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US ship crew under arrest; arms seized
India justifies detention, says vessel was carrying weapons, ammunition without authorisation
Tuticorin (TN)/New Delhi, Oct 18
A crew member of the vessel in police custody in Tuticorin on Friday.Thirty-three crew members of a US firm owned ship were today arrested by Tamil Nadu Police on charges of illegally carrying arms and ammunition and straying into Indian territorial waters without authorisation.

A crew member of the vessel in police custody in Tuticorin on Friday. — AFP


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Akhilesh govt foils VHP’s Ayodhya rally
BJP MP among 1,600 arrested
Ayodhya, October 18
A massive crackdown by the Uttar Pradesh Government — in which about 1,600 persons were arrested, including BJP MP Yogi Adityanath —foiled VHP's planned rally in Ayodhya today in support of constructing a temple at the disputed site.

TAKING NO CHANCES: Tight security arrangements in Ayodhya in the wake of ‘Sankalp Diwas’ rally on Friday. — PTI

Dalal Street celebrates, for the time being New Delhi, October 18
The stock markets rose by over 467 points to a nearly three-year high owing to improved sentiment on the debt agreement in the United States and expectations that the tapering would happen at a later date.

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Punjab CPS’s firm booked for violating green norms
Chandigarh, October 18
Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Industry and Commerce, and SAD MLA NK Sharma is in soup as his firm M/s VN Sharma Builders Private Limited has been booked in a criminal case for violating Provisions of Environment Protection Act 1986 while developing its Savitry Greens project with the Punjab Pollution Control Board filing a case under in the court of Senior Divisional Judge, Dera Bassi, yesterday.

Drug racket: NCB on lookout for kingpin from Punjab
New Delhi, October 18
After unearthing a major overseas racket of a chemical called ephedrine being smuggled out of India in rice bags to produce party drugs, India’s Narcotics Control Bureau is looking for the kingpin who is from Punjab.

A border school in the line of Pak fire
Najwal, Indo-Pak border, October 18
Bizarre it may sound but it is true. At a time when Pakistani troops are showing scant regard for the mutually brokered ceasefire and targeting villages on the Indo-Pakistan border on a regular basis, a school having tiny tots is situated virtually right at the mouth of Pakistani cannons here in the Pargwal sector on the international border.

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