Five killed in Kerala cracker factory blasts

August 30th, 2009 TRIVANDRUM - A 35-year-old man allegedly linked with people suspectedly involved in bomb blasts in Bangalore and Kozhikode, was detained at the Trivandrum international airport on Sunday. According to reports, Kabeer, hailing from Kerala's Wayanad district, was about to board Kuwait Airways aircraft minutes before take-off from the Trivandrum international airport to Kuwait, when the police following a tip off nabbed him.

August 14th, 2009 KANNUR - The cyber police cell in Kerala, India has traced an e-mail threat from the United Arab Emirates, warning of widespread bomb blasts in the state, if a separate Muslim state, comprising districts of north Kerala, is not created. Speaking to IANS, inspector general of police Tomin J.

August 2nd, 2009 Twin blasts kill 2 NATO troops in AfghanistanKABUL — NATO says two of its troops have been killed in twin blasts in southern Afghanistan. The military alliance did not provide other details about the Saturday attack.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - Over 100 factory workers were injured in four blasts occurred in a detonator factory, located in Baidan Village of Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli area. The intensity of blasts was so high that its sound could be heard many kilometres from Baliyari industrial area of the village, the place of incident where Indian detonators are manufactured.

April 10th, 2009 JALGAON - Twenty-one people, including 10 women and six minors, were killed and another 35 injured Friday in a major blaze in a fire cracker factory in Jalgaon in Maharashtra. The fire broke out around 5 p.m.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has condemned the bombs blasts in Assam on Monday "Prime Minister strongly condemned the bomb blasts at Maligaon area and Dhekiajuli in Assam," said a Press Information Bureau release.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday slammed the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for aligning with Abdul Nasir Maudany, a former accused in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts. The CPI-M and Maudany's People's Democratic Party (PDP) are supporting an independent candidate in Kerala's Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency.

March 10th, 2009 AMRITSAR - One person was burnt to death and three others were injured when an explosion took place at a fire cracker manufacturing unit here Monday, police said. 'The explosion was so massive that the roof of the unit blew off.

February 12th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan Friday said he is disappointed with the interim rail budget for 2009-10 presented by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad in parliament.

February 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nine people have been arrested for the July 2008 serial bomb blasts that killed a woman here, a top police official said Saturday, adding that the case had been solved. All the nine are from Kerala, Bangalore city Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari told reporters here.

February 3rd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala government Wednesday gave its nod to set up a 2,400 MW thermal power plant in the state facing shortages of electricity supply. Chief Minister V.S.

January 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh police Wednesday handed over terror suspect Abdul Sattar, a native of Kerala, to the Bangalore police that are investigating the bomb blasts in that city. Sattar, 57, a suspected key operative of the Indian Mujahideen, was produced in a city court, which remanded him to the custody of the Bangalore police for 14 days.

January 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Seven people were killed and 25 others injured Sunday in two blasts in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, GEO TV reported. According to the report, the blasts occurred near a college in Dera Ismail Khan city.

December 31st, 2008 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday condemned the Assam serial blasts and said the government was committed to rooting out terrorism. 'The government would stay steadfast in its determination to root out terrorism and the measures taken recently in this direction would be taken to their logical conclusion,' Singh said in a statement.

December 23rd, 2008 ISLAMABAD - One person was killed and three others injured Wednesday in two explosions in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, Dawn news TV channel reported. The blasts occurred near an official vehicle parked in the Gor area of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the report said.