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Police said the massive explosion took place in Zubair fire works unit this afternoon while crackers were being made.

A teenaged girl allegedly killed her father when he tried to outrage her modesty near Nagpur.

The Rajdhani Express was controlled at Salakati while local passenger trains were stopped by protesters.

The Valley limped towards normalcy despite a strike call given by hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference.

Untouchability still shamefully rules the roots of rural Goa despite 40 years of liberation.

Searches were on to trace arms,ammunition and explosives that the militants might have been carrying.

Interlocutors have been appointed by the Centre to hold talks with different sections of society in the valley.

Maternity leave is not granted to women govt servants who already had two surviving children.

'The state is passing through a difficult time but patience has to be maintained.'

Their talks would be comprehensive and they would engage in dialogue with all shades of opinion.

The most interesting aspect of the trade has been the export of 8,462 tonnes of coconut.

Curfew was clamped as a preventive measure to foil hardline Hurriyat's plan to take out a march to Lal Chowk area.

The Congress President said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had taken 'effective steps' to reach out to people in J-K.

Acquittals are very high,running into thousands,whereas convictions are only in hundreds,Punia said.

The policeman was giving a demo on loading and unloading the weapon,when it went off by mistake.

"There is a political problem and we have to find a political solution," Chidambaram said.

He said anybody's arrest will not have any impact on the Kashmir issue.

Mirwaiz hoped UK would use its influence and initiate steps at diplomatic level on the issue of "violation of human rights".

Another jawan was critically injured in a landmine explosion in Uri sector of Baramulla district.

This put an end to a 24-hour seige by security forces to a mosque where one of the deceased had taken refuge.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said any durable solution to the Kashmir problem will have to address the interests of the youth of J-K.

Apart fom 400 kg of ammonium nitrate and 300 detonators,they also seized 23 bundles of wire.

A task force,headed by Chief Secretary S S Kapur,has been asked to submit its report within three months.