courtesy freshnews

Gunpowder in a passanger’s luggage accidentally exploded killing 20 people in the blast in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, 50 km from Lucknow, the state capital at around 5 p.m. “It was a private bus carrying over 50 passengers from Purwa to Mohrawan village when a piece of baggage, containing gun powder and kept on the luggage rail above the seats, exploded,” Purwa Deputy Superintendent of Police Raja Ram Verma stated over phone.

Although most of the passangers were treated in the district hospital and released after they showed no critical injury. All the passangers have denied the ownership of the gunpowder butthe police is confident enough to arrest the culprit, ” The baggage contained over 20 kg of the explosive.”

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courtesy indianexpress

Bihar. Barely two weeks after the Red Operation was initiated by the Centre’s Special Forces in collaboration with the State Police in states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, the agitation has soared in the part of the Maoist guerillas to such an extent that the rebels today blew up a primary school of Gerua village in Banka with dynamite . The school runs on Government aid. The district falls under Belhar jurisdiction and the Teliya-Kumri panchayat is responsible for its activities.

Although no was was hurt, reports say the buiilding has been badly damaged.

An encounter, reportedly, also took place between police officials  and around 300 Maoists in a forest under Barachatti police station in Gaya out of which the sleuths managed to hurl down only 10 and could arrest 3 more.

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courtesy outlookindia

Refuting all claims by the Taliban as being the masterminds of thursday’s attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, the UPA govt. insisted today that it was just a “smokescreen” to cover up the ISI, who the govt. fears, is the main culprit behind the October 9 explosion. Recalling last year’s attack at the same target, both Strategic Affairs analyst Brahma Chellaney and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao insisted that the execution has been carried out in the same pattern as the one in 2008.  Taliban did not claim responsitbility back then. “It is quite deliberate the way they have claimed responsibility. The timing of the latest attack is very important and it suggests that this too has been executed by the perpetrators of last year’s attacks including the ISI. It comes at a time when President Obama has initiated his two-prong policy in the region — war in Afghanistan and aid surge in Pakistan,”  Chellaney was quoted as saying.

Both India and the United States has been pressurizing Pakistan to infiltrate the militant organisations who have their base camps all situated in the areas including Quetta and Muridke, a Lashkar-e-Taiba stronghold.. It has been rumoured that ISI was not happy with the way India has been strengthening ties with the newly formed Afghan government. The explosion comes a day after India pledged to continue to “invest and endure” in Afghanistan and asked the international community to maintain a long-term commitment to that country. Currently, India has invested $1.2 billion for the complete re-establishment of Afghanistan, making it the sixth largest bilateral donor.

Perhaps, as the global communities are saying, the neighbour is not happy with India’s continued presence in Afghanistan, leading to “confusions” and “complications”

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