Scores of students detained during protest over Dadri lynching
New Delhi: A large number of student activists from different outfits were on Sunday detained by the police while they were trying to take out a protest march to the Prime Minister’s residence against the Dadri incident. Nearly 350-400 students who were trying to take out a march from Mandi House area, have been detained by the police at Feroz Shah Road. The detained students have been taken to the Parliament Street Police Station, a senior police officer said. The students from JNU, Delhi University, Jamia and other educational institutions in the city, affiliated to various outfits including All India Students Association (AISA) and Students Federation of India (SFI), had planned a protest march and demonstration at the Prime Minister’s residence to register their protest over the lynching of 50-year-old Ikhlaq in Dadri town in Uttar Pradesh. “We were stopped by police near Mandi House while we were taking out our protest march against politics of hate and Dadri lynching,” AISA state executive member Shehla said. “What has followed after Dadri incident is irresponsible and inflammatory statements by the ministers of the government which must be stopped,” she said. (PTI)
10-year-old boy dies of electrocution
Faridabad: A 10-year-old boy died of electrocution at Hanumannagar area in the district, police said on Sunday. According to police, the boy’s father Hansraj in his complaint had said that his son Vishal was playing in the lane outside his house when he came in contact with an air cooler, installed at his neighbour’s window. As the current was passing though the cooler, Vishal died on the spot when he came in its contact, police said, adding that a case has been registered and the matter was being probed. (PTI)
Indigenous nuclear submarine to undergo missile firing tests
New Delhi: India’s first indegenously developed nuclear submarine Arihant, which has “successfully” completed the sea trials held so far, will undergo its maiden missile firing test this month, top defence sources said. The aim is to handover the submarine to the Indian Navy during the International Fleet Review scheduled in February next year in Vishakapatnam, they said. “The tests held so far has been successful. We will, this month, fire Nirbhay missile from the submarine which will be followed by firing of another type of missile,” the sources said. While Nirbhay is a 1000-km-long range subsonic cruise missile, the next missile would be India’s first Subamrine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), which has a range of about 700 kms. These would be followed by another few rounds of tests. India plans to build at least two more Arihant-class submarines. India had started building Arihant in the 1990s under its highly secretive ATV (Advanced Technology Vessel) programme. Though Arihant was initially supposed to be a fast-attack submarine, the project was realingned to make it a ballistic missile submarine following the nuclear test conducted by India in 1998. (PTI)
