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  Delhi school in Rohini area receives bomb threat email, investigation on

  Delhi | November 29, 2024 14:01 IST

  Delhi: As per reports, the threat was later declared a hoax after a thorough search in the school premises.

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  Dubai-bound plane receives bomb threat minutes before takeoff from IGI Airport: Official

  India | June 18, 2024 9:57 IST

  A senior police official said an email containing a bomb threat against the Delhi to Dubai flight was received at the DIAL office of the IGI Airport. This prompted the official to check the entire flight.

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  Bomb threat in West Delhi schools: Delhi Police requests to maintain peace amid hoax call chaos

  Delhi | May 01, 2024 14:21 IST

  Bomb threat in West Delhi schools: Panic gripped school students and parents early morning today after several schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning. The Ministry of Home Affairs said it appears to be a hoax call and that there was no need to panic.

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  Mumbai airport receives hoax bomb call, police register case against unidentified caller

  Maharashtra | April 27, 2024 21:44 IST

  Mumbai news: The Mumbai International Airport Limited officials informed the bomb squad and all concerned security agencies thereafter, but nothing was found after the probe.

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  Hoax bomb threat targets Delhi-Kolkata flight at IGI airport, echoes previous incident

  Delhi | February 27, 2024 11:33 IST

  Upon thorough examination, officials determined the threat to be a hoax, with no credible danger posed. An officer involved in the investigation confirmed that the call was deemed bogus following enquiry.

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  '25 people have come to Mumbai from Pakistan': Police receive bomb threat call, accuse arrested

  Maharashtra | October 07, 2023 14:50 IST

  According to the police, the accused claimed that Seema Haider and other 25 people had come to Mumbai from Pakistan and a bomb blast would take place within 2-3 hours. Soon after the call, the police traced the caller and arrested him.

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  Mumbai Police receives hoax call about bombs at Nepean Sea Road and Kamathipura

  Maharashtra | September 05, 2023 11:03 IST

  The same woman has called the police 38 times so far to inform them about similar deployment of bombs. Another such call was received during the investigation saying that a bomb is deployed in Kamathipura.

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  "3 terrorists entered city': Mumbai Police receives hoax call; step up vigil

  Maharashtra | April 08, 2023 22:17 IST

  According to the officials, the police's main control room received a call on Friday in which the caller claimed that a probable terrorist had entered the city.

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  Puducherry police gets hoax call about bomb at Raj Nivas, Railway station

  India | January 19, 2020 23:37 IST

  The Puducherry police went into a tizzy after a man called the control room on Sunday and said explosives would go off in the next 24 hours in Raj Nivas and the Railway station. 

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  Shooting reported at Northwestern University in US turns out to be 'swatting' hoax

  World | March 15, 2018 8:19 IST

  Evanston Police said a call to police reporting shots fired at Engelhart Hall, a graduate student residence, was a "swatting" hoax. The term describes when someone calls in a false report in the hopes of prompting a SWAT team to respond.

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  'Bom-Del' confused with 'bomb hai'; Indian-origin CEO of US firm held

  India | January 02, 2018 18:31 IST

  The flyer later claimed he wanted to know the status of a ‘Bom-Del’ flight but was misunderstood by the telephone operator at the other end as him having said “bomb hai (there is a bomb)”.

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  Drunkard calls up police, says, “will kill Kejriwal as soon as he enters Delhi”

  Politics | October 27, 2016 10:50 IST

  An unidentified person on Wednesday called up Delhi Police’s emergency number 100 threatening to kill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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  Hoax call from 'Mumbai' triggers bomb scare in Sindh Governor's House

  World | October 24, 2015 22:39 IST

  Islamabad: A hoax call allegedly traced to the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, claimed that a bomb had been placed on the premises of the Sindh Governor House in Pakistan, the media reported on Saturday.Bomb Disposal

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  Bomb threat: Two arrested for making hoax calls

  India | December 18, 2014 21:15 IST

  Gurgaon: Two persons were arrested for making hoax calls about bombs being placed at certain places in the city, sending authorities into a tizzy to secure the areas.  While one of them had called Gurgaon

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  'Indian-origin nurse in Kate hoax call was found hanging'

  World | December 13, 2012 18:00 IST

  London, Dec 13: An Indian-origin nurse, who died after being duped by a prank call made by two Australian DJs to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Kate Middleton, was found hanging at her staff

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  Nurse who died after Kate Middleton hoax call was from India

  World | December 08, 2012 20:12 IST

  London, Dec 8: British police say that a nurse who was found dead days after she took a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was originally from India.Scotland Yard said Saturday that 46-year-old

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  Passenger's bomb hoax call grounds flight at IGI airport

  India | June 18, 2012 19:55 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 18: A bomb hoax call by a disgruntled passenger forced authorities to ground an Ahmedabad-bound Spicejet plane just as it was preparing to take off with 174 passengers on board at the