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New Delhi, July 11,
A high alert was sounded and security beefed up in public places and markets across the country on Tuesday in the wake of serial blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar.
Delhi on high alert
Besides deploying additional police personnel across the nationa capital, check posts have been set up at all major points in the city, including railway and bus stations, cinema halls and busy market places.
Barricades have also been put up at all entry and exit points of the capital to keep a vigil and checking of vehicles has been stepped up, Additional Commissioner of Police Deependra Pathak said.
City Police Commissioner KK Paul has also asked the public at large to be careful and to inform the police immediately in case of finding any suspicious object.
Alert in Punjab, Haryana
The security agencies in Punjab and Haryana have been put on high alert in the wake of serial blasts in suburban trains in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.
Police sources said that security agencies in the two states and Chandigarh have been asked to ensure proper watch at railway statio... | |
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| TOURISTS ATTACKED, AGAIN | | SRINAGAR SERIAL BLASTS KILL 8, INJURE 40 | | | SRINAGAR JULY 11: After a brief lull, unidentified assailants lobbed as many as five grenades on Tuesday in Srinagar City–one after another in a series, which killed at least eight persons including six tourists belonging to states of West Bengal and Hyderabad, while wounding nearly 40 others.
So far no militant organization has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
It was 1150 hours when unidentified hands hurled a grenade towards a mini-bus carrying tourists at Dalgate area of Srinagar, and four tourists were killed in this blast.
Top Police officials were busy inspecting the blast site at Dalgate but four more blasts, minutes after the first one, rocked Regal Chowk, Clock Tower (... | |
| | | | Mumbai under attack: Over 100 dead in serial blasts | | | | Mumbai, July 11, 2006
Over 100 people were killed in a series of seven blasts in suburban trains and platforms in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, Police Commissioner AN Roy said.
However, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh put the number of dead at 50, besides scores injured.
The blasts occurred in a synchronised manner in the first class compartments of seven suburban trains and on platforms during the peak hour traffic on Tuesday evening.
Unconfirmed reports as well as eyewitnesses said over a dozen people might have been killed in the explosions that took place in a span of 30 minutes at suburban Matunga Road, Khar, Jogeshwari, Borivili and Bhayender railw... | |
| | | | BATTLE OF BALLOTS IN POK, BATTLING WITH GRENADES IN KASHMIR | | | | Srinagar, July 11:- While people in Pakistan administered Kashmir remained engaged in the election to the 49-member Assembly on Tuesday, the Kashmir valley was rocked by serial blasts in which seven people were killed and several others wounded.
Tuesday witnessed two contrasting scenes in the divided Kashmir.Here in the valley militants carried out four grenade attacks,most of them on the tourist coaches,in high security zone belt and across the border supporters of contesting parties indulged in slogan shouting.While in Pakistan administered Kashmir people were seen carrying party flags and banners in Srinagar security forces and people were seen carrying the wounded to the hospitals.
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| | | | News from World Health Organisation | | HIV deathsCircumcising men may reduce | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, July 11: World Health Organisation (WHO) has quite an interesting piece of information for those men who do not want to die of HIV. WHO researchers have just reported that circumcising men "routinly" across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS.
According to information available with the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the WHO researchers analyseddata from trials that showed men who had been circumcised had a significantly lower risk of infection with the AIDS virus, and calculated that if all men were circumcised over the next 10 years, some two million new infections and around 300,000 deaths could be avoided.
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| | | | Bangladeshis' number in PoK has increased | | J&K-bound ultras being regrouped across LoC | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI: Government of India has reasons to be upset in view of a new plot being hatched across the Line of Control (LoC). As usual, anti-India lobby in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) is, according to latest intelligence inputs, busy working out a plan to enable groups of Bangladeshi ultras to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
Once these ultras--their exact number is not forthcoming--managed to enter the Indian territory, they would, as pointed out by security specialists, carry out terrorist acts. Pakistan occupied Kashmir has become a safe haven for a large number of Bangladeshi militants.
And government of India, signifcantly, does not deny reports that... | |
| | | | Pak rejects India's objections | | Work on Bhasha-Diamer dam won't stop: Musharraf | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, July 11: Islamabad has no plans to stop work on the construction of the 6.5 billion dollar Bhasha-Diamer dam in the northern teritory of Pakistan.
If there was any doubt about it, it was set at rest by the Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, himself. That he has ignored New Delhi's insitence on the need to honour the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) is borne out by his public pronouncement: Work once started won't be allowed to be stopped. The Bhasha dam will have to be completed.
The project is designed to generate 4,500 MW of electricity and store 7.3 million acre feet of water. The dam is being built on the Indus river, about 40 km west of the town of... | |
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