window panes of three cars were damaged.

The sketches of the duo were prepared following descriptions provided by eyewitnesses who claimed they saw someone with a briefcase standing in the queue.

The city delivered a strong message to the terrorists — they cannot strike fear in the hearts of the people. On Wednesday, just hours after the blast ripped through the high court, the judges and lawyers reconvened to take up the cases.

A committee of judges has asked ECIL to install 49 CCTV cameras in Delhi HC premises, bypassing a 3-year-old govt project caught in procedural quibbles.

Described as a quiet and gentle man, 57-year-old Mehtab Singh Dabas had gone to the court for the first time on Wednesday when a high-intensity blast claimed his life.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah vowed the "strictest possible punishment" for those responsible for the recent delhi bomb blast, emphasizing that the action will deter future attacks. He assured that all perpetrators will be brought to justice, sending a strong global message against terrorism. Shah also expressed condolences to the victims' families following the incident near the Red Fort.

Nizamuddin Master, 87, was tired after standing in the queue outside gate no. 5 for half an hour. The old man and his grandnephew, Mohammad Nahim, 32, had come to the high court to seek bail for Nizamuddin’s grandson, Shahnaaz, who is accused in a murder case.

On Thursday evening, hundreds of entrepreneurs from Naraina Industrial Area headed for the Punjabi Bagh crematorium to bid farewell to a man who was not only a businessman like them but also a crusader they will miss.

Puja Sharma, 14, has been glued to the television since Wednesday morning constantly switching between various channels showing news about the Delhi High Court blast which has claimed 13 lives so far.

Soon after the blast, the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital’s blood bank was flooded with calls from across the city and NCR to check if there was any shortage of blood.

The Delhi government’s sentence review board on Tuesday deferred the decision on pre-mature release of 1993 delhi bomb blast case convict Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar.

After six failed attempts to get his death sentence overturned, 1993 delhi bomb blast convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar finally managed to escape the gallows as his wife Navneet Kaur’s persistence paid off with the Supreme Court on Monday commuting the sentence to life saying he was mentally too ill to be executed.

The high-intensity blast in the national capital on Wednesday had a ripple effect 1,400 km away in Mumbai where mass gatherings of devotees outside Ganeshotsav pandals remain vulnerable to threat.

After twin mails by terror outfits Harkat and Indian Mujahideen threatened more blasts if the death sentence of Parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru is not repealed, Delhi Police have now decided to reopen his dossier.

Thursday had more grief in store for the shell-shocked kin of the high court blast victims. As bodies were brought home, wailing families tried to come to terms with their loss.

He came all the way to the capital from the southern coastal town of Tuticorin to fight a case. Praised by his friends to be a most responsible and honest engineer, 55-year-old P Pathiran became the 13th victim of the Wednesday blast.

The National Investigation Agency probing Wednesday's Delhi high court bomb blast has arrested three persons in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir.

The Tour de International Race in Delhi has been postponed due to the bomb blast and even though the Pakistan Cycling Federation claims to have incurred losses because of the cancellation, it has promised to participate whenever the event is organised.

Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, the death-row convict whose plea seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment was recently turned down by the Supreme Court, has received support from an unexpected quarter: former Punjab and Maharashtra DGP SS Virk.