• DELHI / NEW DELHI:
  • September 13, 2008:  
    • Serial explosions at various places in the heart of the city, killing and injuring several innocent people. The cowardly act was claimed to have been accomplished by so called Indian Mujahidin.      
  •  October 29, 2005:    
    • The 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings resulted in killing 62 people and injuring at least 210 others in three explosions. The bombings came only two days before the important festival of Diwali. The bombs were triggered in two markets in central and south Delhi and in a bus in the Govindpuri area in the south of the city. Indian investigators believe the Kashmir separatist/ Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the attacks.
  • December 13, 2001:  Attack on Indian Parliament:    
    • It was a high-profile attack on ‘Sansad Bhawan’, the Parliament of India, New Delhi by Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists.
    • The attack led to the death of five terrorists, six Delhi Police personnel, two watch and ward staff and a gardener, in total 14 and to increased tensions between India and Pakistan, resulting in the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff.
    •  December 2002:   Four JeM members were caught and put on trial. One of the accused, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was sentenced to the death penalty for the incident.
    • October 20, 2006:   The sentence was scheduled to be carried out on this day, but Afzal was given a stay of execution and remained on death row.
    • February 03, 2013:   His mercy petition was rejected by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
    • February 09, 2013:   Afzal Guru, sentenced to death by Indian courts, was hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail on this day, and buried in Tihar jail.

Dec 24, 1999:  The plane was hijacked en route from Kathmandu to Delhi.
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based Islamic extremist group, was accused of the hijacking.
Dec 31, 1999:   The hostage crisis lasted for 7 days and ended on Dec 31, 1999 after India agreed to release three militants – Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Maulana Masood Azhar. These very militants have since been implicated in 9/11, the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl and Mumbai terror attacks.