At least two jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed on poll duty in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district were reported injured after a shell of Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL) exploded, a police official said.

A groom and two others sustained multiple injuries after a high-tension power line fell on their makeshift dwelling, causing a fire in Madhovala village of Rehar area in Bijnor. The incident occurred on Wednesday night, when Monu Singh, 24, Manoj Kumar, 27, and his wife Yashoda Devi, 25, were getting ready for his wedding. After the high-tension line fell, three cooking gas cylinders also burst, spreading the fire.

Averting a major tragedy, security forces detected and destroyed two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in J&K’s Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. Officials said that a joint team of police, the CRPF and the army busted a militant hideout in the Mendhar sub-division of the mountainous Poonch district and recovered two IEDs weighing 3 kg each hidden inside a cave.

The bodies of two constables, including a female, were recovered from a rented accommodation in the Shahganj area of Prayagraj district in Uttar Pradesh. The bodies were found on Tuesday evening in the woman cop's home. While the body of the constable, identified as Rajesh, 32, a resident of Mathura, was found hanging from the ceiling, the body of the woman constable was lying on a bed.

The Uttar Pradesh transport department, has hit upon a new strategy to reduce the number of road accidents. The transport commissioner Chandra Bhushan Singh has appealed to drivers of all commercial vehicles and state buses to keep a picture of their family on the dashboard.

A tribal woman from the Mysuru district of Karnataka, belonging to the Hakki Pikki tribe, has died suspiciously in Sudan. The deceased woman has been identified as Nandini. The family said that Nandini had gone to Sudan for some business-related issue.

Three persons from Andhra Pradesh were killed in a road accident on the national highway at Anchatageri near Hubballi city in Karnataka on Tuesday. According to police, the incident occurred after a private bus and a car collided head on. All the car occupants died in the accident.

The probe in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case has revealed that the initial plan of the terrorists was to explode a bomb on the premises of an IT park in the tech corridor of Bengaluru city, sources said on Tuesday. The arrested men have also confessed that because of the high security, they could not plant the bomb on the premises of the IT parks.

Four people were killed and three injured on Tuesday when a boat capsized in the Jhelum River in J&K’s Srinagar district.

Officials said a boat carrying seven people capsized in the river at Gandbal in the district.

Almost a fortnight after three school children and a bus conductor who had come for an educational trip to Lucknow died in an accident in Barabanki, the Education Department has suspended Gyanesh Kumar Verma, Principal in-charge of Composite School, Suratganj, for failing at his responsibilities.

As many as 15 children were also injured in the accident on April 2.