High alert on Srinagar-Jammu National highway
A high alert was sounded on Wednesday in the Jammu region after suspected militants fired on security personnel on a highway here, police officials said. Security in and around important and strategic establishments was also increased, they said.
The high alert was issued for areas along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and the Jammu region after the incident, the officials said.
Security was increased at Katra, the base camp of the Mata Vaishno Devi cave shrine, and on all roads leading to the town, they said.
The suspected militants opened fire on the security personnel after they intercepted a truck that sped past a check point on the highway, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Jammu, Vivek Gupta, told PTI.
They fired on the personnel from the vehicle before fleeing, he said.
However, the driver and the conductor of the truck were taken into custody, the SSP said.
Gupta said an AK assault rifle and three magazines were seized from the truck during a search.
Putin at Eastern Economic Forum
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon during a meeting on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia September 12, 2018.
At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that North Korea was taking a lot of steps towards denuclearising the Korean Peninsula but Washington was not responding and was making endless demands for full disarmament instead.
Over one lakh students to vote in DUSU polls
Students queue up at Miranda House College in New Delhi to vote during the DUSU elections on Wednesday.
Polling is under way for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election and will be conducted in two sessions from 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. for day classes and from 3.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. for evening classes.
The election dynamics this year has undergone a change with the AISA forming an alliance with the CYSS; giving students a third option that does not practice the brand of “money and muscle politics” synonymous with DUSU elections.
The ABVP and the NSUI are looking to bag all four posts after bagging two seats each last year. The NSUI had won the post of president and vice-president while the ABVP got the position secretary and joint secretary.
Children as 'Bharathiyar'
Children dressed up as poet Bharathi to mark his deathh anniversary at Ettayapuram in Thoothukudi district on Wednesday.
The 97th death anniversary of Tamil poet ‘Mahakavi’ C. Subramania Bharathi was celebrated at his birth place in Ettayapuram on Wednesday. Hundreds of students clad in white turban, jacket and dhoti, resembling Bharathi, took out a rally across the town.
Hurricane Florence to hit North Carolina
A view shows Ocean Boulevard empty of tourists after mandatory evacuations were declared for South Carolina coastal areas ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. September 11, 2018.
A view shows Ocean Boulevard empty of tourists after mandatory evacuations were declared for South Carolina coastal areas ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. September 11, 2018.
Hurricane Florence, on track to become the first Category 4 storm to make a direct hit on North Carolina in six decades, howled closer to shore on Tuesday, threatening to unleash deadly pounding surf, days of torrential rain and severe flooding.
Fierce winds and massive waves are expected to lash the coasts of North and South Carolina and Virginia even before Florence makes landfall by early Friday
Authorities took extraordinary measures to move people out of harm's way. More than 1 million residents have been ordered to evacuate from the coastline of the three states, while university campuses, schools and factories were being shuttered.
Three killed in explosion in Erode
Police officials at the site of explosion in Erode on Wednesday.
Three persons were killed and five others suffered injuries when fire crackers that were being unloaded from a vehicle exploded at a street in Erode on Wednesday.
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