Latest TATP News & Updates

New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Faridabad terror module and the Red Fort blast case have revealed a larger plot for multiple bomb making factories and high-intensity blasts across India.The Faridabad module mainly comprising of doctors, is one of the most sophisticated terror modules that the country has ever seen. Had this module not been busted and 2,900 kilograms of fertiliser meant for bomb making not been seized, then…

New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency’s 7,500-page charge sheet in the Faridabad module case states that the group had set up an operational hub in Lucknow to oversee the procurement of chemicals for making explosives.The members of the module led by Umar Un Nabi had identified locals in Lucknow to help with the procurement of chemicals and other materials to prepare explosives. The NIA said that the idea was to carry out a series of attacks, and the main targets were crow…

New York, March 10 (IANS) Two teenagers, who proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) affiliation, have been charged with using a “weapon of mass destruction” in their failed attempt to set off a deadly bomb in the city.Federal prosecutors on Monday also accused them of assisting ISIS in their Saturday attack near the official residence of New York Mayor Zohair Mamdani while two rival protests were taking place.Attorney-General Pam Bondi said, “This was an alleged ISIS-inspired act of terrorism tha…

New York, March 9 (IANS) New York narrowly escaped an Islamic State-linked terrorist attack when a bomb failed to explode, according to officials. That, and another home-made bomb, found during the Saturday attack, were made with an explosive called TATP, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Monday.The chemical, dubbed “Mother of Satan” because of its power and ease of making, was also found in the explosives set off near the Red Fort in New Delhi last year, and in other terrorist attacks a…