Chennai Blasts, Election 2014, IPL -- News in Brief on May 1

Bangalore, May 1: Chennai bomb blasts at Bangalore-Guwahati train, Lok Sabha election 2014, IPL match reports -- follow news in brief on Thursday, May 1.

9:40 pm: HC forms special bench to hear pleas against Tata-Airasia deal

9:15 pm: I'm not like Modi who hid his wife, says Digvijaya Singh

9:00 pm: JD-U backs Kejriwal against Modi in Varanasi

8:00 pm: Hoax bomb call to Delhi Metro control room

7:30 pm: No law has been broken by Modi, he was outside the polling station and beyond the prohibited zone: BJP

7:00 pm: Arrested ISI agent reveals he conducted a research of US consulate in Chennai

6:50 pm: From Ganga to Parliament, will cleanse all: AAP in Varanasi manifesto

6:30 pm: I am Rajiv's daughter, says Priyanka Gandhi Vadra amid controversy over Narendra Modi's reported remarks

6:00 pm: 'No deliberate omission or editing in Modi interview': Doordarshan on reports that his quote on Priyanka was dropped

5: 45 pm: EC warns Beni Prasad against passing remarks on Modi

5:00 pm: Priyanka Gandhi lists development works done by Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.

4:30 pm: Azam Khan defies Election Commission, says they are not the 'God of politics'.

4:15 pm: Ukraine detains Russian military attaché for spying.

4:00 pm: Priyanka Gandhi in Amethi: Nobody is bigger than the people in democracy .

3:45 pm: Red alert in Delhi and Andhra Pradesh after Chennai blasts.

3:25 pm: Kerala: Pastor arrested for allegedly raping 17-year-old inside church.

3:00 pm: Am Rajiv's daughter: Priyanka to Modi after he says she's his daughter.

2:25 pm: Killer heat wave grips North India, temperature crosses 40 degree.

2:00 pm: JDU to support Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi against Narendra Modi.

1:15 pm: Police suspect that a mobile device was used to trigger the twin blasts aboard the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central station.

1:00 pm: Security stepped up at airports, railway stations, bus-terminals & key installations in TN, including the Kalapakkam Atomic Power Plant.

12:40 pm: "Some other location could have been the target," says Tamil Nadu DGP Ramanujam on the Chennai Central station blast.

12:15 pm: A Special Investigation Team to probe twin blasts aboard Bangalore-Guwahati Express in Chennai, that left a woman dead and 11 others injured.

12:00 pm: 24-year-old Swati, who died in Chennai bomb blasts in Bnagalore-Guwahati train, was a TCS employee.

11:50 am: I have received tremendous affection from Seemandhra. Will never let your affection go in vain, said Narendra Modi.

11:35 am: Tamil Nadu police taking all safety precautions, have ordered them to get hold of those behind blasts: Jayalalithaa on Chennai train blasts.

11:10 am: Injured, including 2 grievously hurt rushed to Chennai's Rajiv Gandhi Hospital, doctors say injured are "out of danger".

10:45 am: One person, who was hiding in Bangalore-Guwahati train, has been arrested by Railway Station.

10:30 am: Twin bomb blasts occurred at S4 and S5 coaches of Bangalore-Guwhati train at 7:15 am at Chennai Central.

10:15 am: One person, who has been identified as 22-year-old Swati who was going to her relative's place in Guntur, Addhra Pradesh, died on the spot. 14 people have been injured.

10:00 am: Two minor intensity blasts occurred at Bangalore-Guwahati train in Chennai. Earlier an ISI agent was arrested from Chennai on Wednesday.

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