Bodhgaya Blasts

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  2013 Bihar Blasts Suspect "Chemical Ali", Of Banned Group SIMI, Arrested

  Suspected SIMI operative Azharuddin alias Azhar alias Chemical Ali, wanted in connection with the 2013 Bodhgaya and Patna bomb blasts, was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Hyderabad airport after he landed from Saudi Arabia, an officer said on Saturday.

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  Juvenile Board Finds Minor Guilty In 2013 Patna, Bodhgaya Blasts: NIA

  The National Investigation Agency or NIA today said the Juvenile Justice Board in Patna has found a juvenile guilty of conspiracy in the Patna and Bodhgaya serial bomb blasts case

• Yasin Bhatkal said blasts were to send a message, claim cops

  After he was arrested in Bihar, Yasin Bhatkal, the alleged chief of terror group Indian Mujahideen said, "I carry out bomb blasts to send a message," according a top Bihar police officer.

• Bodhgaya blasts show others share our goal, Yasin Bhatkal allegedly said

  Yasin Bhatkal was restless and hardly slept during his first night in a government guest house after being arrested in Bihar, said officials. Early this morning, he was interrogated by members of the National Investigating Agency; he was flown to Delhi in a special plane later in the day.

• 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.

• One person detained in connection with Bodhgaya serial blasts

  One person was detained today by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the serial blasts at the Mahabodhi temple in which two monks were injured.

• Bandh politics over Bodhgaya blasts: BJP, RJD to protest 'Nitish's failure'

  A day after eight explosions went off in quick succession at the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodhgaya, the RJD and the BJP have called a bandh in the Magadh division of the state to protest against the Nitish Kumar government's "failure" to prevent the terror attack despite prior information from intelligence agencies.

• Bodh Gaya blasts: Police release CCTV footage; suspect detained

  The Bihar Police have detained a man who they say is a suspect in the multiple blasts at the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya on Sunday morning. Two monks were injured in the terror attack.

• Dalai Lama pained over Bodhgaya blasts

  Terming the series of blasts at Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar as "unfortunate", Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today said "few individuals" could be behind the attack.

• Bodhgaya temple blasts: Centre tells states to tighten security at Buddhist shrines

  Hours after the multiple blasts at Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar, the Centre today directed all states to ensure fool-proof security at Buddhist shrines and Tibetan settlements.

• Bodhgaya temple blasts: Review meet on July 2 revealed inadequate security

  Security at the Mahabodhi temple, rocked by serial explosions today, was not adequate - this was reportedly conveyed to the management of the shrine by local police as early as this week. Two people were injured after eight blasts went off in quick succession early this morning.

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  Bodhgaya: Eight blasts at the Mahabodhi temple complex; two injured

  Two people were injured in a series of blasts on Sunday inside the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodhgaya, a town 130 kilometre south of Patna. The first blast took place inside the temple at 5:30 am, followed by seven successive explosions in the next half hour. While four of the blasts, which were reportedly set off by timers, took place inside the...

• Bodhgaya blasts a 'senseless act of violence', says President Pranab Mukherjee

  President Pranab Mukherjee today condemned the serial blasts at Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya as a senseless act of violence to target innocent pilgrims.

• After Bodhgaya blasts, security alert sounded at India-Nepal border

  An alert was today sounded on the Indo-Nepal border after a series of explosions rocked the ancient temple town of Bodhgaya in Bihar.