| If barely a day goes in Iraq or Bosnia without military | | | | July 26, 2008: |
| attacks and car bombings, you can assume that it is a | | | | Serial blasts in Ahmedabad kill close to 45 and injure |
| peaceful day for them. India, one of the peaceful | | | | over 100 |
| countries is the world is suffering from the highest | | | | July 25, 2008: |
| number of terrorist attacks and bombings the country | | | | Seven blasts strike the IT city of Bangalore killing at |
| has ever seen in 2008. | | | | least two people and wounding at least 20. |
| Flashback to the serial bomb blasts on March 12' 1993 | | | | May 2008: |
| in Mumbai which gave rise to the term 'serial blasts'. | | | | Eight serial blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes |
| Since then intermittently, there has been terrorist | | | | leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured. |
| attacks in various parts of the country, mainly in | | | | January 2008: |
| Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country, the | | | | Terrorist attack on CRPF camp in Rampur kills eight. |
| second biggest one being the one on July 11, 2006 | | | | November 2007: |
| where bombs exploded in the first class | | | | 15 people killed in seven well-synchronised explosions |
| compartments of suburban Mumbai trains, resulting in | | | | near court premises in three cities of Uttar Pradesh -- |
| heavy loss of life and limb. | | | | Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. |
| Two years later in 2008, India been plagued with bomb | | | | October 2007: |
| threats and bomb blasts by terrorists who resort to | | | | 2 killed in a blast inside Ajmer Sharif shrine during |
| emailing TV stations before and soon after commuting | | | | Ramadan, in Rajasthan. |
| the act. Though the terrorist call themselves Indian | | | | August 2007: |
| mujahedeen, Indian police have deciphered IM as a non | | | | 30 dead, 60 hurt in Hyderabad 'terror' strike. |
| entity working under the garb of SIMI(Students Islamic | | | | May 2007: |
| Movement of India. Take IM of SIMI and you get | | | | A bomb at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad kills 11 people. |
| Islamic Mujahadeen. The police are taking bomb | | | | February 2007: |
| threats very seriously and are on the massive manhurt | | | | Two bombs explode aboard a train bound from India |
| to nab the terrorists of the Delhi blasts At the time of | | | | to Pakistan, burning to death at least 66 passengers, |
| writing, an email has been sent to media organizations | | | | most of them Pakistanis. |
| in Mumbai to blow up three railways stations before | | | | September 2006: |
| the end of the day. As a result, Mumbai is witnessing | | | | 30 dead and 100 hurt in twin blasts at a mosque in |
| the highest security check, it has ever witnessed in its | | | | Malegaon. |
| history today. Even if it is a prank, the police cannot | | | | July 2006: |
| afford to take any chances. | | | | Seven bombs on Mumbai's trains kill over 200 and |
| Here are the recent ten bomb blasts and terrorist | | | | injure 700 others. |
| attacks that shook the country in three years (sourced | | | | March 2006: |
| from DNA and Outlook India) | | | | Twin bombings at a train station and a temple in |
| October 29, 2008: | | | | Varanasi kill 20 people. |
| A series of powerful explosions ripped through | | | | October 2005: |
| crowded market areas in New Delhi, killing at least 50 | | | | Three bombs placed in busy New Delhi markets a day |
| people as shoppers in the Indian capital were gearing | | | | before Diwali kill 62 people and injured hundreds. |
| up for a major Hindu holiday. | | | | |