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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday (January 9, 2026) inaugurated the National Improvised Explosive Device Data Management System (NIDMS), a first-of-its-kind platform that contains details of every bomb blast that has occurred in the country since 1999.
Mr. Shah said the NIDMS would prove extremely important in the coming days for the investigation of all types of terrorist incidents and for analysing their various aspects.
The Minister said the Ministry of Home Affairs had generated different kinds of data over the years, but these remained in silos until now. “Now, we are making efforts to connect all these data sources with one another and to develop an advanced Artificial Intelligence-based software for their analysis. Today's launch of NIDMS will accelerate this process and prove to be an important milestone in the direction of making the country safe from terrorism,” Mr. Shah said.
The NIDMS headquarters is located at the National Security Guard (NSG) garrison in Manesar, Haryana. The online database can be accessed by State police, Central Armed Police Forces and other investigating agencies. The NSG is the primary force for conducting post-blast analysis.
Mr. Shah said data related to any explosion or IED incident occurring at any location could be included in the system and that its use would provide necessary guidance during investigations across States. He said the platform would be crucial in investigating terrorist activities, understanding trends in explosions and formulating effective strategies against them.
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He said the database with the NSG contains information on all bomb explosions from 1999 to date. The NIDMS would become a robust platform for accurately analysing patterns of bomb blasts, the modus operandi and the explosives used. It would also help establish inter-linkages between incidents based on modus operandi and circuit methods, and in understanding overall trends and insights.
The NIDMS is a secure national digital platform designed to enable accurate and organised analysis of bomb explosion-related incidents across the country. It will strengthen the collection, standardisation, integration and secure sharing of IED-related data. Mr. Shah said it would serve as a single-click access window for data scattered across different case files for investigation agencies and anti-terror organisations.
Explaining the features of the platform, Karan Sharma, Squadron Commander of the National Bomb Data Centre, NSG, said, “One of its main functionalities is that it establishes the signature link between two or more incidents. This could be either location, type of explosions or even the circuit used. For example, the same type of delayed circuit timer was used in the March 2024 Rameswaram cafe blast and in the 2022 Mangaluru blast. Police can use this information during investigation, and the information can be used for predictive analysis in the future.”
The Minister added that the NSG's regional hubs would now operate from Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, with a new hub also being set up in Ayodhya. This, he said, would significantly reduce response time, enabling the NSG to reach any part of the country within one to one-and-a-half hours in an emergency once all hubs become operational.
Published - January 09, 2026 12:39 pm IST
national security / security measures / ministers (government) / Amit Shah
Source: TheHindu
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