Nearly 80 domestic and international flights received bomb threats in less than 24 hours that later turned out to be hoaxes, keeping thousands of passengers and security agencies on tenterhooks

The Indian government is working on a new law to punish those spreading the menace of hoax bomb threat calls, which disrupt the flight schedules of airlines and cause massive inconvenience to thousands of passengers.

Indian airlines have been targeted with more than 100 hoax bomb threats in the last week, affecting the global aviation network both across the country and beyond its shores.

India's civil aviation minister says a series of airline bomb threats is the work of "minors and pranksters." As of Tuesday afternoon, over 170 flights operated by Indian carriers had received bomb threats in a little over a week,

A bomb threat targeting a Vistara aircraft was declared a hoax after the Nepal Army’s bomb disposal unit found no explosives, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said.

A bomb threat was reported on a Vistara Airlines flight that landed at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, from New Delhi.

Bomb threats targeting over a dozen IndiGo flights were made via Twitter on Tuesday, triggering a response from authorities. Civil Aviation Minister K

A dramatic and unprecedented surge in hoax bomb threats targeting Indian airlines is wreaking havoc on flight schedules, diverting planes and causing widespread disruptions. A video posted on social media last week showed passengers draped in woollens,

India's aviation minister said Monday he wanted to tighten laws after more than 90 fake bomb threats against Indian airlines in the past week triggered travel chaos and terror.