A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured several others at a fish market on Friday night in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, police said on Saturday. Borno state police spokesperson, Nahum Kenneth Daso, said in a statement that a woman with an improvised explosive device strapped to her body, infiltrated a…
A SpaceX Starship prototype experienced a major anomaly during a test at the company’s Starbase facility in Texas late Wednesday night, the company said on social media X.The rocket was seen bursting into a giant ball of fire during a routine test. The Starship 36 rocket was undergoing a static fire test at Elon Musk’s…
A bomb explosion near a railway track derailed six carriages of Jaffar Express in Sindh province of Pakistan on Wednesday. No casualties were reported in the incident involving the train plying from Peshawar to Quetta, authorities said. However, train operations were suspended on the route. It is the second time in four months that the…
former Shiv Sena (UBT) Nashik unit chief Sudhakar Badgujar MUMBAI: BJP on Tuesday inducted former Shiv Sena (UBT) Nashik unit chief Sudhakar Badgujar, whom it had accused of partying with 1993 bomb blasts case convict Salim Kutta of the Dawood gang, into the party. After BJP’s allegations in 2023, Devendra Fadnavis as then deputy CM…
IED blast kills CRPF jawan near Jharkhand border in Odisha ROURKELA/RANCHI: A CRPF assistant sub-inspector was killed in an IED explosion during an area domination exercise in Odisha’s Sundargarh district near the border with Jharkhand early on Saturday. Satyaban Kumar Singh (34), from Kishinagar in Uttar Pradesh, was critically injured when the IED, suspected to…
RAIPUR: An additional SP was killed and two officers were injured in a Maoist IED blast in Konta area of Bastar’s Sukma on Monday.ASP Akash Rao Girepunje, 42, a gallantry medal winner, was leading a foot patrol to an area where Maoists had torched vehicles the previous night when the IED exploded. Konta DSP Bhanupratap…
Representative image (Picture credit: IANS) RAIPUR: At a time when all of Bastar is on high alert following the loot of 5,000kg explosives by Maoists in neighbouring Odisha, three villagers were grievously injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district Friday morning. This is the first attack on civilians since the encounter killing…
A large explosion at a chemical plant in China’s eastern province of Shandong sent thick plumes of smoke into the sky on Tuesday, state media reported, without giving details on casualties. More than 200 emergency workers responded to the blast that shook a workshop of Shandong Youdao Chemical in the city of Weifeng just before…
Top Maoist leader gunned down; India slams Pak over Balochistan blast claims, and more NEW DELHI: A major blow was dealt to the Maoist movement as CPI(Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in a key anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh, marking a historic breakthrough in India’s fight against left-wing extremism. Meanwhile, tensions…
The FBI has named 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus as the main suspect in a bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The blast occurred just before 11 AM local time on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least five others. It shook the neighbourhood around the American Reproductive Centre, where couples go…