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Series of e-mails threaten to blow up 5 district courts, Lawrence School; turn out to be hoax

July 10, 2025 11:03 am

"All the e-mails were sent by one ‘Jayanti Karrampa’—a likely fictitious identity — claiming that RDX-based improvised explosive devices (IEDs) had been planted at the court complexes and at The Lawrence School in Solan district and will go off in within five hours,” police said.

Jabalpur airport in MP gets bomb threat, turns out to be hoax Jabalpur

June 30, 2025 2:26 pm

Immediately after getting the information, Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), dog squad, local police along with the Central Industrial Security Force started a search operation.

Remove hoax bomb threats, report users behind them: IT Ministry to social media companies

October 26, 2024 10:42 pm

In an advisory issued to social media companies on Friday, the ministry noted, “social media intermediaries must make reasonable efforts to disallow such malicious acts including hoax bomb threats from being disseminated on their platforms”.

Bomb threat forces Alliance Air’s Assam-Kolkata flight to make emergency landing

October 21, 2024 6:26 pm

The threat, which eventually turned out to be a hoax, was one of 25 received by flights across India on the same day.

Student booked for hoax threat to bomb Bengaluru airport; cop says ‘threat isn’t a joke’

December 23, 2022 3:58 pm

On Tuesday, the BIA police and the North-East CEN police ascertained the details of the IP address from where the alleged threat tweet was made and zeroed in on the engineering student.

Mumbai airport gets hoax email threatening to blow up Indigo flight

October 06, 2022 5:04 pm

The airport received the email around 6 pm Sunday. The CISF and the bomb detection and disposal squad checked the Indigo flight and found nothing.

When it comes to hoaxes, twin-moon phenomenon is right up there

August 24, 2014 11:12 am

The twin-moon phenomenon was debunked as a hoax like the many other imaginative hoaxes that homo sapiens dream in their sleep.

Chinese plane makes emergency landing following bomb threat

July 15, 2010 10:07 am

A passenger plane flying from Urumqi to the south of the country was forced to make an emergency landing after the crew received a warning of a bomb aboard.