Bodh Gaya Temple Blasts

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  All 5 Accused Found Guilty By Patna Court In 2013 Bodh Gaya Blasts

  All five accused in the 2013 Bodh Gaya bombings were found guilty by a special court in Patna on Friday. All the five accuse are members of the terror group Indian Mujahideen.

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  Security Stepped Up At Bodh Gaya After Ahmedabad Blasts Suspect's Arrest

  The Bihar government has increased the security of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya town, Buddhism's holiest shrine, following the arrest of Tausif Khan, a 35-year-old engineer accused of plotting the serial blasts in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city in 2008.

• Bihar gets ATS after Bodh Gaya, Patna blasts

  After serial bomb blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya, Bihar is set to have its own Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the state government has appointed its first inspector general (IG), officials said today.

• Mahabodhi temple security to cost Rs 50 lakhs every month

  Bihar is set to spend Rs 50 lakh each month for the deployment of 261 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya that was rocked by blasts on July 7, officials said.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: CISF to guard Mahabodhi temple, a first in India

  The Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, which was rocked by multiple blasts on July 7, will now be protected by the Central Industrial reserve Force (CISF). This is the first time the paramilitary force will guard a religious place.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: National Investigation Agency releases sketches of suspect

  Two sketches of a suspect in a monk's robe in the Bodh Gaya serial blasts were released today by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which struggled for a breakthrough in its probe nine days after the terror attack.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: Hired security agency had no guard on duty at temple night before attack

  The Mahabodhi temple, which was rocked by multiple blasts on Sunday morning, had contracted a private agency for additional security two years ago. The contract was renewed in April. However, the night before the blasts, there was no guard present from the agency at the temple complex.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: National Investigation Agency files three FIRs

  The National Investigation Agency or NIA today filed three FIRs in the Bodh Gaya blasts case. The FIRs have been filed in the court of the chief judicial magistrate or CJM in Patna. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who visited the blasts site today with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior party leader Ambika Soni, said that the government ...

• Only modern structures damaged at Mahabodhi temple, says Archaeological Survey of India

  An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) team visited the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, after Sunday's serial blasts and found that only modern structures had been damaged, an official said on Wednesday.

• Bodh Gaya: 3-4 people may be involved in blasts, says Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Religious places in India may now be protected by the paramilitary, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said today after visiting the Mahabodhi shrine in Bodh Gaya, the site of multiple blasts on Sunday.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: Have to check authenticity of Indian Mujahideen claims, says Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said the authenticity of claims made by the terror group Indian Mujahideen on Twitter must be verified before the government arrives at any conclusion over the serial blasts that ripped through the Mahabodhi temple on Sunday morning. Mr Shinde and Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited Bodh Gaya earlier ...

• Bodh Gaya blasts: four people who were detained released, investigators back to square one

  Another trail has gone cold in investigations into the multiple blasts on Sunday at the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya. Four people who were detained and questioned yesterday by the National Investigation Agency or NIA for suspicious movement, have been released.

• Will consider CISF security for religious places: Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Religious places in India may now be protected by the paramilitary, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said today after visiting the Mahabodhi shrine in Bodh Gaya, the site of multiple blasts on Sunday.

• Bihar to set up Anti-terrorism Squad to combat terror

  Two days after serial bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, the Bihar government on Tuesday approved a proposal to set up an anti-terrorism squad (ATS) in the state, an official said.

• Bodh Gaya temple blasts: Three men, one woman detained in Bihar

  The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the Bodh Gaya temple blasts, has detained three men and a woman, who are being questioned for suspicious movement. Two days after multiple blasts ripped through the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town, injuring two people, no arrests have been made in the case yet.