18 grenades dug out on Punjab farm
A Border Security Force (BSF) frontier patrol has reported the recovery of 18 live hand grenades buried on a farm in Punjab’s Ferozepur district. The recovery was made outside village Rampur, close to the international border, after Surinder Singh — a local farmer — informed the BSF men that he had found what appeared to be a grenade while working his fields.
“A search of the area brought up 17 additional hand grenades,” a BSF commandant said on Tuesday. While it is still not clear whether the explosives are part of a fresh cache brought in by terror groups or of Indo-Pak war vintage, the grenades have been diffused and handed over to the local police.
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Vessel hits barge off Mumbai
Mumbai : A supply vessel collided with a barge at Indira docks off Mumbai Coast early on Tuesday but there was no casualty or any oil spill, officials said. “A supply vessel came in contact with a barge carrying steel coils. The barge listed about seven degrees as a result,” an Mumbai Port trust official said, adding no vessel has capsized, nor were there any casualties.
The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) said the collision has not led to any oil spill.
The accident took place when the Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) Beas Dolphin collided with coastal vessel (barge) Nand Hajara at Indira Dock here. The incident took place when the vessel was discharging steel cargo. —PTI
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Extortion racket busted in Mohali
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The police in the cricketing township of Mohali have arrested a gang that was allegedly running a lucrative extortion racket using comfort women to lure potential victims. Officials said Gurmeet Singh, Ruby, Vanika and a Punjab police constable Fakirchand regularly inserted adverts in the classified columns of newspapers offering “private massage sessions”.
“Once the customer made contact, a young woman “masseuse” would accompany him discretely tailed by the rest of the group. Gurmeet and Fakirchand would then burst in on the scene,” police officers said.
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